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ICL and Syngenta Extend Partnership

ICL and Syngenta Extend Partnership

ICL and Syngenta have renewed their strategic partnership supporting turf professionals in the UK and Ireland and other European turf markets, extending a long-standing collaboration focused on research, product innovation

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The TGA Spring Members Meeting

The TGA Spring Members Meeting

Members of the TGA (Turfgrass Growers Association) met in London on Wednesday 18th March for their first meeting of 2026 to share knowledge and best practices, discuss industry issues, while

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Makita releases new cordless chainsaw

Makita has released its new professional cordless UC030G 40VMax 500 mm brushless XGT® chainsaw, designed for demanding cutting tasks where reliability, durability and high performance are essential. Built to deliver

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Resounding “yes” to Saltex 2025

Saltex 2025 has officially wrapped with a confirmed attendance of 7,463, outstripping 2024 visitor numbers and reinforcing its position as the cutting-edge event for the grounds management industry, organiser the

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Stihl extends PPE forestry work range

Power tool make Stihl has launched additions to its professional personal protective equipment “to deliver outstanding comfort, protection and mobility” for forestry workers and arborists. Spanning the Function, Dynamic and

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Cordless “blows away petrol options”

With cordless technology advancing rapidly, manufacturer Makita’s UB001G XGT Blower exemplifies how modern cordless tools match petrol performance while eliminating fuel mixing, emissions, and maintenance requirements. Since its launch, Makita’s

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Park free at Saltex

Europe’s leading sport amenities landscaping and turf exhibition is providing free car parking for visitors. The NEC venue usually charges around £20 a day to park but organiser the Grounds

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Saltex unveils Arcade Zone

Saltex, the UK’s cutting-edge turf management show, has unveiled its brand-new Arcade Zone, a dynamic and interactive space bringing gamification and play to the heart of the exhibition. Located in

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Hydrowick hits 1,000 milestone

Recent works at Burford Golf Club marked a milestone for sportsturf contractor Djuke – its 1,000th install of the Hydrowick drainage system. The achievement comes fewer than nine years after

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PMP Surfacing spreads the word

Surfacing specialist PMP Surfacing brings its “expert, outcome-driven approach and technical expertise” to Stand L86. Known for its in-house installation capability, specification guidance and smart surface pairing know-how, PMP will

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Leading brands return to Saltex

Some of the biggest players in the sector are returning to Saltex 2025, organiser the Grounds Management Association (GMA) reports. Returning to the NEC Birmingham on 12 through 13 November,

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Power up to Saltex 2025

Europe’s cutting-edge showcase for the grounds management industry is back this November, from the 12th through 13th at the NEC, Birmingham. Uniting latest products and expertise, Saltex is designed to

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Kubota parts redefined with Terrako

Turf machinery manufacturer Kubota (UK) Ltd has introduced a digital marketplace for customers to streamline ordering of genuine parts using mobile or desktop devices. Called Terrako, it enables Kubota parts

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FGM expands robotics division

Since acquiring UK distribution rights for the Echo brand three years ago – and more recently introducing the Echo Robotics range of commercial robots – FGM Claymore has experienced significant

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GroundsFest “nearly sold out”

GroundsFest 2025 is bursting its boundaries, with nearly three months still to go before the groundcare and landscaping show hits Stoneleigh Park on 9 through 10 September. Speaking exclusively to

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Time to check over your woodchipper

Nesting season offers landscapers the chance to give woodchippers a bit of TLC, manufacturer GreenMech suggests. Its offering operators top tips on simple, routine maintenance to consider conducting over the

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gardeners' World live

BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2024 

Gardeners’ World Live 2024 returns to the NEC Birmingham from 13-16 June, 2024 and is bringing new highlights as follows: Adam Frost’s headline Show Garden, The Chef’s Table, featuring daily ‘plot-to-plate’

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Project planning landscaping

  Project planning

Greg Rhodes talks to general manager of the APL, Phil Tremayne on how best to plan, prepare and cost landscaping projects  While some garden landscapers are reporting bulging order books

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GMA celebrates 90 years

GMA celebrates 90 years

On 10 January 1934, 11 founding members joined W H Bowles BEM, head groundsman of Eton College, at the London Stone Pub on Cannon Street, London to form the National

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Kubota appoints aftersales managers

Kubota (UK) Ltd has appointed Krissi Holt and Neil Scott as aftersales dealer managers for Kubota agricultural, groundcare and construction equipment. These new roles follow internal promotion and expansion at

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Hickstead

Kubota UK supports Hickstead

Kubota UK are delighted to have entered into a sponsorship agreement with one of the country’s most recognisable and well-respected equestrian sporting venues, the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead, with

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Lantra awards

Lantra instructor excellence awards

The hard-work and dedication of Lantra’s Instructor and Assessor network was celebrated in June at the inaugural Instructor Excellence Awards at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. Over 40 Instructors were in attendance

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Dealer Hub

BAGMA Dealer Hub at GroundsFest

BAGMA (British Agricultural & Garden Machinery Association) will be launching a BAGMA Dealer Hub at GroundsFest taking place at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 20 – 21 September. BAGMA has been

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Meadfleet

Meadfleet in awards final

Meadfleet, a leading provider of open space management services, has been selected as a finalist in the Excellence in Social Value category at the CN Specialists Awards 2023, which are

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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) review

Meadfleet Ltd, provider of open space management servicess, reviews the latest updates on forthcoming Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regulations. Meadfleet’s Operations Director and Ecologist, Samantha Hursey, explores the benefits and

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Trade shows 2023

Trade shows 2023

Landscapers, turf professionals and suppliers are busy setting their schedules for 2023.  Is there time to fit in a trade show, too? Maggie Walsh discovers why putting at least one

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API support GroundsFest

GroundsFest has announced a new strategic partnership with the Association of Play Industries (API), with the first event being held at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 20 and 21 September 2023.

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Creative lawn stripes

Creative lawn stripes

Stripes to strive for! Now in its 10th year, the Allett Mowers annual Creative Lawn Stripes Competition once again attracted entries from all over the world. The past few years have

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Landscape Show 2022

Inspiration overload at LANDSCAPE 2022! Head on over to LANDSCAPE and enjoy 2 full days of inspirational talks, unlimited networking and gain inspiration for your next project from the thousands

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A look to horticulture in 2030

Expert speakers at Horticultural Trade Association conference to share 2030 industry insights A host of experts including horticulture industry speakers and British explorer, journalist and TV presenter Simon Reeves are

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Quartix Evolve launched

Quartix, one of the leading global suppliers of subscription-based vehicle tracking systems is pleased to announce the launch of Quartix EVolve, a new service designed to help companies manage their

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Green-tech Specifier team grows

The Green-tech Specifier team grows with the addition of Emily Murray who recently joined the company. Green-tech Specifier is the specification arm of leading landscape supplier Green-tech. The department focuses

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APL Awards 2022 winners announced

Simply Green Landscapes & Andrea Newill Garden Design crowned Supreme Winners at the APL Awards 2022 The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) annual awards ceremony, sponsored by Bradstone, took place

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#TimeForTurf

Garden designer and landscaper launch #TimeForTurf campaign to encourage homeowners to stop using artificial grass Artificial grass has become extremely popular across the UK, with homeowners across the country looking

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Hire or buy an excavator

How useful is an excavator for a landscaping business? The answer is that, potentially, it could take your firm to the next level. But, researching whether to hire or buy

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New CEO for Quartix Vehicle Tracking

Quartix, a leading supplier of subscription-based vehicle tracking systems, software and services, has announced the appointment of Richard Lilwall as CEO. He succeeds Andy Walters, who will retire following 20 years’

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Trees at risk – health warning

The types and number of diseases attacking our tree population are rising amid concern over effective treatment methods. Technology can give landscapers and arborists an early warning that allows them

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Tranquility gardens at Newham Hospital

Bart’s Health Trust, one of England’s largest NHS trusts, recently enlisted the landscaping and maintenance services of Ground Control to create tranquility gardens at Newham Hospital. Gardens and outdoor spaces have

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Lockdown anxiety during COVID-19

Greg Rhodes speaks to a landscape contractor about coping with lockdown anxiety. Landscape contractor Richard Parkinson has just completed an exhausting 17-hour stint at his laptop, planning and posting material

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Plants Near Me campaign by HTA

Following on from the HTA campaign at the start of April 2020 to highlight the financial plight of ornamental horticulture growers during the coronavirus shutdown,  the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA)

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GreenMech dealership in East Anglia

GreenMech, manufactureres of woodchippers and shredders,  expand their dealership outlets as they appoint Thurlow Nunn Standen LTD (TNS), as distributors for Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Operating out of three depots

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ALAN PRICKETT JOINS ISEKI UK

ISEKI UK & Ireland are pleased to announce that Alan Prickett (picture right) joins ISEKI UK in the role of Business Development Manager, responsible for dealers in the central band

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BALI award winners 2019 revealed

BALI Registered Contractor Ground Control has been awarded the British Association of Landscape Industries’ (BALI) prestigious Grand Award at the 43rd BALI National Landscape Awards 2019. Ground Control’s project, The Children’s Garden, Royal

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Re-elm the British countryside

On Wednesday 27th November, timed to coincide with National Tree Week, a number of Staffordshire dignitaries and guests from across the horticultural industry celebrated as a stand of 20 elm

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Party for Perennial 2020

Clear your diary and dig out your glad rags, and extend the party season for the 2020 Party for Perennial. Join friends and colleagues from across the horticulture industry on Thursday

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APL UK Champion revealed

The heats took place in the summer for the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) WorldSkills Landscaping competition and now we have the winners – announced at WorldSkills UK LIVE which

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Timberwolf joins Made in Britain

The UK’s leading manufacturer of professional wood chippers, Timberwolf joins Made in Britain. Accredited to businesses selling goods that have been manufactured or have undergone a final substantial change in

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Festive support from Perennial

PERENNIAL, the charity for people in horticulture across the UK, is ready to offer some festive support to families and individuals this Christmas who are feeling the festive strain or

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Cultivating Retail Conference

Key topics impacting the horticulture and gardening industry will be in the spotlight at this month’s Cultivating Retail Conference on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. 15-minute

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Natural weed control

The control of unwanted weeds and vegetation is a perennial issue for municipalities, landscapers and green space contractors. However, since 2011 a UK company, Weedingtech Ltd, has been developing a

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BALI announces SmartCard scheme

Do you work in the commercial land-based industry? Looking to upskill your own workforce? Trouble accessing certain live commercial sites? The Land-based Industry Skills Scheme (LISS) and Construction Skills Certification

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End of the road for diesel?

