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Compacted raised bed

One of my clients wants to smarten up this bed. It has a retaining wall which is about a foot high and is natural stone. So the facing retaining wall could look quite nice once the moss and weeds have been cleaned up - I'm thinking a stiff brush woul

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I need a machine to....

A large (5 acre) garden we look after has had flood lights installed professionally...catch is all the armoured cable has been left on the surface, "for the gardener's to bury where they want"....   So I guess that means us 😞.

Can any of you think of

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'Brits Spend £26 Billion On Pandemic Outdoor Rooms'

The pandemic saw some serious invesment by brits into their outdoor living spaces - 47% of house holds are reported to have invested in some kind of garden improvement. The question is, has the pandemic boom subsided or are you as landscapers and hom

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Smallest chipper shredder with feed rollers?

Title says it all.

Around fifteen years ago I bought a fairly robust looking electric garden shredder and it just blocked up with most stuff, so I have not actually used it much. 

A small semi-pro machine seems desirable, but I really would not conside

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Suggest Some Privacy Trees For The Yard

 I live in a noisy urban area due to which there are continuous noisy sounds which we can hear. Our neighbors have planted privacy tall hedges to block those disturbing noises. I have confusion that are privacy trees able to block the noises? If yes,

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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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Taking waste away.

Morning everyone hope everyone is doin good. I've been asked by a potential customer if I can take the waste away as they don't have a garden bin. This is something  generally I don't do. The waste is going to be from maintenance visits so majority o

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Landscape Showroom

Hi all, 

I have recently joined LJN and thought I would put a quick post on here about my new business. 

I have just opened a Landscape Showroom and Products Shop in Newmarket, Suffolk. We have 4 indoor display gardens, composite decking display, art

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Painting Fences ?

What is regarded as the best fence paint brand to paint or stain a new tannalised timber fence please ? Blue or Grey is the customers preffered choice of colour . 

Thanks .

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Fence Post Failure - Has It Happened to You?

As a producer of long life fencing products, we're always interested to hear about peoples experiences using timber fence posts. We're seeing more and more fence post failures from unprotected timber and the damaging effects it can have on peoples re

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How to construct a curvy wall...

Hello everyone,

I have a design client who wants to have a low wall to edge my curvy planting border.  It would be white rendered - he's keen on mosaic on it like Gaudi - see picture below.  I said that in concrete it would cost a lot - is that right?

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Gate Sag ,Turnbuckle kits . ?

A customer has a joiner made wooden gate , problem is it keeps warping when it gets wet and overlapping by 6mm on the closing post , also binding on the hinge side post . 

customer has asked for the overlap smoothing off but i have explained when the

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Neglected Alley

Hoping i can describe this without photo 

A client has asked for Two estimates 

1 to weed two 16 metre strips of land  ( 16 metres long x 6 inches wide ) l on both sides of an alley between properties which forms the back entrances to the properties . 

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Drainage behind a small property

Hi there, I've done a lot of research and still stumped. I want to create more drainage at the rear of a small chalet ... Problem is, if we put pipes in (French Drain), there is nowhere for the pipe to direct the water as we're in a 'row' of chalets.

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self seeding annuals

I have a customer who is determined to have borders and beds filled with self seeding annuals . Owing to the exposed postion of the garden in relation to neighbours gardens i can see potential problems arising they will not go unnoticed . 

No problem

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