More New Images

Lakeside water meadow area with betula woodland in the background.  I hope that I can re-use some of these images and will add interactive people for sequenial sketches.  Not entirely sure about the dominance of the background trees.  Will re-visit when other jobs are completed.  The planting strategy illustrations are first completed with watercolour then scanned into photoshop for detail and fine tuning.

As usual trying to up-load other images but I can't seem to make the files small enough.

Work Update on Eastern Quarry

A cropped verson of my 'Final' masterplan.  Still work in progress.  The orange roads have to go and the housing is still not dense enough. This is at a scale of 1:5000 at A1 and cropped so missing the scale bar.  The site is approx 2.5km from East to West.  Back to the drawing board again.

A sketch for the softworks strategy.  The whole planting on the site will take completely natural form.  No formal shapes and the emerging chalk ecology will dominate.  Here we have a chalk meadow grassland with a copse of indiginous trees - likely Carpinus betulus set in the foreground against the backdrop of the lake and dominant chalk cliffs.

Betula woodland will be used for coppice as well as producing a vauable ecology.  Here, the trees are dense with an emerging underplanting of the wild garlic, Allium ursinum.  In order for it to thrive, the trees should be thinned or coppiced to allow light penetration.