The Roehampton Club
A new wildlife focus for a members club
We have recently completed a 5 year consultation to complete long-tern improvements to the landscape at the Roehampton Club’s golf course. A further large and current project is featured elsewhere on our website. This objective has been to create a more sustainable landscape that fully uses the natural resources for the benefit of members and wildlife.
The design of the landscape improvements are underlined by a number of key principles.
- Improving the aesthetic value of the landscape for members as they enjoy the course.
- Improving the use of resources on site especially the large quantity of composted soil that has built up over the years and reducing water use on planting design.
- Developing a new landscape that will be more future proof given the challenges around climate change including plant health, plant selection, reducing water usage and planting for bio-diversity.
Sustainable planting design, resilient plants and good landscape management is at the core of this project.
The areas shown were planted from 2019 to 2023 and have been designed especially with low water management in mind. It is an exposed site but by choosing the right planting methods and waterwise plants we are able to create dry garden planting over more than 5000 square metres across the golf course that generally establishes itself in just one growing season.
