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The Landscape Show This year Practicality Brown’s new hedging range Practical Instant Hedge™, can be seen on the Avant exhibition stand at the Landscape Show in Battersea Park, London. The show, which is on Tuesday 19th & Wednesday 20th September 2017, is one of the UK’s leading landscape trade events, dedicated to bringing the industry […]
Top Quality Containerised Trees Available for Planting Now Comprehensive Range Practicality Brown’s tree nursery specialises in large trees, both evergreen and deciduous. With a combination of home grown and outsourced specimen and semi mature trees, we offer a broad range which includes many native UK species; trees that are suitable all occasions. Containerised Trees We have […]
World Horse Welfare Garden Practicality Brown are proud to have supported Show and Artisan Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 by supplying top quality large hedging plants to talented Garden Designers. The World Horse Welfare Artisan Garden creates a moving story; designed by Woolcott Smith and built by Conway Landscapes, the garden celebrated […]
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 Awards Congratulations to everyone at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017, particularly: The Welcome to Yorkshire Show Garden designed by Tracy Foster awarded Silver Medal The World Horse Welfare Artisan Garden designed by Adam Woolcott and Jonathan Smith awarded Gold Medal. We are proud to have supplied our Native Mix hedging to both these gardens. The […]
BBC RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017: People’s Choice Award There are three People’ Choice awards that the public can vote for at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show: Best Show Garden Best Fresh Garden Best Artisan Garden Voting for Best Show Garden is via the www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea website only and voting is only open for one day, opening […]
Cities need to ‘green up’ to reduce the impact of air pollution The study is a collaborative effort by partners from the UK, Europe and USA, led by the Professor Kumar under the umbrella of H2020 funded project, iSCAPE: Improving Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe. The report findings include that the harmful impact […]
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 preview Practicality Brown are proud to be supporting garden designers for Show and Artisan Gardens at RHS Chelsea 2017 this May by supplying top quality large hedging plants. Show Garden: The Welcome to Yorkshire Garden Designed by Tracy Foster | Built by Landform Consultants This Welcome to Yorkshire garden […]
Woodland, Hedgerow and Tree Translocation Practicality Brown has extensive experience of large scale woodland and hedgerow translocation and tree transplanting. Woodland Translocation Woodland translocation is carried out according to age and likelihood of re-establishment. The most common method involves coppicing of larger trees followed by stump translocation then woodland soil incorporating all mycorrhizal and seed/bulb bank. Care […]
Craning trees into rear garden Our clients were undertaking a refurbishment programme at their home in Kensington, London and wished to add trees to their rear garden, which had no vehicular access. We had been acclimatising their carefully selected trees at our Tree & Hedge Nursery in Iver, Buckinghamshire for the previous twelve months, waiting […]
Screening Trees Privacy in your garden can be created using trees to hide or screen out an undesirable view; they can also be used to draw the eye to a specific feature. Trees grown for this purpose often have a clear stem i.e. no leaves on the lower trunk; they reach up to fence panel height […]