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Brett Landscaping has enhanced its reputation as one of the UK's leading manufacturers of hard landscaping products for commercial applications with the introduction of a new range of locally sourced natural stone products for flag paving.

Yorkstone

A Barnstaple construction company has been fined for safety failings after a ground worker was seriously injured when he stumbled from an excavator and fell down a five metre bank at a construction site in Middle Marwood.

The 65-year-old, who does no

SIFSS is a web interface that allows you to:

• Compare your soil to national averages calculated from the Scottish Soils Database
• Find out what soil type in is in your area
• Explore the characteristics of around 600 different Scottish soils
• Discover th

The supply chain will be key to the CE marking of stone when it becomes compulsory in July 2013.

The CE marking of construction products has been described as the most significant change being faced by the industry for a decade. For some in the stone

The Sustainable Ryegrass Products (STARS) project will be jointly led by the BioComposites Centre at Bangor University and the Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, and informed by industry partne

Many people experience the frustration of having their lawn invaded by weeds, there may be just one dandelion to start with, but let it flower and seed and there will soon be a hundred!

So what can be done about this?

Firstly do NOT make the mistake th

Sketch or cad drawing?

When you go to do a quote for a potential client how do you present your ideas to them about the job at hand?

Do you sketch something out on paper and talk to the client right there and then?....or do you go away and hand draw so

Comfrey (Symphytum officinale)has long been used in the garden mainly for it's use as an organic fertiliser. The properties of this "wonder plant" are well known to the older generation of gardeners and growers as well as those interested in organic

Talk about travelling. Have had orders for artificial lawns in London and Swansea. Turfcare.co.uk

Planting Design - Primrose Hill London 2012: ironbutterflydesign.co.uk 

Looking forward to revisiting this North London garden.

Brief

The garden needed refreshing.  Some of the planting had outgrown the space and had subsequently been removed.  A design

I'm very excited - my first floating wooden bench - but HOW?!! I've heard that there are special bolts/clamps/fasteners??? Can anyone give me more information?? This is what we want it to look like
Design of garden

My stone mason said we can notch a g

From Friday 8th March 2013, ANP Services Spalding are now qualified for spraying pest and herbicides (weedkillers) via knapsack sprayers.

All operators that apply pest or herbicides on a commercial basis MUST LEGALLY be qualified to apply these produc

Just finished a 280 sq m drive using Tegula. Had a few problems with the jumper blocks cracking but Marshalls have sorted bless

My company www.turfcare.co.uk has just installed a new artificial lawn in Hereford. Customer over the moon

Say NO to Cowboy Builders with deposit guarantee scheme
Worried about Cowboy builders? AND Cowboy Consumers!!!

Are you worried about how to gain confidence from your potential customers?

There is so much bad press about people taking large deposits only

Our stand at the Northern Restaurant and Bar 2013 Exhibition @ Manchester Central was certainly a worthwhile venture, attracting some serious interest in our Algarve Rotating Blade Canopy. For more info go to our new website

Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading sportsturf contractors, has recently carried out extensive drainage works at Dunikier Golf Club in Fife, to help allow for almost uninterrupted play during wet weather.

The golf club has had a history of poor dr

The UK Plant Sciences Federation is a special interest group of the Society of Biology that brings together the breadth of UK plant sciences to:

• Increase the understanding of the significance of plant science amongst government, funders, industry an

My Environment aims to connect people with nature through better access to on-line environmental information.

By bringing a wide range of sources of information about the natural environment together in one place, My Environment enables you to see ho