A new year, a new project

After the tremendous success of last year's blog project, I'm broadening it out this year to include more students. Tomorrow I'll be introducing the project to Diploma, Masters and Degree Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students. Fortunately, I the experience if introducing the project last year and (fingers crossed) there will be fewer mistakes. Still, it all adds to the fun of what is essentially an experiment.

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