Owners get paid when the business succeeds, therefore, they work harder. Employees get paid hourly – they might very well be motivated to work slower. Here’s an employee bonus system to help you bridge this gap. Watch the video below for more details
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Hi everyone, I set up last may and had quite a lot of work ahead of me from the start which is always handy.
Then before christmas we lost around 6 months work in 3 days due to clients possibly being made redundant and daughters wanting the garden mon
The Bath Gardening School launches with new Spring-Summer calendar
The brand new Bath Gardening School (www.thebathgardeningschool.com) is proud to announce its first programme of Spring-Summer courses. The Bath Gardening School offers gardeners
No matter what the outcome of the vote today, the process of a rapid and radical change to the structure of land based management in the UK as a whole is forthcoming. All involved in the industry from the periphery (scientists, academics et al.,) thr
- A consultation client we visited before Christmas has decided to go ahead with a garden design in Kilburn, West London.
- We have presented some interim layout drawings to our garden design client in Hackney.
- Still waiting to return to the Manor House.
We’re only as good as the people behind us. Your staff – your office managers, site supervisors and laborers – is the driving force behind your business. With the right self-empowered and innovative people on your team, your business has all the buil
I was asked the other day not to include any Ryegrass when seeding a new lawn in a few months’ time which would basically be used as a child’s play area along with another comment about what grasses I would use for a first rate lawn.
Now common annua
I know, I should be working instead of writing a blog. Still it's a good way to warm up for a day in my rather chilly studio. I have heating up there, but I am mindful of the lecky bill, and anyway, too much warmth would draw out the chitting potatoe
As the grass starts to grow you will need to start to mow your lawn. It is very important in early spring that you try and minimise causing too much stress to your lawn so for the first few cuts set the mowing height to its highest setting and only m
Briarlea Landscapes and Driveways Ltd has Lanarkshires largest landscape and driveway display centre.
The centre is open seven days a week for customer convenience. Here you will see six full driveways on display and six large landscaped gardens. You
Did my first gardening job of the year (I always take a break in January as it's ususally cold and miserable). Surprisingly the soil was very easy to work - I expect the snow and ice we've had has helped break up the clay.. it made me realise that ac

If you are a Garden Designer or Landscape Gardener you can claim your free advertisement and link to your website by em
Briarlea Landscape and Driveways Ltd won this award for a driveway installation using Marshalls Argent walling, Argent block paving
Briarlea Landscape and Driveways Ltd have won this award for the second year in a row.
Central Scotlands Biggest Landscape company has came away gleeming with 3 prestigious marshalls awards.
Best Engineering Achievement ( 2 years running )
Best driveway installation under 5k
Best use of ethically sourced Fairstone.
British Traditional Molecatchers Register
The BTMR is pleased to welcome our 400th member - Roy Wood.
Roy lives on a farm in the Hampshire village of South Warnborough.
Molecatching initially began as a hobby 20years ago
LANDSCAPING PROJECTS
We are currently carrying out a rear garden makeover in Manchester.
Each day we update our projects page on our website with the progression we have carried out each day: Projects Page
Here are some photographs of our progressi

A new project submission has been made to www.garden-design-pictures.com and the pictures can be viewed by clicking Pool
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I have been commissioned by The Trentham Estate to provide Garden Tours and Garden Workshops on a free lance basis.
Part of the service is to keep a Blog on garden updates such as what the garden team are doing through out the year
The Landscape Juice Network (LJN)
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LJN is an open association of individuals and companies involved in landscaping, garden maintenance, horticulture and garden design.
The site is…
As Blue Monday is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to give a small reminder to our community here on Landscape Juice to remember to tell people about your worries and if you’re having negative thoughts. Talking about emotions…
“Gardening programmes tend to be very ‘traditional’ white middle-class in their attitude towards gardening”, Julia Sargeant said in an interview after she won gold at Chelsea Flower Show in 2016. She was the first black gardener to design…
Studies report that burglary is one of the most emotionally impactful crimes to be a victim of. The prevention of being succumbed to it is always at the back of our minds – is anything on show? Are all the windows closed? Did you definitely lock…
Dan never knew that he would be orchestrating a ten-man-band five years ago when he packed in…
This series isn't just for landscapers and gardeners starting out: it's also a refresher for existing…
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I thought long and hard about tripod ladders before getting the 12 ft one over 10 years ago.
Well one clear advantage they have, they stand up by themselves.…"
Echo DHCA 2600 HD
Now in retirement mode and as previously.posted been looking for a cordless long reach and was going to buy something at the budget end,but as they all have the motor at the blade end making them very unbalanced along with slow blade speeds and very…
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Now in retirement mode so dug out my old cordless drill that was bought from Argos a long time sgo for £10 to start all those jobs that have been put off. Its dead but to be fair has been used extensively for fencing jobs.Just need something simple…
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Hi all.We have a plan to transform our front garden into a driveway. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say transform the garden into somewhere to park our two cars. We have decided to install grass reinforcement grids, rather than a non permeable…
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Hi all. I have a Stiga 955 purchased 14 months ago. It gets used maybe 4 hours weekly. Almost a year to the day the drive belt went on it, so I put a new one on. Two months later with maybe 30 hours use the bloody thing has gone again. Does anyone…
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