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Dear Southern-based landscapers and garden designers, (and everyone else that likes to travel)

I am keeping some 'living label' palms and olives at my holding nursery in Wimborne, Dorset. The idea is so that you or your customer can view the stock bef

Its a competitive market out there, effected by the recession, the seasons, competition and more! So why not consider offering your clientele the point of difference that will make your company stand above the rest?

With a wood fired oven, not only ca

Hi All and welcome.

For those of you that are not familiar, allow me to introduce my self.....

My name is Kerry Jackson and I design, create and landscape gardens,  my company Jackson's Landscape Design (JLD) is based in Newton Abbot, Devon.

My aim f

We love our gardens. All around the world there is a great proliferation of gardening bogs, articles, websites and real retail and wholesale dealers for gardening lore and products. It seems the modern world has actually increased, rather than decrea

I am purchasing 500 Hornbeams canes approx 1.6-2m tall.I am hopping to pleach 200 of them for resale at a later date(probably 5-6 years),What i need to know is would it be best to plant them in containers or in the ground as i believe i need to prune

Do you have a good work/life balance? How do we determine what constitutes a good work/life balance? Some people spend their entire life working on their business. As a result, they don’t have a good family life. Nothing but work has resulted in a ba

So yesterday, Monday evening, I did the rounds of my local area looking for prospective customers, handing out flyers to those people I saw out walking their dogs, running or just getting home with the shopping. Lots of gardens that need some work do

Despite the slowdown in the economy, Etesia UK is bucking the trend and expanding its nationwide Pellenc dealer network. Since first launching the range of lithium-ion battery powered tools just one year ago, Etesia UK has established a path of conti

Two recently held open days in the heart of Kent’s countryside at Lamberhurst Engineering Ltd premises were dedicated to Hakki Pilke firewood processors, Thor Log Splitters and Palms Trailers and Cranes. Over the two days a good many customers were d

Long term career dreams are beginning to bear fruit for Jasmine Bellinger, who left the financial services industry to concentrate on a new Wiltshire landscape business and has just been named the Women and Work Horticulture, Landscaping and Sports T

With more than 15 years’ experience in HR Nicki Jackson decided to take a new path in life and retrain as a garden designer with help from Lantra’s Women and Work programme and because of her dedication, she has been named the Women and Work Horticul

Lantra, the Sector Skills Council supporting land-based industries, announces today, 1 April, that they have been appointed to accredit the Investors in People programme to English businesses operating within the land-based and environmental sector.

Agripower Contractors, a leading specialist sportsturf contracting company, has successfully completed the construction of a full size 3^rd generation synthetic pitch at Southfields Community College in London.

The Buckinghamshire based contractors ha

The spring is finally here, and that means it’s time to think about gardening. Some of you keen gardeners will have already been planning your space throughout the winter months, but for those of you who might have just moved house to a new garden, o

Garden Pathway Edging - Doing It Ourselves

How many times have we laid down something perfect in our gardens, only to have it change character over time? I mean, we can choose among a billion subjects, really, Trees grow, flowers and perennials doub

Well what a couple of weeks its been, I have just finished my latest design and build commission and developed a gorgeous new product at the same time.

The client brief was to design a low maintenance garden for their newly acquired holiday home. The

So there I was sitting in my garden admiring my handiwork and taking in the late afternoon sunshine and I thought to myself, "sod this lark....working all week and only having the weekend to do the garden" so I decided that it was about time I did so

A waterside garden - informality within a structured environment

As people who make gardens, designers and landscapers work to a client brief.  Sometimes this is very broad and unformed, the client needing to be coaxed through the process of deciding