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Arcadia Landscape & Design Ltd Exceptional school landscapes for play and learning. We design, build and maintain landscapes in schools to promote play and learning in nature.

Woodland garden today with hellebores, snowdrops, pulmonaria and cyclamen in flower and warm enough for a bit of pollina...
22/02/2026

Woodland garden today with hellebores, snowdrops, pulmonaria and cyclamen in flower and warm enough for a bit of pollination! The Hamemmelis is only now going over after having been in flower for nearly 2 months - such a generous thing 🙂

Some pictures from our trip to Taiwan.1,2 Exploring the ancient red cedar forests.3. Giant stands of Tetrapanax papyifer...
18/02/2026

Some pictures from our trip to Taiwan.
1,2 Exploring the ancient red cedar forests.
3. Giant stands of Tetrapanax papyifera (bike for scale)
4. Enormous leaf of Hydrangea aspera. Kawakamii. (Handlebars for scale)
5. It was great to meet up with fellow Sheffield alumni and plantsman & Tung Lin for plant walks around Taipei.
6. New Year's colour at Taipei holiday flower market, underneath an elevated motorway.
7. New Years decorations using acorns of Quercus glauca
8. Duck
9. Assortment of Taiwanese oak & Lithocarpus acorns.

Seedheads in the dry garden today
14/02/2026

Seedheads in the dry garden today

A few pictures from a very mild and wet winter so far.
19/12/2025

A few pictures from a very mild and wet winter so far.

Woodland garden today...1. Darmera peltata in front of hamemellis CV.2. These liquidambar don't really come into leaf on...
02/12/2025

Woodland garden today...
1. Darmera peltata in front of hamemellis CV.
2. These liquidambar don't really come into leaf on our cool site until May, but the pay off is that they're reluctant to lose their leaves at all 🍁.
3. Liquidambar leaf litter
4,5. Seedheads of calamagrostis brachytricha
6. Mossy log & luzula Nivea
7. The ground layer is still colourful with Pulmonaria & fern Onoclea sensibilis
8. Lunaria rediviva and multi-stemmed birches
9. Evergreen Iris foetidus
10. Harts tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium with seedheads of Astilbes chinensis var. taquetii 'purplelanze'
11. A self sown molinia arundinacea and helleborous cv.

A few scenes from the field in what daylight there is...1. Seedheads of peucedanum verticilliare, teasel dispacsus full...
25/11/2025

A few scenes from the field in what daylight there is...
1. Seedheads of peucedanum verticilliare, teasel dispacsus fullonum and miscanthus sinensis as the sun rises over the hillside.
2. Evergreen Euonymus carnosus has flowered well and looks incredibly fresh.
3. Seed of the above from a few weeks ago.
4.one of (many) winter jobs is building a retaining wall to gain a few extra square metres of flat and level space. I separate the rocks from the subsoil and will use them to build the wall. The subsoil is going up the hill...
5. ...and spread over a new area we're doing a low fertility/free draining planting on next spring.
6. It's fascinating seeing the exposed roots of plants in the nursery bed immediately above. These are peucedanum verticilliare pushing through the marl and sandstone to well over a metre twenty.
7. Little vid of the seedheads in the dry garden
8. Damp meadow planting.

1. Anisodontea 'el Rayo' with aster rugosa 'Ezo Murasaki' and Euonymus europaeus 'Red Cascade'2. Seedheads of lychnis co...
15/11/2025

1. Anisodontea 'el Rayo' with aster rugosa 'Ezo Murasaki' and Euonymus europaeus 'Red Cascade'
2. Seedheads of lychnis coronaria 'carnea'
3. Glycyrhizza yunnensis with a miscanthus CV.
4. Mahonia eurybractea among grasses
5. anisodontea again with seedheads of aster/symph glenii 'aglenii'

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A few hours of good weather between deluges this week. The chickens have commandeered the picnic and bird tables to make...
14/11/2025

A few hours of good weather between deluges this week. The chickens have commandeered the picnic and bird tables to make the most of the sunshine before the hillside leaves us in shadow for the winter.

One of my favourite times of year in the tall herbaceous planting, dwarfed by giant species dahlias in full flower now, ...
08/11/2025

One of my favourite times of year in the tall herbaceous planting, dwarfed by giant species dahlias in full flower now, teasels and tall grasses like miscanthus sacchariflorus and molinia arundinacea. The white flowers of Artemesia lactiflora are beauitfully almond scented, and really carry on a still day. It was warm enough for one or two honeybees to be out foraging (last pic)

Mahonia eurybractea giving a punch of fresh green among the seedheads of the dry garden. Native silver birches and Meta...
02/11/2025

Mahonia eurybractea giving a punch of fresh green among the seedheads of the dry garden. Native silver birches and Metasequoia glyptostroboides are in peak autumn dress beyond, with Aralia elata looking typically fiery and fantastic.

Damp meadow planting yesterday... Molinia caerulea didn't enjoy the hot dry summer much, but has hung on and its colour ...
01/11/2025

Damp meadow planting yesterday... Molinia caerulea didn't enjoy the hot dry summer much, but has hung on and its colour is growing richer by the day. The aster Symphyotrichum n.a "Barr's purple" resonates really nicely with the reddish autumn hues of astilbes and artemesia. Elsewhere, we'll need to remove/reduce some of the clumps of Eupatorium cannabinum, h**p agrimony, as they've started to restrict the open feel of this area.

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