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…
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Milton Keynes based landscaping company, Frosts Landscapes,…
An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.
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UK construction activity grew in June for the second month running thanks to increased house-building activity, while new order growth hit a 13-month high.
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Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading natural sportsturf contractors, has appointed a new trainee surveyor to support current projects and future growth.…
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Following a highly competitive tendering process, leading natural sportsturf contractors Souters Sports have recently completed the redevelopment of the natural sports pitches at Sheffield Hallam University. Souters' in house labour and plant…
There was remarkably little excitement from the construction industry at the news that the UK economy has narrowly avoided a triple dip recession.
Official government statistics yesterday revealed that the economy grew by 0.3% in the first…
I’ve been working on a construction detail for a deck and…
Jackson's landscape Design, Newton Abbot, Devon Have been appointed Devons designer and …
Images and a video showing the process of a Concrete slab construction, with 3mm crushed glass tamped into the RC 25 fibre concrete, a black cement dye will be added once the power float pan is able to be positioned on the slab.
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we have had an amazing response with bookings from over 60 contractors, designers and landscape architects all booked on…
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JCB maintained profitability in 2009 despite the deepest ever recession in the global construction equipment industry. The company saw sales drop by a third to £1.35 billion but was able to increase profit before tax…
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Welcome to week four in my series of posts on starting and running a landscape or gardening business.
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"It's a balance; lots of damp live moss, and the scarify is less effective vs removing dried out dead moss that was treated a couple of weeks beforehand.
So I look to treat first if very heavy moss, then scarify at least a week later. If light moss,…"
So I look to treat first if very heavy moss, then scarify at least a week later. If light moss,…"
"hi gary!!! thanks so much for your reply and great advice,, i did think it woul be too clumpy , i hadve so many different levels around the garden to get the finish if that makes sense, its been driving me mad thinking about it ha ha !!! so you sug…"
"Hi Ian,
I would make the effort to remove the turf first. It will be a LOT easier to do this than try to level the area when full of chopped up turf clumps.
We normally strip the turf, then go over the area with a stone burier to give a great finish…"
I would make the effort to remove the turf first. It will be a LOT easier to do this than try to level the area when full of chopped up turf clumps.
We normally strip the turf, then go over the area with a stone burier to give a great finish…"
"Hi Jessica, I use a couple of lengths of decking board, works fine."
I'm looking for recommendations for a company that supplies some light weight ramps for mower use into my LWB Ford connect?
"In my experience that's the better method. Scarifying first then iron to kill off the remaining moss. But there is a liquid iron product out now which you spray on first before scarifying,which they tell me is better(ferway is the product name here)…"
"Hi Andrew
I use the billy goat mainly when I scarify, usually on the larger lawns. ( hate raking for what can seem like hours ! ) - leaves a great finnish, and shortens the clear up time dramatically!
I've sometimes thought about selling it, but whe…"
I use the billy goat mainly when I scarify, usually on the larger lawns. ( hate raking for what can seem like hours ! ) - leaves a great finnish, and shortens the clear up time dramatically!
I've sometimes thought about selling it, but whe…"
hi there am lanscaping back garden new turf to be put down , have just used a turf cutter and rotavator on front garden it was hard wrok and that was not really a flat surface , the back garden however is a nighmare !! its all slopey and want to mov…
"My parents had one when I was a kid as above hundreds of nuts bolts etc and you could have still ripped the door open with your hands. It eventually blow a couple of hundred metres down the street in a storm
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"Thanks Phil"
"How I ended up with all ride on work is a very interesting question, one which has really made me think.
I started grass cutting in 1985 for a good friend of mine [I was 19]. His work was almost all Council contracts, so was even then all ride on w…"
I started grass cutting in 1985 for a good friend of mine [I was 19]. His work was almost all Council contracts, so was even then all ride on w…"
Ramps for mower
I'm looking for recommendations for a company that supplies some light weight ramps for mower use into my LWB Ford connect?
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Reply by Gary RK 5 hours ago
need help !!! landscaping back garden!!
hi there am lanscaping back garden new turf to be put down , have just used a turf cutter and rotavator on front garden it was hard wrok and that was not really a flat surface , the back garden however is a nighmare !! its all slopey and want to…
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