A record number of green spaces across the UK are being recognised by the Green Flag Awards 2024, celebrating the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces. This year, 2,227 parks and green spaces are preparing to raise the Green Flag Award...
Power tool supplier, Makita, continues to expand its range with the launch of its first ever robotic mower. Offering automatic mowing and charging, the new RM350D Robotic Mower affords 3,500m2 lawn and 26° slope coverage. Designed to mow lawns and recharge...
The Great Comp Summer Show, scheduled to take place this weekend, will feature over 25 specialist award-winning exhibitors, including Dan Cooper. Many will recognise Cooper from his acclaimed gardening blog, The Frustrated Gardener, which he launched in 2012. It quickly took root and he was celebrated in the press for creating a ‘subtropical...
A new 24-acre recreational green space called the Southern Grasslands has opened in Liverpool. It was created in response to a remediation programme laying the foundations for a new housing scheme at the nearby Festival Gardens development site. Situated three miles south of Liverpool city centre, Southern Grasslands is the largest transformed...
A design team led by LDA Design has been appointed to lead the Piccadilly Garden transformation project, following an international design competition. The winning design responds to the public voice and includes a refurbishment to the children’s play facilities and improved links to London Road. The 10-acre site includes Mosley Street, Parker...
Harewood House Trust has appointed award-winning garden designer Matthew Wilson, in partnership with Yorkshire based The Landscape Agency, to lead the development of Harewood House gardens. The project will see the creation of several new gardens surrounding Harewood House, with each set to feature seasonal planting and to be maintained through...
UK-based grounds maintenance company, Ground Control is launching Devana, a new centre for environmental recovery in West Wickham, Cambridgeshire in line with its nature recovery network remit. The 100-acre West Wickham site aims to contribute in large part towards Natural Cambridgeshire’s goal to increase land managed for nature across the...
National facilities management company, Mitie has secured a five-year integrated facilities management (IFM) service contract with savings and retirement business, Phoenix Group. Mitie will provide planned and reactive maintenance, including waste management, landscaping and decarbonisation, across six Phoenix Group locations in five cities...
The Landscape Institute (LI) is partnering with City & Guilds (C&G) to deliver new agriculture and horticulture T-Levels, with the aim to facilitate increased industry joining success rates and tackle the hard-to-fill vacancies in the sectors. T Levels are a new two-year technical qualification in England, available to 16 – 19-year-olds...
Award-winning landscaping provider idverde has been re-awarded the ground maintenance contract for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the surrounding public realm, 11 years on from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London Legacy Development Corporation has renewed idverde’s existing ten-year contract for an additional eight...
HTA Design, an award-winning collaborative practice is set to lead a specialist team in the next major development works, as part of the on-going Crystal Palace Park Regeneration Plan. The HTA team have been appointed as the lead consultant and landscape architects by the Council to lead this stage of the development, which will see widespread...
National facilities management company, Mitie has secured a two-year extension of its FM contract, providing total facilities management services to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) sites in London and Handslope Park, Milton Keynes. Mitie will provide planned and reactive maintenance in the form of custodial and reception...
Husqvarna, providers of robotic mowing solutions in the professional sector is partnering with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to strengthen the gardens’ journey to become carbon positive by 2030. Three Husqvarna electric commercial lawn mowers will be installed at Kew Gardens, two Husqvarna Automower® 550 EPOS robotic mowers and one Husqvarna...
Cleaning your natural stone can be a scary task. However, with the right information and products, you can avoid any unnecessary mistakes. Let’s explore the top 5 mistakes people are making when it comes to taking care of their natural stone and how to prevent them! Using Harsh Chemicals The use of harsh or abrasive cleaners on your natural stone...
Facilities management giant Mitie has been awarded a new three-year £4m contract to deliver landscaping services for Yorkshire Water. Mitie has been granted a new contract with Yorkshire Water to deliver on-site grounds maintenance services for three years. The £4m contract include adverse weather services, tree and weed management, and...
Last year saw nearly a 20% increase in landscaping companies being launched, but only 6% were founded by women. This is according to Companies House data analysed by Instant Offices. A total of 2,610 companies were registered under ‘landscape service activities’ in 2022, with just 162 of these being launched by women. In the previous year, 190...
An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) appears to have been called by more than 100 members of the Landscape Institute to address the ongoing dispute over the removal of the president-elect last year. Brodie McAllister was elected to be the next president in 2021 and was due to take over the position from July 2022 until multiple allegations led...
Councillors from Arun District Council made a progress visit to Bognor Regis Sunken Gardens to see how works are advancing. Blakedown Landscapes, the appointed contractor, is said to have completed works to the southern entrance and new ramped footpaths, reconstruction of the stone walls, grading soil to adjacent shrub beds and removal of...
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