A Plants Hunter’s Delight

25th April 20161st August 2015 by Chris

We have been hunting for a good place to buy plants locally. We’ve kept asking people where we find the best garden centres and we get a mix of mostly average places with an excess of gifts, furniture and food.

Then we came across the Grange Farm Nursery Centre at Guarlford, Malvern.

No frills, tat or gimmicks – just hundreds and hundreds of plants, all cared for and in great condition. A plant hunter’s delight.

This is a Specialist Plant Centre situated in an array of farm buildings – beautiful displays creating a relaxed and friendly environment – inspirational!

They have such a mass of shrubs, plants, grasses, trees, flowers, compost —

– in fact everything for your garden, patio, home, terrace or balcony, all served by expert, knowledgeable staff.

Given the amount of garden we have still to be landscaped and filled I feel sure we will now have many visits to Grange Farm Nursery, and it’s only about 14 miles from home.

Rectory Road Guarlford Malvern, Worcs WR13 6NT

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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