Ivydene Gardens Home: Contact Chris Garnons-Williams

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The contact information is in the next row, but I think you may find this more useful:-

Chris Garnons-Williams is the Sole Trader of Ivydene Horticultural Services.

Email is a more certain method of communication at any time rather than mobile phone; since the mobile is normally switched off.
Email: Click on Ivydene Horticultural Services to get an email set up to me.
Mail sent to mail@ivydenegardens.co.uk will not get to me.
This email link is in white text on a burgundy colour background in the Text Box under the Worm Logo in all the pages of all the topics.
I shall receive email number 6 - extrapolating from the days of the previous 5 - on 15 March 2025. The reply should be sent within a month after the shock has been recovered from.
Delicate flower with

• too close a proximity to those of a female persuasion like a female dentist (even though I was only looking at one hair which had strayed from her coiffure during the time she was working on my teeth and nothing else) caused my warfarin levels to go haywire for 2 months
• restricted comfortable air temperature of room between 18 and 20 degrees Centigrade,
• noise level in the cinema or theatre is too high and
• dancing / squash / gliding is not available - motorbicycle accident left one third of my brain detached from my skull and this stops me going gliding as well when the glider enters an air pocket and it drops.
• exciting life I lead isn't it?

Ivydene Horticultural Services
1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages
Moor Street
Rainham
Medway
Kent. ME8 8QE

There are no materials stored at the above address and no clients are seen at the above address.

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Due to under-work and ill-health in March 2013, management have decided to retire:-
On 17 March 2013, I attended Medway Hospital whilst coughing up blood from my lungs. Tests were carried out and I left the following day with medication for:-

• a) atrial fibrillation (Irregular Heart Rhythm),
• b) impaired left ventricular function (The left ventricle is the thickest of the heart’s chambers and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body. By contrast, the right ventricle solely pumps blood to the lungs),
• c) lower respiratory tract infection (Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are any infection of the sinuses, throat, airways or lungs. Lower respiratory tract infections – which affect the airways and lungs) to add to
• d) prolactin-secreting macroadenoma of the pituary (These pituitary tumors (also called adenomas) secrete excessive amounts of prolactin. Prolactin is the hormone that stimulates milk production by the breasts.) diagnosed in April 2001.

The following information was sent by a Locum Consultant Cardiologist from Medway Maritime Hospital on 17 January 2014:-

• Diagnosis:-
  • 1. Moderate to poor left ventricular function with hypokinesia in the inferior and posterior walls.
  • 2. Permanent atrial fibrillation with three failed attempts of cardioversion.
  • 3. History of prolactin-screting macroadenoma of the pituary now Micro prolactinoma
  • 4. history of mild restrictive pulmonary function test.
• Medications: Ramipril, Bisoprolol, Simvastatin, Spironolactin, Cabergoline, Warfarin, Salbutamol, Seretide.
• I have reviewed tis gentleman in clinic today. Overall he is much better. We managed to bring down his atrial fibrillation from 120 to 84 (normal heart rate should be regular and between 60 and 100 beats a minute when you are resting - 120 is too high). His BP is 140/97 (BP is Blood Pressure , where ideal blood pressure is between 90/60 and 120/80. 140/97 is too high and above high blood pressure). His symptoms of heart failure are much better, less short of breath and less ankle swelling.

On 7 January 2016, my doctor stated that I also had Type 2 Diabetes (Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't produce enough insulin to function properly, or the body’s cells don't react to insulin. This means that glucose stays in the blood and isn't used as fuel for energy. Diabetes is also responsible for most cases of kidney failure and lower limb amputation (other than accidents).)

On 12 March 2020, my eye doctor stated that I had Glaucoma in both eyes, since the Field Test indicated a lack of peripheral vision, so now both eyes need the drops. Looking on the bright side, I have slowed down the rate of collecting imperfections in my body system.

