John Brookes MBE celebrated his 80th birthday last week. He has been designing gardens for over 50 years, and is well known for his classic book Room Outside, which was first published in 1969. In my opinion John has done for garden design what Eliza
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After large public projects it is inspiring to work on a smaller scale for private clients. This was a medium scale piece of work for a person who had strong and clear ideas about what she wanted.
The project involved making Steel structures with York
Critically Acclaimed Gardening Greats: John Brookes (MBE), Noel Kingsbury, & Michael King, Launch New Online Courses with MyGardenSchool to Propagate Gardening Excellence Globally.
Perhaps the most influential living landscape designer of our time,
Marshalls has announced the findings of a major project undertaken in collaboration with world renowned engineer Professor John Knapton, to review their market leading Priora permeable paving system.
Marshalls Priora is a SUDs solution which keeps
Just been talking to BALI about what landscapers and designers really want to learn about. Interesting - when we set up MyGardenSchool it was originally intended to be a consumer proposition. What we're finding though, is a large proportion of our
A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away as MyGardenSchool launches a unique online gift certificate
MyGardenSchool, the world’s first online gardening school, has today launched gift certifi
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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…
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“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.
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"'Vic's'answer is the perfect solution for this application - although not by the book, it's quick, easy, functional and economical."
Usually vibrant green in all its glory, the Fritillaria delavayi stands out against its grey background of the Hengduan Mountains in South-West China. Typically, once a year it will produce a bright yellow tulip-like flower, but scientists are…
"Thanks William, that's what I was hoping to hear. "
"I can highly recommend a main dealer if you want a new van. I have traded with Vertu Toyota [formerly Gordon Lamb Toyota] in Chesterfield since 2008. I have had nine new vehicles from them over that time and they are fantastic people to trade with,…"
"Rain here and 10 lawns to mow
Let's see how the new Honda holds up in the wet stuff "
Let's see how the new Honda holds up in the wet stuff "
"Cheers Vic thats great, I'll go for that option then. Cheers for the help "
"Credit where its due . A nice example Vic . "
"Yes but you need so little of it. Here, screened top soil is only £7.50 for half a tonne if you collect it. You might get away with either half a tonne or maybe one tonne. It goes a long way if you are starting with pretty flat ground already.
It’s…"
It’s…"
"It's 20m2
I.just thought.rotivate would be better as wouldn't need to.get any extra top soil? "
I.just thought.rotivate would be better as wouldn't need to.get any extra top soil? "
"No need to rotovate. The ground is currently firm so why rotovate it and then have to compact it all over again.
Spray it and kill it off. Then strim it down low as to leave very little grass. Level up with top soil where needed or even an inch or…"
Spray it and kill it off. Then strim it down low as to leave very little grass. Level up with top soil where needed or even an inch or…"
"Cheers Dave, it's for a friend who's selling his house so just going to do it for him before he puts it on the market and he doesn't want to spend much , can I use glyohosate and after a fortnight just rotivate that and relay new turf? There's not…"
" Depends on how quick you wam it to be lawn. I would deep scarify, aeration, top dress and seed. Or spray it off, rotavate and lay new turf."
"As per Gary I use snow foam, but if really dirty I use TFR (traffic film remover) and that really does shift the grime with no effort, spray on leave and rinse off."
Van dealer/ van recommendations
Hi guys, I currently have a small round of gardens that I look after part time and have decided to bite the bullet and get a small van. would anyone have any recommendations for van dealers in the South Yorkshire area or any ideas for a small van to…
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Lawn help
Any ideas what I could do with this lawn, apart from rip it All up and start again??? Cheers folk, happy weekend.
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Detergent for Pressure washing vans
With all the carwash places closed, had a go with the pressure washer for the first time. Used some Karcher "universal" detegent to spray on first as I imagined that might be the best to use particulalry as it was so pricey. Disappointed with the…
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Marathon Sport lawn fertiliser where's it gone?!
For years I've used Marathon Sport Summer and Autumn/Winter granular lawn fertilisers, but now they seem to of disappeared from suppliers websites!I like them because they, well work pretty good and are part organic and plus theyre not too…
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