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The Environment Agency has produced a guide that is aimed at land and property owners who are located alongside a river or watercourse. As an overview the guide basically explains your rights and responsibilities. In legal terms you are a ‘riparian owner’ Surprise, surprise one of your responsibilities as a ‘riparian owner’ is ‘You must
JKSL featured on BBC’s program ‘The Wonder of Weeds’ last night (22nd June). Our Managing Director gives advice on the issue of cross-contamination, how it can be avoided, and how best to treat the problem. The program also features a little look into sifting (clips shown are not our staff, don’t want to steal any
Brave volunteers have been battling an invasive weed that grows 10ft tall on the banks of the River Pinn. The team are determined to root out the Himalayan balsam from the Ickenham area, where it prevents many native species like forget-me-not, wild mint and primroses from growing. Although it has pretty pink flowers and attracts
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
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