Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is one of the landscape gems of Britain. Mowing forms only a fraction of the maintenance strategy and Greg Rhodes...
in Public Places - on 23/1/23
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is one of the landscape gems of Britain. Mowing forms only a fraction of the maintenance strategy and Greg Rhodes...
in Public Places - on 23/1/23
Land-based Awarding Organisation Lantra has launched a short course to help heighten awareness of the key role that due care of knapsack sprayers plays...
in Chemicals & Fertilisers - on 7/11/22
If you strike lucky, you may spot signs of hedgehogs. However, you can help support a sustainable community of them by preparing the ground to attract...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 17/10/22
Nurturing a unique heathland golf setting requires thinking out of the box, as Greg Rhodes discovered when he met Walton Heath Golf Club course manager...
in Golf - on 7/10/22
It’s all fun and games, plus plenty of hard graft, for the grounds team tending one of the country’s elite sporting schools. Greg Rhodes arrived at...
in Schools & Colleges - on 25/8/22
David Byron comes as close as it gets to being born and bred at Thorndon Park Golf Club, and gives the course as much attention as if he had been, Greg...
in Golf - on 22/8/22
Do you have a prize tree in your midst? If so, celebrate your good fortune, lavish the attention on it that a champion deserves while putting in place...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 12/8/22
Head groundsman Jason O'Keele and his six-strong Epsom College team are all dab hands with knapsack sprayers.
in Machinery & Mechanics - on 29/7/22
Student wellbeing ranks high in Liverpool Hope University's strategy for upgrading its landscape provision. Greg Rhodes speaks to Martin Grayshon, Head...
in Schools & Colleges - on 21/7/22
Correctly calibrating liquid spray applications is a keystone of effective spraying. Doing it right, whether weeding or feeding, is critical to ensure...
in Training & Education - on 1/7/22
Turning round an international cricket square 90 degrees and absorbing ever busier sporting calendars have only served to further raise standards at Emirates...
in Cricket - on 13/6/22
This Top 100 course is building on generations of premier greenkeeping as Greg Rhodes discusses the future with the club’s new Course Manager Joe...
in Golf - on 4/4/22
The quirkily named Guy’s Thatched Hamlet (origin unknown) is a canalside haven of thatched roof buildings and sports provision at Bilsborrow, near Preston....
in Cricket - on 21/3/22
The impact of climate change is seldom far away for Paul Barrow, who has to run the gauntlet of water and environment agencies to keep his course free...
in Golf - on 23/2/22
Training excellence is the calling card for a North West college breaking new ground in developing the next generation of greenkeepers and parks professionals,...
in Training & Education - on 20/2/22
A new initiative between leading land-based training body Lantra and sprayer specialists Hozelock-Exel aims to raise operator awareness of the mechanics...
in Industry News - on 12/2/22
Greg Rhodes rambles through the rough on one of England’s golf coast Top 100 links treasures to meet Course Manager Greg Wellings and his team who are...
in Golf - on 22/1/22
Operator training and safety figured strongly throughout Saltex 2021 on the Hozelock-Exel stand, which featured Cooper Pegler and Berthoud knapsack and...
in Chemicals & Fertilisers - on 22/11/21
Something’s stirring in the North-west’s golfing venues, which will soon spread across the UK, transforming the sport’s traditional model. Greg Rhodes...
in Golf - on 15/11/21
Street cleansing and Groundcare may appear unlikely bedfellows but they are buddying up well in Blackpool. Greg Rhodes talks ‘integration’ to Grounds...
in Local Authority - on 7/10/21