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...A banker with years of experience at the National Trust and the Countryside Commission, Herbert brought a clear vision of the revolution required, and its timescale....
...(The RHS rating for a plant hardy through most of the UK in an average winter is -10C to -5C.)...
...In a domestic setting, a rain garden should be about 20 per cent of the size of the run-off area, whether it is a roof, lawn or hard paving, says Adrian Thorne, horticultural adviser at RHS Wisley....
...Grants start a snowball which private trusts and donors are more likely to join. The result is a measurable legacy. Ten years on, I have just been to Wisley to see how science now fits in....
...Thankfully, the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust is not baffled....
...Having passed a RHS Level 2 course — putting theory into practice on his Bristol allotment — he earned his groundskeeping stripes as a National Trust volunteer before completing a summer contract with Highgrove...
...The RHS, meanwhile, has conducted research into plant-dwelling invertebrates that suggests that while it’s important to have a majority of native species in a plant collection, near-native species still...
...His own combination of the two disciplines has brought prestigious projects his way, including his recent redesign of the parterre garden at The National Trust for Scotland’s Pitmedden Garden....
...“Now the old chalk pits, sand pits and landfill sites have been abandoned, they’ve become Wildlife Trust reserves; we’re getting back a lot of biodiversity....
...National Trust gardens tend to homogeneity, but there is nothing alive now to compare with Branklyn....
...In Britain, flying insects alone have declined as much as 60 per cent in the past 20 years, a survey by Buglife and Kent Wildlife Trust suggests....
...This work is sensitive, and Cheek has to earn the respect and trust of the people whose land he’s on before he’s able to commence any work....
...Travel then, with the RHS Plant Finder text to hand, the essential guide to the densely rooted undergrowth of nurseries on which all our gardens depend....
...In 2016 Paul Hervey-Brookes won a gold medal at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show for a garden designed with dogs in mind....
...All of this is personal but also political – a fact recently highlighted by environmental groups including The Wildlife Trusts, Friends of the Earth and the RHS – as well as garden expert Monty Don – who...
...Mr Chan previously worked in a similar role at Northern Trust....
...The Burdett Trust for Nursing was to put on a Florence Nightingale Garden, designed by Robert Myers, to mark the 200th anniversary of her birth....
...Flowering plants in garden centres have labels declaring they are good for pollinators or that they are ranked as bee-friendly by the RHS....
...So compelling is this evidence that last year the UK’s Woodland Trust suggested that forest bathing should be prescribed by GPs....
...At places like Wisley the owner is an institution, the RHS, which wants to draw and please as many paying visitors as possible....
...“It’s about inspiring change in people to be healthier and happier,” said Christine Wright, the RHS community outreach adviser who worked on the Blaydon garden’s development....
...The uproar over health data leaks shows Google has a trust problem....
...While hard surfaces can cause problems with water run-off, porous hoggin-type materials (the sort of compacted gravel favoured at National Trust properties) can offer a solution....
...“Los Angeles representation was important to us,” says the writer Margaret Moorman, who runs the trust and was married to Quaytman from 1989 until he died in 2002....
...Luca Zanoni and Antoine Boulet both moved from Invesco while Simon Hutcheson has joined from Citigroup....
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