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Designing for cave dwellers

I used to live in Brittany, where I worked for a while on a plant nursery. One day while weeding the pots of Azaleas, my boss pointed at the hedge, saying ‘regardes, troglodyte!’ , which I translated as ‘look, a cave dweller!’. Puzzling: life in rura

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A funny old game

Its been a hard year starting off with a severe winter, very hot spring, a very wet summer and a reasonable autumn. Lets hope this winter is kinder to us. tree climbing and landscaping is a hard job at the best of times but bad weather makes tree cli

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A funny old game

Its been a hard year starting off with a severe winter, very hot spring, a very wet summer and a reasonable autumn. Lets hope this winter is kinder to us. tree climbing and landscaping is a hard job at the best of times but bad weather makes tree cli

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New Etesia Website Goes Live!

Etesia UK has just launched a brand-new website, showcasing their vast range of ride-on & pedestrian mowers, brushcutters and the complete range of Pellenc Lithium-ion battery powered equipment.

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“Following years of being told that our UK website was

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Create your vision at Tatton Park 2012

The RHS is calling on garden designers, landscapers, artists and architects to create an exclusive Visionary Garden for RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2012.

This category offers the chance to break the mould and go beyond commercial garden design by pus

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Driveway

Just finished a new block paved driveway in Hereford using Marshall's Tegula with Jumper blocks. Looks good and the customer is over the moon.

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A Wave of Blue Bulbs for the Spring Garden

Although autumn is one of my favorite times of the year, it is also a very busy time with lots of tasks to complete.  One of my favorite goals to complete in the fall is the Planting of Bulbs.  In early to mid summer the surge of catalogues arrive an

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Resin driveways direct is a new site aimed at individuals and contractors wanting to purchase resin bonded or resin bound DIY kits for self installation.

Resin bonded aggregates are typically installed  as a anti slip system on pathways,balconies,forc

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The Porsche Cayennes of Larissa

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One of the funnier stories to come out of the fiasco that is the Greek economy has emerged in the Athens News. Apparently a couple of years ago there were more Porsche Cayennes in the country than people declaring tax on earnings of more than 50,000

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Lamberhurst Engineering is actively looking for new dealers for their range of groundscare, arboricultral and landscape products.

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The company are the exclusive UK distributors of the Ferrari range of tractors, Seppi forestry mulchers and Caroni mower

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Open forum activity

Andy Crowther is now a member of Landscape Juice Network
Saturday
Landscape Juice replied to Aaron Bullus's discussion Tiny robot rigby Taylor
"Are you able to provide a few more details?  Maybe things like the number of hours you've used it, where you are based, what jobs you've used it on?"
Saturday
Miro Lazarini updated their profile
Saturday
robert pryor replied to Edward baker's discussion Rough cut mower recommendations
"Yes, this an upsetting drawback with no solution I can see. Maybe send in reptile beaters before strimming"
Saturday
Sam Bainbridge replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"Plus it doesn't matter if we all know plants are better value. I'd make the point of this to the customer but if they want trough grown at the extra cost that's their choice I'd just do it"
Saturday
Sam Bainbridge replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"I've done 5ft Thorne troughs. Very easy to plant just got a mini digger dug the trench then drop them in couldn't be easier however £250 per m does seem expensive. "
Saturday
Tim Wallach replied to Aaron Bullus's discussion Tiny robot rigby Taylor
"I have no actual use for it but the viral marketing/ graffiti opportunities would be remarkable
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Friday
Aaron Bullus posted a discussion
Thought I'd sign up to this forum. And I hope I'm allowed to post stuff for sale on here as this will be a one off? I have for sale a tiny pro robot, it's not the new edition but it's the bigger one of the two. If anyone is interested then please…
Friday
Aaron Bullus is now a member of Landscape Juice Network
Friday
Intelligent Gardening replied to Marc Ollerenshaw's discussion Insurance
"NFU are very exensive but are very good when it comes to making a claim apparently... but hopefully never have to. I was looking for a combined policy to cover all insurances but according to my broker there isnt one so I end up paying a broker fee…"
Thursday
Amy is now a member of Landscape Juice Network
Thursday
Peter sellers replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"Agree with you Graham, we have a client with a long run of Laurel which we only cut once a year mid june and have done for over 20 years, the client is fussy with a capital F ! It's a superb evergreen hedge which is bomb proof.
As to this so called…"
Wednesday
Graham Taylor replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"Disagree there!  I maintain a site with a couple of of large laurel hedges and one cut in July suffices and keeps it looking nice.  Agree.... looks nasty immediately after cutting but quickly perks up so you don't notice the cut leaves.  Pretty much…"
Nov 19
Duncan Neville replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"Thanks Tim"
Nov 19
Duncan Neville replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"Wow,  that's impressive !  Thanks"
Nov 19
Duncan Neville replied to Duncan Neville's discussion Instant hedging
"That's pretty much my thinking, but I am seeing them more and more. Mostly at expensive new builds. Mostly people with very limited gardening experience wanting an immediate finished product. "
Nov 19
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