Les Ballard

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Buy a mah jong set and read the instructions. Create a grass or flower dragon – an imperial one from the old days. Allow for cold and wet weather gatherings with a temple area covering buddhism and more. Insert gas on meters for open air heaters and flares and even gas collectors making methane and fertilizer. Have open covered area with…[Read more]

Airports use bird scarers consisting large birds of prey – they come round couple times during daylight and exercise their eagle owl, eagle or whatever. They should be in pages under pest control. Alternatively own and train own eagle. I always wanted an andean condor the only bird in the world to deliberately attack light aircraft. However i…[Read more]

I feel sure there was a similar thread when the site was younger but, at the risk of repetition, aren’t we made by all we read and see and isn’t Swallows and Amazons, or Wind in The Willows, or Heidi, or Kim even, as important to us as a person as the pro books? It is even interesting and inspirational, for me anyway, to see invented landscapes in…[Read more]

You not only need to look up the tree specie but see how it has been tended and what variety it may be. Your soils may vary and a lot of park varieties are more upswept with a lesser spread for parks, etc. than wild varieties. A lot of routes require trees to be cut back for taller vehicles and contractors/authorities often pollard trees -…[Read more]

o dont get me going lol

Jeepers, I remember this post! I can’t have had that much cognac lol.

Doesn’t the idea of creating a nursery for large projects appeal to anyone? The labour is there and the workers enjoy it. They get fulfillment from lifting saplings before the ground is cleared or pillaging local woods, even growers sites, for some money (they usually sell oversize/bare root stock cheap rather than burn it), though other material…[Read more]

Some folk have noticed that a really large body of water in arizona has had its level drop and not recover. Rainfall has reduced and a lot of people there are so worried they are investing in toilet tissue shares to get the stuff cheap but, if their worries pan out, they are going to have no water to flush it. Solutions are sought but there are…[Read more]

Oh dear! Does no-one read my stuff? Put in temporary benches where you can to grow fenced off living ones nearby and the same with shelters.

When you buy friies and eat them walking down the street you want a bin in view when you finish. So you eat fries walking down the street and see where you are when you are finished. With benches folk want…[Read more]

“Grey” water should be filtered before it goes into the main tank and have a cistern to control overflow. Often, the filtered water is returned to the house – or now once again the garden – to flush toilets. It takes water like washing up water from the sink in the kitchen, into which pipe also flows dish and clothes washing water, filtering out…[Read more]

o i am sorry u havent had a reply but, please, do not despair. Come down off that ledge at once. When I saw this post i deliberated whether to reply or not but only cos i know a single clue for you – urban garden magazine which has a .com site. I thawt others would respond in droves,

Apart from looking for growers and nurseries in online…[Read more]

i was gonna say xl which lots of folk have anyway and here in uk anyway, along with lotus notes, is spread sheet sytem used for recording tree work in boroughs or local authority areas as far as i know. The problem with this is you have to use it right. What i mean is you can have a bunch of xl experts using linked sheets, hidden columns of notes…[Read more]

try googling grey water systems for homes

to answer your question. you filter the runoff includng bath water, etc. into the tank which overflows via a cistern to the sewer and in some circumstances you may also need to flush filters. You then irrigate via the tank to the garden and it is possible to do that via a yacht style wind motor and.or…[Read more]

Local authorities publish a price including maintenance and lifespan for benches placed in area with a little plaque to commemorate folk. This often seems dear but of course the more famous the artist the higher will be the cost and fee until you get really silly.

A competition or challenge to colleges and/or youth organisations can get results…[Read more]

Here in the UK it isn’t just litigation folk are afraid of it is the Health and Safety Executive. Designers of playgrounds choose from ranges of play equipment, meeting points, courts, etc. used before or approved rather then liasing with a HSE person and starting from scratch. My heart is with you but, having seen a kid working on a new facility…[Read more]

Love the video. Ents would go ape wouldn’t they?

I would like (or not) to see what would happen to the trees under major electronic acceleration and interview any resident squirrels to determine levels of disorientation. Would they still find their nuts?

More practically, mark north on trees before transplanting to containers then reorient at…[Read more]

Ask the kids!

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Les Ballard

One stump is equivalent of a 20 foot container imported from africa and then they are going elsewhere so i hope the point is made well bearing in mind the carbon taken to get these stumps here. In fact the total cost could have gone a long way toward replanting the origin rainforest.. As wood being imported for timber has to be baked to kill any…[Read more]

Ask over phone at a dolls house shop – their stuff is bigger but some folk use 1/100 for bigger plots like model villages. One such tip they have is representing soil with dried and ground tea from used tea bags. I have only used, at school for a tudor town made of card, painted brads that you use for nailing on roofing felt which come in…[Read more]

Trouble is, folk want different things from their landscapes. Goats sure replace mowers, things that would actually poison them excepted, but folk want heath, brush, woods and forest often with areas of agriculture to remain and funnelling tourists into trails that have to be secure – you cant have a goat butting old ladies off the cliff – and…[Read more]