With fuel costs and vehicle taxes continuing to rise – combined with the advances in the electric / hybrid market and government incentives for switching to greener travel, is it

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THE PERFECT TURF TYRE?

Meet the Redwing Turf 24, possibly the last turf tyre you’ll ever buy. It has been developed by Sussex-based grounds maintenance specialists, Redstone Tyres, as the definitive tyre for turf.

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Horticulture skills gap survey

A major survey investigating the future skills needs within UK ornamental horticulture is underway, with more than 300 businesses already providing insight about the potential training and resource gaps for

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Polaris introduce Ranger Diesel

Polaris has introduced the RANGER Diesel for 2019, developed specifically for markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Debuting in dealerships this spring, it redefines refinement with

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Call of the Wild

TV presenter Michaela Strachan rallies public to discover forest wildlife  The Forestry Commission is inviting people to join the largest ever survey of England’s forest wildlife. The Big Forest Find

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Chemical training workshops by Green-tech

Following the success of previous Chemical Workshops, landscape suppliers Green-tech have announced dates for their next two chemical workshops – Training the Trainer.  Each workshop features six speaker sessions (BASIS points

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Improving Lives

Perennial is urging everyone across the horticulture industry to think of those in our sector who are struggling to make ends meet this festive season. Many people working in our

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Trade Centre opens in North Yorkshire

In early December, landscape supplier Green-tech opened a Landscaping Trade Centre in North Yorkshire, selling everything needed for commercial landscaping projects. Customers will benefit from discounted trade prices. The Green-tech

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IOG industry awards

Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, this year’s Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) annual Industry Awards, was held on the first night of SALTEX at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. More than 650 of

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Tough workhorses

Etesia UK has unveiled two new Attila pedestrian brushcutters ahead of the 2019 season. With built-in rugged reliability as standard, the new Etesia AK60 and AH75 pedestrian brushcutters have been

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Next-generation turf managers

Each year Jacobsen, a Textron Golf brand, invites 20 greenkeepers to its headquarters in Ipswich to undertake education designed to help them take the next step in golf course management.

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Royal Forestry Society awards

Six woodsmen from the Balcombe Estate, Haywards Heath have received Royal Forestry Society awards in recognition of their combined 248 years of experience and knowledge managing and improving the estate’s

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Twice as good

A duo of awards topped off a fantastic week for the Cub Cadet team at IOG SALTEX 2018, one given and one received. The annual IOG Awards Event, which saw

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180? Let’s party!

Tickets! Celebrating the 180th anniversary of the charity dedicated to helping horticulturists, Perennial will hold its annual Party for Perennial on Tuesday 29 January 2019. The anniversary party will be

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Kilamarnock remembers

      Tivoli is proud to be part of the design and build team appointed by client East Ayrshire Council to transform Holehouse Garden in Kilmarnock into a special

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Spiral mode mowing

STIGA’s new Autoclip 530 SG robotic mower has an integrated GPS system, maps a garden into mowing zones, and works in random and intelligent spiral modes guided by GPS to

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TigerTurf at Eton

Eton College has long been regarded as one of the UK’s leading independent schools, renowned for its academic excellence and famous alumni. However, in the world of sport it is

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Half-cab promotion

Purchase a new 2018 Polaris Ranger Diesel HD EPS EU or Ranger Diesel HD EPS Tractor from selected Polaris dealers between 1 October 2018 and 21 December 2018 and you

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DLF Seeds appointment

To support continued investment, growth and increase in sales, DLF Seeds has appointed Alistair Eccles as Regional Technical Sales Manager for Scotland and the North. His new role will see

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Key supplier to £3.5m project

Wildflower Turf Ltd has recently been nominated as a key supplier by Cornwall Council as part of the council’s Green Infrastructure for Growth (GI4G) project. The Hampshire-based wildflower experts are

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New amenity plants 2020

Wyevale Nurseries has unveiled its new amenity crop range for 2020, with eight new plants selected based on their habit, colour and functionality. Kyle Ross, Production Manager at Wyevale Nurseries

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Spider away!

It’s not often that machines are sold at a show, but this happened on booth 7188 at the GIE+EXPO in Louisville, KY when a prospective customer saw the Spider ILD02.

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More power, less weight

The new ECHO CS-4510ES rear-handle chainsaw has a 45cc two-stroke stratified scavenging engine, and a power-to-weight ratio that makes it more powerful yet lighter than previous models, with output of

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Indoor therapy

Increased interest in urban gardening has seen a rise in the popularity of ‘bringing the outside in’. The indoor plant market has grown by 32% in the past two years

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Six-figure contract

Commercial nursery, Johnsons of Whixley, has teamed up with contracting company, p1 Solutions/Contractors, to spruce up a multi-million pound hidden gem in Scotland. Saughton Park, in Edinburgh, has been subject

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Rewarding innovation

Swiss-based Lubera was awarded the Innovation Prize at the annual business conference at Kibernetik AG site in Buchs in Switzerland on 27 October. Innovative entrepreneurship in the Werdenberg region was

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Milestones to prominence

Sports contracting, groundsworks and landscaping group Cleveland Land Services dug into its past recently to unearth key milestones to celebrate 50 years serving the sector. Agricultural machinery salesman Frank Miller

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Golf in Society

Corporate partners of Golf Business International have rallied round to assist member Anthony Blackburn’s Golf in Society initiative, which works with people suffering from chronic illnesses. Golf in Society delivers

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Off to Ponte Vedra beach

Six members of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) will go to Ponte Vedra Beach in March 2019 to help prepare the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass for

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Innovations and competitions

Reesink Turfcare, Sherriff Amenity and McConnel are the final three companies competing for the SALTEX 2018 Innovation Award. After its successful debut at last year’s show, the SALTEX 2018 Innovation

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Seeding innovation

Green-tech supplied its John Chambers Wildflower Seed for the new £48 million Wick Campus project, part of the Scottish Government ‘Scotland’s Schools for the Future programme’ commissioned by the Highland

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Autumn treasure trove

Hawkesmill Nurseries, the Warwickshire based family-run business, has been grown 1,200+ varieties of plants for more than 42 years. One dearly loved perennials is the Helleborus. These stunning plants have

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Reducing carbon emissions

A fleet of 22 Cub Cadet INFINICUT mowers were recently installed at Ciudad Real Madrid to maintain all the natural pitches at the club’s training facility. In his new role

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Progressive mower

ATCO has manufacturing lawnmowers for more than 90 years, helping owners maintain their lawns and providing the finest cut. The ATCO ‘Standard’ was the first truly mass-produced motor mower in

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Invigorating the fairways

Innes Knight, Course and Facilities Manager at Kingsbarns Golf Links, says that ICL’s Greenmaster Pro-Lite Invigorator 4-0-8+2MgO+4Fe is crucial to his fairways maintenance programme. Golf has been enjoyed over the

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Water no more

With the capacity to be left unattended for up to 12 weeks without watering, Lechuza self-watering planters are perfect for those wanting plants and greenery, but without the time to

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John Hillier retires

Hillier prides itself on its family involvement in the business, and a key innovator over the last 60 years in driving the expansion of the business and the introduction of

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Soft-landscape workshop

Garden designer Andrew Wilson, Sheffield alumni Ken Thompson and award-winning landscape architect John Wyer will lead the discussion on ‘Biophilia’ at Palmstead Nurseries’ soft-landscape workshop in January 2019. Palmstead’s annual

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Achieving top grades

The Greenkeepers Training Committee (GTC) is proud to announce that Thomas Sherreard from The London Club and Hadlow College has become the first Golf Greenkeeping Apprentice to achieve the new

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Encouraging times

Event organisers have reported a significant increase in pre-show visitor registration ahead of SALTEX 2018, which takes place at The NEC, Birmingham on 31 October – 01 November. It certainly

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Graduates’ Trainee Programme

Hereford-based Wyevale Nurseries is inviting applications for its two-year Graduate Trainee Programme, for people interested in nursery production and other elements of the business including finance, IT, sales or marketing.

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Unearthing the benefits

Johnsons Lawn Seed has launched its latest lawn innovation. The company’s latest research into grass growing techniques unearthed the benefits of an ingredient that specifically seeks out grass plants. Super

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New Product Awards 2018 winners

Eleven ground-breaking new garden products have been confirmed as the winners of the coveted Glee New Product Awards 2018, at a special award presentation organised and run by Garden Trade

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Landscape Construction Diploma launch

BALI, through its nationwide GoLandscape initiative, has supported BALI Training Provider member Capel Manor College in developing and launching a brand new Advanced Diploma in Landscape Construction (Level 3). Endorsed

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Welcome growth at Exhibition

The 23rd GaLaBau in Nuremberg welcomed 72,005 trade visitors – 12.3% more than in 2016 – keen to learn about the latest products and trends for designing, building and maintaining

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Next-generation woodchipper

GreenMech will use APF 2018 to launch its next-generation SURE-Trak System (patent pending). Since its introduction in 2002, the SAFE-Trak19-28 woodchipper has become an indispensable tool for operators traversing embankments

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Best New Product award at GLEE

At GLEE, Yorkshire-based start-up company, Block Blitz, won a Best New Product award in the Tools & Machinery category, and its new Multi Pave and Block Shield treatments were shortlisted

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Industry-shaped exhibition

When the 73rd annual SALTEX exhibition opens its doors at the NEC, Birmingham on 31 October and 1 November, visitors can look forward to a comprehensive product display spread over

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2019 Promotions Catalogue

Warwickshire-based and family-run Hawkesmill Nurseries, who produce over 3.5 million plants throughout the year, has released its 2019 Promotions Catalogue. It includes tried and tested, popular varieties and new lines.

