An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.
Day 13
M5 Closed
Oh dear not looking good closing a motorway.
M5 Crash
We have been on the road since 7.1
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An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.
Day 9
Coffee.
Kitchen garden hatchway
The 3m concrete lintels are now bedded down level and the opening
As our garden design and build project in Liphook comes near to completion I thought I would write a quick bit about the brief and what we've done to meet it.
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Thank you to Stuart Marler from TV
Arbour Design & Build are proud to announce that the new website has now gone live, please see for more information on garden design,landscape construction and garden maintenance services undertaken by Arbour Design & Build.
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"yes you could quite happily tackle a whole avenue of topiary with it, maybe using a long reacher for the high bits"
"That's good news, thank you. I just went for it because it looked to have the best spec. The other cheap stihls weren't cutting the box well enough"
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"A battery doesn't last that long unless a big heavy backpack one. But a tank of petrol doesn't last that long either lol"
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