Urban greening

West

North

Centenary Square, Birmingham

This planted seating scheme has been erected in a central urban area. It's interesting to see how the west ground level planting is very poorly established in comparison to the north. However, the west trees are far more mature than the north. Looking at this area on Google maps you can see that the buildings that shadow the west bed are also sheltering it. This creates two very different planting conditions only 37.5m apart.