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I have used CED from West Thurrock for the last 2 years. Bush hammering or flame texturing granite can make stone paving less slippery. It works out that the cost is only 30% more than for Marshalls Saxon paving for the same area of paving material in 2007. I would recommend the silver grey bush hammered granite at 1" thick for paths or patios, 2" thick for driveways. |
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Gapfast paving spacers provide a quick and easy method of installing all paving flags with consistently accurate 10mm joints and to increase structural integrity. Totally invisible when covered with pointing. Made in the UK. Cross paving spacers are suitable for checkerboard (stacked) laying patterns. Tee paving spacers are suitable for staggered (offset) laying patterns. |
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Geofix Paving Jointing Compound is a ready to use cement-free pointing mortar - simply brush into paving joints. Water permeable but will not crack or wash out. Resists weeds and unaffected by frost. |
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Have used Designer Plants section of Coblands for all the plants that I have planted in the last 10 years till 2001. Suggest that your trees/shrubs/perennials are planted in October, November, December to allow the roots to grow in the winter. These roots would then be able to provide the nourishment for the foliage during the following growing season. Above 5 degrees centigrade, plants mainly grow above ground level; below it plants grow their roots; in England. Bedding plants should be bought and inserted at the beginning of show period (For Summer bedding, plant out in late May after last frost). Summer/Autumn bulbs should be planted by March and Winter/Spring in August to October. Produce planting list as early in the year as possible for their perusal. If the plants are available in the summer, but cannot be guaranteed for the required date in the autumn when you will collect or they deliver, then buy them now and heel them in your nursery bed to make sure that you get the plants required. Once they have sold them, they have to wait until either they grow replacements or they source them from other nurseries. Rotovate your ground, then apply 4" of cow manure or spent mushroom compost before rotovating that in. Leave for 2 weeks. Now complete your hard landscaping of paths, patios, drives, fencing, ponds etc. For a low maintenance bed without bulbs or rhizomes, then plant the trees, shrubs, and finally groundcover plants through plantex geotextile. Then, install leaky-pipe irrigation system on top before laying a 1" thick layer of 1" pea-shingle as a mulch (1/2" pea-shingle will attach to the soles of your shoes if they are muddy, but 1" shingle is too heavy to stick). Finally water well. If bulbs or rhizomes are to be planted in the bed, then plant trees, shrubs, groundcover and finally the bulbs in March or August. Install leaky-pipe irrigation system on top of the ground, before laying 3-4" thick layer of spent mushroom compost as a mulch. Finally water well. 20 minutes of irrigation using leaky-pipe a week should be sufficient. Finally lay your lawn or put grass seed on it. |
Plantex can be obtained from Travis Perkins.
Leaky-pipe can be obtained from Leaky Pipe Systems Ltd, Frith Farm, Dean Street, Maidstone, Kent. ME15 0PR Tel: 01622 746495
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Paul Dyer in America has produced a CD, that shows you how to create a water garden using Butyl EDPM with Rock and plants. It can be used by anyone to produce a very good natural looking pond/stream/waterfall etc. |
CD can be ordered from internetgardens |
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Geosynthetic Technology can provide prefabricated liner panels (from 20 square metres to 1000 square metres in area), for the Client's own installation. The liner is covered with a 20 year guarantee. it can also be installed by Geosynthetic, or a Landscape contractor. |
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DuPont™ Plantex® Liner, exceptionally robust yet lightweight and flexible pond liner, is made from Plantex® non-woven material with a polymer coating. Its unique double-coated structure offers high resistance to penetration or damage by roots. Thanks to its high tensile strength and puncture resistance, Plantex® Liner remains homogenous through its entire lifetime. Plantex® Liner is chemically inert and does not leach, biodegrade or rot in the aquatic flora. It is very resistant to attacks by acid and base solutions. If installed properly Plantex® Liner lasts up to 25 years. It is readily recyclable. |
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StoLotusan Color mimics a water-repellent process discovered in the leaves of the lotus plant and developed into a scientific breakthrough – the world’s first facade paint with the lotus effect.
