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Issue 50 - Autumn 2009

PAGE CONTENTS Issue 50
3 Editor's Note
4 Trees through space and time -
In restoring an old wood or starting a new one, you are playing a part in an evolutionary process says designer Verney Naylor.
7 Going Native -
John Murphy of Annaveigh Plants advises on the species to select when planting a woodland for a small garden.
10 Last of the Summer Wine -
For Frazer McDonagh, Irish garden designers could do no better than make their UK design debut at Tatton Park.
12 Urban woodlands -
The dread term 'low maintenance' conjures up images of paving, but for Oliver Schurmann, it is a young woodland which you pretty much leave to its own devices. Helen Rock reports.
15 Creating Foliage Interest -
Noel Kingsbury, author and former nurseryman, had his audience at the GLDA's summer workshop at the Botanic Gardens, entranced as he expounded in great detail on a subject which you might have thought had been flogged to death. Sheena Vernon reports.
17 Writing a specification for trees -
When landscape architects and garden designers write a tree specification, do they always know what they are talking about, asks landscape contractor, Peter O'Toole.
18 Case Study - Woodland Edge
19 Book review - Great Gardens of America by Tim Richardson -
American gardens still embrace the wilderness ideal says Natalie McGettigan
20 News and Events -
Compiled by Annette McCoy

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