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Preview: How to start and run a landscaping and gardening business

I've put together an ebook based on my near thirty year experience working in the landscape and horticulture industry.

How to start an run a landscaping and gardening business

The book's an amalgam of advisory posts I've published on Landscape Juice

Leylandii hedge - yea or nay?

 A customer wants a leylandii hedge planted at the bottom of his garden to screen off an unsightly perimeter that is made up of two other neighbours fences/ivy etc.  Its about 30 ft.  I have advised him about height - he insists he will keep it to ab

Happy Birthday to Kerry Jackson

Plant ID

Help - having a mental block - what is this? Client got it from her father in Birmingham who grows it under a twisted hazel.

IOG Saltex 2012

Its only a few months away now, who's going? who's showing?

If anyone on here hasnt been, you should check out the webs site as anyone in the grounds and gardens trade shouldnt miss it. Its more for machines but last year there was alot of creative co

Late season bedding plants - wet weather options

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for bedding plants for this time in the season - As many have pointed out - Petunias, Lobelia and Tagetes et al have all been decimated by the wet weather, if they have not drowned and rotted away in wate

FOR SALE: 1970 Morris Minor Traveller - Hen House - Great showpiece!

Hello everyone,

With a heavy heart, I am selling old Maurice, my old Hen House.

Available at the end of this month (July 2012) and thought I would give you all a heads up as I reckon it would make an eggcellent item to include in a show garden. (see wh

Promotions that have caught your attention?

Hi all,
I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that trade from our centre has been quieter than expected due to the extremely poor weather we've had this year and that we could do with some more business.

I'm looking for ways to maximise on a

How do you market your company?

Whilst the more general gardening service type of company will market their company in localised places, like shop windows, church magazines, local newspaper, their vehicle sign written and general word of mouth; how do the larger landscaping compani

Portable appliance testing (PAT) the facts

The following advisory has been issued by the Health and Safety Executive

Portable appliance testing is NOT compulsory - are you wasting time and money?

Unnecessary portable appliance tests cost office-based businesses an estimated £30 million a year

Netreach and other 'Brand Awareness' net marketing and branding services

I have two websites running for my business as well as two Yell.com adverts and have had a quite weak return on them so for this year. Lots of hits but few actual inquiries. Luckily the inquiries have been converted to gaining sites and contracts.

As

Improve your wet grass collection today!

Thanks to the great British summer this year, there is more grass to cut than ever - but it never stops raining!

Many complaining about not being able to mow lawns, I have only had to reschedule one cut (from yesterday to this morning) and yes, we hav

monGenie.com, whats this all about ????

Has anybody else noticed this monGenie is invading websites willy nilly. If I go to my website using google chrome its highlighting certain words, Ive noticed it on LJN also. I didnt invite it into my site so can anybody tell me whats the score with

Help Phil help Perrenial

Come on everyone, Lets help Phil to raise £10,000 for Perrenial - Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society,

He is making an epic journey from Bergerac in France to John O'Groats on an Etesia Ride on lawn mower, and with the british weather as it is at the m

New mower - advice needed

Hi
The clutch on my  John Deere JX85 broke last week (£103 for new part). It is starting to develop a few other problems too so I've decided to buy a new mower.

I have a shortlist:

Viking MB755KS
John Deere JX90CB
Toro 22189TE Hi Vac

There was also a 4th c

Transplanting palm trees

Hi...Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about transplanting palm trees?  Bearing in mind I'm thinking of 5-6ft ones which were planted about 5 years ago.... here in Yorkshire.

Thanks, Melissa

hide pond liner and pump housing

I have been asked if I can hide the plastic pond liner that rises out of the water either side of a pre manufactured slate effect waterfall , is there such thing as stone on a roll?

I would also like to hide the plastic housing for the pump that stand

Trade shows

What is the best landscape show to attend for suppliers to the trade?  We are currently considering Glee, EcoBuild, The Landscape Show and Malvern Shows.  Would appreciate any feedback!

Rain Pain

Anybody else out there struggling with the ridiculous amount of rain over the last 6 weeks?Grass growing like wildfire,yet unable to use ride ons because ground so sodden tyre tracks become problem,yet walk behind mowers struggling to cope (etesias a

Bergerac to John O'Groats on an Etesia mower for charity

The secret is out.

I'm pleased to say that we have just launched the LJN Mowerthon in aid of Perennial.

I am going to drive an Etesia commercial mower from my home near Bergerac, south west France all the way to John O'Groats (close Rowly :) to rai