Almost all urban landscapes are contrived and designed, due to their artificial nature and short timescales of development and use.
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We are now a decade into the explosion of living or green walls. There have been many successes and some
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There is something incredibly exciting about living walls. Stacking green plants on the vertical plane on buildings, where you’d think
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I have been lucky enough to have designed and built a lot of water gardens in my time; I’ve been
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Last winter I did some interesting work in Abu Dhabi, concerning the care of trees. I can’t name one of the
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The Walkie-Talkie building, infamous for melting cars, has one of the UK’s largest green walls, to the South side of
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I’ve been unusually quiet on the blog front – but something has been brewing. I’ve been preparing a new green
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I am working as a consulting arborist in the UAE for a couple of large projects. Whilst there, I have
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Here are some pics from my garden; they tell of Nature’s rhythms and how they effect our lives…
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Is there a “next place to go” for green/living walls? Absolutely there is – there’s probably two next places to
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