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As you can see from the above that I am "in the pink of health" and not yet "pushing up the daisies".
Although unable to physically work for a lengthy period, my mental facilities are still at my command to assist at problems:-

• having my 27,000 Raw Camera Images and potential of 15,000 digitised slides from Ron and Christine Foord to create photo galleries with plant descriptions under the raw camera image. Then adding thumbnails of them to the respective Comparison Pages of the 6 colours per month in the relevant plant type photo gallery - after amending the index pages in those galleries to add plant use, soil, soil moisture and sun aspect to each plant. I am starting with the Alliums and Anemones from the Allium and Anemone Gallery, amending their index on Index Page A of the Bulb Plant Gallery and further comparing them in Bulb Shape Gallery in March 2020.
• like the multiplicity of problems with the trees in the pavements in Funchal, where I have explained how these trees grow, what to do to save them, how to reduce climate change / flooding and improve the mental health of the native as well as the visiting population at the same time.
  See Pavements of Funchal, Madeira
  Damage to Trees
  1, 2, 3, 4. and links to pages about this problem in the table on the right.
• the errors at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley, so that other gardens open to the public do not make the same mistakes.
  See
  ...RHS Mixed Borders
  ......Bedding Plants
  .........with
  .........Flower Shape
  ......Her Perennials
  ......and
  ......Other Plants
  .........with
  .........Flower Shape
• create a ringbinder booklet of permanent planting and the other pages on bedding, so that that garden - accessible by the public - can inform the public how the gardeners designed the planting plan and the pupils in the schools/ horticutural colleges can then attend that garden in a practical sense to learn from it and the different ways of changing the planting each year to give a different effect, so that perhaps they can start to do that to their own gardens instead of accepting the bog standard of lawn surrounded by 18 inch (45 cm) borders with no more that 15 different types of plant mostly put there by the builder or the owner getting the plants from the supermarket or garden centre at Easter.
• even if you live in a flat in a skyscraper, you can still have a garden in your home -
  see Garden Style .
• there are thousands of comparison pages in my over 10,000 page website - 1 of which should provide you with some help with interacting with the natural plant world even if it is only growing your own herbs on your kitchen internal window ledge.
• I can also teach you piggle-wigging.
  The full effect can be felt during an accident, but being fully cognisant that Health and Safety Regulation 15(t) subsection 12.a para 14 clause (A.a) means that I can tell you but cannot allow you to carry out the practical - otherwise I could lose my current non-existing teaching licence as bestowed on me by the University in Holland for Double-Dutch.

Heath Pearlwort

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Never Fail Cake. ( Recipe by A. Whybrow) amended by Chris Garnons-Williams

Ingredients to boil for 25 minutes:-

• 3 mugs fruit (mixed) - I tend to use the Villier and Bosch Large Mugs, dried mixed fruit, chopped dates, chopped apricots, chopped prunes; with bought mixed peel and glace cherries added after the 3 mugs of the mixed fruit of the previous ones in this list
• 1 mug sugar - I tend to use Dark Molasses in one third and two thirds light molasses
• 1.5 mugs water
• 4 oz margarine or butter - I tend to use unsalted butter

Remaining instructions:-

• Whisk 4 large eggs and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl, then
• When boiled mixture is cool mix
  • the contents of that mixing bowl into it before
  • mixing 1 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda to 2 mugs of sifted Self-Raising (S.R.) flour in that empty mixing bowl - You can substitute 2 mugs of sifted Self-Raising flour for 1.5 mugs of sifted self-raising flour and 0.5 mugs of wholemeal flour plus 1 teaspoon of Baking Powder. Then fold that mixture over the cooled mixture in the boiled mixture pan, until the flour has been completely mixed in.
• Spoon into a greased and lined cake tin (7-8 in. square or round)
  or
  spoon it into 54 fairy cake cases preceeded by a glace cherry or candied orange peel/diced glace ginger on the top.
• You can leave it to rise for 30 minutes before baking in the oven to increase its lightness once cooked,
  or
  not!
• Bake at 160c or 325 - 350F or Mark 3.5-4 (fan 140c) for approx. 1.5 hours for 1 lb loaf tins or 1 hour 50 minutes for an 8 inch lined circular cake tin. The cake should rise at least 50% in size. Bake the fairy cakes at fan 140c for 55 minutes - they will come out with a thin crisper darker top layer and a moist sponge-like texture remainder (since they are in fairy cake cases, the cake when eaten will only be touched by the person peeling the case away from the cake and then eating it).
• Remove from oven having tested for it being fully cooked with a skewer, empty out of tin onto a mesh tray and leave to cool.

