This year, a new medal is being awarded at RHS Chelsea Flower Show that recognises the role landscape contractors and their teams play in the realisation of a show garden. There will be one Best Construction Award, and it will be made from a shortlis
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Local landscaping firm Aura Landscapes have proved they really are the best in their field, after winning three awards at the Regional Marshalls Register Awards, taking their award total to fifteen.
Leading hard landscaping manufacturer Marshalls plc
Congratulations to N.T. Killingley Ltd who secured a well deserved accolade at the BALI Awards for their amazing landscape design at Uppingham School Science Block in Rutland.
Completed in 2014, the project at Uppingham School earned the company the p
London, UK, 16th June – Aye and Susan Naing, Founders and owners of Ayegardening receive a coveted retweet from Dragon’s Den entrepreneur, Theo Paphitis. Ayegardening is a family run company who provide garden and landscaping services in Surrey and W
Chris Harrop, Marshalls’ group marketing director, responsible for sustainability, has been awarded a prestigious BITC’s Game Changer accolade.
In this its 30th year of campaigning on responsible business issues, BITC has launched a one-off Game Chan
Staff at a Mansfield landscaping firm are celebrating after winning a regional award for their hard work.
Weedfree Landscapes Ltd, based on Westfield Lane, are well-known landscape and grounds specialists which have been serving the Mansfield distric
Customer Testimonials - Success Story Part One
Here at Abel Landscaping we believe good customer service is key to running a successful business. Many of our customers were willing to give testimonials to tell other customers about their experience w
The RHS Show - Tatton Park
This year we alaso won a gold award by working along side landscape designer Sue Beeseley at Bluebell cottage gardens. Sue has designed this garden to highlight some of the finest and most graceful ea
The Respiratory Educational Garden
The Respiratory Education Uk Garden - Bronze Award
Sally Parkinson at Gardens and Spaces designed this garden to raise awareness of respiratory disease in the Northwest. Her design inco
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
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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.
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"I've been looking for a pair of sky hooks for ages."
"Thanks Clive. I have emailed them but understand from our usual dealer that Echo aren't bringing this model to the UK, something to do with CE compliance? Strange when it's available in the States. "
"Which company did you get your bargain from as I'm in the same position as others. The irony it would be for my own hedge and not clients. Cheers all "
"Hi contact FGM claymore,of bidford on Avon they are the UK importers and should be able to help"
"Here's a tip cheaper than hire. Go to a main distributor of them. Any which have been returned due to fault are either scrapped or sold cheap I got a 12ft tripod with extendable feet for £50 the only damage I could find was a rub on the aluminium…"
"It is ten years since I bought the rack for my Nissan NV200 van, at that time a local firm were moving into a unit at Malvern and the rack I wanted is one big rack of welded construction, galvanised after assembly and with a roller across the back…"
Looking for a bit of help re roof racks. Current van is the new shape Peugeot Expert. I use the van a fair bit out of work too and often have to go under those 2m high barriers at places.
Without a roof rack the van just about fits under them. Does…
Without a roof rack the van just about fits under them. Does…
"ive been doing it 20+years and I do say 5 in that Friday , all on route . So £175 say for 6.5hrs total Inc 40 mins travel, plus loading and unloading 30mins. Fuels £10? Inc mower fuel.
Paid that day or the next by transfer "
Paid that day or the next by transfer "
"To put it simply I charge £35.00 per visit on an average! Estate garden. Mow, strim and blow everywhere well and tidy. Pro mowers, insured and reliable. Up to 1 HR max. In North Shropshire. That's regular fortnightly mowing flat tidy lawns…"
The rise of battery-powered machinery has impressed Richard Dexter, Head of Grounds and Gardens at Oakham School, but he believes “Dennis Mowers has gone one step further and made it even better.” Oakham School, based in Rutland, East Midlands, is a…
A range of Pellenc battery-powered equipment is helping to maintain the grounds at one of Scotland’s grandest mansions.Marchmont House is a ‘Grade A’ listed Palladian mansion in Berwickshire built in 1750 by Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of…
We were delighted to welcome 300 people in person for our first full RTM Show Live since 2019! Brackwell Farm was once again alive with the hum of conversation and machinery as guests took advantage of the opportunity to talk with over 30…
"Absolutely right Rob! Love the website by the way. Fantastic work!"
"Been here in the past... make sure the client is up for the bill beore you discover a nightmare."
"Strangely enough, that's one of the items that's always on our "shall we, shan't we" list. They look so useful and sensible, but we had two of them about 20 years ago and nobody hired them. Just a bit reluctant to invest in them only to find the…"
Roof Rack Query
Looking for a bit of help re roof racks. Current van is the new shape Peugeot Expert. I use the van a fair bit out of work too and often have to go under those 2m high barriers at places. Without a roof rack the van just about fits under them. Does…
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Echo PB 9010T
We currently use the Echo PB 8010 blowers, awesome machines. Seen that Echo have now bought out the PB 9010T which has more power , 48 Newtons as opposed to 44 Newtons with the 8010.Struggling to find any in the UK anyone know of any dealers…
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Equipment you would like to rent, but can't find
What items of equipment have you tried to rent but either had difficulty finding them or maybe not managed to find them at all? Here are a few examples:Power Rake (for soil preparation)Power ScythePowered HayrakePowered Soil SieveFence Post Driver
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Winter gritting
Hi look for some advise on pricing winter gritting services. I have a lot of experience in gritting just looking at offering the service for myself. thanks for your help
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