July 2009 News

Kent County Show - 'Education Garden wins Top Gold'

Julie Maddocks from KentTV visited the Learning garden, built by Skanska RM in partnership with Learning through Landscapes and Twig, at the Detling showground during the 80th Kent County Show:

Feedback from Skanska:

"Thank you and thanks to the whole Twig team for an amazing effort. 'Top Gold' has such a great ring about it.

From a discussion in the Kent 2020 exhibition on the 2nd of April to a winning garden on the 17th of July is one heck of an achievement. Thanks for your willingness to go with my crazy ideas and turn them into a built reality. Also thanks for your willingness to work with other professional disciplines, particularly our colleagues in Learning through Landscapes and our PR team at Pillory Barn Creative. It is so refreshing to work with a specialist and knowledgeable company like Twig with a willingness to understand the importance of the broader education objectives.

As well as achieving those Education objectives, demonstrating the potential of outside spaces for learning, you also achieved an excellence in plantsmanship, landscaping and horticulture, recognized by the Judges in awarding our garden the Top Gold prize. In addition, your team on the day was brilliant in making sure the garden stayed looking its best and left nothing to chance. The team was also very good at helping with the visitors to the garden especially the children and those looking for gardening advice.

Genuine thanks. I've booked my B&B for next year!"

Terry Mitchell
Project Director
Skanska Infrastructure Development UK Ltd

Links: Learning Through Landscapes show report / View the Twig Kent County Show Garden gallery

June 2009 News

'Learning Through Landscapes' at the Kent County Show

Impressing Skanska with their dedication towards quality craftsmanship and environmental sustainability, Skanska invited local company Twig to produce an education stand working with advice from the charity 'Learning through Landscapes'. The garden has been dreamt up and assembled in the small matter of 8 weeks and we hope it will further encourage the use of the great outdoors as a learning facility.

Twig is very proud to have been involved in the building and design of the Education Garden at the Kent Show. Please come and visit the stand, near to the Flower Show, stand no. 104. The Kent County Show runs from 17th - 19th July 2009.

April 2009 News

Landscaping Thanet Earth

Phase 1 has now been completed at Thanet Earth and Twig has successfully managed to plant 15,000 trees, shrubs and climbers and sow 16 hectares of calcareous and utility grass seed in just three weeks. This prestigious contract will now move into its summer maintenance programme - plenty of watering will be required here as the site receives less rainfall than some areas of the Middle East ! - before work continues when the planting season resumes in November.

Press release April 2009

Sissinghurst CE Primary School

Twig has been working with Diocesan Architectural Services alongside Wildthing Wildlife Consultants to provide conservation and landscaping advice and services for the new primary school in Sissinghurst village, Kent. The clearance work for this project is now in progress and the dormice and reptile mitigation work has begun in earnest.

Kent 2020 Vision Business Show

Twig took a stand in the Eco Village at the highly successful and intuitive show at the Kent County Show Ground. There was a great deal of interest in the unique landscape perspective offered by Twig by both the public and commercial sectors. Kent 2020 Vision.

Pipeline Easement for Clancy Docwra on behalf of South East Water

Part of the South East Water's £24 million pipeline scheme from Bewl Water Reservoir to Ashford, Kent . Instructed by Clancy Docwra, Twig Trading undertook pipeline easement reinstatement work prior to the land being passed back to the land owners.

Read more from South East Water on the Pipe Line

Maintenance for the Highways Agency

Continuing to maintain the land and gardens of Highways owned properties adjacent to the A21. This work includes the mowing, improvements to fences and general upkeep and maintenance to the properties.

Visit the Highways Agency website

Domestic

A terrace construction has been completed for a domestic client in Hawkhurst.
A back garden revamp is ongoing in Wadhurst.
On going garden planting and fencing work in Brasted.
Back garden decking and paving in Tunbridge Wells.
Garden steps, fencing and meadow work in Goudhurst

2008 News

Exclusion fencing at Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm for npower

4km of newt fencing was installed to surround the turbine bases at Kent's first wind farm. This is an extremely exposed site, however we are pleased to report that virtually no damage was caused to the fencing during the Spring gales we experienced this year.

Visit the nPower renewables site for more information on the project.

Great Crested Newts are one of the species protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act and The Conservation Regulations

Organic Gardening with the National Trust at Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Twig Trading is assisting in the establishment of the new organic vegetable plots which service the restaurant.

Visit the National Trust for more on Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

More information on Organic Gardening

Pipeline Easement for Clancy Docwra on behalf of South East Water

Part of the South East Water's £24 million pipeline scheme from Bewl Water Reservoir to Ashford, Kent. Instructed by Clancy Docwra, Twig Trading undertook pipeline easement reinstatement work prior to the land being passed back to the land owners.

Read more from South East Water on the Pipe Line

Maintenance for the Highways Agency

Visit the Highways Agency website.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

We have just been awarded the contract to control several Ha of bracken for the RSPB, which is affecting the heather development in bird breeding grounds. We are also carrying out maintenance to several access points around the nature reserve.

Visit the RSPB