LJN Blog Posts

Everris has announced an addition to its H2Pro range with the launch of a new product called DewSmart, which has been designed to prevent or reduce the formation of dew on grass leaf.

The forming of dew on grass blades can be problematic for turf mana

A session at the Confor Woodland Show aims to attract landowners and woodland agents interested in generating income from the carbon being absorbed by their or their clients' growing trees, and doing their bit to tackle climate change into the bargai

A mixed-use development at the centre of Singapore’s business district aims to become its signature real estate development. Its brief is to define new standards of luxury urban living and to create an international benchmark for design and sustainab

Five specialist local nurseries, each with a national reputation, are coming together for a rather special plant fair at Wimborne’s Knoll Gardens on Saturday 12 September.

For keen gardeners the east Dorset fair provides the opportunity to buy top qu

A giant plant has burst free from its conservatory at Kew Gardens following an astonishing growth spurt.

The Dasylirion wheeleri, also known as the spoon flower, grew an incredible 18ins in 24 hours, forcing staff to remove a glass pane from the roo

A recent new machine purchase has recently been added to the fleet here at South Lincs Grass Care.

Our new British manufactured Teagle Dynamo 150 rear discharge finishing mower (pictured below) has a cutting width of 5 feet and has a cutting height fu

Mark Rayner has returned to the area he was brought up in after being announced as Sherriff Amenity’s new amenity specialist for Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

Mark has been in the industry for an impressive 25 years and his striking CV includes position

Redexim bv, the parent company of Charterhouse Turf Machinery, have reached an agreement to purchase the assets of BLEC Global Ltd. The deal includes the purchase of the BLEC name and means that the products will continue to be traded around the worl

The David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) Scholarship Season opens next month, giving young horticulturists five months to apply for a scholarship.

This year’s scholarships include the Markham - Colegrave International Scholarship Award which offers $4,50

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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is calling on gardeners to help it learn more about a new insect that is attacking Agapanthus plants.

The pest, which the RHS has named ‘agapanthus

In 2014, St. Austell Bowling Club in Cornwall graced over 3,000 bowlers. With such an inundated fixture list, only the finest turf maintenance machinery would make this possible and the Dennis FT510 ensured that the reputable bowling club could keep

A .pdf guide has been produced by Defra explaining the UK's plan on how to minimise the risks posed by invasive non-native species.

The strategy sets out key aims and actions for addressing the threats posed by invasive non-native species.

It aims to

The study of fossil pollen grains by a group of researchers, including Kew scientists, revealed the daisy family, Asteraceae, to be 20 million years older than previously assumed.

Asteraceae are the single most diverse family of flowering plants, mad

US scientists have identified the chemicals responsible for the mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass, a plant traditionally used by some Native Americans to fend off the bugs.

In laboratory tests, two sweetgrass compounds drove mosquitoes away f

Horley Town Council is currently inviting expressions of interest to tender for its grounds maintenance contract for a period of 3 years, commencing 1 January 2016. Contract specifications will include Grass Cutting, Hedge Cutting, Football Pitch Pre

Vandals have destroyed eight young birch trees and a liquidambar tree in Brinton Park, Kidderminster, planted as part of a memorial to a Wyre Forest District Council employee.

The trees were located close to the Loop Shelter and were part of a circle

From 1 October 2015 it will be illegal to smoke in a car (or other vehicles) with anyone under 18 present. The law is changing to protect children and young people from the dangers of secondhand smoke.

Both the driver and the smoker could be fined £5

Emergency action is being taken by groups across the country to tackle the invasive Himalayan balsam weed to stop it suffocating other species in its path and destroying beauty spots.

The non-native Himalayan balsam grows next to watercourses and

Rustlings Road is aptly named. The street in Sheffield is lined with mature lime trees. Their whispering leaves are brilliant green in spring, then cast cool, dappled shade in summer and turn bright yellow in the autumn.

But Sheffield city council wa

There may be nothing “so lovely as a tree” but they are costing Reading Borough Council a small fortune in compensation payouts.

And it is not just trees causing damage - someone was paid £1,000 last year for walking into a post on council land.

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