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New EU emergency measures against Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterial disease of plants

To help protect EU Member States against the introduction of Xylella fastidiosa, EU emergency legislation has been introduced, which includes requirements to protect against introductions from non-EU countries, as well as from those parts of the EU w

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The Pansy Project - Why Paul Hartfleet plants pansies at scenes of homophobic abuse

Artist Paul Harfleet’s family had always accepted his sexuality, but it was a different story outside the home – like many young gay people, he often faced abuse. Now he’s created the Pansy Project as a way to deal with the bad memories in a positive

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Gardener died after brushing past Aconitum (Monkshood) plant

Nathan Greenaway, 33, died of multiple organ failure after touching the deadly purple flowering plant.

"A gardener collapsed and died after apparently handling a highly-poisonous plant on the £4 million estate of a wealthy businessman, a coroner has

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Weed?

one of the boys found this on site today. he wasn't sure so pulled out the bits taking over the ice plant. but there is more and he reckons it has popped up in 2 weeks!

I am saying a weed, but unsure as of the proper name.

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Trailers for sale

Following a recent purchase, I now have two surplus to requirements trailers:

Trailer One:

Indespension Challenger 2000KG gross weight.

2 NEW tyres - other two have loads of tread left still - 175 R13 Commercial tyres

New Indespension Triplelock hitch he

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New plant species no longer have to be described in Latin

Latin names will always be with us, but Latin also intrudes into plant naming in other ways. When a new species is first named and described, that description must be in Latin. The reason is simple – when Linnaeus wrote the rules, in the 18th century

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UK trade plant nursery supplier (map)

We want to add a UK plant nursery map to LJN's growing list of member and visitor resources.

Please add details as a comment below.

• Nursery name
• Address
• Details (of plants sold)
• Telephone
• Email
• Website

Visit the Landscape Juice Trade Nursery Sup

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FREE online Plant Design Workshop - this weekend to 8th July!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm hosting another free online workshop, this time on designing with plants. I know that lots of you enjoyed the last garden design workshop, so this may be of interest to some.

It's on from now until Mond

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Estimates

Hi all have just been asked to give estimates on what would be my biggest jobs to date.First is cutting 300 m of beech hedge, nice and low at 1 m h, 1 m w. does £1 per metre sound way off?Second is removal of an earth bank equating to 33 m cube, howe

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Do you offer a guarantee on the plants you supply?

I had an email from a landscaper asking for help and advice regarding plant guarantees.

"Do you have any info on how to provide a guarantee on plants?
I have planted gardens for many years with very few casualties and mostly the plants die due to the

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The Athletes Village, Osprey Quay, Portland, Dorset

Between August 2011 and January 2012, the South West Landscape Centre (T&S Plants) sourced all of the plants for this venue. 

In total this amounted to around 5,500  2-3 litre plants and 65 specimen trees.  These plants were for the 77 houses on site,

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Can anyone recommend a Plant Database for me?

I was about to start creating my own so that I could produce Cultivation Notes for clients and it occurred to me that there may be one already available. I would like to be able to produce reports ordered either by plant name or by season/month and w

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Container Supplier / Ideas

I was commissioned to design a garden about 3 years ago as part of a new build house.  The project was delayed when the client became ill but is now back on track and our first meeting about landscaping was today.  

I specified some really great polis

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Needed, non vigorous climber, preferably evergreen!

One of my clients has a Well type feature about a meter in diameter with three metal legs/arms/supports that meet in the middle above the well, these are approx a meter high.

The whole thing was completely covered in ivy, this has now been removed muc

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Groundcare Machinery Auction, Kent

Don't know if this is of any interest to anyone on here?

Groundcare Machinery Auction

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Heavy Duty Pot Movers

Anyone on here supply them? I've emailed a few companies and they are obviously too busy to be bothered to reply...their loss.

I'm looking for kit than can take pots up to 160 ltr but is narrow if possible less than 2ft 6 inches - the 4ft wide movers

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A survey on places

HiI am studying Landscape Architecture and my main module I will be working towards is about sustainable tourism.To help me with my work, I have created a questionnaire. I am collecting he responses to compile a report for my work. It is about places

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Tree identification website

Thanks everyone for having a go at solving the mystery tree conundrum - it's now been confirmed as a Paper Mulberry. Simon Webster, the person who made the positive ident tells me that he used this site - What tree is this - to narrow down the field.

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Can you identify this tree?

Here's a little test for anyone who loves a good plant identification challenge. There's a tree that proliferates here where I live in south west France but I've no idea what it is. The strange thing is, it has no specific normal leaf shape. Some lea

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Plastic plant pot recycling - Is there a business opportunity?

If I was still in the UK, I would seriously consider setting up a service to collect old plastic plant pots for either cleaning and reuse or recycling (assuming the plastic is reusable?). "Householders in the UK dispose of 1.7 million tonnes of mixed

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