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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 9 

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Coffee.

Kitchen garden hatchway

The 3m concrete lintels are now bedded down level and the opening

we are new agents for
truncator the multiple log saw horse

for details see www.truncator.co.uk

Prize money in The Artisan Garden Design Competition being run by the organisers of Gardening Scotland has risen to £6,000 following support from The Cross Trust.

There are now three awards of £2,000 each will be given to designers who submit the bes

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wisley have purchased a Makita PLM4631 mower.

Peter Anderson, Machinery Manager at Wisley, selected the Makita mower following trials with a variety of machines. “This Makita with three horsepower and 46mm cut is pe

It has taken more than two years to design and build the new Coronation Street set, starting from an empty field to the place we all know and love, including over 400,000 bricks and 54,000 cobbles

Over 11,000 cobbles have been laid on the street with

Forestry Commission figures released today reveal that more than half (64 per cent) of the 100,000-plus woodlands across southern England were likely to have been affected by the St Jude storm in some way but very few woodlands should suffer long ter

Sherriff Amenity has confirmed an exclusive supply agreement with Greenaway Amenity to sell market and develop the company’s range of hand-held Controlled Droplet Application (CDA) sprayers and liquid products throughout the UK.

Sherriff Amenity and G

Thousands of pounds of paving slabs have been stolen from a street in Rochester, Kent.

The Yorkstone slabs, reported to be worth more than £7,000, were dug up at the junction of St Margaret's Street and Boley Hill.

It is believed stolen highways barr

At Bosbigal Landscape Supplies located in Truro Cornwall, we supply
Landscapers and Gardeners with Landscape products.
On the 30th April 2013 we were approached by Matthew Enfield of Glebe Landscaping, Laddock, Cornwall. He requested to open up an ac

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

Day 8

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Coffee.

Marshalls exterior kitchen

The main feed of armoured cable is fed into the right hand side

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

Day 7

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Coffee.

Laying blockwork

Using a Marshalltown bricklaying trowel I apply the 4;1 ratio mortar to t

Over the next few weeks BBC Two looks set to be dominated by talk of cottage gardens, wild flowers, topiary and more.

The Great British Garden Revival will be running on the channel in December and January bringing together 14 of Britain’s top telev

Thirty beech trees in Monks Walk, Welwyn Garden City will be felled before Christmas due to severe infection and extensive decay.

The trees are infected with the fungus Kretzschmaria deusta, a serious decay fungus of various tree species which is oft

House builder David Wilson Homes has been named as sponsor of the Show Garden Avenue at Gardening Scotland 2014.

The national flower and outdoor living show, which next year will take place from Friday, 30 May until Sunday, 1 June at The Royal Highla

Bob Howden, managing director and owner of the Ongoing Developments group which includes paving and walling company Grasscrete, has been elected as British Cycling president.

A keen cyclist and racer, Howden has spent the past 35 years heavily involv

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

Day 6

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Coffee.

Setting out the blockwork

Using a folding 90 and 45 degree set square I begin setting out

A joint project between English Heritage and the Landscape Group, University of East Anglia, has looked at the work of Capability Brown.

The project report is intended to examine the principal research carried out into Brown and his works over the la

The Environment Agency is warning businesses and home owners of an increased likelihood of flooding this winter.

The warning comes as the agency estimates that last year's flooding cost the UK economy up to £600 million, with the impact on businesses

Options available in everything from willow weaving to landscape design. Larger schools offer courses on many subjects and in many different formats.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/10464621/The-best-gardening-short-courses-for-2

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