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Delegates at the Landscape Institute’s conference last week heard how artificial intelligence (AI) can be a “sidekick” but that “there can’t be an over reliance on the tool”. Panellist Harvey Kirchgaesser, a graduate landscape architect at WSP, told those who attended the Digital Practice & Technology for Landscape conference in London that...
Majestic Trees has just had its most successful peat-free trial yet. The Hertfordshire based nursery showcased the results of its efforts at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival last week, bringing with it several peat-free trees including a Prunus x yedoensis that featured on Arit Anderson’s RHS Peat-Free Garden. After 10 years of...
Juliet Sargeant’s The Lion King Anniversary Garden scooped RHS Hampton Court’s first Environmental Innovation Award as well as Best in Show and a Silver-Gilt medal ‘How am I going to build a three-metre-high wall without concrete?’ That’s the question garden designer Juliet Sargeant was pondering after she submitted the plan for a show garden at...
Those delving into gardening for the first time will be spoilt for choice at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. There’s inspiration for allotments and small pockets of planting, gardens from budding designers and a variety of tips for adding a sustainable edge to their outdoor space. This is just one of the highlights from the...
Provender Nurseries has become the first trade supplier to have a Control Point after a change in import rules earlier this year. This means a faster, smoother transition of plant imports, reduced costs and therefore cost saving for customers at Provender, says Stuart Tickner, head of nursery, biosecurity and production. It has spent the last...
The need for multidisciplinary collaboration was one of the leading threads throughout Pro Landscaper’s Future of Commercial Landscaping conference in association with Ecoscape. Working in partnership was repeatedly raised by speakers and panellists as the answer to achieving the potential of biodiversity net gain and other environmental goals as...
The Future of Commercial Landscaping in association with Ecoscape brought together a variety of speakers to offer different perspectives on some of the key opportunities and challenges in the sector. Attendees heard from contractors and landscape architects as well as from their potential clients – all of which offered a plethora of insights...
A new kitchen garden for Chestnut Tree House is being designed by Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer thanks to charity Greenfingers. The design duo has been appointed to rejuvenate an area of land adjacent to a newly developed park and sensory garden the West Sussex-based children’s hospice. Greenfingers’ ambassador and former owner of Forest Lodge...
The Landscape Institute has published a list of recommendations to the next UK government ahead of the general election on 4 July. Developing green skills for a greener economy and improving access to green space are two or 12 key recommendations that it outlines for people, place and nature. President-elect Carolin Göhler says she hopes that...
Ashleigh Aylett and Callum Corrie will be competing for this year's title of RHS Young Designer of the Year. The two designers will be making their debut at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in what will be the 25th anniversary of the event. Aylett’s The Woodland Trust: 49% Garden will centre around 49% of trees being lost in the UK since 1850 due...
After considering her own use of tap water in the garden, designer Sam Proctor took steps to reduce this and wants to help others do the same. With sponsor Affinity Water – her own local water company – she brought The Water Saving Garden to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show last week. Here are her top tips for designing and building a garden where...
It was whilst frantically watering her plants in 40-degree heat that Sam Proctor had the idea for a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Her pots were drying out quickly and she was having to use copious amounts of tap water to keep them alive. “I thought it was mad to be using drinking water to water them, when we know that London and the...
Ann-Marie Powell’s debut show garden has won the RHS/BBC People’s Choice Award at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden designer exhibited for the first time on Main Avenue with a garden dedicated to National Trust co-founder Octavia Hill and built by The Landscaping Consultants. As well as being chosen as the public’s favourite, The...
Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but not for Crocus. The contractor and nursery has just won its 13th Best in Show award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in what will be its final year at the event – or so it says. Crocus seemed destined to have an illustrious career at Chelsea. The first garden it built in 2000 – the same year the company was...
Landscape, sustainability and skills solutions should be included in policy agendas ahead of the General Election this summer, says the Landscape Institute. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the election will be taking place on 4 July. The Landscape Institute’s president-elect, Carolin Göhler, says this comes at a time when “the...