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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"I went into my dealer yesterday and was shown that even if they would/could fix the machine, Stihl haven't got the parts needed in stock.. not good in my opinion, but I'm guessing over the next year or so companies are all going to struggle. "
"Try the dealer you got it from, mine did this and like yours was one month out of warranty but Stihl still honoured it."
"It was an interesting time initially , I took the opportunity to re sett my customer base and weed out the unproductive jobs and i think equally one or two used it as an opportunity to sack me off to find a cheaper service .
One job was an annual…"
One job was an annual…"
"Which cordless models are classified as industrial as opposed to domestic ? and which components set the two apart . ?
I was always told by dealers it is down to the quality of the gearbox with fuel driven hedgetrimmers .
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I was always told by dealers it is down to the quality of the gearbox with fuel driven hedgetrimmers .
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"yes so many completely different models now with slightly different references. For example HLA56 and HLA65 so easy to confuse if one digit is transposed, both long reach hedge trimmers but they don't use the same battery type even. Often see…"
"I had a few 'nervous' clients at the beginning who paused the work initially, but within a few weeks changed their minds after seeing their lawns getting out of hand ..I just encouraged them to pay by bank transfer ..skip the drinks etc…"
"Most of us on here just carried on as normal throughout Covid. All my work continued as before. A large part of it is commercial work, but then all the domestic ones were also unaffected. The grass and the hedges still needed to be cut.
I would be…"
I would be…"
"The long covid effected my lung capacity for about 8 months, until January plus fatigue etc. I still get brain fog, annoyinly mostly plant names!
This also effected my mental health ( I have underlying issues) & had an affect on the regular…"
This also effected my mental health ( I have underlying issues) & had an affect on the regular…"
"I had never heard of botanical sexism before but it explains so much! It's awful isn't it, I suffer really badly from allergies too, so I can empathise. Do you still feel the effects of long covid even now? I imagine everything contributes really,…"
I have been over the moon with this piece of kit.....until yesterday. It simply wouldnt go. I checked the grease as it hadn't been used for a while but that was fine. The gear moved when I manually rotated it. An hour later, it worked so I thought…
Martin Carty, Managing Director at Carty Services, has revealed how a 0% interest finance offer from Etesia UK enabled him to improve operations on a wide range of school playing fields throughout Warwickshire. During last year’s uncertainty and…
"We increased our rates marginally but that was combined with an increase in the demand as restrictions on were eased. I think most the other companies around us did the same thing so it worked out but still, nice little way to recoup some covid…"
"i just gogeld it this is the first one i looked at
just realised might be the wrong model"
just realised might be the wrong model"
"STIHL HSA 86 Cordless Hedge Trimmer 18" | STIHL Hedge Trimmer – Sam...
this site says it will deliver by monday"
this site says it will deliver by monday"
"dont know if i am working things out wrong but it would take 60 years of proffit to pay for the 750.000 dont get how the value is reached "
Stihl HLA85, Long reach trimmer.
I have been over the moon with this piece of kit.....until yesterday. It simply wouldnt go. I checked the grease as it hadn't been used for a while but that was fine. The gear moved when I manually rotated it. An hour later, it worked so I thought…
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How to Value a Landscaping Business.
To value a landscaping / garden maintenance business depends on the following:-How much turnover there is (Revenue per annum) It usually has to be over £250,000pa to get serious buyers looking.How much net profit is made. The norm for this sort of…
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Van Repair Day options ?
My van needs to go in for a mechanical repair and a small job doing but looking at Two days without it . If i take Two days off i lose earnings and it sets my schedule back If i hire a van for Two days its an extra expense and when added on to cost…
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Construction Industry Scheme Private Gardens
HI thereWe are a garden and landscape design company. All of our clients are private, apart from a couple of school gardens we've done. We design and construct all of our gardens, including all the hard landscaping. Our accountant thinks we should…
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