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Does computer design significantly reduce plan production time?

Hi Guys,I wanted to hear from some of you guys who have moved from hand drawing to computer design for private garden please.Do you find that using computers significantly reduces plan production time if so at all?I design private gardens mainly and

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GROW London 20 - 22 Hampstead Heath

Some of you might remember me from when I helped Phil organise Creating Landscapes Trade Show a couple of years back.

I have recently been invited to help with the launch of a new Business to Consumer "Gardening" Show called GROW London.

www.growlondon

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Professional selective weed killers - question

Hi

I'm doing lots of overseeding at the moment, what's the best professional selective weed killer I can use after over seeding?

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jointing

Just wondered what you guys are using for this these days.Plain old mortar or is there a new kid on the block?Are there any good alternatives about that do what they're meant to do? I played around with pavefix about 8 yrs ago and had to replace near

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I am looking for a hands on Business Partner in Hard or Soft Landscaping

I am throwing this out to the community as I may have an opportunity for a forward thinking person with an interest in Hard and Soft Landscaping Design or Build, or even from a sales background or in estimating, to work alongside in my established bu

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Scarifying Dates

Just wondering what cut off dates most people use for spring scarifying.

Over the last couple of spring seasons we have had some quite hot and dry weather.

Because of this I've stopped scarifying quite early but think I'm perhaps being a little too cau

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A chance to highlight the issues affecting you and your business in your landscape

Taking a viewpoint that the most qualified persons to discuss their landscapes are landscapers (or Land Management Practitioners LMP's in policy talk), the LJN is part of a 3 year project towards identifying good land management practice. To this end

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Teacher who cut off wife's finger with a Flymo lawnmower during row is cleared of assault

Teacher who cut off wife's finger with a Flymo lawnmower during row is cleared of GBH as jury accept it was an accident

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2600968/Well-time-Tory-vice-chairman-Michael-Fabricant-sacked-tweeting-relief-r

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Post holes

Hi, anyone care to recommend make of spade for digging post holes?

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Happy Easter ? Traffic Chaos, Fine Weather or Snow ? Depends on your newspaper :-)

Interesting little round up of some of today's "lesser" news stories by the BBC :-)

Happy Easter? - Heavy traffic on the M1 according to Daily Star

Folk hoping to get away this Easter can look forward to a "traffic meltdown" amid "10 days of travel c

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Hedge cutting from a cherry picker

Hi, I've just had a discussion with a potential client about cutting trees & hedges from a cherry picker. What certificates would I need for this (if any).Phil

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Weather point 365

Hi, Has any one used Marshalls Weather point 365 on buff sawn paving?
we have 360sqm of 900 x 600mm x 25mm london stone sawn buff we pricing up the spec is to point in with 365 weather point. we would normal use a grout gunned into the joint.

Rob

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Experienced Landscaper/gardener required Montgomery Powys

Due to an increased workload we are looking for an experienced landscaper/gardener to join our business. The successful candidate MUST have a full clean drivers licence and a trailer licence would be an advantage.

The successful candidate must be ove

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Oak tannins

Hi folks,
I do like to use oak in my designs as it's a hardwood that isn't vastly expensive, plus our local suppliers source from Europe, mainly France, so we have lower miles traveled. But, we have the tannin issue!

So if we use it for edging we leave

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Mower servicing - Haynes manual for mowers? !!

I have a lawnflite pro 553HRS and a Hayter Harrier 41 and want to service the Hayter and I've got some work to do on the Lawnflite like change the pullcord (snapped) and other servicing. Is there somewhere I can download workshop manuals? Do such thi

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Hello

Just wanted to check in and say hi before my first post on here.
Hopefully I'm not going to pi** off too many full timers on here by saying that a good friend of mine and I are putting our jobs on the back burner to concentrate on my gardening work

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Trailer mesh?

Hi,I've got an 8x4 trailer that I use when I need a little extra space but at the moment it doesn't have any sides, only the two foot solid galvanised sides. I was going to add some posts and mesh sides. I've got the posts but I'm not sure on the siz

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Just how many hours do you work?

Hi All,

The title sums it up really, I'm on about 103 hours over a seven day period. I think it's paperwork that keeps my average up.

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New season busy or not?

With the majority of the bad weather hopefully now past
the new season kicking in
Is the work rolling in or not
with myself landscaping inquiries are slow and prices i seem to be up against are a little cut throat
on the other hand garden maintenance lot

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Monthly payments - How many visits do you base yours on?

Not sure if the title makes sense?

I am trying to persuade some of my customers to pay a pro-rata figure monthly, all year round. I know all customers and circumstances are different but would you say on average 20 visits for fortnightly and 40-42 for

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