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Coles Promises To Stick To "what We Know We Are Good At" During Centenary Open Day
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Landscapers, council managers, nursery owners and Royal Parks staff joined Coles Nurseries for its open day event at the Gaddesby, Leicestershire, yesterday,James Hayes of Bulrush Horticulture, Penny Evans of the HTA, BALI's Wayne Grills and landscape architect and director of Keysoft Solutions, Mike Shilton explored education, recruitment, growing media, and BIM standardisation, while Coles' Vince Edwards promoted the nursery's use of the national plant specifications, under the theme The Future of Amenity Plant Supply in the UK.Managing director James Coles, whose great grandfather and namesake founded the nursery in Evington, now part of Leicester, said while the market remained flat, the focus of the 100-year-old company was to stick to "what we know we are good at' while encouraging existing customers to "come to events like this and see what we are doing."Visitors were given two tours of the nursery's tree fields in a covered tractor-drawn carriage. Coles Nurseries now has a 6 million annual turnover and employs 100 people across seven sites.
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Jury Highlights Lack Of Training And Risk Assessment At Inquest Into Workers Death At Glasshouse Nursery
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A lack of training, communication and clear lines of responsibility during a heating system refit at Somerset organic protected salads grower Cantelo Nurseries contributed to a fatal accident, a coroner's inquest has found. The dead man, maintenance engineer Peter James, was one of a number of workers taken on for the work in May 2010. He was hit by a flying metal hatch which blew off an expansion vessel that fed heated water under pressure into the glasshouse. Four other workers were injured in the blast, one seriously. But the eight-person jury at three-day inquest at Wells Town Hall said that none of the workers involved were trained for the task, and no written risk assessment had been prepared. Canelo managing director Thomas Jones told the inquest he considered that day supervisor Roger Mees was responsible for health and safety, which Mees did not accept, saying the responsibility lay with a third man from a Dutch company, who was not present when the blast occured. A verdict of accidental death was returned. However the Health Safety Executive confirmed that it is investigating the case.
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As much as one fifth of the 500m pledged by Chinese property developer ZhongRong Group yesterday to rebuild London's Joseph Paxton designed Crystal Palace, would be spent restoring the surrounding park along the lines of its original Victorian design, project leaders revealed at a briefing led by London Mayor, Boris Johnson.The plan for the park builds on an existing masterplan which recently gained permission with some steps already in place to begin the transformation process. However as the Mayor and Bromley officials acknowledged yesterday, the cost for full regeneration of the park has remained a challenge - until now."The scale of investment is beyond anything propsed before and provides the opportunity to fund all of the ambitions of the park," a ZhongRong document outllning the plans noted.The 100m cost of restoring the park has been estimated using the original figure of 68m on which the current masterplan was based, and which has then been adjusted to take account of today's prices.Controversial proposals within the existing materplan for the building of housing have been omitted in the ZhongRong plan for the site which will see the rebuilt palace become a "major new cultural destination", project partners said.For more details including innovative proposals for the ongoing maintenance of the park once it is restored, see next week's HW magazine.
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Damian McEvoy Sales Manager Darlac
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Damian McEvoy is the new sales manager at Darlac. He previously worked for Wolf Garden, Mr Fothergill's and Newbridge Nurseries in West Sussex.
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Sarah Price-designed Garden To Feature At New Thrive Centre In Battersea Park
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A new gardening charity centre is being built in Battersea Park with a garden created by designer Sarah Price.National charity Thrive commissioned architects Pedder and Scrampton to build the new facility to replace out of date portable structures.The shape of the building is curved around the large London Plane tree that dominates the site and will have an open glass-walled Orangery on the inside.The gardens surrounding the building will be planted by Thrive gardeners working to a plan created by Price, who won a competition to design the garden when still an up-and-coming designer.Since she won she has designed a gold medal winning garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012, was involved in creating the gardens at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and worked with Thrive last year in the Old English Garden.Thrive chief executive Kathryn Rossiter said the charity was looking forward to moving back to Battersea Park after being in New Covent Garden Market for two years."It will be fantastic for our gardeners and the extra space will allow us to help even more people. "This will be a flagship building for us on East Carriage Drive which will also allow us to increase the number and variety of plants and herbs we can use and sell to members of the public."Wandsworth Council s cabinet member for environment and culture councillor Jonathan Cook said the council was happy to help Thrive."They have helped thousands of people with disabilities over the years and long may that continue." Thrive uses gardening to enable people with disabilities and mental ill health to transform their lives.
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APL To Join WorldSkills As Landscape Gardening Organising Partner
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The APL will become an organising partner for the landscape gardening section of the WorldSkills UK competition from 17 November.
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Brassica Showcase
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Vegetable breeders gathered in Lincolnshire's 'brassica belt' last month to display their latest varieties, Gavin McEwan reports
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Report Shows Fall In Farming Profit
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Fresh-produce growers in England saw profits fall by nearly half last year as the poor weather took its toll on crops, leading to the least profitable year in more than a decade.
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