Posted on 20 May 2009 by takecover08
The Woodland Trust is to create a searchable online database of 24,000 woodlands across the UK, reports Horticulture Week.
The project won grant funding of £1.2m from Natural England’s Access to Nature initiative, which is funded by £25m from the Big Lottery Fund.
It will form part of a new VisitWoods’ project, with around 20 groups ushering [...]
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Posted on 5 May 2009 by takecover08
The Woodland Trust is to plant around a million trees on several sites across the UK to protect the “UK’s equivalent of the rainforest”, reports Horticulture Week.
“The Plant a Tree appeal will help us plant around a million trees at five key sites across the UK, with others to come in the future,” said conservation [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2009 by takecover08
First thing to emerge from a seed is the embryonic root – the radicle.
In most plants, this primary root will develop secondary or lateral roots that grow out away from the main root as the plant grows.
The growth of any root is dependent on a small ball of dividing cells just behind the [...]
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Posted on 20 January 2009 by takecover08
A multimillion-pound grant scheme to improve access to nature has targeted a project to plant urban woods to help people reconnect with nature, and avoid anti-social behaviour, Horticulture Week reports.
Access to Nature, managed by Natural England, aims to hand out £25 million of Big Lottery money to urban communities to start or improve nature projects.
One [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2008 by takecover08
Parks and forests in the UK are making up for the miserable summer by providing visitors with spectacular autumn leaf displays, experts say.
A report on the BBC News website said that public gardens have been carpeted in an array of deep red and yellow leaves, thanks to the year’s unusual weather.
Experts at the Royal Botanic [...]
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Posted on 9 October 2008 by takecover08
A conservation partnership has planted the equivalent of 1,149 trees each day for the past eight years.
In a press release, the Scottish Forest Alliance (SFA) said that more than 3.3 million trees had been planted or had been allowed to naturally regenerate, as its decade-long project enetered its ninth year.
The The SFA is described as [...]
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