Heritage Garden or Landscape Site Inventory

 

A Site Survey identifies and measures the size of existing plants. This information can provide ecological measurement information and biodiversity conservation information.work.

Sharon Rempel can help you assess your landscape and inventory plants on site. As part of heritage garden design and restoration a site inventory may identify rare plants or invasive species. It is a tool in assessing what is valuable to keep on the site and what will need to be removed when a garden interpretation period and design is determined.

Site inventories of plants done over a period of time provides valuable climate change information and details on how plants adapt to change.

A site survey, when combined with archaeobotanical findings or aerial photographs allows us to make predications of past planting patterns.

Site or Landscape Inventory at a point in time:

  • Assesses the physical site - in context with the surrounding landscape
  • Identifies plants on site
  • Inventories structures and features
  • Identifies the Interest (historic; aesthetic; horticultural; public amenity value; archaeological or ecological)
  • Identifies the Type of site (such as domestic, institutional or public amenity)
  • Identifies the Condition of the site including the state of repair or maintenance; completeness and degree of alteration done to existing parts
  • Assesses the Geographical content of site or landscape sets it into administrative context
    For example, in assessing the Site we ask:
    • what is the Character of the site and its characteristic features?
    • Why is the site of particular or Wider Interest?
    • What is the Comparative Value of the site in geographical context?
    • What Action is needed and what are the options?
    • What is the Geographical Context; the type of Interest and the Level of Interest in the Site.
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