Ross Cameron hosts this years’ “RHS John MacLeod Annual Lecture”
Held every autumn, this influential RHS lecture invites prominent speakers to explore important horticultural issues. Hosted by the RHS at the Lindley Hall in London, the John MacLeod Annual Lecture was created to highlight important and inspiring topics on horticultural science. Read more…
Landscape Research Helps City Project Scoop Top Awards
The awards cabinet is growing for Sheffield’s new Grey to Green regeneration programme – after it scooped two coveted Yorkshire In Bloom awards.
The Grey to Green scheme, inspired by University of Sheffield landscape research, which has turned a redundant former Read more…
What’s in a Name?
Ross Cameron - Repost of his guest blog for CABIblog
Dr Ross Cameron of the University of Sheffield outlines his latest book (Environmental Horticulture – Science and Management of Green Landscapes), co-authored with Prof. James Hitchmough and how writing the book can sometimes be easier than settling on a name that everyone approves of. Read more…
Nature knows best - Could embracing wildflowers improve garden resilience?
Emma Lewis
wildflowers represent nature’s optimum; natural selection occurring over many generations has promoted the traits that give the best chance of survival
Wildflowers appear to be very much in fashion this season, with many of the designers at RHS Chelsea Read more…
Can ‘Friends’ save our parks?
“There are issues relating to responsibilities and insurances when community groups take over green space management (who is to blame if something goes wrong, who puts it right?).”
Reviving Green Spaces Between Houses
Helen Woolley
A high percentage of urban green spaces in our UK cities is that within which social housing is set. Although the original intention was that these green space should be everybody’s in reality many of them have become nobody’s. Read more…
Greening the Grey – Vegetating front gardens for improved well-being
Today, one in three front gardens in the UK have no plants growing in them. This is three times less than 10 years ago. “So what?” you may think. Read more…
Reflecting on the Urban River in India
In the fast-paced urbanization of India’s cities, it can be hard to find public open spaces to take refuge from the day-to-day hustle and bustle. Read more…
Designing for Diversity
From Brick Lane to Liverpool, we know that urban places have been shaped by migration for many decades. But with the EU membership referendum and increased resettlement of refugees across Europe, it seems timely to examine what this means for professional remits within the built environment. Read more…
Why Planting Plans Don’t Always Work
Much debate around sustainable planting focuses, across the world, on the issue of the native v the exotic, but in actual fact this is often a red herring. Far more fundamental is the question of ‘how do we design for the change that must occur in all planting?’
Change in vegetation is driven by two factors. Read more…
