Category: Visiting Speakers

Bees make honey

But there’s lots of kinds of bees that aren’t honey bees and Harry and Lorraine from Harry’s Bees told us all about them. There are more than 20,000 species of bees in the world and, unlike the iconic…

Botanical Society: bee and honey talk

Tuesday 13th February 5pm CL220. Free honey tasting. Watch bees in a windowed hive. Pollination and hive care explained. Members free. Non-members £2.

Rhyzophyllia and the soil food web: a Botanical Society talk given by Eddie Bailey on 14th November

“After just one pre-winter of mulching, I noticed an incredible difference in the structure of my soil. Moving mulch to one side ahead of planting plugs in April I saw a ‘storm’ of microarthropods on the soil surface….

Celebrating rainfall through design with Bob Bray

Bob Bray gave this year’s John Simpson memorial lecture last Tuesday. It was delivered at a leisurely but satisfyingly comprehensible tempo, tracing the history of water management from the ‘Great Stink’ lowpoint of 1858, through the Victorian ‘engineered’…

REWILDING WORKSHOP SUCCESS

Last week’s three-day workshop explored the possibilities of rewilding one of Cheltenham’s green corridors – the former elevated Honeybourne railway line, now a cycle and public footpath linking areas to the north of Cheltenham with the current mainline…

Lecture: Hal Moggridge

INNOVATIVE Landscape Lectures Series: Being a Landscape Architect Tickets, Thu 17 Oct 2019 at 18:00 | Eventbrite This lecture will be conducted with a precersor interview ‘Yesterday Once More’ by Ying Li (李滢) View the poster About the…

Talk by Jane Findlay – President Elect of the Landscape Institute

We are hosting talk by Jane Findlay, president elect of the Landscape Institute, on 13/11/19 here at the University of Gloucestershire at the Francis Close Hall Campus main lecture theatre starting at 6.00pm. View the event poster Jane…

EDP: AIM HIGH

EDP aims to be the most responsive, effective and sought-after environmental practice in the UK. Ben Connolley, working in their Cheltenham office, took time out to attend our last AD5000 session and explained in detail how EDP’s working…

An inspiring talk about landscape inspiration

Jane Fitzgerald White, with the Portus Whitton practice in Cirencester, explained, indeed emphasised, the importance of the why and not just the how of landscape architecture. She herself has always taken delight in gardens and plants and has…

LVIA is more interesting than design. Discuss.

The last session of the Professional Practice module comprised a double act from Kathryn Ball and Radek Chanas who both work as landscape architects at Pegasus in Cirencester. Initially they revealed how they got into the profession themselves…