BTME was a roaring success and everyone left Harrogate with a spring in their step anticipating the new season with relish. Alas, the weather has been playing its part again in spoiling thoughts we had of an early start to the season. Here Alan Abel
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Registration opens today to find new design ideas for London’s Royal Docks. The Landscape Institute and Ecobuild, with support from the Mayor of London and London Borough of Newham, have launched ‘The Royal Docks Ideas Competition’ to find innovative
we are about to open our first trade counter based in sheffield, designed to supply wet and dry gravels,slates pebbles,paving sealers and joint compounds to the landscape contractors in the region.
the trade counter is designed to help the small lands
For many years resin bound surfacing has been the choice for historic sites and country houses ,because of its hard wearing nature, its lack of loose stones and its distinctive gravel texture.
It is now making its mark in the urban landscape,as counci
Resin bonded aggregates can be installed over any hard surface ideally tarmac or concrete,installing over block paving, slabs or crazy paving may lead to cracking.
Initially any cracks or small holes must be repaired using a expoxy mortar,then the su
As the market place for resin surfacing grows,more architects specifiers,landscape designers and achitects,builders and domestic householders are rethinking there ideas on decorative surfaces.
Resin bonded and bound surfacings are popular because of t
People create green roofs or roof gardens for many different reasons,ecological,asethical.but maiinly sustainability.
Although your investment is initially high,a green roof will pay for itself long term with lower roof maintenace costs and a saving i
Surrey based designer Selina Botham won RHS Gold and Best in Show for her first ever Show garden at Hampton Court 2008.
Selina Botham designed the garden for Widex to celebrate sound in the garden. Planting was used to illustrated a soft whispe
The Landscape Juice Network (LJN)
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LJN is an open association of individuals and companies involved in landscaping, garden maintenance, horticulture and garden design.
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As Blue Monday is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to give a small reminder to our community here on Landscape Juice to remember to tell people about your worries and if you’re having negative thoughts. Talking about emotions…
Britmow weren’t aware how much of an impact attending a trade show would have on their future endeavours. In the run up to their 50th anniversary, they were exploring ideas of how to celebrate. It’s only when they met Kate Cooney from…
“Gardening programmes tend to be very ‘traditional’ white middle-class in their attitude towards gardening”, Julia Sargeant said in an interview after she won gold at Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. She was the first black gardener to design…
A carefully-planned turf nutrition and treatment programme utilising three key Sherriff Amenity products has produced a sustained rise in the health, condition and playing standard of greens at the Milford Golf Club in Surrey.
The programme…
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"All sounds rather cruel to set dogs on them........... I know people will say "they're only rats" but setting dogs on them does seem a bit barbaric. "
As some of you will have read our previous posts on us revamping our tool kits, thought it may benefit others by mentioning Halfords Trade Card which gives varying discounts on everything. You don't know how much until you get to the till but have…
"Thanks Tim, appreciate your comments, with the Mankar sprayer you don't have to use their chemicals but the initial outlay is considerable. Will have to weigh up my options! "
"I am involved with ratting where i venture out with teams of dog owners and their dogs in exeterminating rats. I am also an air gun user where we mainly concentrate on rats in all varied types of properties including commercial and industrial.
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"I'm amazed this is a serious question. Just grab some from arco "
"We prefer multiple smaller gardens with several on the same road where possible. We find it's much easier to earn the target £1 per minute on smaller gardens than on ones that take hours to do. Plus, by having 2/3 on each road, your travel is…"
The Retreats Group, which encompasses three of the leading luxury hotels in Wales—Twr y Felin Hotel, Roch Castle, and Penrhiw Priory—has always been dedicated to maintaining immaculate grounds that reflect the beauty of its locations.For Ollie…
"I've tried something similar in the past. That was very expensive to operate as you had to buy their own formulation, whereas at least this looks like you can use standard roundup in it: but I found the other main downsides were 1) the narrow swath…"
Hi there, I was looking into how we can save a bit of time on our maintenance contracts. We use glyphosate to treat weeds around paved and gravelled areas. Setting up the sprayer and mixing chemicals takes time and takes up space in the van. Have…
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"Again only seen these connected to helmets, but I'm guessing they can be bought as a single piece to use without a helmet, will look into these and the full face ones mentioned above"
Halfords Trade Card
As some of you will have read our previous posts on us revamping our tool kits, thought it may benefit others by mentioning Halfords Trade Card which gives varying discounts on everything. You don't know how much until you get to the till but have…
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Mankar HQ Sprayer no mix sprayer
Hi there, I was looking into how we can save a bit of time on our maintenance contracts. We use glyphosate to treat weeds around paved and gravelled areas. Setting up the sprayer and mixing chemicals takes time and takes up space in the van. Have…
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Lawn cut prices 2025
Good evening allI operate as a sole trader and throughout the cutting season I use an alternate week on/week off diary to provide fortnightly lawn cuts so that I can utilise the off week for one of jobs and small landscaping projects.i have been…
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Salt spreader for sale
Surplus to requirements -as new (used twice).Matterhorn pedestrian salt speader from Gritex. Unlike many salt spreaders advertised these do work properly and will handle damp salt, spreads up to 3mt and holds 25 kg plus, variable output settings.…
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