1. With parks budgets under strain, could this , from Berlin -based designer Fabian Brunsing, provide some much-needed revenue? 2. The Australian -designed Wunda Weeder "enables planting, thining, weeding, transplanting or harvesting of row crop vegetables, herbs or flowers", while the operator...
Institute of Chartered Foresters executive director Shireen Chambers talks to HW's Magda Ibrahim about what tree officers can do to help deal with the challenges posed by the economic slowdown, and what help is available for those looking to boost their skills. Read the whole article .
Well the first one's pretty normal, but then it gets sillier. 1. I had a bit of time before a flight to look around Stuttgart Airport and its neighbouring exhibition hall earlier this week, and took a few snaps - click though for larger versions. Green roofs were much evidence, but not on the huge...
Andrew Thank you. On your three references to Jaefoo's (my Chinese nickname) sayings: 1 The principles of horticulture for "war grave development" (c 1915 onwards) were largely developed at that time. There had been earlier developments of war burial sites (eg USA) but I guess that the...
I could attempt a fuller answer but will confine myself to brief illustration. "Fitness for purpose" is the short answer. In the early years of the Great World War, when some of the fallen were recovered they were buried in ad hoc burial grounds or in individual graves about the fields of France...
The learned person is only one out there. Surely it is what is perceived by the eyes of the beholder which, yes, is a comparison with learned notions of the constructs making up "amenity" - each construct being a continuum between positive and negative attributes. A dog owner perceives "horticultural...
At last night's Grower of the Year Awards (well done to all the winners BTW), Michael Smith of Essex bedding plant grower W D Smith & Sons told me that the big factor in gardeners' choice of flower colour isn't fashion but location. While in most parts, people are happy to have a slew...
