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A blog about Block paving, hard landscaping, driveway, patio, driveways, patios, pathways, garden, landscaper, Tobermore, Devon

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Day 18

The preparation to install the block paving

In
September 2012 we entered a selection of the driveways and patio's we have constructed
for customer throughout the north west area into the 2012 Marshall's installer
of the year competition, the competition is open to all of the Marshall's registe

Reduced labour costs, no moving parts and time saving are just three attributes enjoyed by users of the SweepEx modular brush system. Whatever you need to sweep, a SweepEx brush is quickly attached to the host vehicle, be it a tractor, forklift, tele

Bray Roofing are a small roofing company based in Maidenhead (I think). They won't pay the money they owe us. We sold them some hedge plants last March, since when they have disappeared off the radar. It was stupid of me not to take payment up front

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Day 15

The client has requested that the curved rising black sleeper shrine at ground level be raised by 1 meter so the garden structure is visible from the higher seating ar

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 Day 11

Gazebo and tools moved from sub base area so the intricate paving detail can be sprayed on the ground, all measurements and diameters are noted and loaded into CAD soft

Marshalls have announced a number of new additions to their product range available to homeowners in 2013.

Cobbletech
The Cobbletech driveway system is designed to give a natural authentic cobble look to a driveway or courtyard and is equally at home

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Day 6

Saturday 01/12/12. Job and knock....move 16 tons of sub base from front drive way to rear garden, rake and level at 1

A very warm welcome to one and all

Welcome to the daily blog of Jackson’s Landscape Design, JLD, the home of quality garden design Devon, landscaping and rammed earth garden structures, this blog will show you the daily life of our garden build up, th

I just rewatched a brilliant you tube video on Creativity by John Cleese, worth watching in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg. He explains how creativity can only occur when we are in the ‘open’ mode of operation, a state tha

Brassica oleracea 'Pépé Coterel' is looking for a garden at Chelsea
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Having read the magazines and the blogs, and having seen last year's gardens, I thought that I would write a few thoughts on what I thought might be some of the key garden design elements that would be prominent in 2013. However as one person can onl

As part of its plan to significantly increase business and provide customers with the highest level of technical expertise, Etesia UK has appointed Ian Collington as Southern area Sales Manager for its range of Etesia and Pellenc products. Ian return

DGG are a major supplier of high specification Uv and Non Uv polyurethane binders used for resin bound gravels.
Our manufacturer only uses virgin products to produce this high specification product,used throughout the uk on commercial,domestic and sc

I came across a post on Linkedin recently promoting a piece of software that would automatically write articles on any chosen subject with material gathered by it from Google and other online sources.

Ultimately its' main purpose seems to be to make w

We were recently invited to quote for a new resin surface in north Sheffield,the area had been concreted many years ago and had cracked and sunken with ground movement.
Our quotation was to dig out the existing concrete and due to the time of year in

Hi Folks

For those who don't know me, I'm David Beasley and I'm an experienced Garden Designer, 3D Visualiser and Landscaper. On LJN I have written the popular Blog Post Quick Method Of Producing First SketchUp Drawing/Design and started the Group Goo

We recently had to reinstate a number of resin bound gravel tree pits for a school in manchester.

Although they were installed correctly,when wet they had become very slippery because of the type of gravel used.

initially we tried creating a mechanical

Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading specialist sportsturf contractors, has won not one, but three prestigious awards at the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) National Landscape Awards, celebrated at the London Grosvenor House Hot