Hortus Loci Ltd on LinkedIn: Pro Landscaper August 2024 (2024)

Ultimately, there is no future in growing trees that you don't believe are going to survive" Head to page 40 to read about Adam Dunnett discussing our latest venture! 🌍🌳#hilliertrees #trees #climateresilient Pro Landscaper Eljays44

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Navigating Landscape Cleanup: Costs and Considerations for Your Yard

Why is the media so anti-environment at the moment!!Last week we had 'good news' that the government were looking at reducing the restrictions around water quality and development. Here we have another ignorant and slanderous article written to besmirch the UK ecology industry and blame our natural environment for holding up house building, this time its bats. I have seen a recent influx of media reporting the restrictions around our natural environment are to blame for a lack of house building in the UK. A very worrying and ignorant narrative that seems to align with the governments aspirations to derestrict development planning and push to build build build.Unfortunately you will have to pay to read this rubbish, but if you do I hope you will also agree that it has clearly been written to discredit and belittle the formal process around bats and planning. It has been written with very limited research into the process, with input from just one ecological consultant on one survey. There is no mention as to why bats are an intrinsic species to our natural habitat and the author hasn't even consulted Natural England, who are principally responsible for governing the process around European protected species and development. Instead, it favours the comments of multiple developers and house builders, who of course have a negative opinion of ecological constraints. I think its obvious that developers and house builders will have a negative view on anything that eats into their profits and this article is heavily biased toward a developers opinion. Once thing to point out, is that only on very very rare occasions do bats 'derail a development'. Mitigation measures are typically available to facilitate development even when bats are found present.https://lnkd.in/eendzrWi

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Today, celebrating World Environment Day, let’s take a moment to talk about landscape connectivity. 🔗Our work at Owlett’s Farm in the heart of Ashdown Forest aims not only to restore this land for our client and his family, but play a much wider role in reconnecting the landscape. As the honey-buzzard flies, the aim is to create wetlands and wood pasture that draw in life from the surrounding forest, whether providing frogs for hungry honey-buzzards or a plethora of invertebrates that can then spread out into the wider landscape. Ripping fences can seem provocative if the context is not understood. The whole point is that we no longer need to enclose cattle in fields but are working to more of a commons grazing system. As a result, barbed wire fences just become ugly obstacles to the free passage of nature - and the hedges suffice anyway! Fences have become such a common sight in the British landscape it's easy to forget how much softer and more beautiful it looks with them. And their removal also symbolises our aspiration to see an Ashdown Forest freed of natural barriers - with wildlife and cattle able to traverse more freely across the land, as they did for centuries before.#landscapeconnectivity #restorenature #naturerestoration #generationrestoration #rewilding #landscapescale #environment #nature #greencorridors #worldenvironmentday

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The temps this weekend have us thinking about Spring and being outside!Now is a great time to get started on landscape maintenance. Check out our blog for tips to help you maintain your yard and garden this Spring - and become the envy of the neighborhood.If you need help with any of the tips in this post or just want to bounce off some ideas, please contact us and we’d be happy to discuss how we can help.https://lnkd.in/eB5xDSnF#Spring #YardAndGarden #LandscapeTips

Sometimes it takes an Instagram post from somebody like Leonardo DiCaprio to really grab people’s attention 👀📱On Thursday, DiCaprio shone a light on the excellent work of the The Scottish Rewilding Alliance as he urged Scotland to become a “world leader” in rewilding.Despite the “wild” “rugged” postcard image we present to the world, Scotland (and the UK as a whole) is one of the most nature depleted nations on the planet.🌲 Our forest cover is 20% less than the European average🐾 Almost half of our species are in decline🐺 Our ecosystem is desperately missing some of its keystone species and animals like deer are unnaturally over-abundant 💰 12%-18% of the country’s landmass is run as a barren shooting playground for the super rich under the label of “Grouse moors” But the tide is rapidly changing. Rewilding is supported by 70% of Scots, discussions over the reintroduction of species like Lynx & Wolf are gaining pace and community-led rewilding projects are popping up all across the country. If you want to help please follow/lend your support to organisations like SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, allow areas of your garden to “go wild” and continue to fight efforts to destruct or manage our natural landscapes 🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿And if you’re just looking for a place to start on your #rewilding journey, go read “Feral” by George Monbiot.#Conservation #Nature #Scotland Rewilding Britain

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Lunch break study of the Montmorency falls. Getting used to the looseness, and definitely trying to employ it in an indoor environment.#conceptart #digitalart #digitalpainting #environment #landscape #waterfall #sky #forest

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Green Climber: Where innovation meets nature. Our remote-controlled mower is your ultimate ally against overwhelming vegetation, ensuring efficient clearing while prioritizing safety and control.#greenclimber #greenclimberau #greenclimberaustralia #mowing #grass #landscaping #council #safety #lawncare #landscape #lawn #lawnmaintenance #terrain #remotecontrol

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Making a difference in small spacesUrban Ecological RestorationI sometimes hear people in urban areas express frustration that they can't do more to help restore ecology and regenerate our living systems. There is often a sentiment that one needs a large landscape to make a difference.I've been involved with Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Certification's collaboration to follow up on various stormwater BMP and conservation landscaping efforts in the Anacostia watershed, (a tributary of the Potomac river and Chesapeake Bay). This effort brings me onto quite a few properties in an urban area.This has been very encouraging.While it might not feel like one family can make a difference with their small urban lot, I think this misses the larger picture. I was recently at one property and noticed several properties on that street that had native and conservation landscaping. The area was a beautiful oasis of lush green along the Washington DC border... and the birds and insects loved it too.I don't know who started the trend on that block, but it was successful in beginning restoration for that entire area.You can make a difference where you are, no matter how small the area you have under your stewardship. It has to begin somewhere and you never know how big of a difference that one small step might lead to.#biodiversity #conservationlandscaping #ecologicalrestoration #stormwaterbmp

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Good to see conversations about road tunnels for wildlife happening as part of Melbourne Design Week. With a growing emphasis on protecting biodiversity in this country, there will be more conflict between vehicles and wildlife. There's nothing more demoralising than succeeding in restoring habitat, biodiversity returning to the land, and then seeing animals killed on the road. We need to get more traffic engineers and land use and transport planners across these initiatives, so the good efforts of conservation minded individuals/groups/organisations does not end in disaster.

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