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Just spent the last two weeks planting a thousand trees and shrubs out in the open. Ruddy freezing

Amid huge excitement the Garden Design Academy has just launched its new Facebook page. We have taken the same approach to Facebook as we did with our web site. First sign up and put something on line; learn how it works and what we could do with it.

Fantastic innovations using waste plastic drink bottles....on my to do list.

The way I see it is that the modern landscape company has to be at the fore front of trends other wise they may get passed over for a company that can undertake everything in-house. The still growing markets are 1. garden lighting, think out door liv

Last winter saw much of the UK grind to a halt by the worst weather seen for over 30 years, seeing  local authorities, landscapers and grounds maintenance professionals struggle to keep roads, paths and car parks safely open for users.

To help keep th

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It's great looking out of the window and seeing snow on the ground. North Glasgow has had two spells of snow so far, but neither has been long lived.

Our work recently has included fence repairs after the storms last week, plus turfing, clearing up de

Cash in on The Stone Bake Oven Company Christmas SALE!

'The Winter Primo' - enjoy cooking in your wood fired oven all year round. Only £599 + FREE Accessory Kit worth £49.99! When you order before the 18/12, for Christmas delivery.

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We are introducing garden lighting into our product range as of 9^th January we have teamed up with a leading manufacturer to supply the product from our showroom at our offices in Chertsey. From there we can offer a design and install service or if

Early next year the National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations will be launching it's 1000 Communities campaign.

The aim is to let 1000 communities, where the local authority is the landlord, about their right to manage and to encourage mo

Hi all,

I think this post may help ones that install or plan the use of astro turf ( synthetic turf/ fake turf).

In the last week, my business seems to be dead from orders. Not surprising Christmas coming , short day etc so got the time to do few thing

Recently made my first business connections through Landscape Juice.  The Wildflower Turf company.  Excellent product well worth considering for many applications.  Feel this approach to design solutions is more 'organic' whether problem sites or not

It was once aceppted that by having a website ,you could be found by your customers ,that is not the case anymore,with the amount of websites on search engines increasing every day.

All is not lost as there are still many number of ways to be found ,b

McVeigh Parker UC4 products are manufactured using only redwoods treated at a moisture content of 28% or less. The solution strength of the preservative is significantly higher than on standard pressure treatments and the vacuum/pressure process is l

I’ve had two disappointments this week. The first has been the Leveson enquiry. I’d sort of hoped – irrationally – that the hacks giving evidence might have turned out to be sentient beings. It turns out that they’re as moronic and unpleasant as thei

Just back from israel a week ago,

10 days with family and brilliant friends that try to help a lot. The Localls blamed me for bringing the winter to them as the temp just dropped from nice 26 to 19 with 200 mm of rain in 4 days (more than third of ann

Chris Nangle Furniture Design are delighted to be able to offer our clients an exciting range of vandal proof solid granite seating

Our granite street furniture is hand carved from solid blocks by Scottish craftsmen, the resulting products are aesthet

We are very glad that the weather has been good for us, the last few days have seen us install a row of pleached carpinus to start the final phase of planting on one of our projects.

The preparation work started over 7 days ago when the site was caref

The BALI North West region presentation was held at The Mere golf & country club Mere, Knutsford, Cheshire with 96 people attending including landscape contractors, landscape architects and garden designers who wish to achieve higher levels of profes