Laser cutting is often regarded as a modern manufacturing process, used in all sorts of applications from range finding, to medical surgery, to manufacturing. But if you think back, many of us will remember when lasers really were cutting edge (pardon the pun!), seen...
Tree Planting
Vlog – Irrigation
Check out our latest Vlog from Alasdair Innes talking about the irrigation options available for tree planting and why they are needed.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Green-tech Specifer revisits Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University city site is located in the heart of Nottingham city centre with 30 buildings surrounded by 5.1 hectares of open space. The heart of the campus underwent a multi-million pound refurbishment in 2015 which included two new state-of-the-art...