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...
Sage advice Russell. HorticultureWeek.co.uk is gathering together reports and other documentation to help managers build their case to defend against brutal cuts to parks in our GreenSpace Resource section. Suggestions to add to this section always welcome.
Have just returned from an exhausting three week coast to coast tour of America, visiting cities and large and small towns. We were astonished by the quality of the parks and public spaces we visited. The parks in New York and Chicago were not only spotlessly clean, they radiated health and good cheer...
Thanks for the post Tim, I've just been reading about the New Zealand Government's Resource Management Amendment Act, which was passed last year. The RMAA 2009 requires councils to remove rules from their plans that provide for the blanket protection of trees in urban areas by 2012. There seems...
I am hearing many tales of local authorities getting rid of parks staff. particularly the more experienced, and more expensive, people as the recession bites and councils are under pressure to cut costs. We have few enough experienced gardeners and park keepers as it is and this trend will further diminish...
Delighted to learn that Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens have been elevated by English Heritage to grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The Gardens were restored some years ago by South Bucks Council with the benefit of an HLF grant and have continued to flourish and improve under the care...
There are tales afoot that the Tories, if elected to power, intend to merge the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) with English Heritage. Does this mean that English Heritage would be substantially core-funded by the lottery? One of the great advantages of separation between the two organisations was that HLF...
Saw this and thought 'lucky gardeners' they get all the treats. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/6560930/Should-gardeners-urinate-outdoors.html This could be the answer for all those under used parks in the UK. They would need to be well lit though for the older generation to...
An article in New York's City Journal by Project for Public Spaces director Andrew M. Manshel claims that getting public spaces right is more about getting the little things right: People in public spaces respond to thousands of subtle visual and aural cues, and successful places manipulate these...