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Keim Royalan is a mineral silicate paint system. It is ideally suited for specification in severe exposure locations such as marine environments or those subject to continual pollutants and contaminants such as road tunnels and bridges. In addition, because the binder in the paint is a form of glass (liquid potassium silicate), it forms a chemical and adhesive bond with ceramic substrates, making it suitable for the overcoating of ceramic tile facades both externally and internally. |
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FLP Planter Pockets with handles are to:
In the pond, FLP Planter Pockets can be used to:
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The easy way to grow potatoes if you have limited space in your garden. Stand the barrel on the patio, in your greenhouse or conservatory, or in the garden. Made from durable polypropylene with lift up sides for ease of harvesting your crops of delicious potatoes. Simply fill with multi-purpose compost (will require 80 litres throughout the growing season), plant your 4-5 tubers and keep fed and watered. Dimensions: 60cm (2 ft.) x 43 cm (17in.) Flat packed for home assembly. Full manufacturer assembly and cultural instructions supplied. Please note: We suggest only First Early varieties are grown in your Barrel. |
thompson-morgan.com who now sell potato bags instead of barrels |
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Makes sowing of fine seeds easy. The Pro-Seeder can be used to sow seeds of all shapes and sizes, simply choose the correct colour coded needle, empty the seed into the storage cap provided, squeeze the bulb, pick up the seed and transfer it to the soil. The Pro-Seeder stops seed wastage and time consuming thinning out, as you are now using the same sowing technique as commercial nurseries. The Pro-Seeder is ideal for sowing begonia, primula and tomato seed, as well as many other flower and vegetable seeds, making it a great gift for any keen gardener. |
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All Liniar products are manufactured in the UK from 88% recycled materials, and they have extensive experience in the PVCu fencing market. The fences are maintenance free and the PVCu system does not rot or rust – making it extremely durable. Liniar fencing systems are available in a choice of colours – a unique concept in the marketplace. The coloured fencing can be combined with their PVCu decking products to create your own co-ordinated customized design, and bring a touch of colour to your garden space. Benefits The Liniar range of fencing products have a number of key benefits over traditional timber or concrete systems:
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Permeable Concrete Paving to keep your rainwater in your garden |
ReadyFlow is a 80mm thick concrete block permeable paving (CBPP) system that allows water to drain through voids filled with granular material. Barbican ReadyFlow, Chelsea ReadyFlow and Ready-Ecoflow can also be used to drain the water into the subgrade. It is ideal for use in sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS).
"Interpave’s new, dedicated domestic website offers inspiration and guidance on the paving which is essential to creating and enjoying a beautiful garden. It covers all the issues you need to consider when choosing and designing paving, as well as help finding manufacturers and installers, and guidance for DIY enthusiasts. |
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Kernock Park Plants are a plant propagator and wholesale supplier of young plants. We have over 1100 varieties of ornamental plants on catalogue, our plants are sold as 3.5cm to 5cm rooted plugs in units of between 50 and 100 plants. The product range spans summer patio flowering and foliage plants, herbs, alpines, hardy and herbaceous perennials as well as specialist products such as grasses , hardy patio, carpet bedding, and Scented ornamentals, or Scentsations® as we call them. These can be potted on in your greenhouse, before putting in your coldframe and then into your garden. |
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Roughneck Post Hole Digger is For fast removal of soil. Fibreglass handles with knuckle protectors. Large capacity digging bucket. If digging in clay, then start hole and put 3 inches of water in it. Continue to take out the clay using the Post Hole Digger and topping up the water to the 3" level. If you do not use the water; it can take a much longer time than 15 minutes to excavate a 30 inch (75 cms) deep hole for a post. If you encounter a flint stone that you cannot lift out with the water and clay round it, then use a Roughneck Digging Bar to break that flint apart. |
