The Barbican: Green Space in the Heart of London
Sited in the heart of the current City of London, the Barbican development represents a fascinating [...]
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Celebrating Southwark’s Urban Forest Assets
A recent inventory of the trees in the London Borough of Southwark as managed by the tree officers [...]
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Will we see tree-lined streets on all new developments?
Since MP Mr Chris Clarkson brought a Private Members Bill to the House of Commons on 15th July that [...]
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The Case of Structural Soil & Sand vs Soil Cells
Have you ever grown a tree in rocks? Trees need appropriate amounts of nutrient-rich, moist, [...]
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Which Soil Cell do I use?
With an influx of Tree Planting mediums in recent years, we take a look at the history, benefits [...]
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Driving Toward a Greener Future with ArborCharge
One question that is on many minds is “what will our towns and cities look like in the future”? [...]
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Health & Wellbeing: Access to Green Space during COVID-19
The current COVID-19 crisis has helped many of us re-evaluate our priorities; in particular, most [...]
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The Role of Maintenance in Successful Urban Tree Planting
Unfortunately, the maintenance-free tree has yet to be discovered. However, the correct species [...]
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Utilizing SuDS/LID Tree Pits for Micoplastic Filtration
Pollutants from our urban runoff reaching our oceans is becoming a global problem. Even the most [...]
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Continuing to Adapt to Change
Just 6 months in and 2020 seems to have been one of the most controversial in recent years, [...]
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Enabling Seamless Specification
Did you know GreenBlue Urban offers FREE Urban Tree Planting Design Services? At the start of any [...]
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Adapting to Change – Healthy Streets
In London and large cities like New York in North America, Nearly 80% public open space is [...]
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What is an Urban Forest?
Guest Post – Kenton Rogers – Treeconomics Urban Forestry is a term which many of us [...]
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Happy Healthy Communities
In our smaller communities Trees are more than just shade and protection, they are jungle gyms for [...]
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Say Hello to Green Blue Gardens
Now you can simply order your preferred GBU landscaping products from a NEW ONLINE STORE! GreenBlue [...]
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Effective Pollutant Mitigation of Stormwater Run-Off Using ArborFlow
The ArborFlow SuDS Tree Pit system was developed as part of an integrated surface water management [...]
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Urban Collaboration – How we work with you!
When we look back at these times of uncertainty, there will be some contributing factor’s apart [...]
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Discussing Tree Planting Mediums & Canopy Volume
Trees have evolved over millennia to grow in a wide variety of soil conditions. In fact, trees [...]
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Making the case for Long Term Tree Health
In the landscaping profession, we’re here to make our built environment a better place. Our work is [...]
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Why Integrate Trees?
It is noticeable that the most successful developments have a green infrastructure at the core of [...]
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Enabling you to Build Green Cities
With everyday life very much behind closed doors with the instruction of homebound living, [...]
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How to Design for Biodiversity
It was a pleasure again to visit Palestra – the illustrious venue of TfL and Urban Design London. [...]
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Adapting to Change through Green & Blue
With the increased pressure of flooding and heightened concern for Climate Change we are all having [...]
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Supporting Myerscough, Arbor Day & Future Flora
Many thanks to Dr Duncan Slater for a very enjoyable Arbor Day at Myerscough College and for the [...]
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Introducing HydroPlanter™ – The Ultimate Rain Garden Solution
GreenBlue Urban are excited to announce the launch of a new modular bioretention raingarden system, [...]
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