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.
The programme…
Studies report that burglary is one of the most emotionally impactful crimes to be a victim of. The prevention of being succumbed to it is always at the back of our minds – is anything on show? Are all the windows closed? Did you definitely lock…
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"Hi, your choice of course but personally i wouldnt, public sector workers have a secure job, regular wage and a pension to come which is more than a lot of people have. I have never ripped anyone off or overcharged, in fact I reckon i have worked…"
"It was here in the Chilterns too with all the beech, and then the buggers started dropping their leaves! "
"As for Ken saying this is 'scaremongering' I can tell you from personal experiance having the rona startting on April 6th, lasting for about 10 days, not hospitalized or very ill, just feeling shit. Almost EIGHT months later I am still suffering…"
"I have 'seasonal' cards which I have had designed showing my hatred of the season & the C word. I prefer to call it crapmas. My cards always go down well with all clients, the last one depicted a fat man in a red suit getting blown up as he was…"
"It has been a great autumn for autumnal colours down here in Devon. "
"I always wear safety boots and can't see the point in not there is plenty of choice available, styles and price. You don't pay VAT on saftey equipment so its a no brainer. Building sites often insist on 5 point PPE which may seem over the top but…"
"Always, my first boss drummed it into me and you had to wear them at hort college so it has stuck with me, all employees have to follow suit....."
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This Autumn, I have been taking trips out of the city to some beautiful rural places in Manchester, and the colour-show of leaves has been amazing. I sometimes dread autumn, as it connotes the transition into winter, but I must admit that when it is…
"My sentiments exactly, put better than I ever could.
Thanks Vic."
Thanks Vic."
"I was actually surprised that this is even up for debate. Safety boots are an absolute basic essential. If an employee arrived at work without their safety boots they wouldn't be working that day. "
"I did this when I started some years back, most of the folk on my first visit the next year said Thankyou for the Xmas card, that would have been 2 or 3 months after the event. I think that says it. But as a rider, most of my work back then came…"
"Mmm, not sure about giving the customer a 'bottle wine', it should be the other way round. When I started (40+ years ago) I thought that was common practice, but was soon told by a contracts manager not to get into the habit. "give us a good job,…"
Leaf Peeping: Beautiful Autumn Colours
This Autumn, I have been taking trips out of the city to some beautiful rural places in Manchester, and the colour-show of leaves has been amazing. I sometimes dread autumn, as it connotes the transition into winter, but I must admit that when it is…
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Stihl FS 460 C Incorrect Thread - Help!
Made a silly mistake on the guard thread of my FS 460. Cross threaded and re-tapped. Tapped it at M6 - It should have been M5. Can anyone suggest how I could reduce it back to M5 - If this is in fact possible. If it is not possible, I will have to…
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Evening all, just wondering if anybody has had any success using the bark app? Does it generate leads of any substance? I'm always wary of these things but you never know, thanks in advance, Ben
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