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STIHL BR800C

STIHL BR800C The crankshaft broke at the fan wheel. I am trying to see if anyone else has had or seen this issue. I have called Stihl customer service August 27th & September 3rd with them guaranteeing a call back in 5 business days each tim

Started by Thomas Bed in Design

4 Replies · Reply by Sam Bainbridge Sep 14, 2024

3D Garden Design Renders or Animations

I'm looking to improve my 3D renders of gardens and ideally have the plants in the 3d model (I currently add the planting afterwards in photoshop). What programs are people using with a decent plant library and/or where can you find good 3d plants?

Started by Francesca Sideris in Design

1 Reply · Reply by David from 3DG Jul 31, 2024

Turfing prep joining existing lawn

Hi, I’m new to the site, I have just finished day 1 of prepping for a 210sqm turfing job. The client had the rear half of his garden sectioned off for sheep who subsequently ate all of the lawn, left a pile of poo and died.The garden level was destro

Started by Tom chapman in Design, Groundscare, and Landscaping

13 Replies · Reply by Honey Badger Mar 12, 2023

Living wall

Morning everyone.

One of our high end clients has a property that has a living wall, the wall was poorly maintained by the developer and it all needs replacing, with 500 plants which need to be 9cm pots. I'm thinking thymes, oregangos, ajugas, sedums

Started by Oliver clarkson in Design and Plants

10 Replies · Reply by Oliver clarkson Apr 6, 2023

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

Started by My Garden Design in Design

20 Replies · Reply by My Garden Design Sep 20, 2022

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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

Started by Ben Mallow in Design

4 Replies · Reply by Paul Doyle Aug 24, 2021

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

Started by Rachel Bould in Design, Landscaping, and Plants

13 Replies · Reply by Kris Baker Sep 30, 2021

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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

Started by marc mazure in Design, Accountancy, and Health and Safety

28 Replies · Reply by marc mazure Aug 11, 2022

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

Started by Susan Lynn in Design

5 Replies · Reply by Rigsby May 21, 2021

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

Started by Sally Perigo in Design

7 Replies · Reply by Tim Bucknall May 11, 2022

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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

Started by Andrew jones in Design

29 Replies

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

Started by Andrew Midgley in Design, Business, and Marketing

46 Replies · Reply by Duncan Hillman Apr 17, 2023

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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

Started by Ben Gooding in Design, Business, and Groundscare

10 Replies · Reply by 1st Garden Maintenance Mar 4, 2021

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.

Started by Glen Stillman in Design

3 Replies · Reply by Glen Stillman Nov 23, 2020

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

Started by Louisa Spice in Design

6 Replies · Reply by Louisa Spice May 24, 2021

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