Mentions:
1: Bob Russell (LDEM - Colchester) I am told that the Royal Horticultural Society is the world’s largest gardening charity, with a growing - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) Friend’s boy scout gardening badge, which shows that we are never too old to learn a new skill. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) What measures are being taken to close down the use of peat for horticultural and gardening purposes? - Speech Link
2: Earl of Courtown (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I want to look at the relationship between peatlands and horticulture in the United Kingdom and the resultant - Speech Link
3: Lord De Mauley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Courtown spoke about the use of peat in horticulture. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Massey of Darwen (LAB - Life peer) bullying, drugs and alcohol and housing and environment. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) This point was made clearly my noble friend Lord Cormack.I suggest another area: the world of horticulture - Speech Link
3: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) I am delighted to tell my noble friend Lady Fookes that we have a gardening club, and I look forward - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Joan Walley (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent North) As we look forward to the summer, people’s minds will be on gardening and planting, and farmers’ minds - Speech Link
2: Neil Carmichael (CON - Stroud) It is important to recognise that all of us—I indulge in a spot of gardening myself, though I do not - Speech Link
3: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) I am pleased to learn from the report that many of the UK’s largest gardening retailers, including B& - Speech Link
4: Tom Harris (LAB - Glasgow South) The profound effects this will have on the future of horticulture, agriculture and the wider environment - Speech Link
5: David Heath (LDEM - Somerton and Frome) I cannot underline sufficiently how important pollinators are to agriculture and horticulture, so of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) We will introduce a ratings system for hospitals and care homes, and a single failure regime, and we - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) woodwind and strings; music for guitar and keyboard; and music for oratorio, ballet and film. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheeler (LAB - Life peer) be met, and will be ineffective and inoperable. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) on this matter.I was saddened to discover that the Department for Education has just downgraded the gardening - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) Over recent years we have watched designer gardening programmes on TV and lusted over exotic and large - Speech Link
2: Lord Judd (LAB - Life peer) We need to mobilise statutory and voluntary organisations and professional and volunteer personnel alike - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) time when so many of our tree species are under threat, when we increase risk by importing so much horticulture - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) Does she agree that design quality is crucial to functionality, value for money and well-being and that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Rawlings (CON - Life peer) I agree that CABE has helped to raise the standards of architecture and design in public building and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Rawlings (CON - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Tyler, touches on an important and topical point. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) In asking her to do so, I declare an interest as chair of the All-Party Group on Gardening and Horticulture - Speech Link