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The brownfield gardens at Hilldrop are a key element of the Festival of Urban Landscapes to be held in July 2018. The venue, of course, is the home of GRT. Designing landscapes for people and wildlife is key to John Little's (co-author of the online guide) work....
Gathering to celebrate resilient cities filled with nature. A great line-up of UK and international experts and activists including Ed Snodgrass, Dusty Gedge, Laura Gatti, Arit Anderson, Gary Grant, Sara Venn, Wendy Allen and John Little. We will be celebrating ways...
A shed green roof enters it second spring in Ridgefield, Washington State, USA. Originally built in 2016 I was lucky enough to visit during the construction in October of that year. What soil and what plants for a shed green roof in Washington State In the absence of...
A sod roof in Nebraska appeared in our facebook feed the other day. And what a good looking green roof it is. Yet there is more to this than looking good. Firstly sod houses in the mid-west of North America are historically important. And secondly in the soil and...
The Piedmont green roof is the next stop on our small-scale green roof tour. Our good friend, Jim Labbe installed the roof in Portland (PDX), Oregon in 2017. Portland has a long tradition of green roofs back to the early noughties. However, they do not refer to them...
A Finnish green roof is the next stop on our celebratory green roof tour built using our online guide. Although many people around the world purchase the guide, we don't always have a clear idea where the green roofs will be built. Support is part of the deal...
The grass roof at Hilldrop is how it all began for John Little. All the techniques and methods in the online guide were used to construct the roof on his house. Furthermore, all of the other green roofs in his garden use the same or similar methods. Using site spoil...
Celebration is due. Ten years ago, John Little and I put our heads together to write an online green roof guide. Why? Well, we were both getting so many emails asking questions about how to build green roofs. Back then the original was a downloadable pdf. Now the...
Gardening Editor Jane Perone has a green roof on her shed. Meeting up with her to record a podcast was a good opportunity to get her to send some pictures and to talk about the guide.
Designing Landscape for Brownfield Invertebrates Workshop Date: Wednesday 13th September 2017 from 10.00am – 5.00pm Location: Hilldrop, Laindon Road, Horndon on the Hill. Essex, SS17 8QB Description: Designing for Brownfield invertebrates is fun, practical and...
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