Jubilee Gardens London, South Bank Park, Design, News, Photo

Jubilee Gardens, London

South Bank Landscape: Arts Development, England – design by West 8

21 Jan 2012

Jubilee Gardens

South Bank, central London
2006-
Design: West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture

Jubilee Gardens

Work is well under way on Jubilee Gardens and important milestones have already been achieved as the Gardens continue to take shape, including the installation of new drainage, the formation of tree pits and the production of granite seating edge units and paving setts.

picture : West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture

This month a start has been made with edge installation, the assembling of the irrigation system and the placement of the sub- and topsoil which will ready the Gardens for its next key milestone; the planting of 70 new trees, including English Oaks (Quercus robur), Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), Small leaved Lime Trees (Tilia cordata), Pin Oak (Quercus pallustris) and Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Completion of the Gardens is currently on track for May 2012, in time for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The Gardens will showcase a lush, new green landscape to Royal Parks standard. The abundance of colourful flowerbeds will feature red Geraniums (Pelargonium Anthony) for its opening in spring and in the summer, the beds will be replanted with Lilium ‘Orange Pixie’.

Jubilee Gardens will be a quintessentially English park with undulating lawns, large lush trees and wide pathways generously meandering in between the trees providing for constantly changing views across the site and over the Thames towards Westminster and across the city.”

Previously:

After years of wrangling and various designs / competitions at last a scheme gets planning permission for this important site across the railway tracks from the Royal Festival Hall and opposite the Embankment.

Jubilee Gardens London designers : West 8

This public park was created in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Address: Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX

Phone: 020 7202 6900

Jubilee Gardens London

Location: Jubilee Gardens, London, England, UK