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Chris Garnons-Williams of IVYDENE HORTICULTURAL SERVICES designs, constructs and maintains private gardens. He can also teach you how to garden or advise you what to do in your own garden. Due to under-work and ill-health in March 2013, management have decided to retire:-
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A businessman stated that his company was responsible for the IT system that Noah used in getting the animals onto his ark in a 1 minute speech at a Business Network International breakfast meeting. I responded the following week, that Ivydene Horticultural Services had provided these instructions to the animals from Genesis Chapters 8 and 9 using his IT System:-
Unfortunately, it came to pass that the Welsh (my forebears) banned alcohol on the Sabbath, so I have had to change the message sent by his IT System to the following:-
for current use with the following Labour rate for working in Kent, England:-
at £12 an hour or £96 an 8 hour day. Minimum Labour Charge of £30. £0.30 a mile from my home to you and back to my home travel charge per period worked at your property. 50% markup on goods/services to pay for my expertise in its selection, fitness for purpose and quantity required. |
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If the cost of the work to be done exceeds £35, then the following letter will be completed with you during the first Site visit:- Ivydene Horticultural Services, Job Number: IVY......... Dear ……......................................................... Thank you for asking me to provide and estimate/undertake work in your garden. I confirm that you require .................................................... At this site visit, we have agreed that I will start this work on……………............................................. The charges will be £12 per hour (minimum charge £30) for labour only, including time taken for planning, surveying the site or collecting materials. All materials, including fuel for By virtue of the Cancellation of Contracts made in a If you wish work to be started within 7 days from today, EITHER 1. Cancellation of Work OR 2. Confirmation of Work I look forward to working with you. Yours sincerely, Site Visit - Chris Garnons-Williams signature ........................... If I have only received confirmation by telephone, then until the following is signed, no work will be carried out:- |
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If the work requires Design (See Figure 1 of Case Study 3, for minimal design requirements and Figures 1 and 4 of Case Study 4 for major design requirements including Case Study 4 - planting designs) then the next Site Visit after the 7 days cancellation notice has expired will discuss that requirement and a site survey will be carried out before an Overall Design Plan is produced for a later Site Visit. Payment will be required for the Site Survey, the time taken to create the Overall Design and the Overall Design Plan. Once the Overall Design is approved, then further detailed plans and costings of Materials/Labour Time from those plans will be done. Each costing will be agreed before work on site is started. Otherwise if no Design is required, the Materials/Skip or other External Costs will be agreed before work on site is started. |
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Notes:- 1. You may say that you want to use someone who has the training, experience and knowledge to maintain your garden, but that is not always what is actioned in whom you choose:- A lady phoned me and pointed out that she had employed a gardener who she had to tell which plant was a weed and which a plant that she wanted to keep; and that she wanted someone who knew how to maintain her garden. I suggested that she looked at this website to show her that I knew something about gardening. I never heard from her again.
2. If you agree to employ me, then I normally state when I am going to come and start. If it is raining when I arrive, then I see you and state that I do not normally start work in the rain, so we make an arrangement for when I next come, before I leave the site. |
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As an Organic Gardener, I design, construct and maintain private gardens. I can also advise and teach you in your own garden.
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Site design and content copyright ©April 2007. Page structure amended October 2012. Chris Garnons-Williams. DISCLAIMER: Links to external sites are provided as a courtesy to visitors. Ivydene Horticultural Services are not responsible for the content and/or quality of external web sites linked from this site. |
This row gives a very clear overall description of the "Understanding Fern Needs " |
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It is worth remembering that especially with roses that the colour of the petals of the flower may change - The following photos are of Rosa 'Lincolnshire Poacher' which I took on the same day in R.V. Roger's Nursery Field:- |
Closed Bud |
Opening Bud |
Juvenile Flower |
Older Juvenile Flower |
Middle-aged Flower - Flower Colour in Season in its |
Mature Flower |
Juvenile Flower and Dying Flower |
Form of Rose Bush |
There are 720 roses in the Rose Galleries; many of which have the above series of pictures in their respective Rose Description Page. So one might avoid the disappointment that the 2 elephants had when their trunks were entwined instead of them each carrying their trunk using their own trunk, and your disappointment of buying a rose to discover that the colour you bought it for is only the case when it has its juvenile flowers; if you look at all the photos of the roses in the respective Rose Description Page!!!! |
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There are 180 families in the Wildflowers of the UK and they have been split up into 22 Galleries to allow space for up to 100 plants per gallery. Each plant named in each of the Wildflower Family Pages may have a link to:- its Plant Description Page in its Common Name in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries and it does have links:- to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name, to see photos in its Flowering Months and to read habitat details in its Habitat Column. |
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Links to external websites like the link to "the Man walking in front of car to warn pedestrians of a horseless vehicle approaching" would be correct when I inserted it after March 2007, but it is possible that those horseless vehicles may now exceed the walking pace of that man and thus that link will currently be br My advice is Google the name on the link and see if you can find the new link. If you sent me an email after clicking Ivydene Horticultural Services text under the Worm Logo on any page, then; as the first after March 2010 you would be the third emailer since 2007, I could then change that link in that 1 of the 15,743 pages. Currently (August 2016). Other websites provide you with cookies - I am sorry but I am too poor to afford them. If I save the pennies from my pension for the next visitor, I am almost certain in March 2023, that I could afford to make that 4th visitor to this website a Never Fail Cake. I would then be able to save for more years for the postage. |
OTHER Ivydene Gardens Photo Damage to Trees in Madeira:
John Harlow took this photo of London from Stockbury in Kent showing the permanent air pollution cloud over London on 17 January 2023 at 12:37 (It was taken on an iPhone 11 Pro and it will not be displayed until all the succeeding large photos in this table have been shown).
