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(image: Garden Designer Phil Stovell)
Phil Stovell is a garden designer based in Somerset.
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Mike Warman is director of Aura Landscapes Ltd, based in Southampton. The company is fairly young, trading for just over three years but it has gone from strength to stre
Garden designer Michèle Martin spent twenty years in the corporate world before choosing to pursue her passion for gardens. Having earned an HND from Reaseheath College, Michèle went on to get an honours degree in Garden Design at Myerscough, Lancash
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"It has the look of a lawn that's had a granular 4 in 1 treatment applied during a hot dry period. I speak from bitter experience. I'd suggest it needs stripping and reseeding or turfing in the spring. "
"£1200 🤣🤣
There is hardly any lawn to scarify. 2 passes would take half hour. The rest of the job would be done by 10:30am.
£200 including seed/topdressing would be top price.
Not hearing of chafer grubs and offering to put grass seed down now in…"
There is hardly any lawn to scarify. 2 passes would take half hour. The rest of the job would be done by 10:30am.
£200 including seed/topdressing would be top price.
Not hearing of chafer grubs and offering to put grass seed down now in…"
"Caroline, we swear by westland top soil it's in smallish bags , I think 35 lts . Its a nice sandy loam free of nasties and consistently good, don't buy wickes B&Q and other own brands its garbage mainly green waste. We hire in hollow tine machines.…"
"This sounds like good advice! I never know what top dressing to use can you recommend any please? Also what do you use for aeration on a small/medium lawn please?"
"Don't know what your classing as North, lots of people class Manchester as north which is a joke 😂. Up here in Cumbria we just don't have them the weather doesn't work in their favour.
I know a few people who have tried and failed, I suppose on the…"
I know a few people who have tried and failed, I suppose on the…"
Hi would a garden maintenance business in north London/herts be interested in hiring myself for the upcoming Season April to September! I have 40 years of experience in the industry used to run a small garden maintenance business in north London one…
"I always use an anglegrinder and it rotates toward the cutting edge of the blades..... not cutting upwards. Always gives a sharp edge. "
"Well the other chap has been sacked.... I think we are going to try to establish if there is a fungal infection - we can't find leatherjackets or chafer grubs ... even by going down a fair way.
Come late March we will cut all the turf off and…"
Come late March we will cut all the turf off and…"
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"In theory if you use an angle grinder the blade is cutting upwards and not making a clean sharp edge
i use a good quaity file."
i use a good quaity file."
"Not an expert but I would think the most important thing is that the root doesn't freeze. Position will have a lot to do with that, and drainage, and size of pot."
"He could be trying to price himself out of the job because he doesn't fancy it or out of his depth .
One thing that gets my back up is when cowboy gardeners use terms like scarifying , de thatching , pollarding they have latched on to…"
One thing that gets my back up is when cowboy gardeners use terms like scarifying , de thatching , pollarding they have latched on to…"
"£1200 sounds reasonable but only if that included completely re-laying with top quality turf after preparation !"
Seasonal work
Hi would a garden maintenance business in north London/herts be interested in hiring myself for the upcoming Season April to September! I have 40 years of experience in the industry used to run a small garden maintenance business in north London one…
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Lawn advice
I'm not a lawn expert, but am trying to advise an elderly neighbour...can you help, or point me in the right direction?The circle of grass was, until 2024 looked after by a lawn expert, he retired and someone else has taken it on. It got fairly…
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Olive Tree Winter protection
Do olive trees standing in pots here in U.K actually require protection in Winter .? Last Winter I put fleece protection over some healthy looking grafted Olive trees about four years old when purchased , come spring removed the fleece and they…
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Sharpening hedgetrimmers
I know that the proper way is to dismantle the blades and sharpen them on a bench jig every time, but that ain't happening! What is people's preferred method for a touch-up between services? File, dremel, angle grinder?
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