The construction of a new garden patio using Marshall's Fairstone riven paving with a 3 ring circle surrounded with 100mm x 100mm Fairstone sawn and tumbled setts and pointed using Marshall's Weather Point 365
The construction of a new garden patio using Marshall's Fairstone riven paving with a 3 ring circle surrounded with 100mm x 100mm Fairstone sawn and tumbled setts and pointed using Marshall's Weather Point 365
Easter Weekend, - the shops are closed, the sun is out, so it's a day for a family walk in our local bluebell woods
Luckily, we are within walking distance of a fantastic National Trust property with an amazing bluebell wood. It's the hottest driest l
On another thread on LJN I recently posted a comment lamenting the innate conservatism of design in this country. The context of that comment belongs to a different discussion, but I think the point is worth exploring for its own sake.
If contemporar
What began as a set of insights aimed at making gardening life easier for Seniors, has now evolved into a far more generally-applicable set of systems which make life easier for any gardener at all. A glance over the items listed below can inform a
Hi All and welcome.
For those of you that are not familiar, allow me to introduce my self.....
My name is Kerry Jackson and I design, create and landscape gardens, my company Jackson's Landscape Design (JLD) is based in Newton Abbot, Devon.
My aim f
We love our gardens. All around the world there is a great proliferation of gardening bogs, articles, websites and real retail and wholesale dealers for gardening lore and products. It seems the modern world has actually increased, rather than decrea
With more than 15 years’ experience in HR Nicki Jackson decided to take a new path in life and retrain as a garden designer with help from Lantra’s Women and Work programme and because of her dedication, she has been named the Women and Work Horticul
Garden Pathway Edging - Doing It Ourselves
How many times have we laid down something perfect in our gardens, only to have it change character over time? I mean, we can choose among a billion subjects, really, Trees grow, flowers and perennials doub
Well what a couple of weeks its been, I have just finished my latest design and build commission and developed a gorgeous new product at the same time.
The client brief was to design a low maintenance garden for their newly acquired holiday home. The
A waterside garden - informality within a structured environment
As people who make gardens, designers and landscapers work to a client brief. Sometimes this is very broad and unformed, the client needing to be coaxed through the process of deciding
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This is the title of a seminar to be delivered by Mark Gregory of Landform Consultants and the London College of Garden Design at Landscape, the industry trade show to be held at Olympia on13th and 14th April. It’s a question that caught my eye, as
Rammed Earth by Kerry Jackson
Talented multi RHS award winner, garden designer, Gaynor Witchard writes a weekly garden design column for the Western Mail every Saturday, here's what Gaynor has to say about my rammed earth garden structures in S
Ecobuild, which opens from Tuesday 1st March until Thursday 3rd March, is the future of design, construction and the built environment. It is the biggest sustainable building exhibition in the world.
Following the last years success at the Hampton Cou
The Landscape Juice Network (LJN)
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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…
Had a brief chat with a once a year customer , where I just cut his knee length grass down . I happened to mention the abundance of wildlife in his garden , and that last year I saw some slow worms basking in the sun.He looked at me and replied " Oh…
Read more…Hi Everyone Does anybody use project completion forms for customer's to sign at completion to say they are satisfied with the outcome to avoid payment issues when sending the final invoice Thanks in Advance Neil
Read more…Hi allJust, interested as we had so much wet weather. What do you do when the grass is so wet for your clients? I know you can cut wet grass, but I am finding sometimes clients turn around and say to wet on a dry day!Do you have it in contract with…
Read more…Hi all,Long time lurker new but new member.I bought a second hand Hydro 80 which I've been using for 2 seasons now. It's been laid up over winter and now fails to start.Model is Hydro 80 MHHP - V twin honda engine.I've got handbrake on, pedals…
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