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Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.

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Hello

Just wanted to check in and say hi before my first post on here.
Hopefully I'm not going to pi** off too many full timers on here by saying that a good friend of mine and I are putting our jobs on the back burner to concentrate on my gardening work

Started by David Parker in Business

7 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Apr 9, 2014

New season busy or not?

With the majority of the bad weather hopefully now past
the new season kicking in
Is the work rolling in or not
with myself landscaping inquiries are slow and prices i seem to be up against are a little cut throat
on the other hand garden maintenance lot

Started by gary newton in Business

18 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Apr 9, 2014

advice please on expansion

Im a small domestic landscape business trading for just under 20yrs.I have 1 full time employee on the books and struggle each year to keep up with the work flow.we are currently booked up for about 3 months and the season has only just begunI have a

Started by Gareth Leek in Business

21 Replies · Reply by Gareth Leek Apr 11, 2014

A chance to highlight the issues affecting you and your business in your landscape

Taking a viewpoint that the most qualified persons to discuss their landscapes are landscapers (or Land Management Practitioners LMP's in policy talk), the LJN is part of a 3 year project towards identifying good land management practice. To this end

Started by Pip Howard in Business

2 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Apr 9, 2014

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Customer surveys

Does anyone ever carry our Customer surveys, if so how have you done it?

Started by Robbie in Business

3 Replies · Reply by Acacia Groundcare Hire Apr 4, 2014

Seaweed business opportunity

Hello,

I'm looking for business's who would be interested in selling seaweed meal and extracts to the amenity, horticultural and market garden industries. Wholesale and to end user.

I have recently bought a large quantity of seaweed from a Scottish Pro

Started by Matthew in Business

6 Replies · Reply by David Cox Jun 4, 2014

Gardeners Prices 2014

I'm setting up a gardening business later this year, having completed a college course and having great experience working in my families garden nursery. What are people charging for general maintenance (i.e. pruning, mowing, hedge cutting, small tre

Started by Tom Beevor in Business

6 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Mar 31, 2014

Taking card payments using iZettle from Santander

Morning all...
I have just seen that Santander are offering a card reader machine for taking payments to businesses on the move.

I am just curious to see if anyone uses this machine or if there is anything better / more user friendly or has a better p

Started by David Strong in Business

7 Replies · Reply by Matt Johnson Apr 1, 2014

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An extra hour to the working day as clocks go forward

I hope everyone remembered to put their clocks forward one hour last night?

We may have lost an hour in bed but at least we've gained an hour of gardening time in in the evening. That's, potentially, an extra 5 hours of profitability.

Do you take adv

Started by Phil Voice in Business

4 Replies · Reply by Geoff Norfolk Mar 31, 2014

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Landscape Juice Premium membership renewals

We have just started to send out renewal notifications for Premium Practitioner and Premium Supplier memberships.

If you have not received your renewal invoice then please watch out for it in the next week or two.

Members already on recurring payment

Started by Phil Voice in Business

2 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Mar 22, 2014

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what pidgeonhole do you site your business in ??

M.I.B Services pidgeonhole themselves as landscape maintenance contractors for the simple reason 99% of our work is commercial. However many of my customers still refer to us as a gardening company.

I always try to stress that we are not gardeners, we

Started by Brian www.mibservices.co.uk in Business

8 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 25, 2014

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The day I took on the tradesmen's guild

When Simon Read, The Independent's personal finance editor, hired a roofer to repair storm damage, he was shocked to see that half the bill consisted of travel time. So he wrote about it – and all hell was let loose

"I still wasn't convinced. A locks

Started by Phil Voice in Business

3 Replies · Reply by chris nangle Mar 18, 2014

how do you keep track

Hi im getting work coming in now and need a way of keeping on yop of where and when im working and how has payed or not .What is the best way to get control any help will be aprshatedGbanks craig

Started by Craig Spence And Hedges in Business

19 Replies · Reply by Danny M Cane Mar 19, 2014

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What would you do?

Just been to look at a garden that requires renovation of two wildly overgrown shrubs beds that are full of weeds.

The job is straight forward however the garden is covered in broken sofas and chairs, but more importantly COVERED in dogs mess to the p

Started by Simon Land in Business

36 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 17, 2014

Is client chatting in working time - 'working time' ?

Two of our guys spent a day at a job yesterday carrying out maintenance for a client, I was very surprised to then get a phone call accusing them of 'not working a full day'.

It later transpired that the woman assumed we had left early when she went t

Started by Andrew Baker in Business

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Is it time people changed their attitude towards gardeners?

I've published a guest post this morning from Stephen Titton.

"There can be few other industries, where the knowledge and skills needed to effectively carry out the job, and the resultant pay, are so disproportionate"

It's a passionate open plea from

Started by Phil Voice in Business

11 Replies · Reply by 1st Garden Maintenance Mar 17, 2014

Have you got more than one Limited Company

I would be interested to know if anyone has more than one limited company, for example one for Lawn Care, another for Landscaping, and perhaps another for Garden Maintenance.

Started by 1st Garden Maintenance in Business

7 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Mar 10, 2014

Garden designer insurance, public liability etc

Hi, I need to renew my insurance to trade as a garden designer and I also carry out planting etc. Can anybody recommend a good insurance company?

Thanks so much

Started by Karen McClure in Business

5 Replies · Reply by Jenny Bloom Mar 12, 2014

What does a gardener charge 2014

Thought it would be interesting where we are at now with prices

Started by chris in Business

4 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 9, 2014

Landscape Juice Network joins in call on government to slash refurb VAT to boost economy by £15 billion

A VAT reduction on housing renovation and repair could boost the UK economy by more than £15 billion from 2015 to 2020 according to a new independent research report by Experian.

This reduction could also create more than 95,000 jobs and save 240,000

Started by Landscape Juice in Business

9 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Mar 5, 2014

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