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Botanical Sexism and the Rise of Hay Fever

As an allergy sufferer, each year I find that my allergies are getting increasingly worse. I’m not the only person who is noticing worse allergies – relatives have also mentioned that they are feeling itchy-eyed and sniffly, people who have never had

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Stihl HLA85, Long reach trimmer.

I have been over the moon with this piece of kit.....until yesterday. It simply wouldnt go. I checked the grease as it hadn't been used for a while but that was fine. The gear moved when I manually rotated it. An hour later, it worked so I thought it

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Huge Ivy Removal

I've just been to look at a potential job that's approx an acre, of fully walled gardens with Ivy that's growing all around the 8ft perimeter wall that has been left for 20+ years. The Ivy is approx 18ft high and easily 8ft wide on the top of the wal

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Renovating Arbors with a massive wisteria, roses, jasmine and other climbers on them

See the pics below - most of the horizontals on this arbor have or are failing. My idea is to make up a temporary support and effectively jack the heavy wisteria trunks off the exisiting rotten horizontals and slide in a nice new piece of wood - it w

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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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Stihl HLA 86 needed.

Does anyone in either Surrey or West Sussex area know of any local machinery companies that have this in stock? My local dealer is out and they have no idea when they are coming back in, I have called around a few online dealers and although the webs

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Estimate for a planting scheme

Just had a quick search of the forum but couldn’t find anything.Estimating the cost of re-planting a border; I know people use a cost/m2. Anyone’s formula would be interesting. I know a line of busy-lizzies planted a foot apart will be different from

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Domestic ride on

hi can anyone recommend a ride on 

budget is £1500 will be used once a week on a 

1000 sqm lawn... mulch or side shoot........thanks

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How to Value a Landscaping Business.

To value a landscaping / garden maintenance business depends on the following:-

How much turnover there is (Revenue per annum) It usually has to be over £250,000pa to get serious buyers looking.

How much net profit is made. The norm for this sort of bu

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Will you or have you increased your rates post-covid to make up for lost revenue during the pandemic?

Alternatively, has your revenue decreased significantly during the pandemic, and how are you planning on redeeming it? 

Would be great to hear your opinions on this. 

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Hot weather Tips

🥵 another scorcher of a day and been drinking plenty of water and where possible working in the shade. Maybe a change in diet would be good when it's hot?

got a feeling the next van will have to be a lighter colour not dark grey !

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Construction Industry Scheme Private Gardens

HI there

We are a garden and landscape design company. All of our clients are private, apart from a couple of school gardens we've done. We design and construct all of our gardens, including all the hard landscaping. Our accountant thinks we should be

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Van Repair Day options ?

My van needs to go in for a mechanical repair and a small job doing but looking at Two days without it . 

If i take Two days off i lose earnings and it sets my schedule back 

If i hire a van for Two days its an extra expense and when added on to cost o

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Battery hedgecutter

I've had alot of trouble with  long reach battery hedgecutter husky 536 lihe3 , first year had to go back twice for loose wires , last year kept overheating in hot weather and now motor has gone and wires need replacing , after just 2 years and shell

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Stihl Cordless Mower RMA448TC

Evening AllI am looking at picking up one of these to run alongside my Izys. I use these for any of the jobs where access is difficult for the roller mowers, up steps, over walls etc. I wondered has anyone on here taken the leap. I already use much

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Mowing nose down

Evening, I've been mowing all day today, lovely dry weather. Hoping I can pass on a useful tip I got from here. In the past when mowing mossy or thick grass I've always lifted the front a little to give the mower some breathing space, but the grass b

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Smaller Cordless Mowers

I am considering a smaller, minimum 14 inch, cordless mower for the smaller lawns.  Has anyone found an alternative to Bosch ?  Anyone used the Viking ?

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Yorkshire fog

I started at a new property in April with a 600 m2 lawn full of moss and trying to restore to a croquet lawn. I've scarified and need to do again when the skies above allow. My issue at present is there is quite a bit of rogue Yorkshire fog and anoth

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Stihl strimmer running flat out

Replaced the carb as it's wasn't starting at all.   It now starts and runs, but runs absolutely flat out, no amount of adjusting does anything much at all. If you squeeze the throttle the power drops back a bit  almost like it's flooding, which it pr

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Starting your lawnmower

on Saturday I arrived at a customers house that I have been mowing his grass fortnightly for the last three years,when all of a sudden one of his neighbors came over and started having a go about me cutting the grass at 8 in the morning,I will just a

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