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Comment from Horticulture Week writers, columnists and industry experts including Kate Lowe, Peter Seabrook, Geoff Dixon, Andrew Hewson, Jeremy Barrell, Noel Farrer and Tim Edwards.
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Opinion... Open horticulture students' eyes to opportunities
The number of full-time students entering colleges for land based studies currently stands at 800, an unbelievably low number for the whole of the country. Colleges offering a wide range of agricultural and horticultural subjects have dropped and horticultural courses are being lost at a quite frightening rate.
Project Lead: Landscaping and roof terrace for £149.5m London scheme
Hard and soft landscaping are planned for a commercial development in Tower Hamlets, East London.
Opinion... Highways authorities failing on risk
Research commissioned by the National Tree Safety Group (2009) indicated that tree failures cause about six deaths and 55 serious injuries annually, and more than 75% occur on highways. However, very few of those incidents ever get to court (fewer than 2%).
Opinion... Frictionless trade good for business
Whether you voted to remain in or to exit from the EU, the value of "frictionless trade" has become clear over these past 16 months.
Opinion... Why is experience being discarded?
A long-serving person in the nursery trade, who has won numerous RHS Gold Medals and, incidentally, served the society remarkably well, is now in their sixties and was advised recently that they are too old to judge.
Opinion... Good science vital for horticulture
The 8,000-plus papers published in The Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology (JHSB) over the past 100 years chart discoveries that innovators have converted into valuable technological businesses.
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