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A look over some recent articles from the newspapers.

Autumn colours in the garden to light my fire
From bright-orange Kaffir lilies to tomato-red witch hazel, match your colours for late-autumn pyrotechnics.

Royal surprise for a Dutch master plantsm

Tighter controls on the import of sweet chestnut and plane trees come into force today throughout England and Scotland as the latest action to guard against tree pests and diseases.

These new regulations, which coincide with the start of the new plan

At Avon Turf, we've been working as landscape gardeners and turf farmers in the south west for a generation. We've witnessed industry trends come and go, as technology has evolved. We were in this game when rolling turf was an endurance event. Today

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

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Day 5

Coffee.

Mixing Concrete

Whilst one member of the team sets about mixing the concrete, 5;1 ratio, f

Starting a wildflower meadow?
It's that time of year when you need to sow Yellow Rattle, Rhinanthus minor. Yellow Rattle, or Hay Rattle, or Cockscomb, is an attractive yellow annual wildflower of meadows. It’s a good bumblebee and butterfly plant a

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

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Day 4

Coffee.

18 ton Hi-ab grab

Like clock work my 18 ton Hi-ab grab lorry arrives to remove the first l

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

Day 3

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Coffee.

Hand digging the footings

Landscaping works continue to cut the remaining feature wall foo

The UK, the US and Norway are to fund a new initiative aimed to help save the world's remaining forests.

Norway is earmarking up to $135m, the UK $120 million and the US $25m for the first year of a major new BioCarbon Fund initiative, which will be

A new film, promoting the creation of ‘water sensitive cities’ as a way of addressing the major challenges of water shortage, flooding and pollution, has won a Sustainable Water Industry Group (SWIG) Award in the Communications Category. Commissione

Yesterday while doing some minor tree pruning my expensive Fiskars Telescopic pruners broke. These were less than 2 years old. On investigation I noticed that the whole mechanism was driven by a thin nylon rope which had snapped internally. I am not

Natural England today confirmed Lodge Hill in Kent as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its nightingale population, special grassland and woodland.

The decision marks the final step in the designation process after Lodge Hill was notif

The Victorian glasshouse at Wentworth Castle Gardens, near Barnsley, is to re-open next month following a £3.74m restoration.

The renovation is the culmination of a 10 year fundraising campaign which began after the glasshouse was featured on the BBC

Alan Abel, a Complete Weed Control franchisee for over 30 years, gives his take on winter spraying.

Although we are into the dark mornings and evenings, pests and diseases don't stop for a holiday- in fact, they get more active.

But due to weather cond

Avonmore Associates, a specialist fine turf contractor, has upgraded its turf maintenance fleet with the purchase of two SISIS Rotorake 600HD pedestrian scarifiers, which have been put straight to work this autumn during a period which has seen 126 b

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

Day 2

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Coffee.

I requested a larger machine to move the stock pile of rubble as the previous hired excav

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

My name is Kerry Jackson, proprietor, principle garden designer and fully fledged hands on landscaper of Jackson's Landscap

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new help for employers on how to protect the health, safety and welfare of their workers.

Following consultation, HSE has reviewed and updated the Workplace Regulations Approved Code of Practice (AC