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Paver dolly

Bon’s Paver Dolly securely and easily transports layers of paving blocks directly from the pallet to jwhere they are needed on the building site. The cart has fully adjustable clamping

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Tale of two Dans

The British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) is proud to announce that Daniel Ashelby of Wilmslow Golf Club has been proclaimed the 30th winner of the Toro Student Greenkeeper

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Bespoke trailers

Difference and variety is exciting, which is why British manufacturer SCH was recently delighted to receive an order for 12 bespoke trailers from Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd. Ransomes has supplied quipment

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Offshoots and swards

Johnsons Lawn Seed’s Shady Place and Luxury Lawn have been substantially improved with the addition of Johnsons’ innovative Seedbooster treatment , a two-in-one seed coating. Used in the professional turf

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Research and science

John Watson, Course Manager at Downfield Golf Club in Dundee, has been using ICL products for the entirety of his 20 year greenkeeping career and recently singled out H2Pro TriSmart

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Park contract renewal

Glendale has secured a two-year contract extension to deliver grounds maintenance services in the south east for its client, the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. The contract spans a 26-mile

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Unique contract

Despite the drought this summer, Northampton Borough Council’s green spaces are looking excellent, due to a unique contract between two major facilities management companies – Veolia and idverde – plus

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Integral to cider makers’ regime

Thatchers, the iconic, fourth-generation cider makers based at Myrtle Farm in Sandford, Somerset, has purchased a Spider 1 remote-controlled mower from supplying dealer, Loxston Groundcare. The new mower will be

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Meeting highest standards

Ian Smith, turf consultant for St Albans School, Woollam Trust Playing Fields, has reported excellent results from using the combination of a Dennis G860 cassette system and a Dennis Razor

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Recyclable plant pots

Wyevale Nurseries has introducing recyclable plant pots for all its retail plants so that they can be recycled kerbside by consumers. In 2019, Wyevale Nurseries will be replacing its black

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Inspiring amateur gardeners

Woodlodge launched a new consumer engagement POS to inspire amateur gardeners at the recent Glee event. It is aimed to promote the ease of container gardening. Those new to gardening

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New RHS licenced range

Sipcam UK, in partnership with Assured Products, presenting a range of core garden care products licenced under the RHS brand. The  range will include: weedkiller; moss killer; path, patio and

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Pots of money

Indoor pot supplier, Ivyline, has raised nearly £3000 for Greenfingers Charity. Ivyline’s ‘Happiness Teacups’ range was launched at Glee last year, with 25p from every set sold going directly to

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Best Green Heart

The Green Heart – Glee’s horticultural hub – recently awarded Golden Grove Nursery with the inaugural Best Green Heart Display award, selected by judges Emma Coupe of Waitrose, and Batsford

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Patioworld

Bradstone and the Frank Key Group recently launched Patio World, at Brookfields Garden Centre in Nottingham. Patioworld features displays of every Bradstone paving product, and extensive stock and building products.

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Taking on the Great Wall

Two members of the Perennial marketing and fundraising team are taking on the challenge of a lifetime as they prepare to tackle one of the Seven Wonders of the World

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Half a century of innovation

In 2018, Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe (CEE) is marking the 50th anniversary of launching its first wheeled, self-propelled mini-excavator, the YNB300. When the YNB300 launched in 1968, it helped reduce

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Durability and comfort

STIHL will showcase its collection of new professional mowers at SALTEX 2018. The full range of STIHL’s new professional lawn mowers will be on stand, including the RM 756 GS

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Apps, products and prizes

Visitors to the Sherriff Amenity stand (E060) at SALTEX 2018 will get the chance to find out how they could significantly improve their turf through a range of unique products

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Seeding growth

Limagrain UK seed company will showcase a range of grass seed mixtures, including the market leading MM60 and MM50 on its stand (G041) at SALTEX 2018. MM60 is a 100%

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Tree stump control

At the ICL stand (K030) at SALTEX 2018, focus will be on Ecoplug Max, a patented product for tree stump control. Ecoplug Max is a patented tree stump control application

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BALI National Landscape Awards

More than 60 members of the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) have won a BALI National Landscape Award, with some members successful in more than one category. This year’s

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Pots of support

Green-tech has donated in excess of eight pallets of horticulture pots, trays and hanging basket accessories to adult-education charity, Horticap. Horticap, based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and whose Patron is

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Palisade fencing

Palisade fencing offers a strong visual deterrent to possible trespassers. Its sturdy construction creates a strong physical barrier that is tough to break down even with force. The lack of

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Modern cheque management

The TALL Group of Companies, the UK leader in the provision of secure paper and electronic payment solutions, has partnered with J Parker Dutch Bulbs to ensure the retailer benefits

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Contract extension

Artifical Grass has been selected by MKM Building Supplies to extend its contract as the exclusive supplier of artificial grass until 2020. The renewed contract includes the supply of stock,

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Minimum course disruption

Set within Scotland’s Golf Coast, the 18 hole links course at Dunbar Golf Club demands accuracy and judgement as play follows natural contours and a rocky shoreline. Currently in the

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The ‘smart’ choice

Following the successful performance of their first four Isuzu Grafters, Midlands sister companies Smart Cut Ltd and TFN Landscapes have purchased a further 10 of the latest Isuzu Grafter Green

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RHS funding

The RHS has made more than £100,000 available to gardening professionals and keen amateurs who want to combine worldwide travel and horticultural learning this year. The funding, which comprises a

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Keeping staff and golfers safe

The Greenkeepers Training Committee (GTC) has launched a free-to-use web-based platform created by the Xact Group that aims to ensure golf club employers un­derstand their roles and responsibilities towards health

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Most beautiful ground

The Wormsley cricket pitch in Buckinghamshire is often referred to as ‘the most beautiful ground in Britain’. When Mick Jagger introduced Sir Paul Getty to cricket, the latter formed such

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Keeping Grounds Growing

Plants and trees are expensive to replace, and it’s crucial to keep greenery hydrated. Keeping plants, trees and grass healthy is the passion and expertise of SCH Supplies; as manufacturers

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Love Where You Live

Squire’s Garden Centres is working with local councils to make parks and green spaces even more attractive, by donating thousands of daffodil bulbs in its ‘Love Where You Live’ campaign.

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Comprehensive range

Price Turfcare, the UK and Ireland distributor of the Ventrac multi-implement compact tractor and Ryan turf maintenance equipment, is returning to SALTEX on stand B124. With the business celebrating its

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Utility vehicles roundup

Since 1961, Cub Cadet has built lawn mowers, lawn and garden tractors, zero-turn mowers and utility vehicles that work harder and perform better than other products in the industry. With

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Moisture management

The Lansdowne course at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Perthshire, Scotland has seen huge benefits since using a range of ICL’s H2Pro moisture management products, according to Course Manager Craig Stewart.

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Planters statement at Glee

Woodlodge has created the new Magma Collection for urban gardeners looking to create a sleek outdoor space.  Simple, elegant containers and angular shapes complement sharp, geometric designs. With EFSA’s recent

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Fantastic fairways

Lawrence Ryan, course manager at Overstone Park Resort, believes the SISIS tractor- mounted Flexibrush delivers fantastic results on the picturesque fairways at the Northampton-based golf course. The course is quickly

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Eco-friendly alternatives

The recent Monsanto court case underlines the importance of the TCL Group’s role in working towards greater use of environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional weed killer. Indeed, one of its

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Alumni membership

The sky is the limit for drone enthusiasts and professionals as the UK’s leading drone training experts launches its membership package. Rusta’s ‘Alumni’ membership offers exclusive benefits and discounts across

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Tractor investment

With the imminent opening of its new stadium in North London, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club continues to invest in its world-class training centre with the recent purchase of additional attachments

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Performance wins

After learning about the numerous benefits of the Först ST6P, The Tree Feller Ltd has invested in its first Först woodchipper for its growing fleet. The tree surgery business, which

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Free-draining, green sward

Pontarddulais Bowls Club and Graig Merthyr Bowls Club share the same council-owned green in Coedbach Park, Pontarddulais, Swansea. The green has seen around ninety years of play and until early

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New chipper website

The team behind the distribution of Jensen woodchippers in the UK has launched a website showcasing the range of chippers available to industry professionals across the country. With a simple-to-navigate

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Seed distribution accuracy

Set within Scotland’s Golf Coast, the 18 hole links course at Dunbar Golf Club demands accuracy and judgement as play follows natural contours and a rocky shoreline. Currently in the

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Racing green

Daytona International Speedway, the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR, is using a Spider ILD02 remote-controlled slope mower on the steep sided banks of the

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Making the cut

Cub Cadet INFINICUT® mowers make it a ‘first’ for Emerald Headingley Stadium in Leeds. Home to both Rugby Union and Rugby League, the club is currently in the midst of

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Tackling lawn damage

The persistent drought of the past few months is causing lawn and turf headaches as the combination of drought and unusually high temperatures, causes a lot of grass plants to

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Mulching for green

Mountfield has been a number one UK brand for over 50 years and has not seen a heatwave summer like the one we have been having for a long time…

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Busy attendance schedule

Green-tech has released its events calendar, highlighting the company’s many attendances at landscaping exhibitions and events across the UK in 2018, including: Specifi, Glasgow | 4 September FutureScape Scotland, Edinburgh

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Revitalised Glee exhibition

During 44 years as the go-to event for the garden retail industry, Glee (10-12 September, NEC Birmingham) has undergone many changes. Reflective of the need to keep retail environments fresh

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Taupe is the new black

Following increasing attention in the media on single-use plastics a group of key UK growers, and representatives from the HTA, seized the initiative last week to discuss the future of

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Scarify in autumn

Scarification is an essential part of lawn maintenance that involves the removal of thatch or moss from the lawn, helping with air flow and keeping it health. If you do

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High-performance tools at APF