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Pry Bar Set of Heavy duty pry bars 190, 280, 430 and 600mm plus a 400mm rolling bar. Drop forged, fully hardened and heat treated. When removing a tree or shrub and its roots from the ground, I suggest you cut off all the branches and leave a stump of about 6 feet (180 cms) high. Dig a trench with a spade round the base of the tree/shrub. Attach a rope to the top and pull to find out where the roots are. Cut those roots with a Silky saw, loppers, secateurs, cold chisel and club hammer or axe. Excavate the soil using your hands which have gloves on or a trowel. When encountering stones, use the pry bars to lever them out. Then try pulling on the rope again to see if that leverage is sufficient to start pulling the plant out. The Roughneck "L" Shape Bar (Hardened and tempered, drop forged alloy steel. Wide claw ends. Integral nail lifter. L end can be struck with a hammer. Ideal for opening crates, lifting floorboards and removing architectural mouldings and panels.) can also be used in removing the stones and loosening the compacted soil. |
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From April 2016, all dogs in the UK will need to be microchipped by law. Anyone who doesn't have their dog microchipped by April 6th will have 21 days to comply or may face a penalty fine of up to £500. |
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Adonis Blue Egg on a leaf |
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I have finally managed to find how to care for this Dulally Bird from "The Care and Feeding of Stuffed Animals" by Glen Knape, as mentioned in the book "How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books" by Joel Rickett. The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally known as the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title at the Frankfurt Book Fair, commonly known as the Diagram Prize for short, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to the book with the oddest title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, an information and graphics company based in London, and The Bookseller, a British trade magazine for the publishing industry. |
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Site design and content copyright ©January 2007. Page structure amended September 2012. Links to anchors rather than pages May 2013. 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. All links in Useful Data inserted between January 2007 and February 2013 have been verified in February 2013. |
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue-in-cheek contest held annually and is sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University in San Jose, California. Entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, deliberately bad. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. The first year of the competition attracted just three entries, but it went public the next year, received media attention, and attracted 10,000 entries. There are now several subcategories, such as detective fiction, romance novels, Western novels, and purple prose. Sentences that are notable but not quite bad enough to merit the Grand Prize or a category prize are awarded Dishonorable Mentions. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 10,000:-
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Choose 1 of these different Plant selection Methods:-
1. Choose a plant from 1 of 53 flower colours in the Colour Wheel Gallery.
2. Choose a plant from 1 of 12 flower colours in each month of the year from 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery.
3. Choose a plant from 1 of 6 flower colours per month for each type of plant:- Aquatic
4. Choose a plant from its Flower Shape:- Shape, Form
5. Choose a plant from its foliage:- Bamboo
6. There are 6 Plant Selection Levels including Bee Pollinated Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers in
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7. when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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This is how to keep your groceries from falling over when they are in plastic handle bags:- |
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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:- |
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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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Copied from Case Studies Pages When you have the following 8 problems, then instead of building the building and conning the buyer, that the new building will not subside, then why does the builder not do something to solve these 8 problems - of a house built on clay - before sale? There is no need for the builder to worry about there being insufficient water for these new buildings well before 2030; as shown in the last row; therefore no need to tell the potential customer. |
Problems for Houseowners and Builders when the new home is surrounded by clay and how to solve them. 8 problems caused by clay:-
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Builders do sell the original topsoil including
where the new building and its garden areas are to be built. The consolidated parent material (bedrock) is usually sand, chalk or clay with flint possibly. At the end of building; the builders rubble is covered with possibly only a 2 inch (5 cms) depth of imported topsoil, which might be the washings from the sugar beet in the sugar industry. This is covered with turf and the unsuspecting public is offered the result. As likely as not one of their gardens slopes towards the house and even with the modern depth of foundation wall, there is no guarantee that subsidence will not occur.
