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Parks & Gardens
Horticulture Week's Parks & Gardens News delivers the top stories affecting public open spaces, including amenity turf, historic & botanic gardens, parks trusts, volunteering and parks funding.
Parks & Gardens In Depth
Reviewed - Handheld tools
18 May 2012What will the Thenford estate garden team make of the latest hand-tool offerings? Sally Drury finds out.
Pest & Disease Management - Moles
18 May 2012Moles are widespread throughout Britain but absent from Ireland. Even small populations can damage sports turf, playing surfaces and amenity lawns, but control may not be necessary in less intensively used or managed areas. The damage is a side-effec...
Interview - Robin Wallis, co-owner, Hortus Loci
18 May 2012Last October, Robin Wallis set up Hortus Loci with Mark Straver at Whitewater Nurseries in Hook, Hampshire, to grow 400,000 perennials, roses and fruit trees a year and supply gardeners and landscape architects. Between them, they have sourced and gr...
Green space guardians - A career in parks, arboriculture and sports groundskeeping and management
11 May 2012Whether maintaining parks, sports grounds or trees, the sector offers a wealth of opportunities, Graham Clarke reports.
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Sid Sullivan's Blog
Parks & Gardens News
- Writtle wraps up Chelsea silver for its grow-your-own garden
- Chelsea Flower Show 2012 best in shows announced
- Hitchmough warns Chelsea too much native planting is ruining horticulture in public spaces
- Cleve West wins Chelsea Flower Show best show garden
- Olympic flame flies high at Eden Project
- RHS Chelsea New Plant of the Year Shortlist announced
- Public may climb Diarmuid Gavin's Chelsea tower despite RHS objections
- Water companies sponsor water conservation-themed Chelsea garden
Sally Drury On Professional Gardening
Kevin Line's Blog
Head gardener Kevin Line explores his passion for and experiments with plants.
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Green Flag Awards
See full winners list and case studies on award-winning parks.
How To Buy...
How to buy - Handheld tools Buying the best tools that you can afford will pay dividends in the long run, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Tractor-mounted mowers A high-quality finish and attractive stripes have increased roller mowers' popularity, Sally Drury explains.
How to buy - Amenity turf pesticides Accurate diagnosis is crucial before applying pesticides to amenity turf, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Hedge trimmers & cutters Value, power and performance are among the key features on the latest models, says Sally Drury.
How to Buy - Aerators The latest models feature clever technology but knowing when to use them is still key, says Sally Drury.
How to buy - Bike-handled brushcutters Diverse models and a wide choice of cutting heads make these tools essential kit, Sally Drury observes.
Latest Machinery Tests
What's New
Brevi cultivation deal
18 May 2012Huntington-based RECO is now distributing the full range of Brevi power harrows, rotary cultivators and inter-row cultivators in the UK.
Makita MM4 engines
18 May 2012Delivering more horsepower, torque and reliability than the same capacity two-stroke engine, the new Makita MM4 four-stroke engine is powering the company's line-trimmers, brushcutters, leaf blowers and high-pressure water pumps. The engine is curren...
Limagrain wild flowers
18 May 2012Limagrain UK has published an updated 2012 brochure of wild flower mixtures for landscape and environmental schemes, golf courses and general amenity areas.
BAR 7 RPR grass mix
18 May 2012The latest breeding breakthrough - Regenerating Perennial Ryegrass (RPR) - is featured in Barenbrug's BAR 7 RPR sports perennial mixture. Now commercially available in the UK, it has been field-tested at various high-profile venues, including Manches...
Managing the cuts
How the funding squeeze is hitting green spaces.
Comment
Now volunteers feel budget woe
04 May 2012We report on yet more evidence this week that cuts to local authority green-space budgets risk undermining many years of highly-valued community involvement within the parks and tree-care sectors.
Reader Panel - How can more young people be enticed into horticulture?
27 April 2012A recent survey by the RHS showed that 70 per cent of 18-year-olds do not think that horticulture is a career of which to be proud, while warning that there is a "looming skills crisis" in the sector, which has vacancies that it cannot fill. Conferen...
Smith On ... Park titles are vital to service identity
20 April 2012Parks are not only losing millions of pounds from their budgets but the title "parks" and the word "gardener" are disappearing as quickly as the cash in the newly-merged parks/street scene services.
No let up from council squeeze
13 April 2012Our report this week into the budget settlements being agreed for parks and green-space services at councils from Leeds to London - the first of a series we plan to run in coming weeks - brings to the fore the unrelenting impact of the public-sector ...
Ask Sally Drury
Advice from Horticulture Week's equipment expert
- When buying a hedgetrimmer online, is it normal practice for the machine to be assembled and tested before despatch? I ask this in case the warranty is invalidated.
- I am looking to buy a hedge trimmer to cut hedging material including hawthorn and a bit of copper beech, but mostly conifer
- Can you recommend a log splitter?
- In your weed control article (HW, 16 March) you said quads can be used on footpaths for spraying, but I've been told we can't. What is the situation?
- Can we fit flail decks to our out-front rotaries to cope with longer grass?
- What is a good wheeled brushcutter? We often need to cut large areas that have not been mown for ages but want to leave as neat a finish as possible
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In This Issue
NEWS: Garden centre sales start to pick up after relentless poor weather
GROWER: Packaging update
INTERVIEW: Robin Wallis on the Hortus Loci launch
PEST & DISEASE FACTSHEET: Moles
KIT TESTS: Handheld tools