STIHL will exhibit its latest developments in professional chainsaws and forestry equipment at this year’s APF Exhibition, where visitors will have the chance to see the products in action at

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New SV60 midi-excavator

Following its global reveal at this year’s INTERMAT exhibition, Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe (CEE) has announced the roll-out of its SV60 midi-excavator across the UK and Ireland. From August, the

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Upgraded 3G football pitch

Brighton & Hove City Council appointed Essex-based ETC Sports Surfaces to the 70x31m pitch reconstruction at Hove Park, East Sussex. The park is popular with local residents, dog walkers and

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Double irrigation renovation

Breadsall Priory Marriott Hotel and Country Club in Derbyshire has renovated two ageing irrigation systems to one Toro Lynx control system to keep its 18-hole Championship Priory Course and Moorland

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Solution to wickets and outfields

A ‘historic and inspirational cathedral setting’ provides the backdrop for studies to the pupils at The King’s School, Gloucester. In charge of maintaining the three hectares of gardens and sports

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Keep Your Garden Growing

Plants and trees are expensive to replace, and with Britain potentially facing the most extreme heatwave in 42 years, it’s crucial to keep your greenery hydrated. Keeping your plants, trees

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Cutting it fine

          Allett Mowers’ new 27” professional cylinder mower offers the ‘Quick Cartridge’ options that effectively make these mowers eight machines in one. Powered by the Honda

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Eco Paints

          New Glastonbury-based paint company Thorndown has developed and two new unique paint ranges for the home and garden. The new non-toxic Peelable Glass Paint is

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The Pasture rejuvenated

                  The Pasture (Fairways) Sports Complex’s astroturf surface is a hub for sport in the community of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire. A true

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High-profile garden debut

Composite Prime’s outdoor decking solutions made a high-profile garden debut in Hampton Court Palace earlier this month. With the summer heatwave bringing record temperatures – and record crowds – the

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Trees & Development Award

Treework Environmental Practice, along with the developer Lendlease and the London Borough of Southwark, recently won the Trees & Development Award at the London Tree and Woodlands Awards for its

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Record breaking year for new starters

Leading landscape supplier Green-tech has recently welcomed two new starters, taking the company’s number of new recruits in this financial year to a record-breaking 16. Green-tech has experienced significant growth,

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Calm in Chaos

  Max Harriman, junior designer at landscape company Bowles & Wyer, is one of five new designers exhibiting at the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show as part of the Young

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Social housing contract awarded

National green services provider Glendale has been awarded a contract to deliver grounds maintenance services for Karbon Homes. Glendale specialists will do grass and hedge cutting, shrub and bed maintenance,

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Gold at RHS Hampton Court

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) and the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) ‘Best of Both Worlds’ show garden, built by a team of 23 students, has been awarded a

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Versatile and compact

The Club Company, which owns and operates 13 country clubs across the UK, has taken delivery of two Ventrac 4500 compact tractors with Contour mowing deck and blowers attachments. Chris

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New turf for children

The Early Years Foundation Stage outside environment at Bedale Church of England Primary School in North Yorkshire has been given a luxurious finish with some help from Green-tech. The children’s

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No leaf left unturned

Four SU60 vacuum units from Trilo are the latest additions to the City of Wolverhampton Council’s fleet, making the task of leaf collection much easier.  At just shy of five

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Exhibit at Rail Live 2018

Green-tech recently exhibited at Rail Live 2018 (20-21 June) in Warwickshire. The event was organised by RAIL magazine in partnership with Rail Alliance. The show unveiled many new developments for 2018, including

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Celebrating half a century

  At BBC Gardeners’ World Live, organisers acknowledged the nurseries and growers who have exhibited at BBC Gardeners’ World Live for the past twenty-five years. Each received a bespoke Moorcroft

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No more ‘fade to grey’

Surface care specialist, LTP has introduced a new outdoor sealer and restorer to its ECOPROTEC® range.  Developed for dark natural stone and artificial stone surfaces, new Blackstone has an eco-friendly

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Best May sales ever

Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford, founded in 1930, reported its best May with sales up by 14% (2018), year-on-year (2017-18) growth of 17% in shrub sales, 19% in herbaceous and 60%

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New linetrimmer model

The new Makita DUR189Z 18v LXT linetrimmer, which replaces the popular DUR184L model, has a 240 watt output brushless motor providing capacity to run the head at three selected speed

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No more Dry Patch

James Bledge, Course Manager at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, Kent, says he has successfully treated Dry Patch with monthly applications of Qualibra wetting agent. Formed in 1892,

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Achieving consistent growth

On his third stint at the London, but the first in charge of the two internationally-renowned 18-hole courses, Lee has worked with Headland Amenity products for a number of years.

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CPD-accredited seminars

The award-winning industry trade show, LANDSCAPE, returns to Battersea Park on 18-19 September. Supported by 40+ different key media titles and trade associations, LANDSCAPE exhibitors showcasing everything from lighting to

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Just cricket

David Hodgson, groundsman and president at the Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club in Headingley, Leeds, believes more local cricket clubs would see significant improvements if they used a SISIS Rotorake TM1000

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Road-legal investment

At SALTEX 2017, Toro’s LT-F3000 triple flail mower stood out from the crowd to Harlow Council-founded facilities management company, HTS Group Limited, and the company, which deals with grass cutting

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Wet weather success

Greenfingers, based in Midlothian, Scotland, has renewed its fleet of Etesia groundcare equipment by purchasing 14 Pro 46 PHCS pedestrian mowers and a Buffalo 100 BPHP ride-on mower. Established in

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Multi-tasking mower

Billingbear Park, in Berkshire, recently purchased a Ventrac 4500 compact tractor with a rotary Contour mowing deck, supplied and delivered by local dealer, GA Groundcare. The new combination will be

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Online budgeting tool

As the cost of living continues to rise beyond that of economic recovery, more people working across the UK horticulture sector are struggling to make ends meet, or are unable

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Best of both worlds

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) has teamed up with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and BALI Registered members to design and build a show garden, with support from

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Concrete fencing

Cost and supply issues in the timber industry are turning the tide in favour of concrete fencing products, according to Supreme Concrete’s Sales Director Tim Wright. The manufacturer of high-performance

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Step this way

Stepping stones are a charming feature in any garden. Set in lawns and gravel or even in borders interspersed with planting, they offer a practical way to walk about the

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All-weather practice

Huxley Golf was proud to equip practice facilities for another premier golf club this Spring. Bearwood Lakes Golf Club’s forest terrain and woodland has evolved over centuries to create an

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Deep-clean process

Ashton Playing Fields provides a sports and leisure facilities across its 50-acre site in Chigwell, Essex. Dan Sweetman, who has recently taken over as Centre Manager, was delighted to be

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Pioneering new infill sand

  Aggregate Industries new Pro Pitch Elite is an infill sand proven to have the best drainage rates available in the UK market. Unveiled by the company’s Garside Sands division,

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Platinum and Best Show Garden

BBC Gardeners’ World Live’s prestigious annual awards honoured a garden based on the history of the host city, Birmingham, with its highest accolade, a Platinum Award plus Best Show Garden.

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Enhancing London’s Limmo Peninsula

  Hampshire-grown wildflowers have recently commuted to London, playing their part in the regeneration of Canning Town as part of London’s ambitious Crossrail project. A beautiful wildflower meadow supplied by

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Cut quality

Richard Ayling, grounds manager at Merchant Taylors’ School in Hertforshire, recently purchased four Dennis Razors – one for the school’s lawn areas and three for cricket pitch preparations. Richard has

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Free annual Research Day dates

STRI Group has announced the dates for its free annual Research Day event, hosted at its world-class facilities in West Yorkshire. Greenkeepers, grounds staff, course managers, stadium managers and other

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In-depth equipment training

Newly appointed BLEC dealer, Acorn Tractors from Derbyshire, recently joined forces with staff from Charterhouse Turf Machinery (CTM) for an in-depth training session on the BLEC range of specialist landscaping

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Wheel gold at Chelsea

The Makita 18v LXT Brushless power-assisted wheelbarrow has taken some of the back-breaking labour out of Landform Consultants’ inspirational garden builds at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018. Mark Gregory,

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Official BIGGA Partner

Bernhard and Company has become the latest turf industry organisation to formalise its support of members of the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association by becoming an official BIGGA Partner.

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Achieving show accreditation

At RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018, Rolawn helped 20 exhibitors achieve show accreditation including one silver award, four silver-gilt and seven gold awards. Scooping the top prize for ‘Best in

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Tivoli trading

Following completion of its acquisition of ISS Landscaping on 1 June, Tivoli (Tivoli Group Limited) is trading. Tivoli Group Limited is owned by private individuals as part of the Sullivan

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Murray Hire Centres choose Först

Bristol-based equipment and tool hire business Murray Hire Centres is continuing to expand its long-standing fleet of Först woodchipper machines, after consistently being impressed by the superiority and reliability of

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Centenary Garden winner

The Welwyn Garden City Centenary Foundation (WGCCF) has chosen Heather Appleton of Appleton & Co Design as the winner in a competition to design a Centenary Garden that will debut

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Tracked mini-transporters

The new Ibea Mini Transporters, sometimes referred to as powered barrows, are a ‘must have’ for anyone wishing to move loads across rough terrain, up steps, over kerbs and around

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Traditional paving

Bradstone Edale is a gentle riven paving with smooth edges inspired by the stony footpaths seen on country walks. It’s an affordable and traditional paving range that doesn’t compromise on

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Longevity and nutrition

John Jennings, Course Superintendent at Castleknock Golf Club in Dublin, used to struggle with achieving longevity from fertilizers until he applied ICL’s Sierrablen Plus Stress Control 15-5-22 +2MgO. A vibrant

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The Chelsea phenomenon

Deco-Pak has reported an increase in sales in its Chelsea Garden Range in the week during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, as the decorative aggregates specialist announces its continued commitment

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Defending Dahlias

  Dahlias are a favourite in Britain’s gardens thanks to their amazing variety and colour. They are easy to grow and are suitable for planting in containers and borders, so

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Savings on battery-powered mowers

