How to buy - Tree guards and shelters
13 Jan 2012 | by Sally Drury
Protection against a wide range of threats is essential for healthy tree development, says Sally Drury.
Gateshead Council is to plant 650 trees in Cross Lane Meadows nature reserve, the first of 16 sites in Defra's Big Tree Plant initiative.
Protection against a wide range of threats is essential for healthy tree development, says Sally Drury.
Watson & Brookman has developed pesticide induction hoppers with twin container rinsing nozzles to exploit Hypro-EU's ProClean rotating multi-spray nozzle and ProClean Plus blade jet.
Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having lost first place to viburnum beetle in 2010.
From handheld to tractor-mounted models, the new Amenity Pro range of sprayers from Kuhn illustrates the company's commitment to technological advancement.
Designed to be hitched behind a garden tractor, Techneat Engineering's latest Acuspray offers fast application of fertilisers and fungicides on large areas.
The Forestry Commission has introduced a temporary moratorium on issuing new permissions to fell larch trees during the winter in the areas of Britain at greatest risk of having ramorum disease.
Yorkshire Housing wants grounds maintenance services worth £1.7m over four years.
Tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a pest of global economic importance on many crops. In the UK, it is a notifiable pest subject to a policy of eradication if found on propagators' premises and plants moving in trade.
With scientists unlikely to find a predator for horse chestnut leaf miner, the tree's commercial prospects appear bleak.


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