The University of Surrey – specifically Professor Prashant Kumar – have just completed a study to find out whether roadside planting (hedges and/or trees) can reduce road air pollution. (You can read about it in detail in Atmospheric Environment here.) And, as my good friends Tom …
Gardens
The wonders of FreeCycle
Because I am aware that over the next year or so I am going to have to move myself from the 14 rooms that I have been occupying in Lawn Road for the last 40 years into something at least a bit smaller – and because I have been helping my good friend Prudence (of the amazing …
Urban farming
Next time you see a sad, abandoned bit of street with dead KFC bags piling up around the overflowing rubbish bin – why not install a grow bag or one those massive bags that builders use – fill it with soil and..... grow.... As you can see, this is what they have done at …
Wensleydale – without the cheese!
This is the view across Wensleydale – and yes, the sun is trying to shine, even though the rain clouds are hovering. From the tiny hamlet of Sedbusk, across the Stonehouse Hotel where we were staying for a couple of days, to the very pretty village of Hawes. And this is one of …
Low allergen garden wins gold at Chelsea Flower Show
What a coup!! You see those round little yellow tickets saying OPALS? They are there to tell you, on a scale of 1 – 10, how badly that flower and its pollen will affect you if you have hay fever or allergic asthma. And they are all over the gold-winning Birmingham City Council …