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As winter approaches, do you find your artificial sports pitch constantly flooding? Does water take a long time to drain away? And when the water eventually does drain away, are you then left with unsightly and potentially hazardous mud and silt depo

Hopefully, having explored different options on how to present a garden design or landscaping brand to our target audience, we have now received some enquiries! 

The second stage of the design process involves handling these enquiries: this is especia

A fantastic day out in Kent, near to Palmstead Nurseries.  A day full of great talks from Andy Sturgeon to James Alexander-Sinclair learning about what designers need to do in order to create great work for clients.

Thank you to Stuart Marler from TV

The Stone Bake Oven Company, designers and manufacturers of high quality outdoor and indoor wood fired pizza ovens have extended thier family of ovens to include the conveniently sized Mezzo Oven.

The Mezzo Oven came after the commercial range of res

LANDSCAPE JUICE NEWSLETTER
Wednesday 28 September 2011
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• During a garden design consultation in Hillingdon, West London discussion revolved around solutions for a garden that sits on an old gravel pit.  Suggestions included options for raised beds and planters, possibly constructed from railway sleepers.

Oh it's been a lovely afternoon, with a bit of late summer sun and to the garden-I-will-go. Those asters have been bugging me. Don't ask me how (they weren't there last year)  but they came up in the very front of a raised border so that look very aw

I am often asked this question and I suppose the response will be different depending on the company you approach.

At  OGC we would give a resounding 'Yes'. Most of our design projects are from start to finish, so we normally offer this as part of th

Lately I seem to have an increasing number of requests to 'endorse' products. I am assuming this is because of the success of the Greenfingers Guides books. It also doesn't seem to hurt I have a minor celebrity.

Yes I can see that getting individuals

Etesia UK is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Roberts as Northern Area Sales Manager for its range of Etesia and Pellenc Products. Andrew will be responsible for the North of England as well as The Midlands, Scotland and Wales.

Andrew j

Phew, where has the year gone?

I have recently been in the dying thoes of an edit on my next book Evergreen Plants, which will be released on Amazon et al in March 2012.So look out for it won't you? And did I mention my Border Plants book was shortlis

September is proving to be the busiest month yet for Dan Frazer Gardening. It seems that people around Glasgow are very proud of their lawns and want cutting, scarifying, moss and weed treatment and all sorts of other work done to keep them looking p

My son Adam of Cambridge Film works had just sent me a video he made for the Creating Landscapes show plus a meadow mat video for Q lawns.

When I read about the Olympics using wild flower turf, I had a bright idea of sending these videos to one of my

Having established the 10 major stages of the design process; let’s now have a look at how these might be achieved:

Each week I shall concentrate on 1 stage of the design process and discuss my personal approach and what software and techniques I use

You know the saying “ I have seen it all ” , well walking round Glee ( the 36^th year for this annual Garden and Leisure Trade Show) I came across something a little different. I usually avoid putting my foot in large dollops of cow pat when walkin

Customer Testimonials  - Success Story Part Two

Here at Abel Landscaping we believe good customer service is key to running a successful business. Many of our customers were willing to give testimonials to tell other customers about their experience

We all know garden maintenance can just comprise some uninformed bloke/woman strimming the living daylights out of a garden, without any real knowledge of the profession So I was just wondering what you all felt about this tricky mix and match exerci

The PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles is staging the 2014 Ryder Cup and as part of an upgrading of course care facilities 600 sprinkler heads have been replaced. The work was carried out by Souters Irrigation Services, a specialist arm of sports tur

At the opengardencompany we had luxury ( and challenge) of designing a modern Islamic garden in the Eastern Mediterranean. Trying conditions; blistering heat and coastal weaterh in summer and violent storms and winds in winter. Sourcing plants an abs