With temperatures finally dropping and the rain coming at last the long hot days of summer are officially at an end and all of our lovely Pictorial Meadows are starting to get their annual chop. Last Year we had flowering going on right up until November but the very hot dry weather this year especially [...]

Artist Chris Jarratt, in collaboration with Green Estate, has been successful in getting a Year of Making Commission for yet another creative arts project. Building on the success of the JOYRIDE project that saw seven 14-19 year olds in the Manor designing, building, and then racing their own Soap Box Derby cars through Manor Fields, [...]

On a sunny gusty day hundreds of people poured onto Manor Fields Park for an amazing programme of games, events, music and performance from late morning to late into the evening. Organised almost entirely by Volunteers and enjoyed by a wide cross section of the public this was how we dreamed this park would be [...]

This year Sheffield Manor Lodge the home of Pictorial Meadows seeds are open to the public as part of the National Garden Scheme on Friday and Saturday 4 July (10am - 4.30pm).  Admittance by Donation to charity. A chance to get behind the scenes of Pictorial Meadows. Public access to the research beds and new [...]

We are excited about working with former Sheffield University Landscape student and Green Estate/Pictorial Meadows volunteer Miguel Garcia Ovejero to test out Pictorial Meadows in the arid conditions of a Mediterranean region. Here are our new joint seed sown trials going in at Valdebebas Park; a massive new urban development under construction in Madrid, Spain. [...]

Owned by Sheffield City Council and managed by the social enterprise Green Estate, the park is destined to be developed further as a 'Landscape Laboratory' by the University of Sheffield's Landscape Department. Manor Fields represents a ground-breaking new approach to managing and developing these vital green spaces, and in only 15 years the park was just [...]

From 23rd May the Green Waste Recycling Centre on Manor Lane will be extending it's opening hours to include every Saturday until the end of September. This means that from 8am until 4pm the site will be open 6 days a week to enable members of the public and contractors the opportunity to drop off [...]