Most new multi-occupancy developments have basement car parks. At least part of this will be covered by a natural landscape.
We have installed planting schemes and taken on projects where installation was less than perfect.
The most important aspect is that a landscape needs to be monitored over a 3 year basis to ensure the basic design is successful.
WEST HEATH PLACE 2010
We supplied mature plants enabling this landscape to develop quickly over the first two years.
Landscape 100% over car park with 60cm depth of soil.
THE LEXINGTON 2015
A failing landscape. Unfortunately the landscape installation had been during a period of heavy rainfall. The soil had become saturated and many of the small plants were unable to cope with the wet conditions. This led to a lot of plant failure.
The developer commissioned us to install a mature mature plants are to replant those plants which has survived.
KEW BRIDGE 2017
A root ball and bare root installation in at the end of April. A thick layer of wood chip mulch with occasional maintenance was the maintenance schedule.
Note the large spacing for individual plants to mature over time.
(Densely planted landscapes can become a long term problem. Such landscapes should be carefully monitored over a three year period and thinned appropriately.)
FAIRWAYS HIGHGATE 2011
A high specification property planted with box, yew and mature shrubs. Photographs taken in 2016.