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Dan Burton
Soil Selection and Volume for Optimal Tree Growth
Urban sprawl is taking over our green spaces. With an ever increasing population it cannot be helped and is no-one’s fault. It does however mean that survival is a battle for both our new and existing urban trees. To appreciate this fully, we need to understand the...
An Ever Increasing Green Canopy
Why greater urban greening makes financial as well as environmental sense. Since the 1950’s the population of the EU (including the UK for 98% of that time) has increased by 33%, yet the total hard surface area of our cities has grown by more than double that – 78%! I...
Reforestation or Forest Restoration?
During one particularly dank and grey day between Christmas and New Year, for want of nothing better to do I decided on an impromptu road trip, and hastily found the last available room at a traditional country inn off the beaten track in Northumberland (on the edge...
The Critical Factor for Tree Growth
Design for the tree that it could become. Adding trees to our urban environment is a good thing. They are good for not only our health and well-being, but also that of the planet. The only problem is that trees are by nature, forest plants, they like room to spread...
Sympathetic Use of Root Barriers
TO GUIDE RATHER THAN CONSTRICT We are often asked, what root barrier should we use? Or should we use a root barrier at all? Or like earlier today… “The tree pit has been spec’ed with non-permeable root barrier around all four walls of the tree pit. Is this right?”. In...
Finding tranquillity in the smallest of spaces
How gardens, no matter how small can help offset the stress of life. As we move optimistically into 2021, we cannot help but look back on 2020 with bewilderment. As far as years go it was a shocker of a roller-coaster; not one of ups and downs – more lurching from...
Green-tech Specifier advise on irrigation within the Queens Walk development
Green-tech’s specification team gt Specifier has worked with Barton Willmore Landscape Architects to advise on the Mona Plant irrigation System.It has been incorporated within planter designs of a new courtyard area at the Queens Walk development in Reading. Described...
Urban Tree Planting Materials Supplied for Manchester Traffic Island
Leading landscape supplier Green-tech and their Specification team, gt Specifier, has been called in to help Newbrook Gardening Services with the planting of two established trees in an urban setting. Salford council commissioned a new traffic island on Cromwell Road...
New Specification Collection from Green-tech Specifier launched
Green-tech has designed and revealed their smart new collection of literature purely for the specification market. The Specification Collection includes their most requested Specification brochures, including Green Roof Substrates, Soils and Growing Media, and...
Green-tech Specifier team grows with Arboriculturists
Green-tech is pleased to announce that Emily Murray has joined their specification team. Green-tech Specifier is the specification arm of leading landscape supplier Green-tech. The department focuses on technical specification and sourcing landscape solutions for...
Green-tech Specifier assist York City Council with urban landscaping
York City Council are in the process of regenerating parts of the Shambles in Roman city York in North Yorkshire - Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma gate, Walmgate and Fossgate. The Council has recently changed the direction of traffic along Fossgate to reduce the volume and overhauled...