Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 16 May 2012, 5:37 am
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To celebrate the start of the first Chelsea Fringe Garden Festival, Gardenvisit.com is giving away free copies of the London Gardens Walk eBook during the weekend of 19th to 20th May. It is in Kindle format and can be downloaded from any Amazon website. If you don’t have an eReader you can download an app [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 11 May 2012, 5:58 pm
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The great cave of Phuktal Gompa in Ladakh has a sacred spring within. The monastery is said to have been built here because there was a forest on the slopes above, from which a lone tree survives. The cave is supposed to house the spirit of the first guru, Rimpoche. Caves have a special place [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 6 May 2012, 9:56 pm
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The lady in this photo is Lv Yan, who is the most renowned Chinese model in the world so far. She was firstly got her reputation in the west, but her beauty is still not popular in China. The thought of the western aesthetics related to landscape design judgment is also from a conversation with [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 27 Apr 2012, 4:55 am
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Great to see cycling as an issue in the election for a London Mayor and, since it is safer to judge politicians by what they do than by what they say, I will vote for the re-election of Boris Johnson. I have SEEN him cycling to work in London. Ken Livingstone says a bit about [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 24 Apr 2012, 3:09 pm
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What are the social, political and economic conditions in which urban landscape design is most likely to flourish? I very much hope my answer to this question is wrong, but here goes: “in cities where an enlightened king was guided by spiritual beliefs”. Why should this be so? (1) Without temporal power, urban design is [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 12 Apr 2012, 4:19 am
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Iron is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust and, by mass, the most common element. It is a wonderful material, famed for its strength and mystery. Iron oxides give soils their red and yellow hues. They are nature’s foil to the often-garish colours of flowers and vivid greens of foliage. But gardeners [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 9 Apr 2012, 10:53 pm
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This is the back Garden of where I lived before, the definition of which often leads to an argument between my former landlord and me. In my view, this is not a public open space, and he thinks it is. My reason is from the definition of POS in wikipedia: Public Open Space is often [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 3 Apr 2012, 4:29 am
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This blog has often discussed green roofs and green roof typologies but they always need more consideration: Green roofs c3500BC Turf was the standard roofing material in Neolithic North Europe. You can still see this roofing technique in Norway and Iceland Roof garden c1000BC The most famous elevated garden in history, the Hanging Gardens of [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 31 Mar 2012, 11:55 am
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Spring is coming and hundreds of flowers almost blossom in one night time. I am not sure whether everybody love the landscape full of gorgeous new beauties, but usually, landscape architects show their works in a spring scene, so that the drawing works could be visually fantastic. But is spring always with us in the whole year? [...]
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 26 Mar 2012, 1:24 pm
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The above painting is from the 2012 Art exhibition in Charlton House, which name is Rose. For general visitors in Greenwich, it should be a little odd, as there is no Rose flowers in this painting, nor a clear face in it. However, for people live in Greenwich and always visit the Rose Garden in [...]
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