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  2. National garden festival - Wikipedia

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    The National Garden Festivals were events held in the UK during the 1980s and early 1990s to promote the cultural regeneration of large areas of derelict land in industrial districts. Five were held in total – one every two years, each in a different town or city [ citation needed ] – after the idea was pushed by the Conservative ...

  3. British timber trade - Wikipedia

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    The American colonies still could exported little timber to England, only great masts could justify the cost of the long transatlantic journey. Thus New England, rather than producing timber and naval stores for the motherland was instead building its own ships that were cheaper and often of superior quality to those produced in Britain.

  4. Garden waste dumping - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. RHS Garden Wisley - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  6. Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Stoke-on-Trent National Garden Festival was the second of Britain's national garden festivals. It was held in the city from 1 May to 26 October 1986, and was opened by the Queen . Preparation of the site involved the reclamation of land formerly occupied by the Shelton Bar steelworks (1830–1978), about two miles north-west of Stoke-on ...

  7. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, the Koppers Company published a technical bulletin on the acetylation of wood using no catalysis, but with an organic cosolvent [28] In 1977, in Russia, Otlesnov and Nikitina came close to commercialization, but the process was discontinued, presumably because cost-effectiveness could not be achieved. In 2007, Titan Wood, a London ...

  8. Gateshead Garden Festival - Wikipedia

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    The cost of reclaiming and redeveloping the land was around £37 million. [1] The Evening Chronicle reported: "Around 50,000 cubic metres [1,800,000 cu ft] of discarded coal and coke over 25 acres [0.10 km 2] was removed and the area capped with layers of limestone. […] Nearly two million trees and shrubs and 1.2m bulbs were planted.

  9. The Quarry (park) - Wikipedia

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    Between 1324 and 1588 it was known as the Wet or Water Quarry because it was liable to flood. It was quarried for both stone and clay. The project to clear out the Dingle and then plant it was funded by the Shropshire Horticultural Society, with the ornamental gardens opened in 1879, featuring many flower beds and borders, with ponds and fountains.