The answer lies in the soil…
The most important component in successful plant selection and subsequent plant establishment is an understanding of soil conditions. With this in mind the Masters students and I spent a happy time on a sunny winter’s morning in one of Writtle’s glasshouses (we do have a soils lab but we wanted to be in the sunshine after a rather intense few weeks work in the Studio) carrying out pH tests and soil texture analysis. These are a useful set of practical skills for landscape architects and garden designer as part of site analysis. We discovered that a colleague’s blueberry plants were in the wrong place on his allotment - but we also found a more appropriate place on the same site showing how variable conditions can be. We couldn’t resist creating some very small environmental sculptures from our efforts at the end of the morning - after all we are designers!
Festive Greeting to all our students and other blog readers…
Dr Jill Raggett, Reader at WUC
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