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You can now buy Trex Transcend Composite Decking from 2 of the major TimberClick Distributors 

Trex Transcend is a high quality Composite Decking with following key features:-

• 'Fade', 'Stain' 'Rot' and 'Split Resistant'
• Guaranteed residentially for 25 y

Linnel Brothers Ltd are now servicing TimberClick Milton Keynes and Oxford. A comprehensive range of landscaping products including Railway Sleepers, Decking and Fencing Products can be purchased from them both online and by phone.

Decking

• Softwood Tre

Trading Performance

Marshalls' revenue from continuing operations for the six months ended 30 June 2013 was £157 million (2012: £163 million), a decrease of 4 per cent.

Working conditions in the first quarter, which included the coldest March since 1

A life-size menagerie of animals, the works of Yorkshire wirework sculptor Chris Moss, will be found amongst the borders and gardens at Stillingfleet Lodge visitor attraction near York this August.

Hens, guinea fowl, ducks, pheasants, cats, dogs, a f

Defra has published its National Adaptation Programme report into what leading businesses, councils and communities, as well as government, are doing to tackle climate threats.

The report calls on businesses, local councils and communities to get rea

The 2013 Conservation Foundation's Gardening Against The Odds competition has been launched.

The competition is run in memory of Elspeth Thompson, the much loved Sunday Telegraph gardening columnist who died in spring 2010 following a bout of severe

Hundreds of people are expected to turn out to help pick weeds along the River Dee and its tributaries in north Wales.

Several organisations have united to arrange their own "Dee day invasion" which is targeting non-native species like Japanese knotw

Here is a quick catch up on some of the recent news headlines.

Alys Fowler: gardening makes you happy
I'm not trying to steal Oliver Burkeman's shtick, but if you're feeling a little blue, can I suggest you pull some weeds?

Climate change poses grave

During the summer your lawn will play host to heightened levels of footfall. Children fresh out of school playing sports late into the evening, a series of social gatherings and a lack of rain can you leave your lawn looking patchy and parched. Howev

This year's weather has seen rain alternating with spells of warm, dry sunshine - the ideal conditions for encouraging grass, weeds, saplings and other unwanted plants to grow strong and lush. Holywell-Cum-Needingworth Parish Council in Cambridgeshir

According to a new report from the Payments Council and Link, which runs the UK's cash machines, the volume of cash payments rose by 200 million in 2012, reversing the year-on-year decline over the past decade.

The cash machine remains the most popul

New mixed media work by Fiona Campbell and Kitty Hillier, on exhibition at Walcot Chapel, Bath

Award-winning artists Kitty Hillier and Fiona Campbell are exhibiting a series of new work in a show entitled ‘Blurred Edges’ at Walcot Chapel Gallery, Wal

(image: Garden Designer Phil Stovell)

Phil Stovell is a garden designer based in Somerset.

Not only has Phil set up his business in a recession, to add to the challenge, he has also relocated from Hampshire.

Phil Voice asks Phil a few questions abou

Cuts to the environment budget announced in Wednesday's spending review prove the need for a radical rethink on how we protect our threatened wildlife, the RSPB has said.

Alongside several other Government departments, the Department for Environment,

The Agency's Challenges and Choices consultation runs for six months until 22 December, 2013.

The

Sir Nicholas Bacon Bt OBE DL has been elected as President of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Sir Nicholas has been Treasurer since 1 July 2010.

Sir Nicholas succeeds Elizabeth Banks DL, who has been president of the RHS since July 2010.

Sir N

If you attended the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and saw the Stop the Spread show garden, sponsored by The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), cost details have been published.

The total cost of the exhibit was £95,000 with a breakdown of:

Design

Sherriff Amenity, one of the leading turf care and sports equipment suppliers in the UK, has supplied a range of products to Beversbrook Sports and Community Centre in Calne, Wiltshire. The facility is one of the leading sports facilities in the Sout

Sue Illman, president of the Landscape Institute, has criticised the Farrell Review as backward looking and too inwardly focused.

She was responding to the call for evidence issued by the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment. Illm