2009 - What a Year..

My 2009 - Relating to the Landscape and Design




8th Jan - Hand for Brick Lane Project (Sector Studies) ‘A Sense of Place’

10th Jan - Frosty Morning... Very picturesque.

13th Jan - Visit to Cambridge Botanic’s.

16th Jan - Visit to Mark Hall Estate.

20th Jan - Lecture with Michael Marriott.

10th Feb - Floods in Writtle.

11th Feb - Accepted into the Essex & Suffolk Water project.

24th Feb - Visit to Colchester Castle Park, with Gardens & Plants through time module.

25th Feb - Site visit for Essex & Suffolk Water visit.

6th March - ‘Street life’ assignment set (Context, Meaning & Form) Site visit.

17th March - Lecture with Robin Templar-Williams.

21st March - Came 3rd for one of my paintings for the Horticultural Society.

28th March - SGD Conference ‘Nurture not Nature’

30th March - 19th April - Spring Break - Worked at Perrywoods Nurseries for the 3 weeks.

10th April - Visit to Beth Chatto’s.

27th April - Visit to Marks Hall Estate.

29th April - 1st meeting for ESW.

1st May - Visit to the Gibberd Garden (Context, Meaning & Form).

5th May - Visit to RHS Wisley.

20th May - Visit to Chelsea Flower Show 2009.

22nd May - Finished Year 1, First summative presentation for a garden design! 80 Swiss Avenue.

25th May - Work began, Worked most of the summer at Perrywoods.

29th May - Meeting with ESW.

4th June - Chalkwell Park visit for ESW.

11th June - ESW meeting.

19th June - 26th June - Holiday to Madeira (to see the flowers…)

3rd July - Quit ESW project, it just wasn’t for me.

9th July - Got a little Gardening Job.

10th July - Visit to Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

17th July - Visit to Glen Chantry Gardens - Beautiful.

10th Aug - 13th August - Holiday to Cornwall (Visiting the Gardens).

27th Aug - 31st August - Reading Festival (Slightly different Landscape)

21st Sept - Back College - 2nd Years!

26th Sept - Chalkwell Park - ESW project finale. To support the people that carried it through.

3rd Oct - SGD Conference.

8th Oct - Visit to Beth Chatto’s.

21st Oct - Visit to RHS Hyde Hall.

28th Oct - Visit to Hannah Peschar Sculpture Park.

10th Nov - Moonlight Garden Critique (Site Planning).

12th Nov - Site visit to Admirals Park (DMC).

17th Nov - Lecture with Beth Chatto & Jerry Harper.

21st Nov - Kew Gardens Lecture, Feering.

24th Nov - 27th Nov - ROTTERDAM, Study Tour. Amazing City.

8th Dec - Lecture with John Massey.

16th Dec - Trip to Aldeburgh for the day.

17th Dec - Presentation for Kew Palace (DMC)

30th Dec - 2010 - Scotland Holiday - New Years Celebrations, another wonderful city.