Author: Barry Holdsworth
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Sunken Garden Design
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The rear garden of this new house was virtually unusable as the lawn sat above the rear path and the fencing either side was only waist high, so offering no privacy. The clients required a sunken garden design. So the garden was dug out to match the existing rear path level and retaining walls framed…
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Landscape Design for New Builds
As a Landscape Designer for New Builds may I urge you to read some pointers in my article here. A garden design for newly built property needs to overcome many issues, but mainly that to do with poor soil conditions. Once surmounted then the garden can make an amazing transformation from a building site into…
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Traditional Garden Designer
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Great Britain is known for its gardening and love of landscapes and plants. There are numerous traditional gardens in the form of parks and landscapes that stand out as masterpieces on their own with thousands of visitors enjoying the mature gardens that were designed and constructed many years ago and are still maintained with a…
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Garden Machinery
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The use of garden machinery in the garden maintenance has revolutionised the way in which they are now managed. Improvements in the quality of finish run in parallel with substantial improvements in efficiency of machines such as mowers, hedge cutters and tractors. There are many different machines for the various tasks within the maintenance schedule…
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Temperate House at Kew to be restored
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has secured a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £14.7m as part of the £34.3m restoration project of the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, which is a Grade One listed heritage building. The £34.3m restoration project will be completed in May 2018. The Temperate House is the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse structure…
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Horticultural Consultancy
Consultancy work is undertaken for all garden and horticultural related issues. Below are some of the public and commercial organisations that have been clients: A selection of case studies below offer an insight into past work that has been carried out by this company. Case StudiesUniversity Grounds – South East EnglandA new Director had recently…
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Fusarium Patch – Snow Mould
Fusarium Patch – Snow MouldThe disease it causes was known as snow mould because it was most often associated with cold, wet weather in spring – damage would be revealed when snow cover melted.However, the fungus can damage turf whenever conditions are cold or frosty and wet. It has now become much more common in…
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Sugar as a growth stimulant for trees
Poor root systems deplete storage reserves by up to a third, starving trees to death. But sugar may provide the help required to stimulate tree growth. Dr Glynn Percival from the University of Reading has spent eight years prompting root growth through agents from bio-stimulants such as compost tea and seaweed to water-holding gels.But when…
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Pumpkins and Squash
Winter squash and butternuts vary in shape, size and colour and many varieties tend to be vigorous trailing plants. Squashes flower and fruit later than summer squash should be harvested before the first heavy frost and then dried off and stored in a frost-free shed until November/December before starting to eat them when they have…