"Giving you inspiration for your garden designs"
Many people struggle with design ideas for their own gardens, well here we have put together a little portfolio of different garden designs. We can create, design and install all types of garden idea
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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
London Garden Design is a working collaboration between established garden designer David Beasley (a design and build company) and experienced garden builder Clive Dearden (The Handmade Garden Company) who (with over 50 years combined experience in
Customer Testimonials - Success Story Part Two
Here at Abel Landscaping we believe good customer service is key to running a successful business. Many of our customers were willing to give testimonials to tell other customers about their experience
- Our garden design and build in Willesden Green, London is almost done. Just some artificial lawn and decking stain to be done.
- A productive day was had on Wednesday with our students on the ’3D Google Sketchup and 2D Layout Drawing Course’ . Katrina
- Work continues on the garden design and build in Willesden Green, the raised planter has been constructed and decking laid.
- Katrina is busy preparing for the next in-take of students for Earth Designs garden design course
- We are scheduling professional
The year has been very busy for the team so far and with the fabulous weather we have been inundated with requests for
works both in the commercial sector and private gardens too.
- Watering in a new lawn with 'everedge' lawn edging fitted
We have complet
Day One: Before shots of the garden prior to makeover.
Day Two: Installation of Lower Deck Frame
Day 3: Installation of lower decking boards
Day 4: Progress on Decking Installation
Day 5: Upper Deck Installation
Da
The garden was very long but also narrow with a horrible wire mesh fence, the only thi
A new project submission has been made to www.garden-design-pictures.com and the pictures can be viewed by clicking Courtyard
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Briarlea Landscapes and Driveways Ltd has Lanarkshires largest landscape and driveway display centre.
The centre is open seven days a week for customer convenience. Here you will see six full driveways on display and six large landscaped gardens. You
LANDSCAPING PROJECTS
We are currently carrying out a rear garden makeover in Manchester.
Each day we update our projects page on our website with the progression we have carried out each day: Projects Page
Here are some photographs of our progressi
A new project submission has been made to www.garden-design-pictures.com and the pictures can be viewed here: http://www.garden-design-pictures.com/decking-proj-dkgawg001.html
If you are a Garden Designer or Landscape Gardener you can claim your free
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I’ve been reading this forum for a while but this is my first post, so I’ll introduce myself properly.I’m Max, I run Mini Acres Garden Co covering North London and Hertfordshire — mix of maintenance rounds and hard landscaping projects. Been in the…
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"I've seen. It lots when its been mowed in the same direction all the time ,with a mower with a roller , mower bounces as you go over them .. mow it at 90deg to the usual and it'll even out. ."
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"I think you would do better topdressing to gradually fill the hollows, I fear a roller won't achieve much and could course compaction. Rollers a generally best avoided on turf."
"I have this in a large garden I work in, yet the other gardener does the lawns and hedges.
He has been mowing starting from the gravel drive up and down the lawn across to the river for 27+ years !! A four wheeler and there are definite ridges and…"
He has been mowing starting from the gravel drive up and down the lawn across to the river for 27+ years !! A four wheeler and there are definite ridges and…"
"Seen this before and we can only assume that it is the lawn having been mowed successively and frequently when the surface has been too soft causing mower wheels to produce ruts. Our wet Autumns and Springs are the probably the culprit."
"This 'sounds' the most likely link to my 'issue' the furrows as so regular and a very repeated pattern. Perhaps a good heavy roller would aid...
the way my mower goes over it it bounces like crazy, and would therefore add to the issue. I'll take a…"
the way my mower goes over it it bounces like crazy, and would therefore add to the issue. I'll take a…"
"Could be as a result of the lawn having been airated by machine?"
"I can remeber been told about this problem when training 40 years ago. It's not uncommon and is the result of the same cylinder mower being used repeatedly for many years, generally in a narrow area where it has to be mowed in the same direction.…"
"The first three cuts after spraying cannot go into compost. I do however send it to green waste (I didn't know that I can't & the amount within GW site would be nothing) You would have to be mowing every other day to clip off the seed heads to stop…"
"Hi Peter, I try not to mow if possible when its too wet. Like most machines the grass sticks everywhere. If it is already trimmed it is ok, just don't go cutting a couple of inches growth when wet! Just a side note, the bloody belt come off of it…"
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I’ve been reading this forum for a while but this is my first post, so I’ll introduce myself properly.I’m Max, I run Mini Acres Garden Co covering North London and Hertfordshire — mix of maintenance rounds and hard landscaping projects. Been in the…
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Two ordinary Blokes in Business - Podcast
This weeks episode is out now. No get rich quick schemes, just real, honest conversations about running a business and trying to scale.https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yg6HSj4pbTezigjjVsws4?si=656d1a42f74449fc
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Rumble strips in lawn!
Difficult one to describe. We've got a couple of lawns that we've taken over and both (unrelated locations) have got an almost rumble strip feel to certain sections. Absolutely paralell lines in a relatively large area. I'm ensured that the only…
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Selective lawn herbicides and composting clippings
A customer wants a weed treatment on their lawn but they also like to compost the clippings after each mow. The product I use states not safe for composting (Praxys). I can't spot spray as there are a lot of bittercress hidden within the grass. Will…
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