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What's your biggest garden design bugbear

Good morning everyone.  This week I'm working on a Q&A blogpost to be published later in the month. It will be about overcome difficulties with any aspect of garden design - long waiting times, complex relationships, hard-to-build designs, selling th

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Recommended online design course

I'm looking at moving into design. I have done a bit of design training when I did my hort level 3, but looking to further my knowledge and move the business in that direction.

I don't have the time and am too far away from any in person training, so

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Italian style garden

I've been asked to design an Italian garden for a lady who hails from Calabria in the south of Italy.

The plot is not very big and athough it has a view of the sea you would ordinarily have to stand on a chair to see it over a 6' fence (cannot be redu

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Landscape Gardening Business Management Software

Hello everyone, I’m Marc from Custom Quoter and have been talking to Henry, Gary and the team at LJN, He mentioned that there are often threads discussing landscapers/landscaping software.
We wanted to create this discussion to have some direct conta

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Design drawings - hand vs Sketchup

Hi all

I'm a design newbie and I wanted to ask your opinion. Do I need to learn how to hand draw site plans and surveys or would something like Sketchup or other software make hand drawn plans and surveys redundant. 

Thanks

Susan

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Pleached trees - London garden - rules

Hello,

I'm designing a garden in West London for a client who is very overlooked. One of the things I'm thinking of is a row of pleached trees. I've done a lot of research and if I have understood correctly if they are not evergreen this would not cou

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Ideas for privacy screening

A customer want to block the view that neighbours have into his garden and feel more private.

It will have to be 20metres long, 1 metre in from the boundary fence and screen at a height of 3metres to 4.5metres.

We have had discusions for artificial ivy

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Websites; how useful are they for businesses?

I have been self employed for nearly 9 years now and I have not yet got a website for my gardening maintenance business. Are they really needed these days and how effective are they to attract more business? I had a quick look and there appears to be

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Bark

Evening all,

 

just wondering if anybody has had any success using the bark app? Does it generate leads of any substance? I'm always wary of these things but you never know,

 

thanks in advance,

 

Ben 

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Sketchup tutorials

Evening all, I know there are loads out there so trying to save myself a bit of time - are there any recommended tutorials for using sketchup for garden design please.

Thanks, Glen. 

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Garden Design Software

I was wondering if anyone has any opinions about garden design software?  Good ones to go for?  Bad ones to avoid?  I am currently drawing freehand but would like to computerise the designs and hope that will make things easier.

I have done quite a bi

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Plant passports or plant provider certification/registration

 

Does anyone actually know what the new laws really mean for the gardener that buys a plant and plants it for a client ? 

It seems you will no longer be legally able to supply a plant and plant it for a client without registering on the defra / apha

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Fencing And Gates

Fencing is a technique to cover the surrounding nearby plants, crops or any other place to protect it from outsiders and animals. Fencing and gates can help a lot in covering the landscape. Also, it makes it look better and less open for others to vi

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3D garden design software search...

Hi All,

I've been using Realtime Landscaping Pro 2018 software for a few months now, and am discovering its limitations. In some ways it is really good, and great value for money. It falls down a bit with creating varying ground levels, but it is also

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