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 months and more so years so do our tools and equipment.....Personally I cant treat any plant that requires the "get rid of it" treatment by our new client, so me being me, I have numerous display gardens in garden centres, landscaping / builders merchants, rural pubs, friends .... that I can give the plants a new home instead of the skip..every ones happy.Every so often I'll design a piece of work for a client who will allow me to create around the waste given to me by other clients, its surprising how much is given over the months, its never masses as the quantities are prepared well, these clients who allow me to use others waste are fully aware of this from the outset andthis factor is very much reflected when the quotation is issued... every ones happy.Do other LJN members hoard like I do or do you not have the room to keep your clients waste.... hoarding can become expensive if you don't turn it around. Happy hoarding juicers.MacGyverisms Garden:

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Jason Felstead September 15, 2010 at 10:18pm

Yep, i tend to recycle plants and materials with clients, of which most are happy with, i dont see the point in throwing stuff away when it can quite easily be used elsewhere. Same goes with turf, if we have any left over, instead of throwing it away we will use it in another garden where it would be of use.
Jackson's Landscape Design September 15, 2010 at 10:44pm

Small bottles here, yes

My next project Im lighting up below a sleeper seat with leds, Ive a trailer full just waiting to be dunked in the water butts for a day and de labled, cold hands for the day...

Wkd are the worst to peel.........;)
David Cox September 15, 2010 at 10:48pm

On the whole we manage to re-home most plants - so far best being a lovely rambling rose which had "ruined" a leylandii hedge by traveling along it. Now nicely at home in another hedge!
As for Hard landscaping materials - we tend to give spare material away as it tends to be 2x2 and 3x2 slabs.
Dan Pearce September 16, 2010 at 8:42am

Un wanted plants are great. I have a bit of space where I store them and give a bit of tender loving care to get them back into shape.
Once happy with them they either go into another clients garden, or get saved for a charity garden we are planting up at a local Age Concern building early next year.
Jackson's Landscape Design September 16, 2010 at 7:05pm

Look at the state of what I had to face at 7.00am this morning, very poor indeed, still, my fault for allowing it to happen, no more, Iam in transition between one project and another so alot of tools will be carted off tomorrow.

Terrible state:
Jason Felstead September 16, 2010 at 7:09pm

Yep looks like you may need to hire a maid
Jackson's Landscape Design September 16, 2010 at 7:19pm

Both lock ups are now racked out with pallets and scaffold boards down both sides with an gang way down the centre just wide enough for a mixer...