Category: Design
Green screens will have a bigger and more instant impact on improving air quality than green roofs says Professor John Dover, Head of The Science Centre at Staffordshire University whose team have set up a study to investigate the value of green screens in rapidly mitigating pollution hotspots.
The University, which has a dedicated Green Wall Centre, has been pioneering research since 2010 to understand how vertical greening of spaces can influence biodiversity and capture micro-pollutants thereby improving air quality, wellbeing and human health. This latest study into the value of particulate pollution mitigation by green screens and other hedging material will use the Science Centre’s environmental scanning electron microscope to quantify the ability of green screens to capture particulates and experimental screens will be installed in particulate hotspots in roads around Stoke-on-Trent to investigate the strategic placement of green screens
Professor John Dover who is supervising the project said…
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The beauty of lettuce via Urban Gardens. Can this be both a practical way of growing food and ornamentation? Perhaps a brief moment of ‘peak display’ is followed by selective picking or plant removal?
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DIY Liquid Comfrey Maker
Click on the title for the full article – via Permaculture Magazine
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A few weeks ago I posted a brief article about how I’d converted an old wooden bicycle rack (saved from the bonfire, as it was being disposed of by the local Primary School) into a sort of vertical plant stand cum ‘Plant Theatre’.
- The old Bike Rack before it’s makeover
I decided that the first display would be of a range of Pelargoniums. Having bought a number of small terracotta pots, and used a mix of old and new plants, I set it up and nurtured my new ‘creation’. Well here’s how it’s looking at the end of June – most plants are now in flower and providing an eyecatching, vertical splash of colour in the courtyard here at Old School Garden. What do you think?
- The finished ‘Theatre’
I must now start thinking about what to do for a spring display, next year. I’ll try to over winter the pelargoniums and use them again in the summer. For spring, perhaps I’ll tryt o get hold of a range of that plant that typifies ‘Plant Theatres’, the Primula auricula.
- A Primula auricula- something for the ‘Theatre’ in Spring 2015?
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The sun is shining and the weather is sweet, and it makes me want to be out in the garden making it look beautiful! Lately we’ve been collecting pallets wherever we spot them with the intention of doing ‘useful things’ with them, but so far they’ve mainly just been used to prop our chairs up on to reach our too-high cable drum table, which we’re in the process of lowering (post on that when we’re done)!
Yesterday I decided the time had come to breathe new life into one of them, and pretty up the garden with some colour at the same time. I chose a fairly sturdy one with substantial sides because I wanted the wood to be part of the feature. I’d seen loads of pallet garden ideas on Pinterest, so I decided to make my own version. Here’s the story of how I did it, which I’m…
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- A work of art in East Rudham, Norfolk
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