Environment secretary endorses show moves to raise awareness of pest-and-disease control among gardening public.
Defra secretary of state Caroline Spelman will be at the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera's) Chelsea Flower Show display which will outline how the public can help prevent the spread of devastating plant pests and disease in gardens and the countryside.
The ICF National Conference ICFhas seen the launch of two films intended to combat the threat to Britain's woodlands posed by Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae.
A team of professional arborists will be selectively spraying a selection of oak trees in Kew Gardens known to have been previously affected by oak processionary moth (OPM).
Tree nursery King and Co owner Paul King will feature on The One Show tonight (11 May) at 7pm on BBC1.
Borough brings in Bartlett Tree Experts for spray programme as fight goes on to control tree pests.
Beech bark disease is most likely to attack trees with trunks that are more than 20cm in diameter, although it can also be a problem on young plantations. The disease occurs when heavy infestations of beech scale insect (Cryptococcus fagisuga) make enough feeding wounds in the bark to enable infection...
The Forestry Commission has advised people in west and south London, and Pangbourne in Berkshire, not to touch oak processionary caterpillars, which are emerging on oak trees in these areas.
The outbreak of the Asian longhorn beetle discovered at a farm in Kent has covered an area of at least 8ha and has infested at least 22 trees, the Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA) has confirmed.
The Food & Environment Research Agency is organising an open meeting on Phytophthora ramorum.
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