Etesia UK offers savings on selected models in its Duocut range of green technology battery-powered pedestrian mowers. The revolution in battery powered equipment continues to sweep through the groundscare industry

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Tree Health Resilience Strategy

Proposals to consult industry on new quarantine arrangements for high-risk plants are among the measures set out in a new Government’s plan to protect the UK’s trees. Confor has welcomed

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Yorkshire in Chelsea

Rolawn (UK turf and topsoil supplier) provided 60 square metres of Medallion® Turf for the Welcome to Yorkshire 2018 RHS Chelsea show garden. Medallion® was chosen as a high quality,

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Noise No More

Forest Garden’s acoustic panels are a cost-effective solution to a noisy problem, with sales so far in 2018 double what they were in 2017. The panels are designed to cut

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SPF for Summer Plants

Just like people, plants can experience sun damage. Excess light exposure can cause the leaf tissue to burn up, causing discolouration that can be particularly damaging to young plants. While

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Mower Manoeuvrability

Cub Cadet’s PRO Z Series mowers have been given the official seal of approval by 100 landscapers who put the machines through their paces for a rigorous testing period of

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Maximising Sector Growth

As sales of outdoor entertainment and living products continue to increase, the Glee exhibition (10-13 September, at NEC Birmingham) will include new suppliers and the latest information to help maximise

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Support Primary School Gardening

Ahead of this year’s National Children’s Gardening Week (26 May-3 June), a Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) report ‘Together, we help children grow – the state of primary school gardening in

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Protecting Your Plots

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time (GQT) join forces to highlight the importance of plant health at this year’s RHS Chatsworth Flower Show (6-10

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HTA Appointments

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has announced the appointment of Matthew Bent, the Managing Director from Bents Garden & Home near Warrington, to the HTA Board as a non-executive director.

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A Little Piece of Yorkshire

Green-tech is sponsoring the return transportation of 50 tonnes of Yorkshire Dales’ stone to and from London for designer Mark Gregory’s ‘Welcome to Yorkshire’ garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

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Side-by-Side Revolution

It’s been two decades since the RANGER® 6×6 vehicle was introduced and revolutionised the side-by-side category in 1998. Mitchell Johnson is the son of David Johnson (one of the founders

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Havoc Unwreaked

There is a direct correlation between grass growth and ground temperature, and the extreme lows followed by recent highs will have grass growing incredibly well. The downside to this, however,

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Rethinking Repton

Design undergraduates at Writtle University College are collaborating with RHS Libraries on an exhibition celebrating the work of influential 18th Century landscape designer Humphry Repton. The students have freshly interpreted

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Performance at Sub-750kg

Wiltshire Countryside Services, owned by Adam Lonsdale, has purchased an Arb 150p from GreenMech. “We were getting more and more problems with our previous chipper, and ended up spending more

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Paving On Point

Garden paving manufacturer Bradstone supported an up and coming designer at this year’s Ascot Spring Garden Show on 13-15 April. Designed by Tom Hill of Tom Hill Garden Design based

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Enhanced Online Experience

Green-tech’s new website brings together products from all Green-tech’s brands into one central hub, providing improved visitor browsing and buying experience. It includes a powerful search system, product calculators for

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Future Vision: Liverpool Waters

New visuals for the £5 billion Liverpool Waters project show how the 60-hectare development will look when completed, with restoration of the city’s northern docks to create a world-class, mixed-use

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Pergola Sneak Peek

Harrod Horticultural is launching new contemporary product designs at the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show. The back and sides of its show exhibit will be the Harrod Modern Pergola system, with

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Woodchipper Winner

Tony Dighton of T.D Environmental Services won a new Först ST6 P woodchipper in the ‘Win a Chipper’ competition. Tree surgeons, contractors and arborists were entered into a prize draw

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‘The Yard’ Transformed

The University of Roehampton takes up three major sites in Roehampton, southwest London. Tucked away and rarely ventured on by students, ‘The Yard’ of the University had old storage buildings

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Spot the Stag Beetle

Between June and July, wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is asking people in the UK to record sightings of stag beetles on six summer evenings, as part

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Gold Rush at Chelsea

Hillier is set to introduce three new plants in its Chelsea Flower Show garden in 2018. Each plant is different, but complement the rustic theme of Hillier’s garden ‘Stihl Inspiration’.

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Protecting Bees

Following news the EU has banned the use of pesticides in order to protect bees, B&Q has released a statement. Steve Guy, Market Director at B&Q, said: “B&Q was the

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Xylella fastidiosa Action Plan

Because of the threat of Xylella fastidiosa and the potential devastation it poses to the horticultural industry, the HTA has created a 30-day action plan, to increase awareness of Xylella

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Woodchippers at Arb

Först woodchippers supplier will show its latest fuel-efficient, petrol-powered machines at the 2018 year’s Arb Show at Westonbirt National Arboretum on 11-12 May. The Först’s ST6 P woodchipper is a

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Reminder: Iprodine Disposal

Bayer head of sales, Neil Pettican, reiterates it will be illegal to store or use unapproved iprodione-based chemicals, including Chipco Green® and Interface® after 5 June 2018. “If it’s not

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Entrepreneurs: Win a Grant

Start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovators are encouraged to take part in this year’s ‘Innovators Zone’ at the Glee garden, gift, home and leisure trade show (NEC, Birmingham, 10-12 September 2018). Glee

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Promoting Play

The Association of Play Industries (API) has a new brand and website, reflecting its role as ‘the lead trade association for the UK play industry’. API member companies provide playgrounds,

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Conceptual Installation

Gold medal-winning garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes will create a conceptual installation at this year’s RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, using elements of a village that once stood in the grounds of

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Safe, Playable Pitches

The Football Development Centre at Flegg High Ormiston Academy in Norfolk, known as the FDC@Flegg, is one of three facilities run by Norfolk County FA. Elliot Pride, the FDC@Flegg Development

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Blooming Plant Trends

Industry exhibition, Glee (10-12 September, NEC Birmingham), explores the latest plant trends. The garden industry is worth an estimated £5 billion, including £1,424 billion of garden plant sales. Broken down

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Interactive Elm Map

Are you someone who believes that all our elms have disappeared? The Conservation Foundation, which has been working with elm trees for more than 30 years, has set up a

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Real Gardens for Real People

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed brand new Lifestyle Gardens at its largest flower festival, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (2-8 July), supported by Viking Cruises. Featuring plenty

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Lifting Turf Made Easier

When it comes to renovating an area of turf, manual lifting may seem arduous and strenuous. However, with the use of sod cutter, ground can be lifted with ease. Billy

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 Cub Cadet ..Mini rider

The new addition is the Cub Cadet LR2 FR60 mini rider. This super nimble machine needs little more space  than a walk-behind mower, yet easily fits through garden gates and

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Great brands…. New Etesia Dealer

Etesia UK has announced the appointment of Country Machinery Ltd, based in Driffield, East Yorkshire as its newest dealer. Country Machinery, a family run business providing sales, services repairs and

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Irrigation Integration

Burnley FC’s Gawthorpe Training Centre has reached its next stage of development with a Desso Grassmaster pitch, reconstructed by J Mallinson (Ormskirk) and irrigation by Irrigation Control. The new ‘top

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Woodchipper Success

Beechwood Trees and Landscapes  has invested in three new Först Woodchippers, after a successful trial that saw the team of arboriculture experts significantly impressed with the high performance and robust

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Expansion into Digital Marketing

Cheshire fence provider Stockdale Fencing has experienced rapid growth and an influx in sales after expanding its online presence and growing its digital skills set thanks to a business course

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Effective Landscape Irrigation

The popularity of drip irrigation systems continues to increase as the industry recognises the benefits of dripline compared with other types of irrigation. Not only does drip irrigate plants directly

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Concrete Alternative

OSMOUK Post Fix is a strong, easy-to-use, and fast-setting solution that allows users to fix a post in a matter of minutes. Whether you are installing garden posts or sports

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Protect Against Lungworm

Slugs remain a prolific pest in the garden, and their damage can extend far beyond destroying your flowers and vegetables, as they can carry the lungworm parasite that can cause

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Versatile Woodchipper

River Clyde Homes is an Inverclyde-based housing association that manages 5600 homes and factors 2500 properties for home owners. In 2017, River Clyde Property Management was created as an ‘in-house’

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Learner of the Year Awards

Reece McNaughton, an 18-year-old apprentice from Kelso, won the Horticulture category at Lantra Scotland’s annual Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards. Reece was also Overall Runner-up for the

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Zero finance Continues

“A large proportion of our customers have been taking advantage of our 0% finance offer,” says Ben Murray, Polaris’ National Sales Manager. “We have decided to continue offering interest-free financing

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New APL Chairman

Ken White from Frosts Landscapes has stepped down as Chair of the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL). Vice Chair Rod Winrow, from Garden House Design, is taking on the role

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Horticulturalists of Tomorrow

Six students studying horticulture have been awarded £8,500 worth of scholarships by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF). As part of the DCF Scholarship Season, four students have received Student Scholarships

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Renovation Edge

Liberty Stadium Swansea, the premier sports venue in South West Wales, is home to Swansea City Football Club and the Ospreys regional rugby team. Although sceptical, Head Groundsman Dan Kirton

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Journey of the Seed

Advancing lawn technology has been at the core of Johnsons Lawn Seed’s business for nearly 200 years. Established in 1820, Johnsons is the oldest lawn seed brand in the UK

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Expansion throughout USA

Operating on a global scale with distributors in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and America, Kebony (a beautiful wood recommended by leading architects) has continued its expansion throughout the United

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Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation

The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) is pleased to announce that power giant Drax and Ireland’s ‘Internet of Trees’ technology-solution provider Treemetrics are now confirmed for its flagship National Conference,

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Demand for Specimen Shrubs

Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford has created additional bed space on its nursery for specimen shrubs and has extended the range to include several native hedging varieties to keep up with

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Training Courses 2018

Sports surface consultancy, STRI Group, has released dates for turf industry training courses held this autumn/winter at its UK headquarters in Bingley, West Yorkshire. The professional qualifications include BASIS Certificate

