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“England hath contrived to make the adopted foreigners her own,” wrote American horticulturist, businessman and the co-author of the Cactus and Succulent Journal, Robert Henry Foster, of the plants obtained from around the world to fill such borders. It is said the first herbaceous borders were designed at Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire, England, in 1845: “Amongst the finest in Europe the Gardens have been created over the last 250 years by successive generations of the same family.” In fact, right from the start they were always a reflection of a family or a person’s unique styl...

Tuesday 29 December 2020 For 20 years, Dan Pearson has been working on a project that is the apotheosis of his approach to gardening and design. The Tokachi Millennium Forest on Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido, covers nearly 1,000 acres. In 2000, Dan was asked to collaborate with Japanese landscape architect Fumiaki Takano to develop the area. With a brief to introduce spaces that had more intimacy in them, Dan started working on a plan that now includes woodland areas, a perennial meadow garden, productive gardens and landforms. ‘The plan was about revealing the place, about steeri...

Guarding the apocalypse: inside the fortress of the new Lambeth Palace Library Oliver Wainwright © Provided by The Guardian One of the Library’s treasures, now in a suitably armoured home. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian A dangerous-looking porcupine scuttles across the bottom of a page of a medieval manuscript, amid scenes of fire-breathing dragons, bodies bubbling in cauldrons, and boats deluged by biblical floods. Known as the Lambeth Apocalypse , this 13th-century illuminated text is one of the lurid highlights of the magnificent collection of Lambeth Palace Librar...

New Fish Tape from Klein Tools Provides Bright Glow for Use in Low Light Offers clear housing that allows the glow material to charge in the case Durable case and handle offer superior impact resistance Original Press Release: Klein Tools’® New Glow Fish Tape Perfect for Low Light Applications Dec. 17, 2020 (Lincolnshire, Ill.) – Klein Tools (www.kleintools.com), for professionals since 1857, introduces the 20-Foot Glow Fish Tape, Klein’s first fully glow-in-the-dark fish tape, providing a bright glow for use in low light. Clear housing allows the glow material to charge in the case Fu...

THE hard work and achievements of students from USP College Palmer’s Campus have been celebrated with their annual Prize Giving awards. Unable to host its usual Prize Giving ceremony at the Civic Hall in Grays, the College instead recorded congratulatory messages from the Principal & CEO, Dan Pearson, and Brian Little, Chairman of the William Palmer College Educational Trust, for the students and their families to view via the College website, along with a list of all the prize winners. Brian Little said: “Although we have been unable to celebrate with the students and their families as w...