Author: RGWPadmin

How can we improve the environment of communities living near airports?

In the city of Breda in Holland a movable forest is creating a green space where it would otherwise have been impossible.

The trees in Air-Pot containers have been placed in a location on top of an underground car park where the roof was not strong enough to support a garden. The metal boxes contain the Air-Pot containers with integral irrigation.

To provide the trees a pop up nursery has been set up on unused former industrial land – which is awaiting development. Innovative tree tripods are used for support. To find out more go to: https://flexibilitree.nl/

On their recent tour of some of our longstanding Air-Pot customers in southeast England, our new Japanese partners, Mr Kanaoka and Mr Nobuhiro Kanaoka, were able to see the huge versatility of the Air-Pot system. 

During the tour they saw everything from propagation at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, (where more than 3000 species are being grown in Air-Pot containers), to young trees at Bedgebury Pinetum, larger trees at Deepdale and Majestic nurseries and stock ready for planting into the UK’s most prestigious landscape projects at Willerby Landscapes.

Many thanks to Andrew Fenton, Steve McCurdy, Daniel Luscombe & Rick Davis for giving up so much of their time.

At Holland’s leading horticultural research centre PPO, recent trials have demonstrated that growing in Air-Pot containers produces bigger yields of Redcurrants than any other container.

Fruit Consult, who are conducting the trials, have now set up a further trial, with input from Air-Pot consultant Rutger Hornikx, to work out how to increase the yields even more. The plants’ healthy root development also means that they can live longer in the containers, reducing costs and further increasing profitability for growers.