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Targeted and Personalised

Woodlodge, supplier of garden pots, horticulture products and gardenware, is introducing a new point-of-sale (POS) printing service. To entice customers in-store, Woodlodge offers in-house printing service to create eye-catching POS

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What Lies Beneath

The APL Garden for Ascot titled ‘What Lies Beneath’ has been designed as an educational piece of landscaping. Public at the show will be invited to walk on the garden,

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Planting a Seed for the Future

Planting a seed for the future: Macmillan’s RHS Chatsworth Legacy Garden On June 5th, Macmillan Cancer Support will be at the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, exhibiting a bespoke garden inspired

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Strong Start to 2018

Glee show organisers report that the beginning of 2018 saw the annual exhibition witness support from the garden retail sector. With a relocation to NEC halls 6,7,8,19 and 20 set

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Soil Resource Survey

Tim O’Hare Associates (TOHA) has undertaken a Soil Resource Survey to determine the quality of soils displaced by planned improvements and building works at RHS Garden Wisley.  The development of

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Digging Deep for Garden Re-Leaf

  Garden Re-Leaf Day has raised more than £65,000 thanks to garden industry events and promotions all over the country. Activities included the annual Garden Re-Leaf Walk, the inaugural Garden

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Festival Fundraising Dinner

Perennial is reviving its traditional Festival Dinner, an evening of fundraising, with the help of partners and supporters from across the UK horticulture industry. Taking place on 12 October at

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my TurfClub

Sherriff Amenity recently hosted the first myTurfClub event at Syngenta UK’s Jealott’s Hill Research Centre in Bracknell. myTurfClub is a new initiative from Sherriff Amenity, which aims to help improve

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Flowers To Live By

Registration is now open for ornamental exhibitors at the International Floralies – Nantes on 8-19 May 2019 in Nantes (France). The program is expected to be rich in colour, scenery

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New Kitchen Garden

Harris Bugg Studio has been appointed to design the new Kitchen Garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater. Set within the historic walls of the original Victorian Kitchen Garden, the design references

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Landmark 80th Aniversary

British greenhouse and glasshouse manufacturer Hartley Botanic is celebrating a landmark 80th anniversary. The Lancashire-based business (founded in 1938 by brothers Vincent (RHS fellow) and Norman Hartley), has made its

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Green-tech – headline sponsor

BALI Registered Affiliate member Green-tech has renewed its headline sponsorship of the BALI National Landscape Awards for a further three years, commencing this year. The company’s initial three year sponsorship,

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Centre Spot Improvement

Ryan Golding, head groundsman at the Emerald Headingley Stadium, home to Leeds Rhinos rugby league and Yorkshire Carnegie rugby union clubs, believes that Limagrain’s MM60 grass seed has been integral

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New Scarifier Attachment

Tracmaster’s newest addition to its expanding CAMON range of equipment is the CAMON BC65 Lawn Scarifier Attachment, a 65cm wide scarifier to fit the BCS Two Wheel Tractors and Rotavators.

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Grantham’s Heritage Park‏

Restoration of Grantham’s Wyndham Park into a World War One Memorial Park is under way in advance of a grand September opening.‏ ‏Work has started on building new facilities, restoration

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Multi-million Framework

Fusion21 has launched its national Grounds Maintenance Framework, which offers a potential combined worth of up to £85 million, over a four-year period. Specially designed to meet the needs of

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Protecting Investment

A £700,000 investment in new synthetic pitch facilities for Ipswich Town Football Club’s training ground means Ben Connell, Grounds Manager is determined to maximise its working lifespan. Within the spend

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Importance of Aeration

Andy Richards, Grounds Manager at Shrewsbury School, is a firm believer that aeration is one of the most important practices carried out by groundsmen, and this is exactly why he

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Flagship Regeneration

Lambeth Council’s Planning Committee has approved Metropolitan’s new development proposal to build more than 2,500 new homes and community facilities at Clapham Park in south London. PRP, the award-winning architectural

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Responsible Recycling

The HTA has launched a Recycling Scheme for its members that will enable responsible recycling of plastic and other waste, and enhance green credentials. Partnering with Ecogen, based in Winchester,

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Colour on a Budget

Three new colour options have been added to Talasey Group’s Vitripiazza Anno range of vitrified porcelain paving, offering an economical option for projects with a more modest budget due to

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Decks to Success

Building and timber merchant, Beesley & Fildes, has experienced a successful year of sales since taking on Composite Prime’s latest decking product, HD Deck Dual, and has forecast the possibility

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Custom Variations

SCH (Supplies) Ltd recently supplied a customer with a galvanised version of its popular Hydraulic Tipping Trailer. (Ref HTRL). The customer had asked for the manual tipping version of the

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Sustainability Concept Design

Writtle University College’s team for the Young Gardeners of the Year competition has unveiled its design. The annual competition, which Writtle won last year, along with a Gold Medal, is

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Powerful Incentive

  The Royal Forestry Society welcomes the publication of the British Woodland Survey 2017 (BSW2017) today. The survey provides a powerful incentive to better value the forestry sector for the

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Product Launch at Exhibition

Green-tech is exhibiting at EcoBuild 2018, 6-8 March at ExCeL in London, under its specification arm gt Specifier. It is on stand E132, in front of the Ecobuild Conference Arena.

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Green Future for Apprentices

Glendale’s commitment to tackling skills shortages and unemployment is reflected in the number of staff undergoing apprenticeships within the business. Apprentices make up 8.5 per cent of the national green

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Architectural and Floriferous

Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford has launched three new plants: Daphne odora x bholua ‘Perfume Princess’, Dianella tasmanica Wyeena and Phormium ‘Blondie’, which won a Silver Award in the Shrubs and

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Winning Wimbledon Visit

Winners of the 2017 BALI National Landscape Awards recently enjoyed an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the All England Lawn Tennis Club Wimbledon, hosted and organised by ICL and awards headline

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Cost-effective Urban Colour

Euroflor urban flowers are a cost-effective way to add long-lasting colourful flower displays to a host of local council areas up and down the country. In London, for example, the

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Tree Harmony

Confor has welcomed a consultation described by UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove as a ‘historic opportunity’ to shape future rural policy and funding, while calling for more detail on the

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Dimmock to Open Centre

Squire’s Garden Centre on Littlewick Road in Woking is open with a new look. Following a significant extension the stunning new garden centre offers an inspirational plant area, complete with

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New Build Bricks

Wienerberger, UK provider of wall, roofing and landscape solutions, has launched five new facing bricks. The launch is part of an extensive product development programme at Wienerberger’s Ewhurst site –

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Gold Trusted Service Award

The Feefo Gold Service award, an independent seal of excellence that recognises businesses for delivering exceptional experiences, as rated by real customers has been awarded to Rolawn for another year.

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Double Certification

SIS Pitches has been announced as a FIH Certified Manufacturer and FIH Certified Field Builder. This makes them the first company within Ireland and the British Isles to be double

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Window of Values

  The fourth edition of the International Green Expo (21-23 February 2018) attracted 655 exhibitors, 17,300 registered participants over three days at Fiera Milano Rho-Pero.The companies from Lombardy were most

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Safer Hedge Trimming

  BALI-NCF, the grounds maintenance industry’s National Contractors Forum and STIHL GB recently joined forces to deliver best in class hedge trimmer training to 30 contractor companies at four land-based

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Awards Entries Open

Entries for the 42nd BALI National Landscape Awards are open. This year’s Awards are supported by Headline Sponsor and BALI Registered Affiliate member Green-tech. BALI Registered Members are invited to

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Nutritional New Additions

ICL & Syngenta’s Ultimate Offers has two new packages for 2018. Ultimate Offers are a range of tank-mixes in various combinations of nutrition combined with the plant growth regulator Primo

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Landscaping Company Acquisition

ISS UK Limited has today announced it has successfully exchanged contracts to sell ISS Facility Services Landscaping to Sullivan Street Partners, a Private Equity company, based in London. Completion is

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Acquisition Number Three

The latest company to be acquired by leading landscape supplier, Green-tech, is Flexible Lining Products (FLP), an online retailer of pond liners and geotextiles. The acquisition is a perfect fit

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Living Laboratory

  RHS Chelsea medal winner joins Matt Keightley and Christopher Bradley-Hole to complete the roster of world-class garden design talent transforming RHS Garden Wisley The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has

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Key Garden Designs

How will our gardens grow in 2018? What are the new trends in garden design right now? Inspiration can be found in the award-winning gardens revealed at this year’s Society

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Butterflies and Elms

White-letter Hairstreak butterflies are under serious threat, directly linked with the substantial decline in the number of elm trees over the past 40 years. However, one of the UK’s leading

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Partnership Boosts Sales

With a strong merchant-only policy, the Talasey Group is keen to proactively support all of its merchants. The Group has once again demonstrated this policy through its recent partnership with

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Bridge to Yesteryear

With its subtle hues and authentic weather-worn appearance, Monksbridge is a distinctive block paving that offers the rustic flair of a bygone age. Monksbridge is perfect for driveways of traditionally

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Chipper Ticks the Boxes

Kevin Patton, Tree Surgeon, purchased his first woodchipper in 2002, and has a few different makes and models in his fleet. However, towing capacity was a major challenge when it

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Plant Health and Brexit

Imports of high-risk plants and firewood must be brought to an end within five years, to safeguard the health of UK forests, according to a new report by industry body

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London T-Charge, and ULEZ

Landscaping companies working in Central London were warned today (February 13)to check if their vans are liable for the new T-Charge, and to prepare for the upcoming Ultra Low-Emission Zone

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Awards 2018 – Speaker

Chris Collins of CM Horticulture will be returning to The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Awards 2018 as the speaker and co-presenter. With 25 years of practical hands-on experience in

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Brushless Power Harnessed

Makita has harnessed the power of the successful 18v brushless motor to reduce the back-breaking task of pushing a fully laden wheelbarrow across a rocky, bumpy building site, a muddy

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Soil Biology Reaps Rewards

A greens team has seen its maintenance budget double and recruitment rise after introducing soil biology methods across the course. Harpenden Common Golf Club swept aside its existing greens renovation

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Reviving Dormant Fairways

Pete Smith, Course Manager at the Birch Grove Estate in Sussex, has reported ‘phenomenal’ results using Sherriff Amenity’s Aqua-Zorb wetting agent to bring the fairways on the 18-hole, 7000-yard golf

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Breaking Records – Again!

