Hello all,
For my dissertation project I am going to partake in an investigation in relation to native planting.
The proposed question is:
As a garden designer, why is it important to incorporate native plants into our planting schemes/Garden designs?
So key issues that could be considered when looking at this question may be:
- Biodiversity
- Sustainability
- invasive plants
- Pro's and con's of non-native plants
- PESTEL-Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal issues.
- Plants growers, plant nurseries, garden centres etc.
These are all issues around the subject area that should be considered during this investigation.
All of your views and opinions will be extremely useful for my research, so I invite you all to get stuck into this discussion.
Many thanks
Joshua Handrick
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Joshua, Although there's only one question mark, there's a lot of questions and assumptions embedded into what you've written there.
I'm not sure many LJN members will have time to sit and write essays on the topic(s) for you.
You could use something like Surveymonkey to produce a questionnaire and invite people to visit it and respond.
I don't mean to be critical but it is a big ask and a brief answer isn't going to help you much.
I'm not sure many designers would ask that precise question.
I think perhaps we might be more likely to ask, what will thrive in this garden. What effect am I looking to achieve. What will work best in this scheme.
Plants have evolved over millennia to cope with certain conditions, so why should we automatically assume they will work in any or all gardens. However if you are looking for plants, in particular those thriving in shade many of our native woodlanders are eminently garden worthy. As always its down to right plant, right place.
If you want to look at invasive species my particular bug bear would be the selling of supposed native bluebells. Too often garden centres and bulb merchants are selling Hyacinthoides x massartiana and not Hyacinthoides non-scripta. The photographs are often incorrect on web sites and plant labels, so what chance does joe public have.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/survey-b...
Would I prefer to buy british grown plants, yes. Do I know the provenance of all of the plants I order, not always.
Not sure if this helps
Thank you for your views so far, all I am trying to gain at the moment is some general views and thoughts on native planting in gardens.
I will soon be posting a survey from survey monkey which you are all more than welcome to complete.
Hope to hear more views and thoughts on the subject matter
Native plants are not only suited to local soil conditions but also native pollinators habitats for native insects etc. They are also native to regions, counties and small areas or specific regions.
I think Joshua you should consider forums on LinkedIn etc if you want to discuss these kind of topics.
Tanya
These as the very questions that garden designers should be asking and considering in their proposals. />
Regards
Kevin
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