Garden Designers V Landscape Architects

My fellow student Pierre made a really interesting point yesterday. We have moved onto 1:50 and the Landscape Architects are walking round in a daze unable to leave 1:200 and the Garden Designers are flying ahead. I must confess I feel much more comfortable at 1:50 than I did at 1:2500. Onwards and upwards x

I don't profess to fully understanding it but it looks very interesting

http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/2872

Clockwise or anti clockwise

I'll now be investigating which way my wisteria climbs as to whether it's sinensis or floribunda

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=2045

Wisteria sinensis

highly scented and vigorous
smaller flowers and leaves after
twists anti clockwise

Wisteria floribunda

bigger clusters of flowers
less scented
not such vigourous plant
twists clockwise

I remember Jamie saying in the Paris trip in first year than wisteria has very strong root growth and to be warned of planting it next to house foundations. Quite often it's the wisteria that holds up old houses.

I'm planting the wisteria near retaining walls so I'm going to opt for floribunda as I'd imagine the root growth will be less vigorous if the top growth is, but I'll need to remember this for specification and construction drawings

The one for me x

The passing of the Iron Lady

Today we had lectures on green engineering and embodied carbon. It was utterly fascinating and really depressing all at the same time. It made me realise how much I take for granted and the percentage of food we waste and the energy and water consumed to produce it.

Today was also the day that Baroness Thatcher died. I realised this when I logged on Facebook in my coffee break and saw a torrent of updates such as "ding dong the witch is dead" "And where's the street party"I think it's fair to say my mates are fairly left!

Baroness Thatcher was a woman who you clearly couldn't ignore. I was born in '76 so was really young during her time as PM but remember it quite clearly. I don't know if it was my age but she always struck me as a very strong female figure and I don't remember too many of those at that time especially in politics. However I also remember Anita Roddick and annie lennox who were also strong and also changed a lot of lives ( often in better ways). The passing of anyone is sad and theres clearly a lot of vitriol with Margaret Thatcher's death. She was a politician who clearly knew exactly what she stood for, it's just a shame her legacy is so epic in so many ways.

Desire Lines

http://www.archdaily.com/353578/4-lessons-the-uk-should-take-from-denmark/

http://www.timberpress.com/books/planting/oudolf/9781604693706

It may have been a bit pricy but my goodness it helps with daunting planting plans.