After an independent audit confirmed a record-breaking SALTEX attendance at the NEC, the show’s visitor survey revealed insight into the 8,909 attendees. With over 300 exhibitors and more show features,

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Square Conversion

Following a successful trial, Sportsturf Management’s owner Jamie Foyster is exclusively using Limagrain’s MM50 grass seed across every cricket square. Jamie joined Sportsturf Management in 2008, taking sole ownership of

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Versatile Aeration Adaptabiity

For R J Jochimsen Contractors, a Verti-Drain and a pair of Verti-Quakes from Charterhouse Turf Machinery fit the bill for aeration versatility and adaptability. The company does maintenance and renovation

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Great Escape at Flower Show

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), working on behalf of the UK garden industry, will exhibit within the Discovery Zone in the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. ‘The

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Thirtieth Birthday Celebration

Essex-based Holland Landscapes is celebrating 30 years of creating amazing gardens. It all began in the 1980s whenChris Baker (currently Holland Landscapes Director) was living a different life as manager

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Blooming and Learning

Hampshire-based Wildflower Turf has provided the University of York with a biodiverse boost to newly-built campus facilities. At the start of the project, the University developed a biodiversity plan and

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Enhanced Turf Rewards

New rewards for the ICL and Syngenta Turf Rewards loyalty scheme in 2018 include: Beepol Hive and Villa; 3M Peltor WS Protac XP Headset; iPad Pro 12.9” 64BG; MacBook Air

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New Roots in Warwickshire

Award-winning garden design and landscape company Isola Garden Design has moved to Stoneleigh Park’s Rural Innovation Centre, Warwickshire. Isola Garden Design was founded by James Brash in 2006, and is

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Trees Flourish at University

Nottingham Trent University city site is in Nottingham city centre, with 30 buildings surrounded by 5.1 hectares of open space. The heart of the campus underwent a multi-million pound refurbishment

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Appearance is Everything

Plant growth regulators such as daminozide can help growers improve the durability of protected ornamental plants, minimising stem damage during transport and retail. Daminozide, active ingredient of B-Nine® by Arysta

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Clean up at Harrow School

Founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth 1, Harrow School is on a 300-acre estate, surrounded by acres of sports fields ranging from Astroturf pitches, 2G

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Reorganising Management

Following the untimely death of Tony Hewitt, Executive Chairman of the Parkwood Group, in late December, Glendale Horticulture is reorganising and bolstering the senior management team. “Tony had been actively

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Orchid Heaven

The Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) newest Show, RHS Chatsworth Flower Show partnered by Wedgwood will return to the magnificent 1,000 acre Chatsworth Estate on 6-10 June. During Joseph Paxton’s time

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Million Tree Forest

Michael Gove recently visited the UK’s largest modern forest in the Ochil Hills in central Scotland, where he saw more than 1.3 million trees. Confor arranged the visit to Jerah

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SGD Award Winners

At The Society of Garden Designers’ sixth annual award ceremony in London, Robert Myers was presented with the Grand Award, Matt Keightley won three awards, and Spanish designer Fernando Caruncho

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Mitigating HS2 Impact

A green spaces expert is calling on landowners to plant trees to lessen the environmental impact of the new High Speed Two (HS2) rail network. Deric Newman, general manager of

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Trees in the Planning Process

The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) has partnered with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to deliver Trees in the Planning Process, a half-day seminar on April 13, in Oxford.

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Greens Maintenance Seminars

The first of the 2018 Dennis and SISIS bowling green maintenance seminars will be at the Ipswich & District Indoor Bowls Club on Tuesday 13th March. The seminars combine practical

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Shortlisted for Award

Green-tech has been shortlisted in the Pro Landscaper Business Awards 2018, Supplier category. Category winners will be announced at the Pro Landscaper Business Awards ceremony on Friday 9 February 2018,

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Void Becomes Space

Brewin Dolphin will return to RHS Chatsworth this year with a conceptual garden inspired by a past landscape of the Chatsworth Estate. It will be designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes who

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Acknowledging the Best

Paving manufacturer Bradstone’s 2018 national installer awards acknowledge design expertise and quality craftsmanship. Categories include Best Patio Transformation and Best Driveway Transformation, and Installer of the Year award. The judging

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Nursery Investment

Glendale Horticulture took ownership of a 15.5 acre site nursery in Harvington, Evesham on 2nd January 2018. The new site has 16,868sqm of existing glass and is ideally situated within

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Versatile Paving

The Talasey Group has supplied approximately 2,990 metres of its Natural Paving’s Promenade Classic Sandstone for a 60-unit housing development in Chigwell, Essex, on the site of the former Tottenham

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Kickstart

Eddie Mills, Course Manager at Edgbaston Golf Club in Birmingham, believes his fully integrated iTurf programme has helped maintain the particularly stubborn clay-based greens to an exceptional standard. Established in

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Airport Project

As part of the construction of a new £15m link road at Manchester Airport, Johnsons of Whixley has supplied a range  of trees, plants and grasses to the new Enterprise

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Grow in 2018

As we welcome in a new year we’re looking forward to another season of unrivalled flower shows from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). With an esteemed portfolio, including the world-famous

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Brick and Paver Slips

Wienerberger, manufacturer of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, has announced the launch of a complete brick slip and paver slip solution, and a new website to showcase the offer. The

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Managing Director Appointed

In his third successive promotion, Les Malin has been appointed as the new managing director of Etesia UK with immediate effect. After starting his career in the farming industry at

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Nursery Manager appointment

Glendale Horticulture is pleased to announce the appointment of Neil Dudley as Manager for its Lathom Nursery in Lancashire, with effect from 02 January 2018. Neil joins Glendale from J

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Living Walls

This year has been a great year for urban greening all over the globe, according to ANS Global, which has its head office in Aldingbourne, Chichester. “The green agenda is

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Versatile Mower

Countrywide Grounds Maintenance has invested in the versatility of a Toro LT-F3000 triple flail mower – a first-time Toro purchase for Countrywide Grounds Maintenance franchise owner Andrew Gilliar. He says

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Garden Design Aspiration

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) will team up at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2018 (2 – 8 July) to jointly

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Stomach Churn

  The Green-tech team has unveiled its hilarious version of the jungle favourite ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ with a somewhat stomach-churning bush tucker trial. Customers and

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Maintenance Solutions

Dennis and SISIS will show a range of market-leading turf maintenance equipment at the 2018 Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) Conference and Exhibition, January 16-19 in Fort Worth, Texas. Dennis

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Record and Trace

Synthetic Turf Maintenance specialists, Replay, has launched PitchPassport® 365, which is set to revolutionise the recording and traceability of synthetic turf maintenance and become the benchmark for the industry and

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Expanding Network

When tool hire company Artisan Hire Centre was looking to upgrade one of its incumbent 7.5 tonne rigids, the Wiltshire-based business decided to replace it with two brand new 7.5

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Dedication Pays Off

A debut report designed to showcase the biggest and best businesses in York has been compiled by The Press, York St John University’s Business School and Mark it, York. Rolawn

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Green Game

Myplant & Garden 2018 trade fair for horticulture and landscape (February 21 – 23, 2018) will be held across three halls, with eight macro-sectors across the 45,000 sqm exhibiting space.

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Picking Up Award

The new generation Isuzu D-Max (launched in 2017) has been awarded What Van? Pick-Up of The Year for 2018 with the title praising both its substance and style. Judges were

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Authentic Design

The new 2019 Jeep Cherokee, mid-size sport-utility vehicle (SUV), boasts a new, authentic and premium design, along with fuel-efficient powertrain options. Additional images and complete vehicle information will be available

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Scrappage Upgrade

Volkswagen UK is extending its successful Scrappage Upgrade scheme into 2018, further encouraging the switch to its latest generation, lower-emission new cars. Almost 5,000 older diesel vehicles that comply with

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Rewarding success

Johnsons of Whixley has completed the supply of more than 20 varieties of shrubs and herbaceous plants to a landscape upgrade scheme at the Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre. Following a

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Paving the Future

Wienerberger, a UK provider of wall, roof and landscaping solutions, has increased its product offering with the launch of a new Kassei KTF clay paver. The new product will help

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Record Attendance

The 72nd SALTEX exhibition recorded attendance of 8909, its highest total since moving to the NEC, Birmingham. “An excellent show in 2017,” said Jeremy Hoyle, director at Earlsmere. “Enquiries on

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New Look, New Models

Spearhead Machinery will unveil its new-look brand identity at LAMMA 2018. Changes to the logo and machinery colour scheme coincide with the launch of new models, including a revamped TWIGA

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Premier Paving Brochure

The Talasey Group’s 2018 brochure (available from January) is the first produced under the new company name. On January 1, 2018 the Talasey Group will be the new trading name

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Future Bound

Twenty BIGGA members have been selected to take part in the Future Turf Managers Initiative (FTMI) 2018 at the company’s HQ in Ipswich in March 2018. Aimed at greenkeepers who

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International Pick-up Award

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ Amarok has won the ‘International Pick-up Award 2018’. “We are very grateful to have received the IPUA 2018 and feel honoured by the decision of the international

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Greening England

The largest tree planting scheme in England for more than 25 years will see more than 600,000 trees planted on a site at Doddington North Moor in Northumberland. The decision

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Glyphosate Stewardship

“Rigby Taylor is delighted the EU has renewed the licence for glyphosate,” says Peter Corbett, the company’s Chemicals Product Manager. “The loss of this important active would have cost local

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Yesteryear Once More

Perfect for creating a charming garden, Old Town delivers a traditional paving solution to achieve the feel of yesteryear. Made from moulds formed from flooring taken from a derelict 19th

