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31st January
2012
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Rare plants to be reintroduced to Somerset
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Two species of rare plant are to be reintroduced to wetland nature reserves on the Somerset Levels.
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The Somerset Wildlife Trust and Bristol Zoo Gardens joint project will see the greater water parsnip and devil's bit scabious make a return to the area.
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Bristol Zoo horticulturists will grow greater water parsnips from seed, before transferring them to Inaura School.
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Pupils will continue to grow them before they are taken to the reserves.
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Source: BBC
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18th January
2012
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'Thrilling' New York design chosen for Aberdeen
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A three-dimensional web-like network
of raised pathways linking eight interconnected gardens,
designed by the creators of New York's award-winning High Line,
has won the design commission for a controversial project to
redevelop Union Terrace Gardens in the heart of Aberdeen.
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The panel of local business people and politicians described 'Granite Web', from New York studio Diller Scofidio and Renfro in collaboration with Scottish-based Keppie Design, as 'thrilling' and said the design team had 'overwhelmed' the jury with their vision and sensitivity.
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However the decision was branded 'an unpopular choice for an unpopular project' by Friends of Union Terrace Gardens, one of several campaign groups opposing the £140 million project.
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Source: RHS
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17th January
2012
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Blowin’ In The Wind?
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As climate change speeds up, British plants could be gone with the wind. Or not. In a new analysis, researchers explore how waning or waxing wind speeds across the United Kingdom in the future might alter the flow of gale-born seeds. And while uncertainties remain high, some plants, such as the native lizard orchid
(Himantoglossum hircinum), could find themselves stuck, the team reports in the Journal of Ecology.
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Many plants spread their seeds by letting them drift on the wind. But climate change promises to alter wind patterns, and a past study of North American trees suggested that doldrums brought on by climate shifts could alter their ability to adapt to a shifting climate. In the current study, researchers at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, England, dug up how British gusts might or might not similarly halt the flow of seeds.
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The researchers first drew on 17 simulations of climate change for the years 2070-2099. They then incorporated demography data from three native British plants exclusive to the south of the island. They also included three non-native species, including the tree of heaven (Ailanthus
altissimam), a Central European woody plant.
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Source: Conservation Magazine
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Thomas
Hoblyn to bring an Italianate garden to RHS Chelsea Flower
Show 2012 for Arthritis Research UK
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| Award-winning landscape and garden designer Tom Hoblyn will return to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2012 to stage one of the major show gardens for leading research charity Arthritis Research UK.
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| For his fifth year at RHS Chelsea, Hoblyn will create a garden inspired by the great Renaissance gardens of Italy, capturing the drama, formality and beauty of these historic gardens, whilst indulging his passion for creative planting.
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| Hoblyn said: “I have long harboured an obsession for the Italian Renaissance gardens – the fascinating theory of controlling nature, the divine proportions and perfect symmetry, majestically portrayed against decadent architecture, truly captures my imagination”.
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