Selecting plants for design

Our design students are busy identifying the plants

And it continues on the studio floor...

In a fresh and exciting start to the new module 'Selecting Plants for Designed Landscapes', Jill Raggett gets MA students busy thinking about the life cycles of a range of collected plant specimens. Once the specimens on our tables have been arranged from the longest living perennials, like the veteran English Oak, Quercus robur, to the short lived but tenacious Annual Meadow Grass, Poa annua, Jill shows us how the variable structures and forms of plants give away their evolutionary strategies, how the climate and planting conditions can affect the longevity of species, such as the tender Banana, and how this dynamic coming and going can be choreographed into a fabulous design dance. Afterwards, it's onto the revision sheets for next week's plant knowledge test.

Kelly Law
WUC MA Landscape Architecture student

Our outdoor studio at Writtle University College

 MA Conversion Landscape Architecture&Garden Design and 1st year degree students are ready to dig in!

In our brand new module "Ecological Principles and Planting Theory" MA conversion and 1st year students will work on their own plots  as part of a community garden project to experience soil, ecology, design and plants with Dr Jill Raggett and Charlotte Power. In the photograph students are assessing potential sites for their Outdoor Studio spaces – there were at least 4 potential sites but eventually we settled on this one – so site analysis skills and community engagement all stared today – next week we dig!

 

Dr Jill Raggett

Emeritus Reader in Gardens and Designed Landscapes

WUC

Redbay Design in Devon is looking for graduates!

YEAR OUT OR PERMANENT POSITION

Rare opportunity to join landscape practice on the beautiful South Devon Coast
We are a growing, passionate studio looking for a talented landscape graduate to join us in Torbay. Our work includes parks and play spaces, leisure, commercial and residential, all with a strong bio-diversity content.  Our work is mainly for the private sector throughout the UK and it ranges from site analysis, landscape appraisal and impact assessment through master-planning to detail design. We work closely with developers, architects and ecologists.  

The Role

We are looking for either an undergraduate or postgraduate Landscape Architect. The position involves supporting colleagues on a number of projects preparing hard and soft works packages as well as GIS information for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments.

Applicants should demonstrate proficiency in using MS Office, AutoCAD, Sketch-up and Adobe Creative Suite. You will have good verbal and written communication skills.

For post graduate: previous practice expertise desired but not essential.

What we can offer you:

Competitive salary with flexible working hours and company pension.

The opportunity to work with a small independent consultancy on a diverse range of interesting and varied projects.

For postgraduates we operate a comprehensive mentoring and support programme for Pathway to Chartership, with great opportunities to develop your design skills and professional knowledge base within a supportive and stimulating working environment.

As a part of our team, you will gain considerable and varied experience whilst working within the inspiring environment of Cockington Country Park.

To apply:

For more information, a job specification is available from Jenny Lambert, Office Manager at the email address given below or alternatively please call Nick Perrett, Principal Landscape Architect for an informal chat on 01803 605735.

To apply please email your CV and portfolio (to include report writing) FAO Jenny Lambert to admin@redbaydesign.com.

 www.redbaydesign.com

Redbay Design, Studio Five, Cockington Court, Torquay, Devon, TQ2 6PN