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Wilding or Rewilding?
For Gardenista, Kendra Wilson discusses the topic du jour in gardening and landscaping circles.
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For Gardenista, Kendra Wilson discusses the topic du jour in gardening and landscaping circles.
Business
Horticultural Trades Association Chief Executive, Fran Barnes, calls on politicians for supportive measures for the sector that will deliver net-zero.
Environment
Award-winning design team to redesign historic parterre at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire to ensure sustainable and climate-resilient future.
Environment
Iconic Sycamore Gap tree, which stood for 300 years alongside Hadrian’s Wall, was discovered cut down this morning.
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Not unlike other countries, we have experienced significant loss of biodiversity but the UK is now classified as one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries.
Environment
Pioneering project, inspired by similar scheme in Oregon in the US, liberated a stretch of the river River Aller allowing the water to branch out, creating smaller streams, more pools and boggy areas.
Charity
Impressive new educational resource centre, with extensive Plant Library to teach schools, charities and voluntary groups about gardening, creativity and health.
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In her column Digging Deeper, Sally Nex warns gardeners of years of tree shortages due to soaring demand.
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The cement industry produces 8% of the world’s CO2 pollution, an alarming 4 billion tonnes every single year.
Business
Innovative entry Dutch Streetlife Design Competition 2023, an experimental proposal to resolve the issue of defunct petrol stations after the electric transition in 2035.
Environment
The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) launched the first of a planned series of peat-free workshops.
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“It’s such a shame”, writes John Sturgis in the Spectator. Ripping out front gardens to accommodate cars is not only aesthetically despicable, but an environmental and wildlife disaster.
Environment
The results of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count 2023 reveal a better picture for butterflies than originally feared.
Environment
The new masterplan scheme South-east London brings the capital a workspace hub with new places to eat, drink and relax at the Dock’s water’s edge, surrounded by 130 acres of open green space.
Environment
The UK has failed to ban 36 pesticides that are not allowed for use in the EU, despite government promises to maintain standards after Brexit
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Researchers have found that flowering plants escaped unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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Climate change isn’t just about higher temperatures and heatwaves.
Regulation
The House of Lords will debate an amendment to make swift bricks mandatory in new housing across England to halt their decline.
Environment
Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE) and South Oxfordshire District Council’s new grant scheme which aims to increase biodiversity and encourage public access to green spaces in the district.
Environment
Rewilding has gripped the nation, ‘but the trend for leaving nature to its own devices in order to create a habitat for plants and animals to thrive has become divisive’ writes Boudicca Fox-Leonard.