The Young People in Horticulture Association are delighted to announce Boningale Limited as the latest horticultural business to sign up as a YPHA Key Partner.
Boningale, with more than 60 years of experience in the sector, produces over 2.2 million shrubs across its five production sites. The evolution of the horticultural industry, partnered with their forward-thinking ethos, has led them to the forefront of innovative landscape schemes. Range adaptation through trials, reducing their carbon footprint and investing in the future, are just a few practices Boningale has nurtured to become one of the leading suppliers to the British Landscaping industry.
YPHA’s panel of Key Partners are the backbone of the organisation, helping to facilitate important opportunities for the benefit of all Young People in Horticulture. YPHA membership approaches 300, with each member empowered by an invaluable network of contacts, as well as regular zoom sessions from a broad range of speakers, and face-to-face events throughout the year.
Jeremy King, Boningale Limited Managing Director commented “Boningale have partnered with the YPHA along with some of our individual employees becoming direct members. We support their initiative in empowering under 35s from every corner of horticulture, sharing specific and lateral skills, with the aim to make the industry a united and stronger force.”
YPHA founder, Liam Cleary added that “YPHA are so excited to be working with Boningale. This latest collaboration will help us towards our goals of making horticulture a more accessible, more appealing career choice for new recruits, whilst also engaging, educating, and empowering under 35s who already work in our wonderful industry.”
The horticulture sector employs around 300,000 people, but 70% of the industry states they are currently experiencing a major skills gap, with 83% believing it is due to the perception of horticulture within schools and colleges. To counteract this, Boningale has recently developed an apprenticeship programme aimed at giving individuals the opportunity to work in several key horticulture and non-horticulture roles throughout the wider business.
The addition of Boningale brings YPHA Key Partnerships to a total of four, with a fifth slot set to be added when partnerships renew on 1st January 2023.
For more information on YPHA please visit ypha.org.uk
For more information on Boningale Limited please visit boningale.co.uk
The Young People in Horticulture Association are delighted to announce Boningale Limited as the latest horticultural business to sign up as a YPHA Key Partner.
Boningale, with more than 60 years of experience in the sector, produces over 2.2 million shrubs across its five production sites. The evolution of the horticultural industry, partnered with their forward-thinking ethos, has led them to the forefront of innovative landscape schemes. Range adaptation through trials, reducing their carbon footprint and investing in the future, are just a few practices Boningale has nurtured to become one of the leading suppliers to the British Landscaping industry.
YPHA’s panel of Key Partners are the backbone of the organisation, helping to facilitate important opportunities for the benefit of all Young People in Horticulture. YPHA membership approaches 300, with each member empowered by an invaluable network of contacts, as well as regular zoom sessions from a broad range of speakers, and face-to-face events throughout the year.
Jeremy King, Boningale Limited Managing Director commented “Boningale have partnered with the YPHA along with some of our individual employees becoming direct members. We support their initiative in empowering under 35s from every corner of horticulture, sharing specific and lateral skills, with the aim to make the industry a united and stronger force.”
YPHA founder, Liam Cleary added that “YPHA are so excited to be working with Boningale. This latest collaboration will help us towards our goals of making horticulture a more accessible, more appealing career choice for new recruits, whilst also engaging, educating, and empowering under 35s who already work in our wonderful industry.”
The horticulture sector employs around 300,000 people, but 70% of the industry states they are currently experiencing a major skills gap, with 83% believing it is due to the perception of horticulture within schools and colleges. To counteract this, Boningale has recently developed an apprenticeship programme aimed at giving individuals the opportunity to work in several key horticulture and non-horticulture roles throughout the wider business.
The addition of Boningale brings YPHA Key Partnerships to a total of four, with a fifth slot set to be added when partnerships renew on 1st January 2023.
For more information on YPHA please visit ypha.org.uk
For more information on Boningale Limited please visit boningale.co.uk
A rain garden is a planted area designed to reduce the amount of water running off into drainage systems. It works by slowing down the flow of water giving the soil and plants time to absorb as much as possible, by slowing the water down it minimises the impact of high rain fall giving the wider water distribution system time to cope and reducing the risk of flash flooding.
The construction of a rain garden varies hugely in its complexity, with the absolute basic being the redirecting of a water down pipe into an adjacent border, to a sophisticated SuDS scheme with carefully calibrated water flow rates and control valves.
Within the domestic landscape, rain gardens can be used to manage the surface water which is created by rain falling onto roofs, patios and paths thus reducing the need to install often costly, underground drainage systems. This has the effect of also reducing the amount of water entering the sewerage network which often becomes overwhelmed during storm events and directly contributes towards the pollution of rivers and streams.
If the garden is expected to receive a high volume of water and is not expected to be able to soak away the full volume then a drainage system will still be required to remove the excess water.
Currently, plastic plant pots containing carbon black pigment are not widely accepted in kerbside collections, meaning many pots are sent to general waste, with landfill as a final destination. With an estimated 500 million plastic pots in circulation every year, the issue is far-reaching, and has contributed to a stigma around industry attitudes towards waste management and recycling.
Potback aims to minimise these issues by reducing the number of pots sent to landfill.
Potback facilitates the return of used Polypropylene (PP) plant pots to the Boningale Ltd site, where they are compacted and sent for recycling, guaranteed to avoid landfill. This streamlines waste management processes, encourages closed loop recycling and can be used as a marketing tool by clients.
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Boningale’s contract growing service enables clients to order specific plants to be grown for a nominated time to their specification. This is a tailored production order and is a cost-effective way to guarantee stock for when they are required.
This removes the need for substitutions and allows for even the most demanding specifications to be achieved, including that of more unusual items.