How Sustainable is your garden or landscape project?
An introduction to Elemental, the green design tool
April 10th - On Thursday 10th April, join Annie Guilfoyle and Liz Nicholson at Rousham for a tour of the gardens and house https://rousham.org
Please express interest by emailing us, bring £10 for the garden tour or £20 for the house and garden tour on the day. Rousham is completely uncommercialised with no tea room or shop. For lunch or light bites and refreshments before your visit, head to Nicholsons, North Aston, OX256HL, just 4 miles down the road from Rousham.
For lunch at The Yurt restaurant at Nicholsons, bookings are encouraged to guarantee a table: https://www.nicholsonsgb.com/book-a-table/
Alternatively, The Tiny Café at Nicholsons provides refreshments, light bites and cakes.
Nicholsons, The Park, North Aston, OX256HL
Rousham, Bicester, OX25 4QY
April 11th - Sustainability Symposium
A day looking at sustainability in garden and landscape design with the introduction of elemental, a tool developed by Nicholsons to support the landscape industry to design with the best outcomes for climate and nature. By considering all impacts from materials use, carbon accounting, biodiversity, water impacts, communities and society, elemental offers information that will help all businesses be mindful of their interactions.
Morning
‘Impacts on Climate and Nature – why this matters’ - Liz Nicholson
‘It all starts with the soil – how to protect and enhance your soils’ - Liz Nicholson and Sam Gibson
‘An ecologist’s view on the opportunities for nature in gardens and landscapes’ - Rachel Jackson
Afternoon
Interactive workshop: ‘Enabling the landscape industry to reduce impacts and optimise benefits for climate and nature’ introducing elemental. Led by Liz Nicholson and Jake Conway
Funded by: BALI, RHS, SGD
£150 Tickets lunch and refreshments included.
Nicholsons believes in delivering quality environmental services with an emphasis on sustainability. They offer comprehensive environmental and ecological consultancy services and fully integrated garden and woodland design, management and contracting services.
Liz Nicholson - Liz is the MD of Nicholsons - an environmental management company offering services covering forestry, ecology, landscape architecture to garden design. As an RHS judge for many years, Liz realised that our industry needed support in finding pathways to offer better design decision making to minimise negative impacts on climate and nature and maximise benefits.
Jake Conway has robust experience in not only measuring financial costs of projects but more importantly the carbon cost. Jake has worked with Liz to carry out the Green Design Audit on all Chelsea show gardens.
Sam Gibson is Director of Landscapes at Nicholsons and has over 10 years’ experience in handling soils on construction sites. Sam will share the good, the bad, and the ugly, and offer pathways for us all to consider how best to protect this invaluable natural resource.
Rachel Jackson is a Senior Ecologist in Nicholsons. Her passion is optimising opportunities for nature in every design and while much of her work is with biodiversity net gain in the planning framework, she uses her infinite knowledge and wisdom to take Nicholsons well beyond the basic planning requirements opening up opportunities for us all to celebrate nature.
The Park, North Aston, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX25 6HL
All images: Nicholsons
