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Trees for Cities is a UK charity which aims to plant urban trees and create greener cities. [1] Since 1993, the organisation has reported that, with the help of volunteers, they have planted over 1,800,000 urban trees in parks, streets, woodlands, schools, hospitals and housing estates.
RHS Garden Wisley [2] is a garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, Surrey, south of London. It is one of five gardens run by the society, the others being Harlow Carr , Hyde Hall , Rosemoor , and Bridgewater (which opened on 18 May 2021). [ 3 ]
Garden waste, or green waste dumping is the act of discarding or depositing garden waste somewhere it does not belong.. Garden waste is the accumulated plant matter from gardening activities which involve cutting or removing vegetation, i.e. cutting the lawn, weed removal, hedge trimming or pruning consisting of lawn clippings. leaf matter, wood and soil.
Turf areas use the most water so it is important to use the appropriate grass as well as limit the amount of grass in the environment. Native grasses (warm-season) that have been cultivated for turf lawns, such as buffalo grass and blue grama, can survive with a quarter of the water that bluegrass varieties need. Warm-season grasses are ...
A street tree is any tree that is growing in a city thoroughfare, whether between the sidewalk and the curb or in an unimproved right-of-way. [71] Street trees provide valuable ecosystem services including stormwater mitigation, air pollutant removal, and shade to mitigate the urban heat island effect.
In these areas, the loss of grass due to the presence of trees and other shrubbery leads to more erosion than when trees are removed. [207] Soils are reinforced by the presence of trees, which secure the soil by binding their roots to soil bedrock. Due to deforestation, the removal of trees causes sloped lands to be more susceptible to landslides.
Time-lapse of Tigercat mulcher clearing brush. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses a single machine to cut, grind, and clear vegetation.. A forestry mulching machine, also referred to as a forestry mulcher, forest masticator, or brushcutter, uses a rotary drum equipped with steel chipper tools ("teeth") or blades to shred vegetation. [1]
A second element is mowing tall (3" – 4") to suppress weeds and encourage deep grass roots, [4] and leaving grass clippings and leaves on the lawn as fertilizer. [5] Additional techniques include fertilizing in the fall, not the spring. [6]