Scotscape Urban Greening

As an innovation led company, we are always on the lookout for plants and trees that like growing in living walls. The Japenese Anenome, a perennial with a reputation for spreading and sometimes tagged invasive, has managed to keep to itself over the past 7 years in our woodland trial wall. This is good! In an exposed location, in full sun, and flowering from mid-August it brings a splash of colour to late Summer and can tolerate a stiff breeze too. We are marking it as a good find and will be adding it to our approved list of plants. https://lnkd.in/eXYVKFN We hold regular webinars on the choices available to us as we encourage biodiversity back into our cities using planting and technology. Do join us! https://lnkd.in/eNV4YxYD Angus Cunningham

Behind every successful living wall there is an irrigation system, often tucked away out of sight. Times have moved beyond the shadoof and the archimedes screw. The irrigation systems of nowadays are high tech and include flow, moisture and temperature sensors with Wi-Fi so that irrigation adjustments can be made remotely. Fault alerts are sent and problems solved from the comfort of wherever you happen to be. Cost savings are made and risk of plant failure reduced. As gardeners though, visits are still required to check plant health and carry out Spring and Autumn pruning. The modern city gardener combines planting and technology to ensure our living walls remain healthy and attract year round biodiversity. We are passionate about bringing biodiversity to our cities. We maintain a vast portfolio of green walls of all types, sizes and systems throughout the U.K. and hold regular webinars sharing information on greening our cities. https://lnkd.in/eNV4YxYD Angus Cunningham Kevin Mcleod

Living walls that move! We wouldn’t make progress if we weren’t innovative. Living gates are, of course, a natural progression for us. At nine years maturity, the concept is proven. With one of the lightest systems on the market, we have the versatility, irrigation and plant knowledge to cover just about any surface with sustainable planting. Surfaces…. one thing that cities have in abundance. We have been researching and developing green walls and vertical planting for the past 15 years. https://lnkd.in/eaQG8qMw We would love to share our knowledge and passion. If you are looking for ideas to cover structures with planting, we hold regular CPD’s and Webinars. https://lnkd.in/eNV4YxYD Angus Cunningham

We love being innovative! Living walls and vertical planting have been our mindset since 2009. The challenge here was to see if we could bridge the gap between horizontal and vertical planting. The Nissen hut roof structure gave us the perfect opportunity. https://lnkd.in/eCdtRUPt Planting in our cities is the only way to encourage biodiversity back in. If horizontal space is not available we are left with green wall space. We have been up for the challenge before it became urgent. We are the experts. If you wish to learn how to make your building disappear and the wide range of living wall choices we have developed in our quest to encourage more vertical gardens and biodiversity into cities, you can book an online CPD. https://lnkd.in/eQucWi7V Angus Cunningham

Thought Leaders; Innovators; Entrepreneurs. Desirable tags but they don’t come quickly or easily. They are hard earned. At Scotscape we have spent the past 14 years pushing the boundaries, sticking our heads above the parapet, researching, learning and developing innovative ways to deliver sustainable planting in challenging city locations. Our LivingPillar ® was a logical next step for us in vertical planting. A solution where there is no free wall space for a vertical garden or living wall. Typically inner cities that have been so over developed that there is little or no space either above or below ground for conventional planting. They have not been designed to replace trees or traditional planting which we have been carrying out for the past 40 years. Given a choice we would plant a tree or shrub bed 10 times out of 10. Rather feeding stations for our pollinators and other invertebrates as they navigate through our built environment. High up, out of harm's way. Powered by solar with re-circulating irrigation. Controlled remotely and with a wide planting palette available, they are a simple but effective way to introduce shrub and perennial planting on a plentiful resource. Nominated for the Earthshot prize 2024 and with an International patent pending we are delighted to be leading the way in combining planting and technology to make our cities healthier and more sustainable places to live and work. https://lnkd.in/edUvG3Nz Angus Cunningham

It was a pleasure designing the Living Wall at Quadrant House, Caterham with Erect Architecture. The planting palette was selected after a sunlight and micro-climate study and co-ordinated with the ecology team from Tandridge District Council. 11,600 plants were used in total! The plants are irrigated using rainwater from the flat roof and have matured well under our maintenance regime. https://lnkd.in/ektK_aDu

There’s something about the Carnaby Street project! It’s a vertical garden rather than just a living wall? It’s available for us all to admire and, most importantly, invertebrates to use high up out of harms way? It is all of the above but it’s mostly because it's possible. As an innovation led Company passionate about bringing planting and biodiversity into our cities, projects like this are important as we continue to push the boundaries. Our maintenance team uses a combination of technology and good old fashioned gardening (albeit from a cherry picker!) to ensure the planting thrives and continues to deliver Nature to our cities. We’ve been on the learning curve since 2008. https://lnkd.in/eYRaDfNk Angus Cunningham Kevin Mcleod

Business Improvement Districts play a crucial role in encouraging biodiversity to our cities by introducing planting and habitats. None more so than Team London Bridge who have entered the London in Bloom competition. If you take a wander through the streets around the Shard you will find many pockets of planting. Each greening ‘intervention’ takes passion and effort of which TLB have an abundance. It’s been our pleasure working with The Team on a number of the projects as we help push the boundaries of urban greening- especially with the Living Wall we installed and maintain at Orchard Lisle House which is irrigated using harvested rainwater. The Living Wall was presented to the judges by Angus Cunningham.

It was great working with you! Sorry to have covered up your amazing engineering behind the greenery which enabled the project to go ahead.

IT WAS Jonas Salk who suggested that if all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end, however, if all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish. The irony, of course, is that we wouldn’t be here to enjoy it. We are loving being involved in such an incredibly challenging, fast moving, growth industry as we attempt to encourage biodiversity into our cities. If only we didn't sometimes feel the sword of Damocles hovering somewhere overhead. But there again if he wasn't there, we wouldn't feel the urgency. Another irony. Scotscape Urban Greening