Every landscaping project should have a good, well thought out garden design from the outset. It forms the basis of quote, your workflow documents, your health and safety strategy and most of your customer communications. But what if creating layout
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This year, my landscaping business, Holland Landscapes, celebrates 35 years of creating gardens for people in (mainly) Essex and Suffolk. My Dad business the started in 1988, just one man with his van. Today, we have completed over 500 garden make
I'm not normally one to toot my own trumpet but I'm just so excited about this garden.
A while ago, My Garden Design created a layout plan for a landscaper in West Sussex. On the 2D plan, it looks intriguing, but now that it's been built, it's amazin
It's been a while since I added a new blog to the My Garden Design website, but here it is.
Several of my colleagues in the landscaping industry have expressed their frustration at domestic clients who either don't understand why they need a garden de
After several months of hard work, head scratching, bespoke coding and testing, testing, testing, our new online service for landscapers and professional gardeners is finally live on the website.
If you are one of the many people who struggle to find
Let's face it, with the cost of living rising, we're all looking for ways to make our businesses more efficient and more profitable....ideally without having to burn the candle at both ends.
This blog may have been written 18 months ago but it's more
Have you ever been in the situation where you've finished the hard landscaping on a project and then the client asks for help with the planting?
Plants are great - and in my opinion, if you get it right, they really do make the layout and the hard lan
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I thought I'd share with you a sneaky preview of the blog I plan to publish on the MGD website later this week. It's a case study.
This is a back garden in Essex that Duff and Co were invited to makeover. As you can see - it's a
The subject of our latest blogpost is "keeping garden design costs under control"
With so many prices on the rise right now, it's really difficult to keep costs under control. After all, the last thing you need is for the design costs to eat into the
One of the optional extra services available from My Garden Design is to have your design rendered into 3D.
It's a great sales tool for landscapers because it really does help clients to imagine how they may use their newly revamped space. They can st
It's just over 12 months since the My Garden Design website first went live, and what an exciting year it's been!
Running a landscaping business (Holland Landscapes), a traditional garden design business (Tapestry Design Studios) AND developing an onl
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Nice to meet you.
We're new to Landscape Juice and looking forward to meeting new folks and hopefully joining in the conversation.
To get the ball rolling - let me tell you a little about our company, My Garden Design
My Garden Design was
I woke up this morning to a lovely crisp layer of snow (I'm in South West Norfolk). For me, that's wonderful. I love snow and because my work is all office-based, the weather doesn't affect productivity.
I'm guessing though that any landscapers and ga
My Garden Design is a user friendly online platform that allows landscapers to offer garden design services under their own branding. In a nutshell, the landscaper uploads the client brief, “before” pictures and site survey details to the My Garden D
LandPRO and LiberRATE are pleased to announce their new arrival.
A specialist website for Garden designers to price their designs online.
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This year we saw the trend of a horizon, living wall and green roofs.
There are some suggestions from us to go green with a living wall or roof.
Cover the garden shed with living wall panels
Most gardens have a shed for store tools and unwanted furnitur
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Only just seen this, so probably too late.
The quickest way would probably be to use a machine such as the Turf Teq Edger/Trencher. It's a walk-behind, powered machine that will dig shallow trench (down to 7" max) the correct width for the…"
The best thing to use on a wild flower site is a Power Scythe; we have them in our rental fleet.
According to wildflower specialists, such as Wildflower Turf, you should cut and drop the flowers and grass, then remove the cuttings. If…"
We sometimes have a used, ex-rental machine available for sale."
One observation I've made though is the lovely flowers and grasses are a treat to the eye. But the poor frogs, other reptiles and small…"
For the big rough stuff this guy is talking about I'd go for the etesia attila. It's the big boys…"
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