Archive for News – Page 5

Cookham Festival – Open Gardens and Exhibitions

The Sculpture Garden at Odney, Cookham – Odney owned by the John Lewis Partnership, is opening its beautiful gardens to the public on the 2nd May to 17th May. Visitors are welcome between 10am and 5pm where you can enjoy new sculpture and maybe find a piece for your garden. If you would like to […]

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EU Law stopping trade of non-registered Plants

The European Commission are have created a new bureaucracy called the “EU Plant Variety Agency” which sets a new law for home gardeners making it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” vegetable seeds that have not been “tested, approved and accepted”. The reason behind this is to abandon the old slate of existing EU laws […]

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Live longer with Silver Birch Trees

January 14th, 2014 An experiment was conducted in a BBC Two article where 24 silver young birch trees where placed in front of four terrace houses and there was another 4 terraces without the birch trees. The experiment was simple – to measure Particulate Matter (PM) which is gathered from traffic next to houses for […]

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Super-Hydrophobic Material – the latest in waterproof technology

January 7th, 2014 Over the course of December and early January, England endured heavy rain falls and drenching floods in parks and fields. Even though we still struggle in times of floods, we may be able to stay more protected and drier when popping out to the store. In a recent discovery, US scientists have […]

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EU Law stopping trade of non-registered Plants

October 9th, 2013 The European Commission are have created a new bureaucracy called the “EU Plant Variety Agency” which sets a new law for home gardeners making it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” vegetable seeds that have not been “tested, approved and accepted”. The reason behind this is to abandon the old slate of […]

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Holiday Home Garden Wins National Award

April 8th, 2013 Artscape have been featured in the Dartmouth Chronicle  for our ‘garden with stunning views across the River Dart. The Chronicle reported that Artscape were winners at the APL Awards 2013 for our Seaside Garden which turned a steep garden in to a garden with a ‘wow’ factor. The garden was really overgrown […]

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Artscape Scoop Garden Award

March 27th, 2013 Artscape have just won a top garden design award at the APL Landscaping Awards. As well as a winning garden we received commendations on our other gardens. See more about Artscape’s awards Winner – Seaside Garden Artscape Design & Build created a stunning seaside garden with fantastic views over the River Dart. […]

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