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reduced size of above photo Row 1 has the Pass-Through Camera image of Thumbnail image named in Row 2 Row 2 has same image reduced to fit the image frame of 160 x 120 pixels as a Click on either image and drag to your desktop. Copying the pages and then clicking on the images to drag them may not work. |
Item is At least 40% of the horizontal area of this tree trunk has rotted, before this tree was the rotting process has been visible to the naked eye of the inside and yet nobody has done anything during that time except wait The central nervous system of this tree which goes up the trunk and branches off to
Unfortunately, when this central nervous system is destroyed, then there is no way that the Every time any tree has a branch cut off or the branch damaged by wind, etc, then due
"This is the supporting literature about wound dressings (as used in my year at Hadlow Pages 9-11 of The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by Development of Cavities Page 23 of The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by George E. Brown.
I have reported that the government of Madeira managed to get one of the the 6 tree Photos in the Evergreen Trees Gallery Site Map Page show what I did to save a very old yew |
Item is It is great to see how close the traffic came to this tree. |
Item is Further along this stretch of pavement, this is the stump or stumps of the same height You may note that there is part of the trunk, which is mosly rotten, with a very narrow part on |
Item is A view - from that dump of cut down tree in the previous photo - towards The Forum. Pavements of Funchal, Madeira Photos 6 and 7 on Monitoring of Trees in Funchal Page 1 show a tree in a pavement |
Item is Completed new pavement and viewing back to the standing tree on the left in photo |
Item is Black sand being laid as the base for the new concrete pavers as the top surface of the pavement. "The trees' roots also end up absorbing the salt. In cases like this, it takes a longer time for the salt |
Item is In the table on the left, you can see the bijou residence for a worker in the Forum The central nervous system of this tree besides the majority of the heartwood has rotted |
Item is Looking back to the zebra crossing where the tree in Photo IMG 0014 is located, these It is interesting to note that these trees used to reduce the wind tunnel effect between the |
"Madeira Name Meaning - Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from madeira
Looking at the photos of these trees in Madeira, I have seen almost every possible way that the people We the tourists are very grateful to be blown about by this wind. |
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Tree Planting Disasters in the UK A '£134,000 disaster of 95% of 12,800 saplings planted to help tackle the climate crisis "A twig waste of money as trees die in heatwave by Joel Taylor in the Metro of Friday, September 23, 2022. Thousands of trees planted to help tackle the climate crisis have died because they were not watered Some 12,800 saplings were dotted across Gloucester by the city's council, which promised a 'thriving But the council admitted in July that, due to the tough jobs market, it had struggled to employ a tree And Cllr Alastair Chambers said 95 per cent of the trees have now died due to lack of water during He added "This is such a waste of taxpayers' money. I am all for trees and a better environment so I The council said the summer heatwave was unprecedented. A spokesperson added:' It's disappointing this led to the loss of trees in the city and we will be looking It had a budget of £16,000 for the trees and secured £118,000 in outside grants."
Let us look at the 3 photos in the article from GloucestershireLive. of these newly planted trees.
Best Watering Practices for newly planted trees may help from the point of watering, but if the |
PAGE/INDEX TABLE HOME PAGES - Use this website in Landscape mode on an iPAD instead of an iPHONE, when away from home.
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Monitoring of Trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira from September 2019 to February 2020 1, 2
Britain runs out of food during summer of 2024. If a worker is on State Benefits and is only allowed to work up 15 hours 59 minutes a week at minimum wage, then with these extra new border control food charges it will cost that person 12% of their gross wage each week and 12% extra if they are supporting their child; from 30 April 2024.
8 problems caused by building house on clay or
TABLE SOS where the action of humans breathing produces carbon dioxide and the trees/plants/algae cannot process that; because we either cover the roots in concrete/tarmac or kill the algae in the sea from the phosphorus in the human produced sewage. So we are slowly asphixiating ourselves in the UK.
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These remaining items are of no interest to people outside the UK, Medway Proposed New School Comments in September 2019 Neighbour cutting branches off our trees without Conservation Area permission and attempting to sink our house with 1000's of litres of their sewage by blocking the drain to our cesspit. For the following week, they continued to download their sewage after we had written to them stating that the cesspit was full and that the drain was blocked. Gas explosion from incorrectly installed home boiler, with other customers refusing to correct the situation. Problems with electrical re-wire in my home, with the knowledge after the event that the client can do nothing about it, since NAPIT requires you to re-use the same contractor to fix the problems.
Because we had paid part of the cost to Manderson Electrical Services Ltd using a credit card, then after we had contacted them and sent the report, the credit card company re-imbursed us. We then used that money towards a total removal of all wiring and total rewiring by the electrician who had produced the report. The above was a pointless waste of time - we have now had the house completely rewired again without any recompense from the original contractor's lies, thiefery and extremely dangerous work with the government body Napit being no help at all. The unfortunate consequence of either buying a house or having anything done to it is that you the owner can and will be totally screwed by the majority of the British Workforce. |