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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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
Milton Keynes based landscaping company, Frosts Landscapes, is at the centre of a row to develop its current headquarters at Wain Close, Wavendon.
MKWeb reports that Frosts has outgrown its current facility and need to increase storage to 20,000 squ
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
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.
The seasonally adjusted Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) posted 51
Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading natural sportsturf contractors, has appointed a new trainee surveyor to support current projects and future growth.
James Underhill, 21, joins Souters at an exciting time, with the company working at a host of P
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 combine
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 quarter of
I’ve been working on a construction detail for a deck and steps made out of Millboard, with a Plas Pro recycled plastic sub-structure, for a client whose brief has steered me towards a product which will weather predictably, be long lasting and resis
Jackson's landscape Design, Newton Abbot, Devon Have been appointed Devons designer and installer of the stunning Saige Longlife Composite decking, which creates a unique and beautiful outdoor living area that improves your lifestyle and your gardens
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.
Day 17:
The curved wood
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we have had an amazing response with bookings from over 60 contractors, designers and landscape architects all booked on within 9 days of organising this presentation
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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…
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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