When lanscape architects attack!

[Mike Hill]

Here are a few pictures of a badly planned garden feature that has the potential to undo many years of work.

 

The Spruce sits on a headland,orintated to the north,an oak directly to the south and a Bronze age grave behind it.The Architect advised on the location of the Maze that was donated to the hospital by a wealthy benifactor.

 

The area excavated to site the Maze on resulted in the severing of 75% of the Spruces roots and the soil being dumped on the root zone of the Oak.About five tons of it.

 

The Spruce sat atop a rock,minimal top soil on its north side,instead the tree had run two huge roots into rock cracks about the high tide line and proliferated roots into the wet soil downslope to the south.I put the Spruce trees chances at less than 50% due to the dry summers and high winds that will throw dehydrating sea water up at a tree that has lost most of its roots.

 

The Oak we removed most of the over burden ontop of the existing grade.We will return with out digger and move the rest.

 

It amazes me that people are allowed to graduate Uni with degree's and yet still lack the basic knowledge to avoid cock ups like these.One thing the person had gained,either by tertiary study or extra curricular actitivities was a massive ammount of arrogance.

 

P.s I have managed to photograph everything our of scale!The Oak is about 14" DBH and the foundations are two feet deep

[christreeroot]

I think "landscape Architects" should go into the arborist swear pile as language that should be never used

[Andy Collins]

My son is doing his degree in Landscape Architecture, and I always tell him to think about just this sort of thing. I'll show him these pictures, sometime, and see what he thinks.