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If any of your customers have pets you are likely to be familiar with the problem of pet urine causing scorch patches on lawns. Most associate the problem with dog urine only but cat urine can be just as bad. It’s generally worse with female dogs…
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now available for all your smart mobile equipment our Royce Turf App. We are the first turf company to launch an app in the UK. On the app you will find hints…
As London gears up to host the 2012 Olympic Games, athletes from across the world will be busy preparing to display their skills on an international stage. It is not only sports men and women who have the chance to shine at the Olympics, though.…
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"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…
A new project submission has been made to www.garden-design-pictures.com and the pictures can be viewed by clicking…
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It is easy to brand gardeners as wasteful when you can see a sprinkler unattended for long periods of time gushing watering liberally over borders and lawns. For some reason, a lawn enthusiast will get much more stick for wanting to…
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You may be aware of a post from yesterday on Landscape Juice about The Shooting Star Children's Hospice and the appeal by…
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Caring for your garden when there’s a hosepipe ban in place…
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Welcome to week four in my series of posts on starting and running a landscape or gardening business.
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"I've had to do this numerous times over the years and never enjoy it. Some customers are fine with it but others seem to expect you to keep the same rate year in year out. It can be difficult when it's a longer term customer where there is some lo…"
"A £1 increase on a £20 job is 5%. Nothing wrong with adding a pound or two at a time."
"Hi all, I’ve struggled with this a little bit as the majority of my customers are regular lawn cuts/maintenance so tend to be £15/£20 per visit.......to increase by 2%/3% each year is what I’d like to do but would equate to a 40p/60p increase which…"
"thankyou so much.I think chamfered is the thing."
"if you do it yearly it will be a smaller jump than doing it every 2nd year and a lot will not question it , if any complain about it replace them after all you are there to make a living "
"there is a lot of poisonous plants some of wich are quite common. the Alnwick garden at Alnwick castle has a fenced off area of poisnous plants "
"Hammer drill it into little bits? Or spray it off and turn the raised bed into a bench?"
"Any good sawmill would be able to cut wood to your spec. Look for one that has pressure treatment facilities. If they don't champfer then buy a cheapr router and a chapfering bit and do it yourself
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"I think you'll find the picture actually shows a picture of an edge that has been "radiused" ( ie rounded") rather than "chamfered" where a flat is created at 45 degrres to the post side which makes it a lot easier for Joe to measure his 1" wide.
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"there are many plants in the uk which come under the poisonous / dangerous clasification but most really are down to the reaction they cause some people when they come in contact with the sap's as there more corstic on fair to sensitive skins, this…"
"Are you talking about planed ‘European’ style posts where the corners are chamfered ?
If so, try a Hillhout or Forest stockists. I’ve used their 10cm post as they give a modern look - not sure if they do a 15cm / 6in post ?"
If so, try a Hillhout or Forest stockists. I’ve used their 10cm post as they give a modern look - not sure if they do a 15cm / 6in post ?"
searching for 15cm posts
Does anyone know where I can get hold of some 15cmx15cmx 3 m treated posts, which have the corners on the lengths cut at an angle (about 1 inch wide?). Finding it hard to describe as a non carpenter, and I do not think I can attach drawings? …
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Reply by Joe McWilliams 12 hours ago
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HI just started doing research on J Knotweed and got carried away and found topics on our native and non native plants and quite shocked at the different types of poisonous plants we have.Deadly night shade,foxglove,giant hog weed etc.
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Price increase
Evening people. Just wondering how others approach the issue of increasing rates(wording, time of the year, do you find many current customers question you on it? And do you reply without offending them) Thanks look forward to your replies.
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Looking for a reliable landscaper in the West Byfleet area please...
hi there I'm looking for a landscaper in the West Byfleet area to initially do some clearance work for a client. Could potentially lead to contract for the whole build job. I'd be grateful for some contacts please in the first instance... Many…
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