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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Sherratt Landscape Contractors, a commercial grounds maintenance company based in Flintshire Wales, has recently invested in a fleet of new Etesia pedestrian and ride-on mowers to ensure that the high quality the company is renowned for is maintained
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Alaster Anderson Specialist Gardeners, a London-focused soft landscaping and garden maintenance company, has purchased a range of environmentally friendly battery-powered Pellenc products.
The purchase includes two grass strimmers, two hedge trimmers,
We are proud to announce our latest win at the Marshalls Regional Awards held in Southampton at the end of November. We were very happy to have won the 2013 award for 'Best use of a new Marshalls product' for a front garden installed using Marshalls
Complete Ice Control is brought to you by the same people who deliver Complete Weed Control and has been introduced in response to the overwhelming need for a professional, reliable and trusted local gritting service to deal with snow and ice worries
Leading natural and artificial sports ground contractors, White Horse Contractors, has continued its policy of heavily investing in specialised plant and machinery with the purchase of a GKB Drainmaster and 2.2m heavy duty disc seeder from sportsturf
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
Designed to meet the rigours of a wide variety of commercial grass cutting applications, Etesia’s Pro 46 pedestrian rotary mower is specified by contractors who want to profit from grass cutting. Reliability of mowing equipment is essential for this
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
The £4 million WRU National Centre of Excellence, which provides training facilities for the Welsh rugby team, Cardiff Blues, Cardiff City FC and the Welsh FA at the Vale Resort near Cardiff, South Wales has selected Complete Weed Control (South Wale
We undertake Permeable block paving, hard landscaping, soft landscaping, driveways, patios, pathways, gardens, using Tobermore products in Exeter Devon.
THIS PROJECT IS UNDER PERMEABLE DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW DAY 7-9 IMAGES.
Day 10
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The contents of this blog shows how to install patios, garden paving, paving slabs, paving stones, patio, stone paving, paving stone, patio stone, patio stones, concrete slabs, slabs, flagstones in Devon.
THIS PROJECT IS UNDER PERMEABLE DRIVEWAY CONST
Drivewayfix.co.uk is offering you the chance to add an extra string to your bow and become a ‘Drivewayfixer’.
With more and more homeowners choosing to ‘improve’ rather than ‘move’, now is the perfect time to become a Drivewayfixer.
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RJC Building & Paving have recently completed another successful ‘Drivewayfix’ project, giving a new lease of life to a domestic driveway.
Experienced Drivewayfixer, RJC Building & Paving, have left another homeowner reaping the benefits of the Drivew
With house prices falling by 5% in 2012 and 5% again in 2013 (Guardian, October 2011) more and more homeowners are deciding to ‘improve’ , protecting their equity, rather than ‘move’ - now is the perfect time to develop your skill set and become a ‘D
First impressions count for everything when selling a house. Leave a lasting impression for potential buyers by keeping the driveway to your house looking like new – fail to do this and you could miss out on a potential sale!
A recent article publishe
I have been operating for over 2 years now and things have gone well. I have (perhaps predictably) got a bit obsessed with running this business and am looking to take things a step further, to work with more clients on bigger jobs and to increase em
Landscapers Wirral
Dempsey are a professional landscaping company serving Wirral and Merseyside. No sub-contractors all work is carried out to a high standard by Dempsey's experienced, professional and reliable landscapers.
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We are very glad that the weather has been good for us, the last few days have seen us install a row of pleached carpinus to start the final phase of planting on one of our projects.
The preparation work started over 7 days ago when the site was caref
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As Blue Monday is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to give a small reminder to our community here on Landscape Juice to remember to tell people about your worries and if you’re having negative thoughts. Talking about emotions…
Britmow weren’t aware how much of an impact attending a trade show would have on their future endeavours. In the run up to their 50th anniversary, they were exploring ideas of how to celebrate. It’s only when they met Kate Cooney from…
“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.
The programme…
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Hi there, I'm a 46yo woman and have done a desk job all my working life, but did do a degree in Landscape and Garden Design back in the day (basically a hort degree with a design element tacked on) and I am a bit of a gardening anorak! …
" Am I the only one that thinks it might be nice not to trash the planet? Even if that means some inconvenience along the way? Climate change is real. If the north atlantic drift stops, we'll have winters like Moscow, that might be a bit…"
"Should be in the manual for each machine, or available from their website. You can then calculate using the spreadsheet here. https://www.hse.gov.uk/vibration/hav/index.htm"
"We use the Ostrich principal and have done for the last 40 years plus with no ill effects so far. If you comply with all this H&S s**t you end up with getting no work done apart from reams of record keeping and filling out RAMS.
It really is getting…"
It really is getting…"
"You're probably the only person that looks at those ratings lol..........They're bound to say that so they can't be sued if there's problems! Don't worry about it. "
We're just looking at proper HAVS ratings for our machines, and some of the results are frightening. One of our Honda mowers comes up with a result of less than 2 hours use a day, then no other machinery: and there's nothing that lets you do a…
"Yes agree, wire of some sort. Unless someone was planning to fell it and girlded it first and then didn't get around to doing the job. Or something. "
"EV's, heat pumps, smart meters, all a whitewash.
Drax power station burning millions of tonnes of wood pellets imported on diesel ships from North America and emit more carbon than a coal fired power station yet received 500 million in government…"
Drax power station burning millions of tonnes of wood pellets imported on diesel ships from North America and emit more carbon than a coal fired power station yet received 500 million in government…"
"Careful David, your have opinion police knocking on your door.
Net zero is a joke and completely unachievable. China, India, America.
Like the tories, Labour are done. They might as well merge as one party I see no difference between them.
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Net zero is a joke and completely unachievable. China, India, America.
Like the tories, Labour are done. They might as well merge as one party I see no difference between them.
Labour…"
"The orange part is a sleeve specifically for adjustment of the MM56 multisystem, presumably to allow the metal screwdriver past things it may short-out.
The white plastic part looks like a collar to allow you to tell how much you are adjusting the…"
The white plastic part looks like a collar to allow you to tell how much you are adjusting the…"
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Hi there, I'm a 46yo woman and have done a desk job all my working life, but did do a degree in Landscape and Garden Design back in the day (basically a hort degree with a design element tacked on) and I am a bit of a gardening anorak! …
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We're just looking at proper HAVS ratings for our machines, and some of the results are frightening. One of our Honda mowers comes up with a result of less than 2 hours use a day, then no other machinery: and there's nothing that lets you do a…
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Everything Labour’s net zero advisers want you to give up
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I am just about to do my annual service on my lawnmower and i am wondering if you put on genuine blades or aftermarket ones did you notice any difference?
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