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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.

LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry

LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.

For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.

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Drainage expert in Kent

Hi All,

I have a client in Halstead Kent who has a surface water drainage issue on his lawn of circa 150sqm. Can anyone recommend a land drainage specialist company in Kent?

Rgds

Grant

Started by Grant Goldfinch in Info

1 Reply · Reply by Jim Davidson Feb 4, 2015

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Just recently I've noticed every time I drive past another local gardening firm they give you the evil eye so to speak, now at first I thought it must be my good looks made them feel a bit uncomfortable and jealous so when the evil eye is given I jus

Started by Harry@VWGS in Info

15 Replies · Reply by Harry@VWGS Feb 4, 2015

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I,m back after a short period away....

After a short period away from all online activity I'm back, just wanted to say hi to everyone and to those who don't know me I'm all about Eco wildlife friendly gardening, have i missed anything?

Started by Harry@VWGS in Info

7 Replies · Reply by Harry@VWGS Jan 31, 2015

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LJN member meet-up 9-13 February

As you (hopefully) already know, Progreen and LJN are running a Practical Pesticides roadshow from 9-13 February.

In previous years, when we've had meet-ups, we've had 2-3 hours of chat then some of us have stayed on for a meal. On this occasion we w

Started by Phil Voice in Info

8 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Jan 29, 2015

After a bit of wordpress help

So I am trying to build a wordpress website and have no idea, i have started playing around and all i seem to have is this. https://en.gravatar.com/landscaperexeter this aint wordpress anybody else get lost like this.

Started by Paving & Landscaping in Info

33 Replies · Reply by Jane Harries Jan 25, 2015

not think it be a great idea for a reviews section on this site?

could have lists of all the various manufacturers and models with a facility for members to leave reviews on them, would be very useful to be able to read some solid reviews from the guys on here whenever it comes to buying new equipment

Started by john doonan in Info

6 Replies · Reply by Landscape Juice Jan 21, 2015

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Are you receiving the LJN newsletter?

At 11.00am every Saturday morning - as long as I don't forget to set the timer, like last week;) - we send out a newsletter which includes all the hot topics of the previous week as well as news and information that we feel may be of use to you.

The

Started by Phil Voice in Info

2 Replies · Reply by Landscape Juice Jan 23, 2015

Landscaper sought in road rage assault

Essex police are the hunt for a man who appears to assault a cyclist after a video of the incident was posted on Youtube.

The original video - since removed - was posted to YouTube by DrMorocho shows the rider falling off after the van driver closes

Started by Landscape Juice in Info

41 Replies · Reply by James Brett Jan 17, 2015

Hi everyone!

Hi all, just registered as a member and wanted to say a quick hello.

Started by Danny Luff in Info

7 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Jan 16, 2015

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Very Annoyed Now

i am now feeling very annoyed after a brief conversation with phil voice regarding the pro s and con s of being a pro member just airing afew questions i had which phil answered for me

i have been out to the shop and come back to find my pro members

Started by philip shaw in Info

2 Replies · Reply by philip shaw Jan 14, 2015

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Landscape Juice - open all hours, helping its members

2014 has proved to be another strong year for LJN.

We had +881,000 visit from c568,000 visitors who read +2.4million pages.

In 2014, +500 new members joined.... maintaining a +700 new member average year-on-year since LJN started in 2008 (For informa

Started by Phil Voice in Info

7 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Feb 28, 2015

newbie to the site

Had a little look round the site and theres a lot of good reading so I signed up! Im based in rugby (west midlands) and have not long set up on my own which has been interesting. anyone on here local to rugby?

All the best, Conor.

Started by conor kane in Info

6 Replies · Reply by Darren Walters Jan 9, 2015

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Best wishes to Chris Harrop for a speedy recovery

I'm sad to report that Chris Harrop - director of marketing at Marshalls - has been diagnosed with cancer.

Chris told me "Unfortunately I will be out of action for a couple of months. I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia last week and have

Started by Phil Voice in Info

3 Replies · Reply by Steve London Stone Dec 27, 2014

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Wishing everyone a happy Christmas

I'm posting this in time for the weekend as I'm sure many of you will be drifting away, either on holiday or to be with loved ones at Christmas.

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Christmas, and probably more importantly, a prosperous, healt

Started by Phil Voice in Info

34 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Dec 31, 2014

LJN Page

Hi all anybody have problem loading L JN every time I sign into the new version everything freezes

never had problem before ????

Started by David Grimes in Info

2 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Dec 17, 2014

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NATS 24 - Air traffic visualisations above the UK

Something different for the weekend and not landscaping based :)

"Welcome to a typical day" - an amazing NATS video of what goes on above our heads in 24hrs, showing the challenge they have in controlling our airpace.

Given this afternoons techincal

Started by Gary RK in Info

1 Reply · Reply by Kieran Ray Dec 13, 2014

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Which front page layout?

LJN has two front pages. One page is visible to those logged-in and then there's a second front page to everyone else.

We're still getting used to the new LJN and I expect further changes going forward.

I'd like to get your thoughts on what you feel

Started by Phil Voice in Info

17 Replies · Reply by Ayegardening Ltd Dec 11, 2014

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Landscape Juice passes its 4,000th member milestone

Today's milestone of reaching and passing 4,000 members is quite an acquirement.

If 4,000 is achievable then why not 8,000? How many people are there really in our industry?

Started by Phil Voice in Info

8 Replies · Reply by Craig McGinty Dec 10, 2014

Explaining the LJN v3.0 Redesign

Hi all,

As the person responsible for implementing Phil's vision for LJN 3.0, I thought I'd chime in with a reply to some of the comments on the new site, most of which seem to be positive, but some of which are negative.

Phil has already mentioned

Started by Rich in Info

8 Replies · Reply by Phil Voice Jan 12, 2015

new site

its taken me 5 days to get on to the site it just kept freezing after about 5 seconds could not send a email to Phil in the end I had to delete it from my favourites and do a internet search for the site and reload it seams ok at the moment but h

Started by David Benson in Info

1 Reply · Reply by David Benson Dec 6, 2014

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