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18 Hunstanton Town & Around February 2016
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What strange weather we are As people tend to live longer
having! At the time of writing and many wish to continue to
there has scarcely been a frost, tend their own gardens there is a
many garden plants have call for more user friendly power
continued to flower and a number units and battery power offers
of others have certainly made a some big advantages. On the
false start. Many people are still down side this technology does
cutting lawns, which is justified if not come cheap and replacement
they do not cut too short. batteries are also rather
Scalping lawns at this time of expensive.
year is bad for the lawn and bad The biggest growth area in the
for the mower, allowing moss to powered gardening sector in
develop and stuffing the mower recent years has been in pole
full of mud from worm casts and pruners and hedgetrimmers.
even mole hills. Although we Attachments are interchangeable
steam clean mowers before a and also include rotary weeders,
service, a great deal of damage is sweepers and scarifiers. The
done to belts and clutches, not to commercial boys have really
mention the ravages of corrosion. taken this on board due to the
Battery technology has time saved in moving access
improved in leaps and bounds equipment and we strongly feel
due to the introduction of lithium- that this trend has plenty of
ion technology and no doubt mileage left.
spurred on by spin offs from the For those with ambitious
car industry. Five years ago we landscaping projects our hire fleet
actively discouraged potential now includes micro diggers,
customers from buying any but powered high lift mini dumpers,
the lightest duty battery powered mini-digger mounted post hole
products. There are now some augers and tree stump removal
fairly beefy commercial mowers solutions. On a still larger scale
on the market incorporating this are diggers up to five tonnes,
new technology and time will tell dumpers from one to three tonnes
whether the faith of the and tractor powered flail mowers,
manufacturers is fully justified. pasture toppers, rotovators and
This has been partly driven by stone burriers .
petrol costs and ever tightening We at Arco wish you all a
emission and noise regulations happy and prosperous 2016 and
putting increasing pressure on may all your gardening efforts be
manufacturers. rewarded.
HUNSTANTON GARDENERS’ ASSOCIATION
At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Hunstanton Gardeners
‘Association, Canny Jones was re-elected as Chairman and reported
on the activities of the Association over the previous year. Membership
numbers had increased during 2015 and the summer outings to gardens
in East Anglia had been very well supported and enjoyed by members.
Outgoing secretary Peter Davidson reported that as a result of an
enthusiastic response from members, an additional speaker will now
be included in the Winter Talks programme. Speakers engaged for
forthcoming talks during the year would cover a wide range of
gardening topics, and included one of the UK’s leading experts on new
plant introductions.
Peter wished his successor, Alathea Gillard, every success as the
new secretary and thanked the committee and members for their
generous support during his nine years in office.
Canny Jones paid tribute to retiring committee member Max Dolby,
who, during his many years as a previous Chairman, had steered the
Association through difficult times to be the very successful local club
that it is to-day. The Chairman concluded the meeting by thanking the
committee for its enthusiastic support, and looked forward to another
enjoyable year ahead.
Arrangements are now in place for a three-day holiday to the
Cotswolds in the summer, during which members will visit several
important gardens, including the Prince of Wales’ Highgrove garden.
Owing to restrictions regarding visitor numbers, some late-booking