what - LJN Blog Posts - Landscape Juice Network2024-03-28T10:20:09Zhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/whatGrasses Move Into The Spotlighthttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/grasses-move-into-the-spotlight2012-08-26T20:00:00.000Z2012-08-26T20:00:00.000ZElspeth Briscoehttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/ElspethBriscoe<div><p>"The cold wet summer experienced in Western Europe this year doesn’t seem to have held back the flowering of the ornamental grasses in my garden. From now on until the end of autumn is when things really begin to get exciting here. Of course calamagrostis had been effective for months, but with panicums, molinias and finally my miscanthus coming into flower the garden is reaching its peak." - Speaks Michael King this week (co-author of Piet Oudolf). </p><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314147020?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3314147020?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="524" class="align-left" height="348"/></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Michael King is probably one of the world's foremost authorities on planting design with grasses. Michael lives in the Netherlands, but he is now holding four week online courses at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.my-garden-school.com" target="_blank">MyGardenSchool</a> teaching gardening enthusiasts, aspiring and professional garden designers, and practising landscapers all about the beauty of using different grasses for both form and function.</p><p>Here is a taster for the course (which includes a new video format). Bookings are now being taken for Sept 1st intake. You can learn more about the Designing With Grasses <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.my-garden-school.com/course/a-masterclass-in-garden-design-with-grasses/" target="_blank">Gardening Course</a> here.<object width="640" height="360" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VbuYpJfeteI?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="false"></param><embed wmode="opaque" width="640" height="360" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VbuYpJfeteI?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="false"></embed> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"></param></object></p></div>Garden supplier - Ever thought about using affiliates?https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/garden-supplier-ever-thought2010-12-22T02:53:10.000Z2010-12-22T02:53:10.000ZAttica Serviceshttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/AtticaServices<div><p>This post is about how to use affiliates to increase your online sales.</p><h3>What is an affiliate?</h3><p>An affiliate is somebody who will advertise your products or services via their marketing channel, such as a blog or website. The best thing about using affiliates, they only get paid a certain percentage if theygenerate a sale or lead. Also affiliates are responsible for their ownmarketing costs.<br/>Affiliate marketing is also another way of getting your brand out to themasses, which in turn generating traffics, sales or leads.</p><h3>What does a Affiliate Marketeer bring to the party?</h3><p>In short a affiliate marketeer brings sales, lead generation and traffic generation to the party. Also a good affiliate marketeer understands how to use <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.atsv.co.uk/blog/http:/www.atsv.co.uk/blog/category/social-networking/" target="_self">social networks</a>, have web designing skills, an<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.atsv.co.uk/blog/http:/www.atsv.co.uk/blog/email-marketing-database-management/" target="_self">email marketing database</a> and the ability to get your brand to the massesvery quickly.</p><p>Consider this, how much would it cost you to employ a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.atsv.co.uk" target="_self">web designer,</a> SEO specialist, an e-marketing specialist and a brand awarness specialist?</p><p>It would cost you a fortune, but this are the qualities you should be looking for in a affiliate marketeer and this are the skills an affiliate marketeer brings to the party as well as sales, traffic andlead generation.</p><h3>Where to find affiliates</h3><p>An affiliate network can be defined as an body that manages the affiliates and manages the companies looking for affilaites. In marketing terms an affiliate is also known as a advertiser and thecompany looking for affiliates is called the publisher.</p><p>The publisher will also pay a percentage of sales to the affiliate network, as well as to the affiliate / advertiser.</p><p>There are many affiliate networks out their, but the main ones are:<br/> Tradedoubler, Commission Junction, Buy at, Click Bank, Google merchant network. If you want to find more affiliate networks just Googleaffiliate networks</p><h3>Does Affiliate marketing work?</h3><p>In short, Affiliate marketing works. The way to justify the cost of affiliate marketing against other marketing channels is to go ask yourself this question -”How much would it cost me to employ a salesperson to be able to generate at least £100,000 plus sales and togenerate a e-mareting database of about 30,000 plus subscribers”.Another question you need to ask yourself -”How much would it cost me toget my brand out to the masses?”