In the winter of 2012/13 the Botanic Gardens of Wales launched the ambitious, on-going project “Conserving Welsh Plants”, with the aim to display the flora of four different Welsh National Nature Reserves. Four raised beds were designed to house the individual species; trial and spare species were also propagated and cultivated in the experimental “protocol beds”.
I was involved in the earliest stages of the project’s development. We carried out all the preliminary hard landscaping and backbone planting, as well as the design and installment of the raised beds. A personal project of mine was the design of a didactic panel of the area illustrating a masterplan and overall concept of the new Welsh Compound.

Nell’inverno 2012/13 i giardini botanici nazionali del Galles lanciarono l’ambizioso progetto “Conserving Welsh Plants”, con l’intento di illustrare la variazione floristica di quattro riserve naturali nazionali. Quattro aiuole rialzate furono predisposte per esporre le singole specie. Inoltre, taxa sperimentali o di riserva furono propagati e coltivati nei “protocol beds”.
Io fui personalmente coinvolto nelle prime fasi del progetto (lavori preliminari di costruzione e primo planting strutturale). Mi venne inoltre affidato il disegno del pannello didattico dell’area, dotato di viste e informazioni sul concept.