NICK RUSSELL

I am nearing the end of my degree in Landscape Architecture and am now keen to develop my skills with real-life projects.

I am proficient at using AutoCAD, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketchup and Twinmotion.

Profile

My favourite aspects of Landscape Architecture are conceptual masterplanning and planting design. Digging deeper into the hidden narratives of everyday experience of landscape is something I’ve loved exploring during my time at university.

I hope to go on to specialise in planting design. My previous training and experience as a horticulturist has provided me with a good foundation of knowledge for the subject and an enthusiasm for the endless possibilities it can

While at University I was the founder and President of the Botanical Society. I decided to found the society with the dual purpose of bringing students together for fun, informal events and helping to grow other students’ knowledge of plants.

It started as just a plant identification club that I ran but over time the other committee members and myself organised day trips to gardens, house plant exchanges, residential weekend trips to large garden destinations, wreath

Contents of Portfolio

3-7 ........................Year 3 Design Project - Castle Meads

8- 15......................Year 2 Design Project - Northplace making workshops and more.

I also gained access to a previously forgotten campus greenhouse and used it to propagate and try out a number of plants that i’d been curious to experience growing myself.

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Experience

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017

National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire Highgrove, Gloucestershire

Ashridge House, Hertfordshire

2017 Education

2023

Iribov Young Plants, Netherlands

Horticulturist: Working in all areas of the Botanic Gardens including the Great Glasshouse, Tropical House, Boulder Garden, Walled Garden and Broad Walk. I also assisted in the plant propagation schedule for the Garden’s large Mediterranean collection, and temporarily took over the schedule of work completely while the Propagation Manager was away on sick leave. Lead designer of for the garden’s feature garden at RHS Cardiff Flower Show 2019.

Horticulturist: Working with the Amenity, Ornamental and Production teams in their respective areas.

Horticulturist: Helping maintain the historic Humphrey Repton designed gardens. While here I designed and implemented a planting plan for an area and grew all the plants from seed in the estate glasshouses. My report on this is included in my LinkedIn.

Nursery Worker: While at Pershore College I won the Peter Williamson Travel Award from Wyevale, which organised and paid for me to travel to a specialist nursery in the Netherlands and spend the Summer working there. The nursery I worked at specialised in propagating and growing on herbaceous perennials.

2019

16-17....................RHS Cardiff Flower Show 2019 Feature Garden - Gardd Lles

18-19....................Chaumont Garden Festival Entry - Edge of the Anthropocene

2016

2014

2010

2008-2006

University of Gloucestershire

PGG Traineeship Programme

Pershore College, Worcestershire

Bridgend College

University of Glamorgan

Porthcawl Comprehensive School, Mid Glamorgan

BA(Hons) Landscape Architecure (Grade not yet known). Completed numerous projects covering planning development, sustainable technology, planting plans and conceptual masterplanning. The Botanical Society, for which I was President and founder, won the Best New Society at the Student’s Union Awards 2022

At the end of this three-year traineeship programme with the Professional Gardener’s Guild my Head Gardener’s evaluation of my work and my own written reports earned me a Distinction

City & Guilds Level 3 Extended Diploma in Horticulture and Landscaping

- Distinction*

City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Horticulture and Landscaping

- Distinction

Art Foundation Diploma

A levels - Art (A), Maths (B), Geography (C)

GCSEs - Maths, Biology, Physics, (A*), Geography, Chemistry, Music, R.S., English Lit, English language, (A), Art, (B), Welsh short course (C)