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• Upgrade for Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens

  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...

  Posted to News from Borassic Park (Weblog) by Stewart Harding on 02-25-2010

• Tories, Parks & the Lottery

  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...

  Posted to News from Borassic Park (Weblog) by Stewart Harding on 11-17-2009

• Should gardeners urinate outdoors?

  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...

  Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by Andrew Stalham on 11-14-2009

• successful open spaces - as simple as rearranging the chairs?

  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...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 10-20-2009

• Everyone wants something for nothing - what to do about it?

  Rupert Murdoch's comments earlier this week that News International titles will in future charge users for online content will have struck a chord with park managers, who have faced a similar dilemma for far longer - how do you fund a resource that people are accustomed to using for free? Perhaps...

  Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 08-07-2009

• Off the fence at last

  It was very encouraging to read the interview with Sarah Gaventa, Director of CABE Space, and to discover that she is backing the Institute of Parks and Green Space to help develop the skills agenda in the sector. I feel vindicated by her comments about the deep-seated problems of poor pay and prospects...

  Posted to News from Borassic Park (Weblog) by Stewart Harding on 06-05-2009

• Growing today - Going tomorrow?

  On a recent walk through a park I saw a "Gardener pruning shrubs". Great, someone doing a job I hear. Me - What are you pruning? Gardener - A shrub Me - Yes, what's the name? Gardener - Don't know Me - Why you cutting it with mechanical hedge trimmers? Gardener - Well we do most of...

  Posted to Going, Growing, Gone (Weblog) by david howarth on 05-13-2009

• Green Infrastructure - Community Infrastructure Levy - Money for Parks and Allotments..?

  COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY : GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE How much of the CIL billions will open spaces and parks etc receive? In recent past years s 106 agreements between local planning authorities and developers have generated two or three billion pounds plus for affordable housing. A few million went...

  Posted to Horticultural property and green infrastructure (Weblog) by Geoff Parsons on 03-08-2009

• RE: Row erupts over GlaxoSmithKline cash for Boston Manor Park revamp

  What is the value of a park - shades of CABE? Again..? We see that Nottingham Council has had protests because it wants to introduce a workplace parking levy: Houslow Council has had protests beause it wants provide space for workspace \(?) parking in a park. \(By the way I was walking in a park today...

  Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by Geoff Parsons on 03-02-2009

• Engaging engagements

  I rarely imagine myself being a seven year old. But then again I was writing an ‘interview with a gardener’ for a school growing manual. Interviewing myself was quite odd, but confusing my colleagues was plenty recompense. It got me thinking about engaging engagements. The adage that to influence someone...

  Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 03-01-2009

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