If every garden of a new house had a 12 inch depth of soil removed from its new garden area, then at the end of the building work, the Aquadyne Drainage System would be laid round the entire boundary. Next to it then plant the relevant Instant Hedge on the non-house wall sides to absorb the rainwater collected by that drainage system:-
And finally on the same day pour a depth of 11 inches (27.5 cms) depth of the builders soil mixture detailed below onto the remainder of the new garden areas and alongside the Instant Hedging.
A fortnight later the following type of turf containing RTF (Rhizomatous Tall Fescue), bred by Barenbrug Research USA, could be laid over the proposed lawn areas. The roots of that grass will reach the clay below and stabilise the new builders soil mix, before the proposed owners view the property a month later. The mix to change clay soil into a friable useful soil in less than 4 months for the above domestic garden problem was in royal blue colour typing. Builders Soil Mixture
If water with 150 kgs of clay was first added to the Concrete TruckMixer and then the required volume of cullet followed by the required volume of waste plasterboard, the mixture is then mixed for an hour. If the cullet/waste plasterboard mixture is passed through the poultry houses to mix with the poultry litter on the litter floor before being collected into the next Concrete TruckMixer, then the houses would be cleaner and smell less. The required volume of waste from beer making could replace the Peat above and the requisite Sulphate of Iron and Sulphate of Potash could be added to the Concrete TruckMixer before that mixture from the Poultry Farm litter floor is added. That soil mixture could then be mixed for 30 minutes before applying it to the garden areas of the new houses built by the builder to an 11 inch (27.5 cms) depth. The resulting mixture would then integrate with the clay and create a deep topsoil within 3 months. All the requirements for a soil as shown in the figure above would then have mixed together and time will increase the bacteria and get a new soil structure created. The following type of turf could then be laid over the proposed lawn areas a fortnight later:- RTF (Rhizomatous Tall Fescue), bred by Barenbrug Research USA, produces rhizomes (an underground stem) that send a shoot up to the soil surface while extending new roots downwards. In fact, RTF can root to 1.5 metres deep giving it a chance to tap into water reserves that normal lawn turf cannot reach. |
Lack of water by 2030. 20 million homeless English before 2030 as a So the water companies use this escape clause without fixing the problem:-
4 out of the 5 chemical cocktails identified in English river sites from analysis of official Environment Agency Data contained banned - by the UK - toxic 'forever chemicals'.
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Copied from Ivydene Gardens Case Studies: When you wish to sell a property, then the work done to the garden and the house is different. |
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When a property is to be maintained, then you need to know for what purpose. I was asked to mow the lawns, prune the shrubs and weed the beds for a property that had had no garden maintenance for a year. After the first day of cutting the overgrown lawn and weeding the front garden; knowing that the property was going to be put up for sale, I wrote the following email to my client in the left column with work done after the client's response in the right column:-
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Some observations, suggestions for you and possible actions by me about the external part of your property and your neighbour's (to improve the visual look of this property before it’s sale) |
Client requested that I carry out the work for all 29 of the observations, suggestions for you and actions by me. |
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1. Action - Your neighbour at No 6 did say that the verges were the council’s responsibility, but that they have not cut them this year. I asked her whether I could cut her verge and she agreed; since she has not cut hers. I hope you agree that the cut verges do provide a better first view, since I intend to keep on cutting them as well as the lawns until they look like lawns. |
The verges, caravan parking area, vegetable garden, front and back garden lawns were cut using a 21" Honda Self-Propelled Mower every fortnight. The front and back lawns were scarified using a Honda Scarifier by scarifying along the lawn, vacuuming the lawn with the lawnmower, scarifying at 90 degrees to the last way, vacuuming, scarifying along the diagonal, vacuuming, scarifying along the other diagonal and finally vacuuming. |
2. Action - Your tarmac drive has weeds and moss growing in it. I intend to use my high pressure hose to clean them off and brush off the loose tarmac shingle. |
