John Brookes MBE celebrated his 80th birthday last week. He has been designing gardens for over 50 years, and is well known for his classic book Room Outside, which was first published in 1969. In my opinion John has done for garden design what Eliza
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After large public projects it is inspiring to work on a smaller scale for private clients. This was a medium scale piece of work for a person who had strong and clear ideas about what she wanted.
The project involved making Steel structures with York
Critically Acclaimed Gardening Greats: John Brookes (MBE), Noel Kingsbury, & Michael King, Launch New Online Courses with MyGardenSchool to Propagate Gardening Excellence Globally.
Perhaps the most influential living landscape designer of our time,
Just been talking to BALI about what landscapers and designers really want to learn about. Interesting - when we set up MyGardenSchool it was originally intended to be a consumer proposition. What we're finding though, is a large proportion of our
A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away as MyGardenSchool launches a unique online gift certificate
MyGardenSchool, the world’s first online gardening school, has today launched gift certifi
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“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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They are cutting 10k sqmts a week and have been totally reliable, yes we have upped the revs and keep the bags clean and don't mow too short but…"
They mulch flawlessly and when you take the mulch plug out they also collect!"
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