.</p><p>Considering most retail publishers pay affiliates between 3 to 5 % of sales generated and some publishers pay £50 per lead. This may seem a lot of money to pay somebody who is generating traffic, sales and leadsto your website, but again how much would it cost you to employ a salesperson to get the same or better results?</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.atsv.co.uk/blog/http:/www.atsv.co.uk/blog/category/affiliate-marketing/" target="_self">Visit Attica Services e-marketing blog</a></p></div>What is a Gardener?https://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-a-gardener2009-05-18T19:35:07.000Z2009-05-18T19:35:07.000ZAndrew Feredayhttps://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profil/AndrewFereday<div>What is a Gardener?While listening to GQT a couple of weeks ago, a question popped into my head which I couldn't answer: What is a gardener? We all think that we know what a gardener is but at that moment I couldn't give a good enough definition. Is a gardener a nurseryman? Sometimes. Is a gardener a landscaper? Sometimes. Is a gardener a designer? Sometimes. Is a gardener a labourer? Sometimes. Is a gardener a greenkeeper? Again, the answer is sometimes. None of this helps so I'd like to try to come do an adequate definition of what a gardener is.The definition of a gardener from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gardener">thefreedictionary.com</a> is:One who works in or tends a garden for pleasure or hire.This definition seems to be quite good at first but when we consider that this definition includes all the different roles already mentioned in my introductory paragraph (Nurseryman, Landscaper, Designer, Labourer and Greenkeeper), we see that it becomes less useful. All of these roles are legitimate careers in themselves and a gardener is sometimes expected to fulfil all of them, sometimes in the same day.In one of the gardens in which I work, I have carried out the following roles / tasks:Dry Stone WallingPond building / repairLawnmowing & lawn edging, general lawncareVegetable Growing & fruit plantingSoil improvingShrub, tree & perennial pruningBorder redesign & replantingWeeding - perennial weeds, annual weeds & pernicious weeds such as bindweedHedge cuttingCompost making & general waste management (shredding some waste, burning other waste)Propagation of (mainly perennial) plants from cuttings, seed & division.The list is not exhaustive but demonstrates the variety of tasks which fall under the gardening umbrella. Some of these tasks I have also sub-contracted on occasion, where it is easier and more cost-effective to have a specialist handle the job, e.g. seasonal routine lawn maintenance (feeding / weeding / mosskilling / aeration / scarification).In addition to all of these roles, I have the specific admin roles associated with running a small business - filing receipts and doing tax returns, sending out invoices, chasing payments and so on and so on. While these are a necessary part of running a gardening business, they are not explicitly involved in working in a garden so I will not try to include these in a definition.So what I am looking for in a definition of a gardener is something which includes all of these roles but still allows for the sub-contraction of some of the specialist roles. This way of defining a gardener excludes the specialists or those who concentrate on only one aspect of gardening. The definition needs to include all types of gardener; those who work in open or public gardens, large stately and historical gardens, and domestic gardens should be included in the definition, as well as those who work in their own gardens for pleasure (the 'keen amateur').Anyone who has ever worked in a garden, either their own or someone else's, will know that gardening is so much more than a list of individual separate and unrelated tasks. If we put all of the individual gardening tasks into the wider context of maintaining a garden, we can see them as steps or stages in the management of the garden as a whole; I believe this contextualisation of separate tasks into the overall management of a garden to be key to the definition of a gardener. So the definition of a gardener which I am proposing is as follows:<b>Gardener: One who is involved in the overall programme of management of a garden, for pleasure or hire.</b>In this definition, the gardener becomes an integrated part of the management of the garden, undertaking a variety of roles in the context of the garden's management. Furthermore, this definition allows for gardeners to be described as artists as the individual management style of the gardener will inform the final style of the garden. Just as the original definition from thefreedictionary.com made no reference to the style of gardening carried out in the garden, neither does this definition. The arguments for and against the gardener as an artist is a separate discussion which I will not attempt to address here. I'd like to try to address the subject of the gardener as an artist in another blog which I'll scribble together soon.</div>