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With its large purple blooms of rhododendron tricathum featuring on the front page of the catalogue of the Chelsea Flower Show. The Royal Horticultural Society’s chose the historic print from its extensive catalogue of botanical drawings in the Lindley Library. The shrubs are also prominent in a number of gardens this year. Thomas Hoblyn’s show
‘The weed on steroids’ is how one Canadian newspaper has been describing Giant Hogweed. It also goes on to describe it as ‘”looking like a Queen’s Anne lace on steroids but it is very dangerous to handle,” The article reports on how one town is now waging a war on this dangerous plant and urging
n late 2010 JKSL we appointed on several large scale chemical treatment contracts. We reacted quickly to the instruction and ensured that our highly qualified operatives led by our inspirational contracts manager Phil Whelan set about the mammoth task of skilfully chemically treating the vast areas of Japanese Knotweed. This was carefully done over several
The Angling Trust celebrated a huge victory for fishing after its threats to challenge the government in the courts saw over 100 million pounds invested into improving our rivers. Under the Water Framework Directive, waterways across the UK have to meet with new high environmental standards by 2015, with potentially a huge increase in fish
A new code has been published in order to provide guidance to everyone that is engaged in horticulture and gardening. This is a great, easy and readable guide that provides some useful tips on the legislation around invasive species. So for all you keen gardeners out there, before you rush out and make the most
There’s something eerie about weeds – their speed, their ingenuity, their almost supernatural resourcefulness. “Shape-shifters,” (Richard Mabey). Recently reading an article about Richard Mabey’s book ‘ weeds’ I cannot help but think that he make one very valid and obvious point. ‘We may hate them, but there is no question that they succeed as they
JKSL looked at a ‘remediated’ site in February 2011 where the client wanted us to warranty a third parties works. We were told that the ‘large volume’ of material was excavated and removed from site to a licenced landfill for a few thousand pounds by their ground worker! Mmm this doesn’t sound quite right, particularly
A recent enquiry shed light on alien life spotted in London, but as you’ve probably guessed I don’t mean ‘little green men’, but not-so-little green shoots! One of our clients sent us some photos of his Japanese Knotweed (JK) infestation, taking hold of a flower bed – but strangely the JK has only taken root
Scientists have recently released what Jurassic Park the film was based on…… Reviving prehistoric life forms – I don’t think this is a great idea to be honest. Look what happened when Japanese Knotweed was brought to England….. What will happen when a 30,000 year old plant is resurrected…? World Domination, that’s my bet! Read
JKSL have recently undertaken extensive remediation works on a site in the midlands. Numerous areas of Japanese knotweed were recorded in different phases of the development, leading to a range of remediation techniques being employed in order to give our client the most cost effective solution to the problem. The areas which were to be
