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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.

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liquids or granular?

i only have used liquids now in knapsack for 3 + years and am very happy with application & results . ( as are all my clients).

what do you use now as a licensed operator? or what do you clients prefer in 2014?

Started by Lawncare-4u.co.uk

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Park Users Could Be Asked To Pay By Councils

Sky News are reporing that "Britain's parks and green spaces are "on the edge of a precipice" because of funding cuts, says the Heritage Lottery Fund".

One solution being considered is to charge 'Users'.

"A £700m cash boost in the mid 1990s from lott

Started by Gary RK

6 Replies · Reply by Acacia Groundcare Hire Jul 3, 2014

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Landscaping waste - UK recycling sites taking green and general waste (interactive map)

Please add details of your local waste site(s) to the LJN interactive Google map.

If enough people get involved then we can build a resource to help all who generate and/or handle waste from landscaping projects or garden maintenance sites.

Click her

Started by Phil Voice in Waste

119 Replies · Reply by Eddie Lewis Mar 19, 2019

I am new here and I would like to you know what fellow gardeners/landscapers do with there rubbish they produce as I am really struggling to find an answer for this. I have phoned a number of local waste companies, prices ranging from 110+v

Started by Craig Lester in Waste

15 Replies · Reply by Peter beddoes Mar 17, 2015

Sedum roofing

As of tomorrow I may have some sedum roofing left over from a job, Is there anyone on here that would like it? It should be about 40 rolls or so. looking for £10 a m2 roll.

We are based in Milton Keynes, but the job is in London so if your on or near

Started by Kieran Ray in Marketing

1 Reply · Reply by Kieran Ray Jan 27, 2014

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The Rise, Acquistion, Fall & Divorce of US's largest Lawn Care Company

A real interesting read about Tru Green Lawn Care in the US. It is staggering the size this company grew to and then appears to have lost it focus to the extent is has recently been sold back into 'private' ownership. The Question is; Can it regain i

Started by Gary RK

5 Replies · Reply by Colin Hunt Dec 11, 2015

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Council green waste bins and council tax

The local council in my area (Selby District Council) are considering implementing a charge of £82 per year for the green waste collections that are currently paid for as part of householders council tax. The theory behind this being that the council

Started by Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance in Waste

10 Replies · Reply by Austin Powell-Allen Mar 21, 2013

Green roof company needed

Hi there

I have a new project and am looking for some advice from a specialist green roof company. Could anyone make a recommendation please?

Many thanks

John

Started by John Davies

8 Replies · Reply by Evergreen Roof Gardens Jul 26, 2012

The Friday debate: is gardening more important than politics?

Did you read that?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2012

found it stupidly funny.

What do you think.

Started by Ofer El-hashahar

10 Replies · Reply by Christopher Ray Jan 8, 2012

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Green technology

In these days when fuel / energy is forever increasing in cost, do you as a business pursue lower energy cost alternatives?

I came across this product , a solar powered water butt pump

RB280-101
RainPerfect Solar Powered Rain Barrel Pump System
The Rai

Started by Geoffrey King in Weather

4 Replies · Reply by Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance Oct 9, 2011

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Bad lawn

We laid a lawn 4 months ago for a client, using a regular turf supplier. The area (circa 100sqm) that the lawn was laid on was dug over with a digger a couple of weeks before the lawn was laid and

2 lorry loads of topsoil was bought in and raked over

Started by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc in Turfcare

10 Replies · Reply by Daniel Gillings @ DC inc Oct 3, 2011

Green-tree Top Soil Preview Morning - Dewsbury 25th March

Over the past 7 years the Green-tree top soil name has grown from strength to strength becoming a leading brand of manufactured top soil within the industry. The last twelve months have been an exciting time for the business and with that in mind th

Started by Green-tech

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World's first green wall centre

The world's first green wall centre is being set up in north London by Watermatic. Treebox is among the major greenwall specialists there, and will be showing their system, the Easiwall Pro. The centre will provide the opportunity to compare water us

Started by Gillian Bond

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Your clients Landscaping and Garden waste.

The whole concept of waste and I will never see eye to eye.Tomorrow I need to spend the day at my lock up's clearing out and basically re stacking and a manual scan at what is being held in the containers.... as our businesses grow over the course of

Started by Jackson's Landscape Design

7 Replies · Reply by Jackson's Landscape Design Sep 16, 2010

Spider invasion in van

basically from carrying around bags of tree / hedge cuttings over the past month or so my van has been overtaken by spiders. the cab is a mass of webs and it doesn't seem to make any difference how many spiders i swat away by hand so i'm basically lo

Started by Steven Crocker

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Where is Wally? Garden Beet's Find Woolly Pockets at RHS Chelsea Flower Show Challenge 2010

Garden Beet has been busy building some vertical gardens at RHS Chelsea. Above are works in progress. Take a look behind the plants. You will see the robust felted fabric that has been simply secured to the wall with 2 fixings per pocket. Soil insert

Started by Felicity Waters

3 Replies · Reply by Michael Parmar May 23, 2010

Green Office Week Starts 26th April 2010

Green Office Week starts this week, encouraging people to take a fresh look at their office space and how they can make it more green. So, I thought we could use this discussion to share tips on making a greener office.Find out more about Green Offic

Started by Laura @ eFIG

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Artificial grass installers

HI all I was just wondering who on LJN installs artificial grass?Also I was wondering what areas you cover and what supplier you use. Maybe people will find this thread and use it to contact us.Ouzel Landscapes will cover all of Bedfordshire, Hertfor

Started by Kieran Ray

7 Replies · Reply by Classic Gardens Apr 5, 2010

disposing of green waste

All our green waste is biodegradable and will compost down into nutrient rich material, – so it is not waste at all - but actually a valuable commodity to us and I don't think that as good gardeners or landscapers that we should be throwing it away b

Started by pete in Waste

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Lawn Franchise moves into small-scale commercial lawn care contracts

Did any one read the news last week that Tru Green have decided to go after small-scale commercial lawn care contracts by recruiting more ex-groundsman/greenkeepers in 2010 following the appointment of the ex-Wembley groundsman - Steve Welch (he who

Started by Gary RK

2 Replies · Reply by Classic Gardens Feb 17, 2010

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