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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