Nottingham Trent chose to use PM perennials as part of a sustainable approach to planting which provides a fantastic flower display in the summer for students, staff and the general public but also enhancing the biodiversity by attracting bees and other pollinators.
The original brief was to create a district park from abandoned and abused landscape in what had been described as ‘the worst estate in Britain’. Now a Green Flag Site, Manor Fields Park has become PM’s longest test site for seed sown landscapes.
“Pictorial Meadows’ annual meadows were a great success with our parks users and residents, but after sowing them for 3 consecutive years we decided to make the transition to more sustainable perennial meadows at a few key sites."
Pictorial Meadow annual mixes were trialled in both parks and highways throughout the City in 2014. The aim was to reduce maintenance along the highway but with all the added value of flowers and providing some inspiring planting for their traditional parks.
South Tyneside Council commissioned Pictorial Meadows to sow annual seed mixes on 63 separate sites across 17 wards. The work was completed across three weeks with the sites looked stunning all summer right up to the first frosts.
Sheffield City Council had over 300 hectares of brownfield sites awaiting housing redevelopment. These sites were magnets for fly-tipping and antisocial behaviour, until they were filled with Pictorial Meadows.
Created for the London Olympics in 2012, the Olympic Park is a stunning example of how to create a visually exciting landscape by taking its inspiration from nature.
Design, specification and installation started with on-site consultancy work. The Cheerans had ambitions to see the house entered for a RIBA Architectural Award and an important element of this was to have a landscape fully integrated with the house.
This beautiful private home is also a place which extends a generous welcome to children with disabilities. A private home whose owner so much enjoyed the Olympic Park meadows that they asked for ‘a piece of the Olympic Park that we can see from our bedroom’.
A great ambitious scheme right on our doorstep, and when innovative developers, Urban Splash took over the redevelopment of this listed building we knew that we’d eventually see a landscape as ambitious as the wider project itself.
