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Garden maintenance tips for May
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Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 10:22
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Keep your Spring bedding displays flowering well by feeding weekly with a high potash liquid fertiliser. Remember to deadhead the faded flowers and you’ll be rewarded with a further flush of flowers and an extended display. Many border plants will need support and tying in to prevent them from being damaged and falling over. Make sure the supports are in place early as it can be difficult to do when they’re in full growth.
Prune Hedges
This is a good time to get hedges back into great shape. You can even rejuvenate overgrown evergreen hedges – but not conifers – by cutting them back hard. When cutting, make sure the hedge is wider at the base then it is at the top to prevent it becoming bare at the bottom. To do a good job you’ll need the right tools, so secateurs, shears, loppers and hedges trimmers are essentials.
Weed Control
Weeds can soon take over the garden and they can smother your prized plants and steal valuable water and nutrients from the soil. Now’s the time for an all-out assault using a hoe for annuals and small weeds, mulches and planting membranes to keep beds and borders permanently weed free, and weed killers to stop even the most persistent weeds taking over. Attack weeds now and they’ll be less of a problem in the summer when you want to enjoy your garden.
Lawn care
Your lawn should be growing fast this month so you will need to cut it regularly, once or in wet weather even twice a week to keep it looking good. Now’s also a good time to feed the grass for a lush, healthy lawn. Weeds and even moss may also be growing strongly this month, so take action to keep them under control with a lawn feed, weed and moss killer. Then re-seed any gaps with a mix of sand, soil and your choice of lawn seed. |
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London Marriott Hotel County Hall
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Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:52
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 10:41
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We have recently performed a crown reduction to a mature Horse Chestnut at Edwalton Hall after Nottinghamshire Council reported the tree was suffering poor health. The property manager instructed us to go ahead with the work and we proceeded to reduce the canopy to the instruction and notes from the tree officer.
While our tree team were on site our grounds team were working on rejuvenating the Halls lawns. They were all mown, machine scarified, hand raked, treated with lawn sand and over seeded. We're looking forward to the results we should see a real improvement over the next few weeks.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers training ground
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Written by Administrator
Thursday, 15 March 2012 10:39
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The landscape production team have been busy conducting landscape improvements works at Wolverhamton Wanderers training ground.
We have been whip planting with rabbit gaurds, as well as planting many semi mature trees. All the hedging that we have put in should thicken out to form natural screen mixed hedges, full of around 6 varieties of native hedging shrubs. The head groundsman has also requested that tree works be undertaken on all the existing trees removing dead wood and crown lifting where reqired. Where we have removed trees we have chipped the timber and returned it to the site as a mulch, this is something we like to do where we can as its good to return the natural nutrients over the soil to retain moisture, reduce erosion, provide nutrients, and suppress weed growth and seed germination. Mulching in gardens and landscaping mimics the leaf cover that is found on forest floors.
Future works include preparing and seeding of some more training pitches, hopefully we can get this done before spring runs out! Having seen the Wolves in shooting training we have insisted that all the lads where head protection when working within a 20m range of the goal, as health and safety is paramount.
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Dudley – ground nesting birds
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:07
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This week we have been helping Taylor wimpey by cutting grass down to ground level on a big new development in the black country.
The ecologists had raised concerns that sky larks had started to show an interest in nesting in this field, so the decision was made to get the area cut down before they move in. We had many acres to cut, the tractor driver worked well into the night to get the job done. We then followed this up with a strimming gang so as to leave the little critters nowhere to hide.
Whilst we do not like to deprive birds of their habitats, the decision was made to discourage them from nesting, as the last thing anyone wanted was disturbing them when they were settled whilst incubating. As there were plenty of other fields and habitats around we were happy to assist in this instance.
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