Coastal areas are unique environments and vary quite considerably from inland conditions (even being a few hundred metres inland can make a big difference). Wind, high salt loading and milder temperatures mean that many traditional plants we love will struggle to grow. Too often, I see coastal gardens laid out in a traditional manner, trying
I’ve been unusually quiet on the blog front – but something has been brewing. I’ve been preparing a new green walling company – Vertology (the art of/science of vertical green-ing). I’ve done this to build on my experience gained from the company I conceived and co-founded, Biotecture, back in 2007, and my time since then
With my new website design (www.marklaurence.com), all my articles might seem to have disappeared. Because I’m focussing the new site on the design of green walls and related urban greening services, I’ve made the articles section a sub-site – www.marklaurence.com/articles.html – so they are still available. I get a lot of readers from Google and
What a title! Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that this is where we are at. What does it mean? It means we have finished one phase of human development and we are about to enter another phase, that of the steady-state economy. It is also increasingly clear that if we don’t adopt this approach,
I watched the documentary on this awful crash the other night, re the Air France Airbus 330 which crashed onto the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Several things struck me about this – and I mean absolutely no disrespect to the crew or passengers, or relatives, but it is a modern-day metaphor of what could happen
I’ve just posted up all my favourite old articles from my old site “the Design of Gardens”, which was always about more than just gardens! You can find articles on the following link and I will adjust the menu at right to show these. www.marklaurence.com/mainpage.html
I watched a programme recently on BBC4 about Glastonbury “after hours” by Julien Temple, looking at the fringe areas of the festival, areas with names like Shangri-La, Arcadia, Block 9, the Unfair Ground, Lost Vagueness etc. All this alternative self-expression, borne out of the likes of Archaos and the traveller movement; dreads and drugs writ
Well I keep moving things around and changing the site, so i tried to move the blog to a different folder and it didn’t work, despite my best attempts a editing the SQL files… sigh! So i rescued some of my recent posts from the old one and have stuck them back up here; of
