LJN Blog Posts

Just how healthy are the finances of your business? 

Obviously we complete tax returns each year and hopefully we monitor progress through the year but this generally focuses on turnover, expenses and profit.  It doesn't explain how financially health

Garden Design London: A week in the life of a London Based Garden Design and Build Company: Week 34 2011

• Claire enjoyed an afternoon in Balham with a client who had an Earth Designs garden design consultation voucher.  The final sketch included a curv

More and more garden designers, architects and landscapers are using our standard water troughs as planters. As the depth of the trough is 16", it is ideal for planting large shrubs and climbers into. Available in lengths from 2ft up to 10ft. Due to

It's great to finally see that otters have managed to return to every county in the UK. But as many experts still point out they are still relatively , with quite small fragmented populations across a lot of their range especially in the south and e

Alex from New Leaf Landscapes contacted us recently looking for advice regarding using recycled plastic and composite decking. We thought that other readers might be interested in reading our reply and benefitting from our experience gathered over mo

You ain't nobody if you haven't heard about the latest wood fired cooking trend that is sweeping both the culinary,garden and landscape world.

It has seen the U.K's top resturants rushing to invest in a wood burning pizza oven, and following closely

Etesia UK has announced a further new appointment to its dealer network, including both Etesia and Pellenc brands. To strengthen their service in the South East of England, FR Jones and Son have joined the ever expanding list, covering the Kent regio

The most entertaining and inspirational independent flower show in the UK

My Wife and I attended the Southport Flower on Friday 19th August and what a  fantastic day it was with something for everyone both young and old. In addition to the Grand Flora

• Work continues on the garden design and build in Willesden Green, the raised planter has been constructed and decking laid.
• Katrina is busy preparing for the next in-take of students for Earth Designs garden design course
• We are scheduling professional

Since we moved here 4 years ago, we've always heard and seen sparrows in the gardens of a couple of houses further up the road, but never seen them here. Now they seem to have had a good breeding year, and our garden is suddenly graced with a flock o

The following is an extract from a recent blog I wrote in regards to the draft NPPF, out for consultation at the moment, in which both within the ministerial foreword and in the text the word 'place' is used, seemingly at the expense of using 'landsc

We are delighted to announce that during the past month, Arbworx has racked up a whole wall full of landscaping industry accreditations.

APL & HTA

We heard this week that our application to join the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) and the

This week we have been working in Over in Cambridgeshire, just "over" the river from us being based in Needingworth St.Ives. The client has a new build property and has an unusally large garden attached at the side of the property which was left knee

Ayegardening

Ayegardening is a friendly, reliable, hard working family gardening business serving Crawley, Horsham and Dorking areas but also spanning across Surrey and West Sussex.

Gardening services:

• Regular garden maintenance
• Commercial and domestic

The wire used in the production of XFENCE has an improved coating which provides greater durability.

Since the development of Zinc/Aluminium coated wire in 1984, various companies have used this coating to provide a longer life for their products. McV

The upkeep of amenity turf within hundreds of housing estates up and down the country is a huge source of business for contractors. Reliability of mowing equipment is essential for this work. A contractor based at Battle in East Sussex, the FGS Group

Hi everyone

I thought I’d write a blog to show the fairly typical design process that I went through recently for my latest garden commission. The brief was for a family garden, with screening for privacy and to hide the children’s play equipment and

I would like to know if anyone has a kubota G26 Ride on mower. What is the good and bad points about this machine. I am looking into purchasing one for next season.