A bunch of new pages have been added to the sustainability section of this site and deal mainly with landscaping, appropriate plantation and how to create a garden to attract birds and butterflies.

Many people seem to want to disconnect their property from the surroundings but it should be the job of the architect and the landscape designer (if there is one) to ensure that a project is a part of the environment in which it resides because a building’s footprint extends beyond the area that it covers – it includes the impact on the surrounding land and on the earth’s resources as a whole.