The drive was swept, the weeds removed and the moss removed by high pressure hosing it. The loose material was put into into a Hippo bag. |
3. Observation - Your top pane of glass in the front door is broken. The draught excluder at the top of the side on the door frame is not on the door frame. |
Bell Glass of Gillingham replaced the glass in the front door, the cracked glass in the scullery window and the workshop window. I painted the door before replacing the draught excluder and the respective windows after their glass replacement. |
4. Action - I intend to remove the ivy from the door and its frame between the drive and your internal patio. |
The ivy was removed. |
5. Observation - The garage door handles and the side door to the internal patio are not the same colour as the rest. |
The garage door handles, garage doors and side door was repainted. |
6. Observation - The caravan parking area has concrete slabs and small pea-shingle directly onto the clay earth below. This has no Geotextile at the base with no 8” deep Type I MOT foundation above or no 2” of washed sharp sand on top and below the slabs to prevent the underlying clay from heaving or depressing the top surface to the detriment of any weight of caravan or vehicle placed on top. |
The weeds were removed, Plantex laid on top and a fresh layer of pea-shingle (supplied by Allsand Supplies Ltd who sell by the cubic yard as against by the ton - 1 cubic yard of stone is 1.8 tons) applied. Creating the correct foundation etc would not have been cost effective from the point of selling the property. |
7. Observation - The middle post on the fence between you and next door is broken at the base and it’s metal support is not keeping it upright. |
A wooden stake was inserted into the ground alongside and screwed to the post. Replacing the broken post would have required replacing the fence sections on each side of it as well, which would not have been cost effective. |
8. Observation - The paint is coming off your front soffits, and next doors soffit. The paint is coming off your front asbestos/concrete downpipes. |
The soffits and downpipes were painted. |
9. Observation - Next door has asbestos/concrete guttering facing your garden in need of painting (perhaps black to match the black plastic guttering and downpipes which you have). The Windows of Next Door and their wall has ivy root fragments on their glass and frame, from the ivy that was cut down from your garden. |
The guttering was painted. The ivy roots were removed using water from a high pressure hose. |
10. Suggestion - The Asbestos/Concrete downpipes and guttering along the front fence in the caravan parking area need removing. |
This was removed. |
11. Action - Concerning the climbers on the front fence: Honeysuckle - leave alone, Clematis – prune to ground, Rose – tie to fence with vine-eye/wire support system below trellis, and Climber at end – cut to ground. |
This was done. |
12. Action - The 3 remaining trees in your front lawn are to have 1’ radius of grass removed from their trunks, to allow the trees to receive nutrients and water. |
This was done. Grass mowings were used as a mulch in that 1' radius to provide nutrients for those trees. |
13. Action - The 2 front borders to be weeded, pruned, prunings shredded and shreddings applied round their shrubs before covering with grass mowings to feed the plants. |
This was done. |
14. Internal Patio:- |
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Observation - if the internal patio climber is removed with its string support system, then the ceiling beams that it is supported by could be stained the same colour as the rest. |
This was done. |
15. Back Garden:- |
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Action - The buddleia by the external ramp will be removed, as will the grey juniper tree, grey leylandii tree and yellow juniper tree at end. |
These were removed. |
16. Observation - The paint is coming off your back soffits, asbestos/concrete guttering and downpipes. |
These were cleaned and painted. |
17. Action - The garage rose needs vine-eye support system. |
This was done. The vine-eye support system keeps the plant at least 3" away from the building, thus allowing airflow behind to stop fungal growth on the climber. |
18. Action - Back Garden beds to be weeded, pruned, prunings shredded, shreddings with grass mowings on top to be used as mulch on the beds. |
This was done. |
19. Action - All support systems on fruit trees to be removed. |
The tree posts and straps were removed and put into a HippoBag for disposal. |
20. Action - Either the rose trellis is replaced and the rose tied to it, or the trellis is removed together with the rose. |
The rose trellis and rose from the vegetable garden area were removed. |
21. Observation - The back garden slab patio and slab path are laid directly onto the earth with the cement grouting having weeds in it. Either remove cement grouting to replace it with Geofix to allow for drainage, or lay the slabs correctly with correct depth of foundations etc. |
