Locorum News
Practical advice on garden design and garden maintenance, with articles on Biodiversity Net Gain and the ideas behind our work in Hampstead, Highgate and across North London.
What is the meaning of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)?
Imagine a meadow brimming with wildflowers, bees humming between blossoms. If a new development is planned there, BNG ensures that...
What is Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for?
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is reshaping the way we think about development. It’s a principle that ensures any new project—whether...
Launching Locorum& Workshops!
We have a new workshop space in Highgate and are busy putting together exciting classes and workshops that you'll be...
Unlock Your Dream Garden: Top Questions to Ask Your Garden Designer
Embarking on a garden transformation is an exciting journey, and choosing the right garden designer is crucial to creating your...
Elevate Your Outdoor Experience with Garden Room Design
For many people, A garden room can offer almost endless possibilities, enhancing and elevating the way you experience your outdoor...
The Basics of Garden Design: Forming the Roots of Inspiration
Garden design on a personal level is often an evolving process, rooted in the inspiration one gains from experiencing the...
Secrets of Garden Design: The Year Round Garden
Across the UK, most gardens and balconies are awash with colour and loaded with beautiful blossoms during the spring and...
The Elements of Urban Landscape Design
By definition, an urban landscape is one which is complex and multidimensional, incorporating both natural and artificial elements. The landscape...
What Do We Mean by Atmosphere? Why is it Important for Garden Design?
Atmosphere is a kind of mood felt within an environment, a characteristic feeling that encapsulates the space, like a sphere of meaning or identity.
Capability Brown – Imperceptibility and Potential
The shift to ‘nature’ in landscaping entailed an approach whereby the finished product gave little, if any, hint that someone had been hired in the first place. Brown’s landscapes seemed entirely natural, entirely expected, as if they had been that way since time immemorial, but they were indeed artificial.
The Garden of Epicurus: What We Know and What We Can Imagine
What was the Garden of Epicurus? The flow of time severs us from so many things, letting fall all but the present like cut blades of grass dropping onto a lawn. The Garden of Epicurus is one such blade. It was the first of many Epicurean communities that sprung-up around the Mediterranean during antiquity.
Urban gardens in medieval cities
What were urban medieval gardens like? The typical view of medieval life is of poverty and subsistence living. A world in which peasants scratched a living from patches of soil while aristocrats lived off their work. In fact, although medieval life could be hard, it was not without pleasure and beauty, and during the medieval period, the modern pleasure garden gradually developed.