Category: Horticultural Consultancy
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Listed Property Garden Designer
How to tackle a garden design for a listed property? Barry can assist you with a sensitive design and planting scheme for your property. If you are privileged to own a listed property then you may wish to take extra care in planning any alterations to the garden. You will obviously want to consider sympathetic…
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New maze at Cliveden
The original maze at Cliveden has been lost, but The National Trust has recreated the original one commissioned by Lord Astor. It took over two years to reconstruct and last winter over 1,000 2 metre high Yew trees were planted and the maze is now open. This is just one part of the large formal…
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New Biopesticides unveiled
Fargro launched two new biopesticide products at Wellesbourne Centre. A granular bioinsecticide – Met52 from Novozymes contains the natural Metarhizium fungi and is for Vine Weevil control. for protected and outdoor soft fruit and ornamentals, containers and open ground. Also, Prestop from Verdera a fungicide using the Gliocladium catenulatum fungi for controlling grey mould, stem…
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Live bees to be supplied to gardeners
There is a first time for everything and now gardeners will be able to purchase bees either by mail order or from garden centres. Dragonfli and Wildlife World will be marketing live bumblebee hives for gardeners and garden centres. Gardeners can purchase a wooden hive known as the Beepol Bumblebee Lodge and a supply a…
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Arboricultural Method Statement
Once planning permission has been approved, the local authority may require a tree survey and an approved Arboricultural Method Statement in order to ensure that trees are not damaged during construction. Various points will need to be covered within the Arboricultural Method Statement such as the protective fencing specification, any necessary tree surgery, land regrading,…
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Gardens and garden design in East and West Sussex
Having lived in both East and West Sussex Barry has experienced the different soils, individual climate conditions and landscapes of the Sussex countryside. Styles of buildings and architecture vary across the two sides of the county of Sussex but one element exists throughout the county and that is a love of gardens in the mild…
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Rainwater harvesting
They call water the blue gold nowadays and future wars could be fought over it. We have not reached that stage yet in the UK, but water is an issue and global warming has and will continue to affect just how much rain we get and when. Rainwater harvesting is not new, but most of…
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Landscape Gardens in Kent
Kent has many landscape gardens to visit and admire, with interest throughout the year. I have chosen two, both are on a large scale and offer different points of interest. Hever Castle and Bedgebury National Pinetum. One of the best landscape gardens in Kent are the spectacular gardens at Hever Castle were laid out between…
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Christmas Rose, Helleborus Niger
‘Christmas Rose’ or Helleborus Niger is an ideal plant for dappled shade and flowers from November through to March. There is always a plant flowering at some time of the year and those that offer up their blooms during the short, cold days of winter are especially welcome. Make room in that odd corner for…