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A metal lawn edging system that separates the lawn from a bed or a path, thus doing away with a moon edge cutter or as they put it:- Rust |
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The Everedge Classic . The right hand end slots into the left hand end of the next section. |
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Ecolaw website to help prevent illegal construction/development on your estate. |
The Ecolaw website provides the following data and features: 1. A description of protected species for the benefit of construction and development professionals. 2. The legal implications of the presence of protected species on land which is destined for development. 3. A directory by means of which Ecologists can be contacted by potential clients. 4. Useful resources for Ecologists |
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New legislation was introduced at the beginning of 2005 which restricts the amount of fixed electrical installation work that can be carried out by other than qualified electricians. Our Armadillo product offers ways that you can safely connect power to your pond equipment within the new regulations. One requirement is that all outdoor supplies must be protected by a Residual Current Device. RCD's reduce the risk of electrocution from a damaged or broken mains cable. RCD adaptors and plugs are not ideal for connecting to pond equipment since they trip in the event of a power cut and need manually resetting when the power to your house is restored. The weatherproof Armadillo Pond Connection Unit (GREx63) has an in built RCD that does not need resetting after a power cut. The PCU can be mounted on an outside wall and comes with 3m of flexible cable, so it can be plugged into a convenient socket in the house or garage. The Powersafe Armoured Cable Kits are supplied with two suitable weatherproof junction boxes, one at each end, and interconnecting armoured cable all assembled for easy installation. At the house or garage end their is a 3m fly lead which is used to connect to the mains supply, possibly using the Pond connection unit or PowerBreaker RCD Plug described above. At the other end they have a cable gland and terminal block so a pump or switch box can be easily connected in to it. This kit includes the necessary warning tape, a few cable cleats, instructions, raw plugs and fixing screws. The unused cable gland can be removed, if required, to allow an armoured cable gland to be fitted enabling an extension kit to be added. NOTE: Do not exceed 50m or a voltage drop will be experienced. |
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Ecomerchant - an environmentally responsible builder's merchant in Faversham, Kent, England |
WHY BUY ECO? Global Warming, indoor air pollution, increased levels of asthma and allergies in children. Who cares? Well Ecomerchant do; and they want to make it easier for other people who care too. Ecomerchant know that we all need to be more socially and environmentally responsible but its not always easy to know how. We can’t afford to ignore the consequences of buying the wrong thing. But it can be very difficult to make the right choice if the alternatives are not presented in a way that enables us to make a considered decision. Ecomerchant avoid selling petrochemical-based plastics, foam insulation, glue-filled particle boards and products with high levels of cement. They encourage the use of natural based materials including insulation, paint, solid wood flooring, timber windows, clay and lime products. Ecomerchant are committed to offering products that are not harmful to health, have minimal environmental impact, and come from renewable or sustainable sources, or in use have low environmental impacts. |
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Expanding Foam is an Easy to use one part polyurethane expanding foam for general construction and home improvement. An old tree may get damaged with a branch being cut off too close to the trunk or a branch coming away and leaving a hole. This hole gets water in it and the wood part rots. If allowed to continue all the dead section of the tree trunk we call wood will rot and the tree fall down. Excavate as much of the rot as possible using the pry bars or high-pressure water jet. Then, while it is still wet, insert the expanding foam to about an inch (2.5 cms) from the outside. Let the foam expand and set. This will be within 1 hour. Remove excess set foam, and paint over the foam twice with Black water-based Masonry Paint to stop the sunlight from degrading the exposed foam. |
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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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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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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. |
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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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