Created by Duncan Nuttall, as a demonstration for a ‘Care not Capital: Modern Gardeners‘ workshop, this must be the pinnacle of waste usage.
Nuttall teaches students to create beautiful, functional dry walls, from what is essentially demolition waste. Breeze blocks, toilet shards, broken bricks, chunks of concrete slabs, cement mortar, tarmac – true construction waste and not just sterilised vintage pickings. A truly novel approach to reusing waste, and one that would stand proud in any garden. Pollinators too, are catered for with bamboo, pipework, etc., inserted throughout.
Nuttall, a Fine Art graduate works as head gardener and garden maker. Co-founder of the garden design practice Ameld, he focuses on creating work that sits quietly amongst the landscape, incorporating considered, practical forms and plants that enable the viewer to engage more closely with nature.
Care Not Capital is a not for profit company, founded by John Little and Susanna Grants, which aims to train and put more creative modern gardeners into public space – equipping the ‘modern gardener’ to create sustainable green spaces for a changing world.