Unfortunately humans do not seem to be able to keep their hands off it, so its shelf life is limited.

You can use 2pcs-Baking Silicone Bread and Loaf Rectangle Bakeware Non-Stick Loaf Pan instead of re-lining cake tins each time. Then after cooking the cake and it has cooled down, you can remove it from the silcone loaf pan quite easily without it sticking to it.

It can be very difficult for van drivers to find a required address for delivery.
The following is my plan of Moor Street Conservation Area in Rainham, Kent, England, produced in May 2011, which I then gave a copy to each of the houses with a request that they had a house sign erected close to the pavement of the A2 to indicate to van drivers where they were. Number 8 is not visible from the A2, so how does someone find it?

Building any new property within Medway has the following consequences:-

• A minor detail is shown by the article Lack of drinking water from Southern Water by 2030 in Medway, England in the Mission Statement page. This indicates that with all the proposed new buildings in Medway between now and 2035, that about 30,000 people in them would have no access to water by 2035 according to the plans set out by Southern Water. Adding illegal ones to that would reduce the time period before Medway runs out of water for its new inhabitants. Replacing land with buildings and roads reduces the volume of rainwater that can be collected for use by humans as the rainwater falling on them goes into storm drains leading to rivers and thence the sea.
  This program of new buildings in excess of the infrastructure required to service them is continuing throughout the remainder of the area serviced by Southern Water.
  Each new building/road also reduces the area for plants to give us oxygen to keep us alive.
• My next door neighbours may not have been able to transfer from their original doctor at the other end of Medway to a local one. At the Health Centre that I frequent, it had 4 surgeries, yellow, blue, red and green. The green one closed in January and the other surgeries could not accept all those patients and my neighbours had to then go on a waiting list. Those surgeries are technically out of our Conservation Area locality and so do not have to accept us. There are no other surgeries which are suitably located to service Moor Street Conservation Area. My red surgery had some doctors retire in March 2019, they have not been able to replace all of them yet.
• There was a proposal to build 200 houses in the field opposite our house. We did point out at the time that there was only 1 primary school place left in the area. I have not seen any plans for new schools to service this increase in population.
  We also pointed out that since all waste sewage would have to be pumped up to the main sewage drain in the adjoining road, that it would be sensible to install a second pump with its own generator, so that this would prevent the sewage from overflowing into the railway cutting for trains from London to Canterbury and Dover; if the only 1 pump failed due to mechanical fault or loss of electric supply. The 200 house proposal was rejected. A revised one for 300 instead of 200 houses has now appeared.
• Being old and decrepid, I am no longer able to walk all that fast and so would shuffle along the A2 into Rainham. During rush-hours, I can beat the traffic to the second set of traffic lights - 500 yards from my house?
  Despite all the new building works, there does not seem to be a plan to convert the Lower Rainham Road into a dual carriageway, since the A2 and the M2 are the only other routes that take traffic East-West in Medway. When I worked in City Way in Rochester, it was quicker for me to drive up to the M2, along to Chatham junction and back down to City Way, 10 years ago, than it was to drive the direct route along the A2. Lower Rainham Road currently has both a speed limit of 20 mph, chicanes and traffic lights in order to slow the traffic down with the resulting tailbacks at rush-hours. Fairly soon with the breeding of traffic lights on the A2 running through Medway, Medway will be gridlocked for much of the day, as it is when there are problems on the M2 running alongside.
   

I have now worked out why Medway Council requires more houses to be built - maybe because some of the concrete used in the Medway Tunnel was the incorrect temperature, when it was laid. Within a few weeks after it had been laid, it formed hairline cracks and now massive pumps pump the fresh water in the ground coming through that damaged concrete; out into the river. If the pumps stop, then the tunnel would be flooded within a few minutes. I wonder if enough emergency manuals have been distributed to the various departments who would deal with this problem for the commuters within the tunnel. I wonder whether this fresh water might become available for Southern Water to use for the local population.

