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Peace Gardens help bring relief to the Japanese
Sixteen of the world’s best garden designers will bring relief to a nation recovering from the terrible devastation caused by March’s earthquake and tsunami as they started work on the 26 September to build peace gardens in South East Japan. The Japanese, renowned for their ceremonies to welcome the cherry blossom season and for their love of gardens, have one of the finest horticultural and landscape traditions in the
America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The Gardening World Cup takes place in the South East of Japan in a 17th century Dutch replica theme park the size of Monaco, Huis Ten Bosch. With its proximity to Nagasaki, the theme is deliberately, ‘gardens for world peace and a
world. A total of 16 designers have been picked to represent 12 countries and five continents. Visitors will see ‘peace’ gardens by the best designers from Australia, North
Garden City toGreenCity
A new exhibit, From Garden City to Green City, has opened at The Garden Museum in London. The exhibition will explore historic and futuristic visions for growing and green space in the city. This begins with the Victorians, who longed to introduce more green into congested city living, through the meadows that sprung to life in WWII bomb sites, to the latest international concepts that suggest how ‘the green and the grey’ can
be better in balance. Christopher Woodward, director of the Garden Museum, said that the premise of the exhibition is that “lots of people want London to be a greener city to live in; garden cities are back in fashion, the demand for allotments is high but there’s a problem to do with space. Because once you put people in the sky, you don’t have gardens, do you?” Woodward said that, with the exhibition, the Museum is suggesting
prayer for Japanese recovery’. This year it is being held in aid of the victims of the Japanese Tsunami. This year’s show will open from Saturday 8 October.
IN BRIEF… Business expansion
for Tracmaster Sussex-based Tracmaster celeb- rated the opening of new larger premises in the Victoria Business Park, Burgess Hill this month. To honour the occasion the RT Hon Nicholas Soames MP opened the premises, cutting the ribbon and speaking to staff and guests at the launch event.
Top sites for Dobbies Dobbies Garden Centre owner Tesco is planning to buy up to 20 of Garden Centre Group’s top sites, according to reports. Lloyds Banking Group will this week formally start the £300m sale of the Garden Centre Group. Tesco is believed to have registered an interest in the auction.
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that we are in “a visionary moment in time, when the architectural orthodoxy is being challenged.”
Hillier to expand landscaping services
Hillier Landscapes is to open a series of regional offices in a drive to expand its domestic landscaping services. The firm will develop a stronger presence in the Cotswolds and explore areas along the M3, M4 and A34 corridors to identify other potential sites for new offices. Its existing Bristol office will also expand its reach.
Managing director Richard
Barnard said the firm was returning to its “core values and roots”
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by leaving behind much of its commercial work to focus on big domestic design and build projects and to work more closely with designers.
He added that the firm would
continue to do some commercial work for the big business parks because it was of a high standard. “The mundane day-to-day comm- ercial work we won’t be doing any more because it is price driven rather than quality driven,” he
explained. “I can’t put my staff on projects like that because they simply don’t enjoy it or get any satisfaction out of it.” Barnard added that he felt the time was right for the firm to expand: “For the past three years our turnover has remained the same with no growth, but this period has given us a good opportunity to re- evaluate the whole industry and the company. We now know where we are headed.”
Best service award Edinburgh City Council has won a best service team award for parks, grounds and horticultural services.
National Trust switches
to battery power Nymans in West Sussex, one of the National Trust’s flagship properties, is now using battery powered hand tools to ensure Health & Safety standards are maximised. Hand vibration and noise is considerably less and no long cables means hedges can be trimmed safely without inconveniencing visitors.
RHS membership soars RHS membership has risen to 380,000 after spending five years stuck at 360,000. Director Sue Biggs puts the increase down to “being much more open in telling people what we’re doing”.
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