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An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 15

Coffee

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Plastering straight edge

The top coat is applied with hydo lime included within the render

An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 14

Coffee

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45 degree chamfer to pipe rocker

From the manhole 600mm pipe rocker I installed into the r

What is believed to be one of Europe's rarest orchids has been rediscovered by scientists on an island in the Azores.

Known as Hochstetter's butterfly-orchid, and first found in 1838, the scientists spotted it again on a volcanic ridge.

The team of s

£250 reward for information leading to the return of this pair of BRONZE OSTRICHES stolen from The Palm Centre in Richmond in late October.

Perhaps you have seen them in a garden somewhere?
They are 6ft/180cms tall, and quite unique.

If you have any

Ground Control has been placed in the London Stock Exchange’s 1000 businesses to inspire Britain, a fantastic achievement for the industry having been labelled as one of 1000 firms fuelling “the long-term growth of the UK economy” in a list that was

An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 13

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M5 Closed

Oh dear not looking good closing a motorway.

M5 Crash

We have been on the road since 7.1

Using artificial lighting and fast-growing grass seeds Mr Hurlbert, a senior manager at the company, managed to grow thick green turf all over the desk of Mr Harris, a software engineer.

'The grass grew extremely well even though the conditions we pr

A new equestrian centre in Oxfordshire has been completed courtesy of specialist construction company White Horse Contractors. The Abingdon–based company extended its portfolio of such projects with the recent completion of Pound Farm Livery and Equi

The Grown in Britain initiative has received a boost Travis Perkins joined with Grown in Britain, an initiative changing how timber is sustainably sourced and used in the UK.

Simon Pearson, Travis Perkins Product Group Director, said:

"We’re proud to

Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading natural sportsturf contractors, has recently completed the natural habitat at Bluebell Park School in Knowsley, Cheshire with an ambitious planting scheme which saw the addition of over 4,000 trees and over 20,

An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 12

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Coffee.

Video footage applying the scratch coat

It's not until you watch yourself at work you rea

Marshalls Regional Award Winner 2013

"For the best use of Cobbletech"

I am proud to announce that Abel Landscapes have won the Marshalls Regional award for the best use of Cobbletech. More info: Marshalls Regional Award Winner 2013

A big well done to a

UK garden designers Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer have released details of the woodland garden that will be built at Blind Veterans UK new Llandudno centre.

And work is already under way to transform four acres of woodland into a useful resource for those

After taking two Bell Equipment wheeled loaders on trial, Marshalls Plc, has committed to the long term lease of both machines after receiving a complete seal of approval from its drivers on the loaders’ quality.

Marshalls, which manufactures a wide

The recent episode of strong winds and heavy rain that swept across southern parts of the UK affected more then half of the 100,000 woodlands in the area.

Figures from the Forestry Commission show that the so-called St Jude storm will have had some i

Woodland owners and managers are being asked to complete a short survey on the current system of managing grey squirrels.

The Royal Forestry Society and the Forestry Commission are currently reviewing procedures and are keen to gather people's experi

An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 11

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Coffee.

Setting out the reflection pond

I have set the road pins and string lines up to the requi

British Seed Houses has been re-named Germinal Seeds GB.

The company say the change has been made to clarify its position as a part of the Germinal Holdings group and achieve consistency with other Germinal group companies throughout the world and do

A quick look over some of the recent headlines.

Instead of buying your child a boring old iPad for Christmas, get them a stick
Wild Network is urging parents to encourage children to play with nature and the outdoors rather than technology.

Gardens:

An insight to the daily life of a garden design and landscaping build up on a rear garden located in Cullompton, Exeter, Devon.

Day 10

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Coffee.

Electric ducting installed

The trench depth for the 60mm diameter black ribbed duct is ha