11th August 2009

A whole new view welcomes those using the busy Talbot Village roundabout where roads leading from the University car park, the Arts Institute and the village converge.

This project arose as a result of complaints from motorists experiencing sight-line problems due to overgrown phormiums and other vegetation close to the edge of the roundabout.  The roundabout was also looking tired & uninspiring.

Discussions followed with the Talbot Village Residents Association, the Arts Institute and local Ward Councillors, and a contemporary low-maintenance design was drawn up by Leisure Services' Landscape Technician, Dumitru Furnea.

The roundabout now boasts a hololith, two monoliths and several different size and colour of boulders & pebbles, interspersed with a range of low-level planting.  Two maple trees are the only features remaining of the original design.

Works were completed 10th August 2009.

The shopping list

• 1 x 8ft hololith

• 1 x 4ft monolith

• 1 x 3ft monolith

• 210 heathers (pink, yellow & blue)

• 15 Juniper conferta

• 60 assorted alpines

• 7 tonnes Purbeck rockery stone to edge shrub area

• 14 tonnes blue slate

• 4 tonnes Cotswold stone

• 4 Tonnes Quantock grey shingle in various sizes

• Approx 200 square metres Terram matting & pegs

The project