Delivery of Bespoke Blends for Hastings’ New Living Laboratory
A beautiful morning for the delivery of five bespoke blends to Great Dixter House and Gardens and Transition Town Hastings, for an exciting new community planting and coastal gardening project, to help create Hastings’ first “living laboratory” on the seafront.
Our custom blends included: a Shingle mix, a Sharp Sand and Horticultural Grit mix, and three different ratio blends of Shingle, Sharp Sand, LECA, Peat Free Compost and Topsoil.
“This pilot initiative will play a key role in shaping the wider landscape design for the Town Deal-funded Hastings Public Realm and Green Connections project, and the team will be trialling a new kind of climate-resilient, biodiversity-rich planting scheme, designed especially for our harsh seaside conditions.”
The project held a volunteer planting day on the 25th of October with guidance from Fergus Garrett and the expert team at Great Dixter.
This planting scheme trial will help test future landscaping and biodiversity approaches across the town centre project. These will be delivered alongside new accessible walking and cycling routes and enhanced public spaces as part of the wider project, which will be starting construction in late Spring 2026.
We’re really looking forward to seeing the results of each blend and the wider greening of Hastings!
