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I am very excited to be exhibiting garden art throughout the year at Ryton Organic Gardens, Coventry, UK and was recently featured in the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/find-things-to-do/art-displayed-new-exhib

Chafford Hundred, Essex. May 27th 2013.

Giggins Landscaping has completed a front garden in Chafford Hundred, Essex.

On this project, the customer required a low maintenance front garden that would look great year round.

We used Namgrass Green Mirage fo

Many of us are walking around with camera phones in our pockets, but just what can you create with them?

Well photographer, Mark Hirsch, decided the take a photograph each day of a 'lonely bur oak tree'.

And he has brought the images together to prod

A QUICK collection of news headlines from the past few days.

Plantwatch: The battle for the ancient British bluebell woods
A great blue wave has spread across the country in one of our greatest natural spectacles, as carpets of bluebells have come in

A performance staging area, café kiosk and major landscaping are just some of the features plans for a town centre park.

Harrow Borough Council has revealed the detailed designs of regeneration Lowlands Recreation Ground behind Harrow-on-the-Hill St

Winter lawn care is all about preparation, adequate lawn preparation during the fall will mean that during the winter your lawn will almost take care of itself - almost!

During the winter months the lawn grass lies dormant in most areas of the country

Garden landscaping and paving using Marshalls Fairstone King Size golden sand multi paving with a Eclipse light granite border detail

Circular steps constructed using Marshalls Fairstone setts

New walls and steps capped off using Marshalls golden sand

Being a natural stone paving supplier is quite an interesting job. It takes you to all sorts of places, brings you into contact with many different types of people and drops you into a whole range of different scenarios. Everyones got a camera phone

Crafty cockroaches have changed their sense of taste to dodge poison traps set for them.

The BBC reports how scientists in the US discovered that cockroaches had evolved to detect that the glucose used to coat poison bait was bitter not sweet.

It was

What Is Topsoil? Topsoil is the topmost layer of soil, in most cases the top 2 to 8 inches. It has the highest concentration of organic growing materials of all soils and is where the majority of growing of plants and crops occurs.

Topsoil has been cr

One of the first UK installations of the innovative new Hydro Filterra bioretention and bio filtration system has brought attractive landscaping and stringent stormwater quality control to a sensitive location in Barry, South Wales.

Vale of Glamorgan

The government has published its heatwave plan for 2013, with those working outdoors receiving special mention.

Public Health England says the plan is designed to increase organisational, public and professional awareness of the potential dangers to

The new Flickr is live.

Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren’t related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and s

Edinburgh plays host to the Gardening Scotland show which takes place from Friday 31 May until Sunday 2 June at the Royal Highland Centre.

The event plans on showcasing the work of top designers and landscapers right through to amateur gardening club

Both the Woodland Trust and The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) have stressed that work must be stepped up to protect UK trees and plants.

The two associations have published replies to the report from the Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Exp

The UK cement trade has been threatened with being 'broken open' after the Competition Commission (CC) said the leading firms had focused on maintaining market share, not customers.

The Competition Commission has provisionally concluded that coordina

A detailed report into UK wildlife has found that many species are struggling and that one in three have halved in number in the past half century.

The RSPB was joined by 25 conservation groups including the Wildlife Trusts, the Mammal Society, Bugli

PEOPLE were busy in their gardens in April (2013) according to The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) results for the month.

Outdoor plants and seeds and bulbs sold particularly well during the month with sales up 11.87% and 1

The Lantra Awards Level 2 Award in The Safe Use of Aluminium Phosphide for Vertebrate Pest Control (QCF) Qualification has been developed in conjunction with industry and RAMPS (UK) and on successful completion will provide you with a licence to prac