Following complaints from residents on a new housing development in Basingstoke about the poor appearance of a strip of land separating their homes from a public open space, landscaping and specialist grounds maintenance contractor, The Grounds Care Group, has recently been appointed to remediate the offending area by establishing a colourful strip of wildflowers.
When the first generation of commercial creeping bentgrasses (Agrostis stolonifera) was introduced to the UK in the 1970s, it was quickly decided that they were only suitable for golf courses with adequate budget, manpower and machinery to meet the species’ high maintenance requirements.
Landscapers should use specialist slow release fertilisers in favour of conventional compound products, not only to enhance the health and vitality of grass swards, but also to protect watercourses and to reduce the overall cost of landscaping projects.
As tightening input budgets and the trend towards earlier cutting at low heights puts increasing pressure on browntop bents and fescue swards, greenkeepers should consider how the latest generation of ‘super bents’ can improve the quality of their putting greens.
Germinal has added a high phosphorous foliar fertiliser – which improves plant health and increases disease resistance – to its expanding range of amenity specific fertilisers and sward conditioners.
Germinal Amenity has updated its leading sports pitch seeding and renovation mixture, A20 Premier Ryesport, with the introduction of the UK’s top-rated perennial ryegrass cultivar, Europitch
Germinal has added a 100% organic slow release fertiliser, which promotes soil health and enables grass swards to withstand disease pressure, to its expanding range of specialist amenity grass care products.
As well as a wide variety of class-leading landscaping grass and wildflower seed mixtures, Germinal also offers a range of conventional and specialist fertilisers and soil conditioners.
Germinal Amenity is proud to announce the recruitment of Alex Beesley as our new Amenity Technical Sales Representative for South Wales, the South Midlands and the South West of England.
