Gardening in Edgware, North London

The garden tidy up included: weeding, clearing leaves and other debris, shaping of shrubs, cutting down and dividing herbaceous plants, shaping evergreen plants, pruning fruit trees, planting winter bedding and bulbs, turning over the soil.


A glue plastic is tied to the bottom of the tree will stop 90% of pest trying to climb the tree. This is a good practice and is usually used to fruit trees and helps them to produce better fruits without using any pesticide chemicals.



Pruning of fruit trees such as apples and pears is done in November, it is important that this is done correctly so the plants grow health and produce better fruits. There is some fruit trees such as cherries and plums (prunus spp) that usually are pruned after flowering to prevent silver leaf disease.

There are some perennial plants that like a really gently pruning, this group includes most of acid loving plants such as pieris, rhododendron and magnolias.

Two eunoumus spp planted together and shaped as a single one, looks nice doesn't it?

Me shaping plants such as sweet bay, forsythia, abelia etc. all timber posts in this garden are used to help the owner (disabled lady) move around and enjoy her garden.

Gardener or Landscape Architect?

When people ask us about our profession, we tell them that we are Landscape architects. Sometimes they think that this is type of gardening design and landscape. Well, we don't get impresed when we are called 'gardener'. We know that a Landscape Architect is more than a gardener or garden designer/landscaper, however we know that we have to collaborate with this category of people when designing.

It is important for us to know about plants, landscape materials and maintenance. I believe that when designing we should include a maintenance programme for our design. The maintenance programme and average yearly maintenance cost. This can make the design look good at all time and keep its values for long.

I hope all this will encourage Landscape Architects to learn more about plants, role in design and maintenace.

O2 Centre

O2 centre in Greenwich is a new contemporary design in East London. Landscape materials and plants used in design are unique and great to get ideas and inspiration in our designs. Focus week helped us to travel and see new built designs, learn new things, visit exhibitions. That makes this module very different from others and allows us to explore landscape and have fun.

Ghost Forest

Ghost Forest Exhibition, University museum, Oxford, July 2010 - July 2011


All those tree roots from the worlds vanishing forest have been
transported from West Africa and Brazil. They are displayed in
the front of Oxford's University Museum of Natural History. It was a

good experience looking at all those giant tree roots in the front of you. as we know trees have a great value for people and landscape. It is shame to hear and see TV programmes how people in third world countries cut down so many trees and destroy so many forests (the size of a football pitch is destroyed every 4 seconds).





Alive this trees stand 61 meters high (taller than Nelson's column).
These trees were supplied from a sustainable tree industry and only three trees of Ghost Forest were logged, the rest falling in adverse weather.

I spent the rest of the day walking around Oxford city, finishin my jurney at Oxfords Castle and having a coffeee in a roof garden.