sustainable landscape & garden design information

Sustainable garden design is the main focus of this site, exploring crucial issues relating to gardens, landscape, sustainability, carbon footprint, food security, design psychology and ecological futures.

Current thinking on garden design is dominated by contemporary style, without addressing fundamental issues such as the psychology of spatial layout, low-carbon footprint, future food security and the interlocking of gardens into wider landscape patterns. these are all themes explored here.

By 2015 we are certain to see the accepted norms of our global society and economies being severely tested by issues of climate change and energy decline. As oil becomes increasingly expensive, modern intensive agriculture will be strained to the breaking point and beyond - food abundance will become a thing of the past and scarcity may become the norm. People will look to their gardens to supplement the available food supply and the good news is that there is a huge amount of food we can grow in the form of edible landscapes and forest gardens, where we combine ornament and aesthetics with practicality and productivity - a richer, multi-layered way of thinking and designing.

This site aims to explore these issues and find out how we can all adapt our gardens, be they private or communal, to be beautiful, secure and productive spaces to spend our time and enjoy our lives, in coming times of global recession and energy decline. Acted on en-mass, the good use of gardens can literally save the world...