This talk and all our lectures are FREE for Friends of the Botanical Gardens to attend. Members of the public are also welcome to join us on payment of £5 at the door on the day. Live talks are held in the Education Centre in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens - easily accessed via the Thompson Road Entrance.
In 2024 three graduates from Sheffield University’s Landscape Design MA course, got together to enter the Pocket Planting category of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Festival.
Their entry ‘Winds of Change’ created a climate resilient pocket garden with planting specially selected to withstand its envisaged coastal location on Jaywick Sands, in North Essex. Their garden won two awards - a Gold Medal and Best Resilient Pocket Planting.
For this talk, we are joined by the three designers, James Miller, Saachi Parasrampuria and Marko Yau to share the story of the concept, design, installation and relocation of the garden to Jaywick Sands following the Festival.
All three are now pursuing careers in horticulture and landscape:
James is a Senior Gardener for The Silk Route Garden at Woolbedding Gardens NT. As well as this, he is a Plant Records Officer at Sheffield Botanical Gardens and Trustee of Hardy Plant Society. He also runs his own horticultural consultancy, specialising in gardening, garden design, talks, horticultural advice, professional writing, photography, plantsmanship and climate change planting design.
Saachi is a Landscape Architect working at a landscape practice focussed towards landscape design and ecology. Her interests focus on landscape led social and ecological approach towards designing spaces for the health and wellbeing of people in the crisis of changing climate. Additionally, she has worked and is currently working on several planting design schemes for private and public projects in India and the UK.
Marko has recently graduated from University of Sheffield as a Landscape Architect. He is passionate about drought tolerant planting and the role of community engagement in landscapes. He has gained a lot of experience volunteering for a wide range of gardening and landscape organisations throughout his student life.
