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d e s i g n   &   B u i l d

We design public and private realms with community groups and organisations. These have been at all different stages of design from consultation, analysis, mapping, design and building.
On from the landscape design work we do, we also offer a landscape management service. Projects include garden and allotments, apiaries and other community/neighbourhood schemes.

We  cover a wide variety of landscape management including:
  • Full project delivery (from scratch to completion)
  • Volunteer recruitment and training
  • Providing a bespoke plan for each individual volunteer to meet their needs and requirements
  • Writing bids to secure the future of the project​
  • Project promotion and marketing
  • A future plan of project development

With the design and management, we can offer a complete service from consultation, bid writing, set up, promotion, recruitment, build and plan for the coming years.   Some examples below:
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Metal's Edge Hill Garden, L7  -  March 2017 - Ongoing
5A linear walled garden split between north and south facing aspect at the oldest active passenger railway station in the world. It had not had any maintenance for 5 years and was very overgrown.
There were restrictions on what we could and could not do, for example, not damaging original brick or metal work and no or very careful removal of established shrubs and plants.
Simple design interventions and working with what was there enabled the design to almost design itself. With local resident and volunteer input during planting sessions, we were able to come up with a wilded nature garden with spaces for food growing and activity spaces with seasonal displays of colour.
Before (2007) and after (2018) long view looking east
Metal Garden 2016 after first clear up
Artist building the wifi mast and volunteer garden day, 2018
Gardening day - building hugel beds in a very sandy low nutrient soil, 2018
Permaculture day, 2017
After gardening day ready for Mooncup Theatre Company, 2019
View down the garden from the entrance, 2019
Garden of Resistance with Sabine Sallis Art event, 2017
Sabine Sallis Garden of Resistance event, 2017
The garden as a theatre, Mooncup adaption of A Midsummers Night Dream, 2019
The garden as a theatre, Mooncup adaption of A Midsummers Night Dream, 2019
The garden as a theatre, Mooncup adaption of A Midsummers Night Dream, 2019

Liverpool Biennial's Garden of Resilience, L8  -  March - July 2018
We were appointed lead gardener and horticultral support for artist Mohamed Bourouissa to create a garden working with local people, gardeners, school pupils, teachers and artists as part of a Liverpool Biennial art project. The project was inspired by a patient of the psychoanalyst and writer Frantz Fanon at a Psychiatric Hospital in Blida, Algeria. Fanon’s patient created the garden as occupational therapy, reflecting the organisation of his mental space through its structure.
The garden started out on an overgrown plot of the forest school space at Kingsley School, L8. This ambitious garden with a short deadline meant gardening was intense while also leading gardening sessions with local residents, groups and schools to learn about plants and the environments they grow in.
Client:  Liverpool Biennial      /     School:  Kingsley Road School     
Before the dome, March 2017
Building the dome greenhouse, April 2017
Bare ground, May 2018
Rhubarb patch, May 2018
Local people gardening, May 2018
Dome roof, May 2018
Soil, manure and bark delivery, May 2018
Local people and pets, gardening, May 2018
Local young people painting the garden structures, May 2018
Local young people gardening in the dome greenhouse, May 2018
Local people gardening, June 2018
Young people making garden sculptures, June 2018
the greenhouse dome completed with herbs, climbers and louffas
Green layers in the garden, open day, July 2018
Open day, July 2018

Granby Winter Garden, L8  -  September 2018 - June 2019
This unique project based in what was 2 derelict Victorian houses on Cairns St, L8 was designed by Turner Prize winners Assemble for Granby 4 Streets CLT. There is no other public indoor garden space like this in the UK.
To continue the story of the resilience in street gardening, I was appointed the landscape designer and later the resident gardener for this amazing community garden project.
I provided analyses, final planting design, organised hard and soft landscaping and created a maintenance plan ready for the garden's opening event all in 6 months.

Sourcing specific plants during autumn and winter was a challenge but with organisation and fine detailing, the project was ready. Displays of memorial southern climate trees, climbing vines, lush ferns, scented and colourful flowers and seasonal planting, the garden has something to offer throughout the year. 
​Client:  Granby Community Land Trust  /  Architects: Assemble   /  Artist in Residence: Nina Edge
Assemble's Artist Impression of the Winter Garden, 2015
Planting plan, Winter Garden, Granby, August 2018
Preparing the Winter Garden tree pit, October 2018
The main tree pit filled with a mix of hardcore (base), membranes and coarser and finer soil mixes. Tree planting ceremony, October 2018
Tree, vine and bamboo delivery, Winter Garden, Granby, 2018
Detail of the Southern Beech in autumn plummage and Nina Edge's chandelier
Detail of colour, height and texture of plants during the open event, March 2019
Assemble 3d model of the Winter Garden and into reality (2015-2019)
Late spring bursts of growth and colour, May 2019
Heavy duty trellis wiring and Jasmine climb the walls within the Winter Garden, May 2019
Window view onto Cairns Street, May 2019
Summer sun and shadows cast throughout the Winter Garden, June 2019


Some of our other projects:
 
Ford Lane Garden - Local demographic analysis, consultations, design of different spaces for different uses, wide variety of planting for food production, pollinators and for forest school, maintenance of project, delivery of a wide variety of workshops and courses including beekeeping, horticulture, joinery and upcycling, volunteer recruitment, CSR development, developing the project with rolling funding and non-funded reliant streams through local employment and teaching delivery.    Landowner: One Vision Housing
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