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It was billed as a miraculous no-strings-attached gift to London, a fairytale forest on a bridge that would be entirely paid for by private sponsors. But this sparkling new “tiara on the head of our fabulous city,” as Joanna Lumley, cheerleader for t

A spray operative  has died after the machine he was working on rolled into a lake on the Celtic Manor golf course.

Ollie Floyd, who was 20 years of age, was spraying weeds when the incident happened. 

A spokesman for Complete Weed Control told the S

SALTEX 2015 is set to become bigger and better with the announcement that the show has now moved into a third hall at the NEC in Birmingham.

Organisers of the 2015 show, which is being held on 4 and 5 November, have extended the show footprint to acco

"Fairy control" has had to be brought in at a woods in Somerset to curb the "profusion of elfin construction".

Hundreds of fairy doors have been attached to the bases of trees in Wayford Woods, Crewkerne.

It is claimed the doors have been install

Sherriff Amenity’s Ferromex - a high performance liquid moss killer, has been given a new license approval.

Spring is upon us, and the new license for Ferromex arrives at the perfect time to tackle outbreaks of moss and algae. Most groundsmen and gree

Tobermore have supplied a range of beautiful paving products for Oakhill Grange in Aberdeen, the impressive new development created by Dandara. Dandara are one of the UK’s largest independent property development companies, renowned for creating inno

Fines for companies caught flytipping on an industrial scale should triple to £9m, the Liberal Democrats have said.

The increased penalities would target businesses that avoid paying landfill tax by dumping rubbish in hedgerows, parks and roadsides,

The government's financial management of Kew Gardens is "a recipe for failure", MPs have said.

The Science and Technology Select Committee warns that cuts in government funding are placing Kew's world-class science status at risk.

The London-based or

The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) is offering landscaping businesses APL Registered Membership for  £200 (plus VAT), plus a one off joining fee of £20.  

The APL is a specialist group of the HTA and was formed in 1995 to provide repre

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans will suffer a premature death in the next two decades as the result of governments’ failure to act on air pollution, Europe’s environmental watchdog has warned.

In 2011, the latest year for which figures have been r

A funding pot of more than £100,000 is available to support the planting of native broadleaf trees, creating new woodland habitats and providing potential long term income for landowners.

The woodland creation programme will be overseen by charityYor

Scientists say signs of spring are appearing earlier in woodlands because of temperature rises in past decades.

They predict that climate change will alter the order in which different trees start to grow leaves, with long-term implications for the s

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is asking gardeners to help them chart the onset and progress of spring by recording when Magnolia campbellii trees bloom.
 
Magnolia campbellii are among the tallest of all flowering magnolia trees, with large

The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds.

Norway spruce and Scots pine samples have entered the vault inside a mountain on the Arctic archipelago

TalkTalk customers are being warned about scammers who managed to steal account numbers and names from the company's computers.

In an email sent to every customer, TalkTalk said scammers were using stolen information to trick people into handing over