I cannot believe the stupidity of the FTSE100 companies in this way of planting 350,000,000 trees in the UK:-

Above article in Page 46 Business of i on Monday 11 March 2024.

The above trees have been planted in a field laid to grass to feed cows, horses or sheep. It is probably quite an aged meadow in this field.

• The rain will all be taken by the grass leaving little or none for the tree roots as grass can absorb 2 cms of rain every 2 days.
• The grass will take any nourishment from the rain, the dead leaves from the trees or any fertilizer applied, so once they have used up the nutrients in the soil below the roots of the grass; then the trees will die.
• The bark on the trees has at least been protected from rabbits by this corrugated plastic guard.
• If these trees had survived, then because they are not maidens with branches removed from 72 inches (180 cms) to the ground, then maintenance will be impossible with the interleaving of the branches almost to ground level.
• There is no irrigation system for these trees.
• There is no mulch of organic material to feed their roots and once they get growing no way of putting it down each year.
• When the trees have died, the grass will continue to grow and feed herbivores.
• What a wonderful way for British Business to totally waste money.
• Medway Council improve on that by planting trees, then a wacker plate was used to vibrate that soil material down at 3.2 metres per second with 520 Kg per square metre pressure right up to the trunk of the new tree. This was followed by applying a tarmac layer on top and hammering that down with the same wacker to totally kill the tree. Once that has been done, then instead of a tree there is a square of tarmac.
   
• When new publicly-owned roads are built and whip-sized trees are planted in the verge, the Ministry sews grass seed with them to guarantee the death of those trees as demonstrated in the revised M2 junction for Sittingbourne in Kent.
  I have advised them of their folly, but of course it is cheaper to mow grass than to look after trees.
  
  If they had put down sufficient soil, then they could plough it - across the slope rather up and down the slope -to make trenches for the whips to go in. Having planted the whips, then you cover the trenches with bark and the soil conditioner created from garden waste collected by local authorities and composted for 11 weeks. When it rains or the area is irrigated, then the water will go through the bark/soil conditioner to the trench below and to the roots of the trees. The 50% bark to 50% soil conditioner will stop the sun and wind from drying out the soil and those trees will survive. The soil conditioner will disappear fairly quickly leaving the bark to take longer to degenerate. The autumn leaves will be kept under the trees and help to feed those trees next year. If green manure was sown at the same time as the trees instead of grass seed, that would feed the trees as well.
  But who am I as an ignorant peasant to tell the 'uneducated powers that be' how to do their job.
  
   

Monitoring of Trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira from September 2019 to February 2020 1, 2
after the pages below were produced in 2018 and 2019
Problems with trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira in January/February 2018
PROBLEMS WITH TREES IN PAVEMENTS IN FUNCHAL, MADEIRA IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
Death of tree roots and
Death of tree trunks/branches caused by people.
Solution to problems for trees caused by people using irrigation -
Growth of Pollarded Tree in Hotel Garden in 1 year provides a water solution to this destruction.
Damage to Tree Trunks 1, 2, 3, 4 caused by people,
Damage to Tree Roots caused by people,
Area of Open Ground round trees,
New Trees in pavements 1, 2,
Irrigation of current trees,
Watersprouts on trees,
Crossing Branches in trees,
Utility Equipment with tree Foliage,
Lights on trees,
Bycycle Lane in Pavement,
Public Gardens alongside pavements,
Hotel/Private Gardens alongside pavements,
Current Permeable Pavement Surface round trees and
Irrigation and Fertilising of trees.
Camera Photo Galleries:-
Pavements of Funchal, Madeira
Damage to Trees
1, 2, 3, 4.
Will visitors to Madeira worry about having branches or trees in public places fall on them? No; according to Engineer Francisco Pedro Freitas Andrade of Est. Marmeleiros, No 1, Jardins & Espaces Verdes who is Chef de Diviso Câmara Municipal do Funchal; Departamento de Ciência e de Recursos Naturais; Divisão de Jardins e Espaços Verdes Urbanos in charge of the trees within the pavements within the area controlled by Funchal Municipality - See Monitoring of Trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira from September 2019 to February 2010 1, 2 pages by his department.
PROBLEMS WITH TREES IN PAVEMENTS IN ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY IN SEPTEMBER 2019
Demise of trees in pavements in St. Peter Port, Guernsey caused by people, to their Roots

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
with house-wall attached to clay.
Pre-building work on polluted soil.
OTHER TABLE 5 is about warnings of the government in the UK turning its population into slaves.

