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Forget the snow,spring is round the corner with longer warmer days to help dry out your concrete,tarmac and hard surfaces.
Many contractors like our selves are still finishing work off from last year,and have already booked work in this year for earl

Marshalls SW Regional award winner 2012

I am extremely humble that my garden design and landscaping practice,  Jackson's Landscape Design, Newton Abbot, Devon are awarded the Marshalls South west regional award winner 2012, for the most creative use o

2012 was an enormous year for Vialii Garden Design. On February 2nd the business was given an injection of youth and vitality when we welcomed aboard our newest ‘recruit’, our baby daughter Lulu Ann Burt. She’s certainly livened up the business side

I thought I would start the new year with a regular posting of current projects and ideas under development, so just to get you in the mood here is a shot of my drawing board used as a mood board with my current project on show.

This project is a gard

We moved a week ago to a new home and it included moving the business to be managed from same address.
It has extra room for that ( a double garage ) the main warehouse is still located in one of the locall farmsaround house.

The place is beautiful s

I’ve been working on a construction detail for a deck and steps made out of Millboard, with a Plas Pro recycled plastic sub-structure, for a client whose brief has steered me towards a product which will weather predictably, be long lasting and resis

Booming Buckinghamshire landscaping and grounds maintenance firm, Alan Muxlow, is hiring!

Based in Towcester, the growing company is looking to recruit 4 new gardeners. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a firm on the up! The right characters wil

Feeling extremely deflated, walked into the landscaping project in Brixham, Devon this morning to find that the local cat had an over night rave on the freshly painted graphite masonry paint and danced on white paving slabs, the mud on the walls can

La charte régionale d’entretien des espaces publics «Objectif zéro pesticide dans nos villes et villages» s’adresse à l’ensemble des collectivités de Rhône-Alpes (communes, établissements publics de coopération intercommunale, conseils généraux…). El

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

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW DAYS 15-17  IMAGES.

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

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW DAYS 11 - 14 IMAGES.

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

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW DAYS 6 - 10 IMAGES.

 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

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW BEFORE, DESIGN AND DAY 1 - 5 IMAGES.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW FURTHER PROGRESS 

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