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What to do with an oversized Cherry Laurel?

I have recently taken on a garden with two massive cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). They are approximately 8m tall and have 2-3 main trunks each.
Client keen to retain them to keep privacy, but they are so dominating and its a dark…

Re-edging with wood along a curved gravel path

Ideas, comments etc welcome....

A curved, stream-side path originally edged using wood planks and wooden stakes, ‘containing’ a compacted gravel path.

Since created (many, many years ago) the wood edging has rotted and is…

Green Waste Charges

Hi All

I've had a look at the forums with regards to charges for removal of green waste, and feel the commercial tipping charge is around £120 per tonne? That's the same as for builders waste that goes to landfill? I assume ours…

Lawn Aeration

Aerating your lawn annually is an important part of a healthy lawn care program. Using a machine, we remove cores of soil from the turf. This reduces…

ideal fencing protection to keep large dog in garden.

Someone I know has a large dog that likes to jump over their current fence and get into the adjoining fields  that they also own.

Currently there is a  rather useless plastic coated wire mesh fence with wooden posts that stands about  1…

Gravel grids

I need to fit gravel grids on a job i'm doing.

Been looking around and came across Nidagravel

https://www.nidagraveluk.co.uk

Big size units with membrane already…

Fence Aftercare

Hi all

just wondering what after care people suggest/offer customers for closeboard and panel fences, along the lines of staining/treating the timber to prolong life?

Josh

Chelsea Flower Show 2019....did you go, what did you think?

Did any Juicers go to the Chelsea Flower Show this year?

If so, what did you think?

Did any design/garden stand out as being exciting or new in concept or did you think the format is a continuation of previous years?

Feel…

Turfing cost - opinions

Hello everyone.

First time poster here.

Just looking to get some opinions on a job I'm quoting in S E London.  Basically it's a massive lawn.  1200m2.  I'd normally charge £15 per m2 for anything over 80 bits.  This brings the quote…

Wolf Garten Scarifier petrol

• Would any one be interested in my Scarifier before I list it on Ebay? Only selling as I just don't use it cracking little machine with a Kawasaki engine ! Tel 07926544102 …

Advice - moving a large olive tree

Morning All, after some advice on a project we're working on. 

Customer has ordered a large olive tree on a garden we have designed and are in the process of implementing.  The tree will be delivered in a pot on a pallet and needs to be…

Planting a box hedge

Just wondered what those here would reccommend as the best  shrub for hedging a relatively small perimeter  at the front of a house. Around 12 metres in  total, with s mall and neat leaves.

Is boxwood the best choice for…