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.
The level of oxygen refers to the amount of oxygen present in the atmosphere or water. Oxygen is produced by photosynthesizing organisms that live in the ocean, in fresh water, and on land. These organisms include bacteria, algae and plants. Photosynthesizing algae in the ocean produce around 70% of oxygen in the atmosphere. The UK pollution going into the sea is killing the algae which provide 70% of oxygen for UK, France, Holland, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Row 7 in last table on the right in Black Background - Welcome to the UK (Urinating Knave) with details of UK government backed pollution of millions of tons per year into its rivers; which the sea transported across the Channel to Europe killing marine life and humans.
Pollution is biggest threat to Wildlife on our UK waterways.
Photo of permanent air pollution over London.

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These remaining items are of no interest to people outside the UK,
but will affect you,
if have property in the UK or
intend to reside in the UK for longer than 1 week.

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.
Other items in the Home Section which have nothing to do with gardening, but reading them might deter you from visiting Great Britain; or employing its workforce; or trusting its local or main government.

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.
Would you; after reading these pages? Manderson emails to us about re-wire.
We wrote the
concerns about the electrical work on 21.03.21;
Questions concerning electrics on 21.03.21 and
re-wire narrative on 19.04.2021
which had no effect on the credit card company or NAPIT. So we commisioned the following report to see if that will make any difference.
Pages 10, 11, 12, 13 contain information concerning the condition of the electrical installation of the complete rewiring of my home by Mr Manderson of Manderson Electrical Services Ltd, with the report by a qualified electrician and this statement about the work carried out:-
"The result of my observations and testing, I am recommending that all the fixed wiring be recovered and a complete new fixed wiring installation is installed. Unfortunately the work previously carried out is of such a poor standard I cannot re-use any of it."
Mr Manderson is a Part P Registered Electrician with Napit; Registered Competent Person Electrical; Approved Electrician from Napit; City & Guilds Qualified; Part P Electrical Safety; and Honest & Transparent. His firm was employed to replace all the wiring, power sockets, light switches and lights and make sure that rodents could not attack them to chew through the cables or cause an
electrical problem.
Pages 10 lists 18 electrical faults on the new wiring, re-use of the old wiring, and old wiring that was still either in use or had been cut at the old power socket, at the old light fitting, or old light switch (the plasterers filled an old power socket metal box and short-circuited the fuse - it will be fine in 30 minutes sir; 4 hours later it was still shorting, so presumably that would explain why they switched off one of the fuses in the old fuseboard - see photo on page 15 of the report. As clients; we do appreciate having the opportunity of electrocuting ourselves from their re-wire work) where

• fault 2 is a Code C1 'Danger Present' and immediate action is required from March 2021, (the electricians testing 2 of the double power sockets installed in the kitchen in 1987 found that they were polarity reversed. This risks a short circuit, shock or fire. They corrected the problem immediately)
• Faults 4, 12, 14 and 18 are Code C2 and Urgent remedial action required,
• Faults 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 are Code C3 where improvement is recommended

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.

I have looked at a job of the third replacement of turf in a back garden of a new house. The back garden was clay and sloped down to the house - that house will have subsidence problems within 10 years. The only way that it might save itself is to rip up the lawn and plant shrubs that will absorb every drop of rain that falls on that garden -
you are not allowed to either drain into the storm drain of the house which is what takes the rain from the roof of the house/garage or
drain the rainwater from your garden to outside your property onto either public land or into somebody else's property.
I refused the job and told the owner to get onto the builders to rectify their error.
Since builders are repeating the same error on a massive scale in Ashford, the poor owners of new £500,000 houses are going to be upset.