The patio and paths were high pressure hosed to clean them and the lawns abutting them were edged. Creating the correct foundation etc. would not have been cost effective from the point of selling the property. |
22. Suggestion - Suggest you eat your raspberry crop and maybe your rhubarb. |
The raspberries were eaten by the birds and the forced rhubarb left for the new owners. |
23. Action - Remove the 3 gooseberries from the vegetable garden and plant them where the trees, which will be cut to the ground, are. |
This was done. |
24. Action - Remove raspberries, keep the rhubarb, level the ground to path level and sow lawn seed to create lawn in the vegetable garden. |
This was done. |
25. Suggestion - The rocks and bricks leaning against the chainlink fence in the vegetable garden are removed together with the material behind the shed. |
The Medibags from Hippowaste were used to remove this waste. |
26. Suggestion - If the shed was painted perhaps black, it would not look so shabby. |
It was painted chestnut brown. |
27. Action - Remove honeysuckle climber from shed. |
This was done. |
28. Suggestion - White emulsion underneath conservatory roof to be removed, to provide more light in the winter. |
Deniva Cleaning Services removed this emulsion as part of their cleaning preparation of the house for sale. |
29. Action - Prune trees. |
These were pruned, prunings shredded and the beds mulched with those shreddings. |
Does this help? |
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The property was sold within a month. |
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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Table B - UK running out of food Row 1 - Britain will run out of food by summer of 2024. |
Row 1 Britain will run out of food by summer of 2024. "New post-Brexit controls on food imports 'will fuel price inflation' - Overseas suppliers could be deterred from UK trade, reports Cahal Milmo. " from Page 12 of i newspaper for 27 April 2024 |
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Row 2 When you wish to buy British grown vegetables and fruit, you will have a problem with many farms being forced to close within 12 months from November 2023.
25.8% of households with children
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Row 3 Farmers fear food shortages caused by green schemes - they are warning that vegetables and grains could be next to the egg shortages as environmental schemes take large areas of land out of use for food production. Stephen Holt's main crop is winter wheat, but to ensure its success he grows a "break crop" of oil seed rape and beans between wheat harvests to break the cycle of weeds, diseases and pests and to improve soil health. He sells the break crops as a commercial product to make money on top of his wheat harvest. |
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Row 4 Waste Britain: How tackling UK's shocking food waste saves country millions - report by Fareshare on 16 May 2023 |
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Row 5 - Worker on State Benefits loses 12% of their gross wage because of these new border control food charges. Britain runs out of food during summer of 2024. |
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Row 6 - UK adults who cannot afford to buy food - Tax receipts have recovered strongly from the worst of the pandemic, rising by £120,000,000,000 (15.1 per cent) in 2021-22, and are forecast to rise by a further £90,900,000,000 (9.9 per cent) this year; with an extra £24,000,000,000 raised in 2022 Autumn Statement - the UK overspent by over twice the total tax received by the UK government in 2006-2007 during 2021-2023 tax years (from Tax Expenditures in OECD Countries by Joe Minarik 4127867.ppt),
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Row 7 - The Big Six Supermarkets are misleading shoppers into beliving that they are buying food from Britain's Family Farms. From Guy's News on Farmers against Farmwashing of Monday 30 September 2024 from riverford.co.uk Uncover more at stopfarmwashing.co.uk." Since the majority of British Farms will go bust in the fairly near future, I wonder if the supermarkets will buy them up and turn them into the required 1,500,000 new homes, plus a few thousand business premises within the next 5 years, They will be quietly forgetting that mains water pipes laid in the Victorian times of the 1800's can only supply a certain volume and when the new housing estates take their water from that pipe, it means that buildings further along that pipe will not have water. It is also the point that as more land gets devoted to roads, homes, concrete parking etc, that the combined raw sewage and stormwater pipes will also get overloaded, so the estates will have raw sewage/rainwater overflowing onto their estate road network. |
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