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Timber Fence Alternative

‏ Wood plastic specialists, Composite Prime, has developed and launched HD Fence, a contemporary, durable solution for residential gardens and commercial boundaries. Developed using a unique composite material that combines

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New Talent Recognised

Garden design blogger, Lee Burkhill, has been named as a finalist in the Alan Titchmarsh New Talent category at the Garden Media Guild Awards. Lee featured in The Landscaper’s North

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APL Awards ….The finalists

The finalists for the APL Awards 2018 have been announced! The standard of entries exceeded expectations and yet again there were a record breaking number of entries for the judges

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Impact of allergenic plants

Barcham Trees secured another great ‘catch’ for its series of arboricultural seminars when it lured Tom Ogren from California to present a seminar at its Cambridgeshire nursery. He is one

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BRITCOVER – A day to construct

  The new range of heavy-duty PVC-clad buildings from Britcover are the ideal solution for the storage and maintenance of landscaping machinery and vehicles. All models are designed and built

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Vintage Cuts

1921 was a vintage year for lawn lovers – it was the year in which Atco started manufacturing fine quality mowers for the gardens, pitches and ball courts of Great

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Intelligent Innovation

Intelligent One (iO), the world’s first autonomous robot dedicated to the hands-free, initial marking and over-marking of sports pitches, running tracks and much more, has won the prestigious Innovation Award

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Specialist Tree Anchoring Kits

Green-tech has launched a new range of specialist tree anchoring kits at Futurescape 2017. The new tree anchoring kits have been developed in partnership with Anchor Systems (International) Ltd, the

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Effective Conservation Aid

Bluesky has supplied high-resolution aerial photography for a major conservation project to protect and transform moorlands in northern England. Purchased by The Moors for the Future Partnership, as part of

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Battery Savings

Etesia UK, the distributor of Pellenc battery-powered tools in the UK and Ireland, has announced a special offer which will see customers save up to 50% of the purchase price

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Bullish Praise

Dan Shemesh, Director of Stadium and Training Grounds for the New York Red Bulls, has praised the SISIS Osca 3, which maintains the synthetic turf on one of the club’s

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Demo Days Success

With nearly 800 visitors attending over two weeks in October, the Doosan Bobcat Demo Days event continues to go from strength to strength. The latest Demo Days also showed how

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New Three-Year Training

Capel Manor College is set to deliver high quality education and training for the prestigious Royal Parks Horticultural Apprenticeship Programme in a new three-year training programme specifically designed to support

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The Best Yet!

A year’s worth of meticulous and strategic planning from show organisers culminated in what is being hailed by many as the best ever SALTEX. The two-day exhibition has quickly grown

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Best Park Award Shortlist

The shortlists for this year’s Fields in Trust Awards have been announced. Winners in eight categories will be celebrated at a ceremony on Wednesday 29th November at Lord’s Cricket Ground

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Rotary Mower Minimises Downtime

Reesink has announced the arrival of a new Toro rotary mower designed to improve productivity by going longer between stops. Revealed at SALTEX 2017, the ProLine H800 direct collect rotary

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Tackle Tough Mowing

Designed and built with the professional in mind, Ariens Company has introduced the new APEX zero-turn mower to the UK. The Ariens name has been built on a reputation for

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Innovation Award Winner

Taking centre stage on the Etesia UK stand at SALTEX 2017 was the new Bahia Hydro 80 MKHP4 E-Connect ride-on mower, which also won the SALTEX 2017 innovation award. Visitors

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Zero Finance Deal

To celebrate being named the ‘Best Builder’s Truck’ for the sixth year running by leading UK business van magazine ‘Trade Van Driver’, Isuzu Truck UK has launched a 0% finance

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NAKED GARDENERS BARE ALL …..

A group of gardeners have stripped off to star in a naked calendar to raise money for Perennial, the charity helping those in horticulture. The Perennial Naked Gardeners Calendar 2018 makes

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Wipe-Out and Green-Out

Two new specialist paints have been announced by Rigby Taylor for marking lines on multi-use pitches and training grids where rapid changeover of sports is needed and existing lines and

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Zero-turn Mower Unique Technology

Ferris® introduces the 400S® light duty commercial zero-turn mower that uses unique mowing technology to provide commercial cutters with superior performance, quality and comfort. Featuring the patented suspension technology, heavy-duty Hydro-Gear®

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Green Design Engineering  

Hydroseeding Supplies (UK) is one of the largest providers of Hydroseeding mulches, consumables and specialist erosion control products in Europe and are the UK distributors for the US based Profile

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Barrus 100-year anniversary

Barrus Ltd has confirmed that September 18th, 2017 marks their official 100-year birthday.  In 1917 Ernest Prouty Barrus set up a company in the UK to supply Starrett precision tools

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600 exhibitors- 18,000 visitors

Paysalia is the leading  landscaping trade exhibition  in France. Since 2009, over three days landscapers meet, discuss and build the future of the profession together. The next Paysalia will be

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BALI Award winners announced

60 BALI members have now been informed they have won a BALI National Landscape Award, with some members successful in more than one category. This year’s Awards, in association with

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Exhibiting at Glee?

The Landscaper’s  editorial team David Curtis and Jana Silver will be visiting the show to produce a show report.  If you would like them to visit your stand please contact

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The perfect match

A maiden partnership between Kubota UK and Lister Wilder has seen two of the leading players in the groundcare industry join forces to support Kent County Cricket Club. The deal,

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Pristine Patios

 Ecofective Path & Patio Weed & Moss Killer and ecofective Path, Patio & Decking Cleaner offer gardeners two easy ways to bring their patio or decking back to its former glory. For complete control of moss,

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PAINT IT BLACK

Black is often the colour of choice for outdoor lighting fixtures, perhaps because it is perceived as a safe neutral choice, however, to me it can sometimes be a gloomy

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DIGITAL FOOTPRINT!

The Landscaper’s digital footprint continues to expand . Our web site  new.landscapermagazine.com attracted a record breaking 388,302 unique visitors for the period Sep 2016 to August 14 2017 ( Google

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Green-tech expands its team

Green-tech’s operations department welcomes two new starters to strengthen its team. School leaver George Goodier is the latest Apprentice to join Green-tech. George is undertaking a Business Administration apprenticeship operated

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EGO Power+ All day safe use

One of the greatest benefits of battery powered garden equipment is reduced vibration, making gardening tools more comfortable to use, particularly when operating for extended periods of time. They are,

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McConnel’s MANOEUVRABLE ROBOZERO

McConnel’s innovative ROBOZERO machine is the world’s first mainstream remote control zero-turn mower.  Created to enhance manoeuvrability and productivity, ROBOZERO can turn on its own axis enabling it to thrive

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Makita’s New Kit

Four new machines have been introduced to Makita’s range of outdoor maintenance and grounds care equipment with the latest 4-stroke MM4 engine technology at the heart of two of them. 

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LAZY LAWN

  Clare Hoods-Truman, Executive Principal of Oasis Blakenhale Academy said: “LazyLawn  has provided a wonderful artificial grass pitch and large rubber area that all 660 children in the academy truly

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2,500 new job opportunities

International property and construction consultancy, Gleeds, has been appointed as project and cost manager on Formal Investments’ Rectory Farm development in Hounslow.  The ambitious scheme, which has been recommended for

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Ideal substrate

Green-tree’s intensive roof garden substrate and gtRoofdrain has recently been installed in the prestigious London development of Four Pancras Square. Four Pancras Square is a Grade A office building located

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Charterhouse Turf Machinery

  When the decision was taken to pull Ipswich Borough Council’s synthetic surface maintenance  in-house, the council decided that a Verti-Top and Verti-Comb from Charterhouse Turf Machinery were the right

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Renovation –  best practise

  Campey Turf Care Renovation Tour ended in Rotterdam, Holland, with the highly successful seven  week event educating turf professionals on renovation best practise. There was an average of 60

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Connecting buildings with nature

BRE have launched The Biophilic Office – a ground-breaking office refurbishment project that will provide quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office

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Biodiversity to Bermondsey

The construction of the Bermondsey Dive Under, a new railway junction to the east of London Bridge station, has increased biodiversity in the urban area of Bermondsey by 113%, winning

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Industry leaders congratulated

With Government approval secured for the new Trailblazer Apprenticeship standards for arboriculture, forestry, horticulture and landscaping, those employers involved in the initiative are being congratulated on their success. Businesses from

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GREENHOUSE GARDENING NOSTALGIA

Hartley Botanic, the RHS’ recommended aluminium greenhouse and glasshouse supplier, was  awarded a 5 star tradestand award for its exhibit at RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. The Lancashire manufacturer and its

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Charcon – Quarry Garden

Charcon, the commercial hard landscaping division of Aggregate Industries, has supported the Institute of Quarrying by donating quality commercial flag paving and kerbs to the largest show garden that featured

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Cycling safety

Colourful directional figures made of MEDITE TRICOYA EXTREME now point out a safe route to school for children in Billund, Denmark. The figures are part of a wider health initiative

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Strength to strength

Brett Landscaping has introduced Stamford Ultra, the latest edition to the patio paving range Stamford, after seeing a sustained increase in demand from its customers for something different which would

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Landscaping – major survey

  British homeowners look to their neighbours for inspiration when undertaking landscaping projects, according to the 2017 Houzz UK Landscaping Trends Survey. The survey of UK homeowners using Houzz who are in

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Family Business Awards

Johnsons of Whixley’s status as one of the county’s leading family businesses has been further enhanced after being named Runner-Up for the Yorkshire region at the prestigious Family Business of

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Business Heroes

UK Businesses, big and small, are being urged to take action to support their local community growing groups, many of which struggle to make ends meet.  Katie Rushworth, who co-presents

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A coating for all seasons

  Sikkens Wood Coatings provide a special one-pot coating product which is highly protective against the damaging effects of UV light and moisture.  Its transparent film deluges and fills the

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Safety Cut

STM Co Ltd in Warwickshire have been dealers for the Humus range of grasscare machinery for many years, with the spiral “Safety Cut” mulching head being an outstanding and award-winning

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Mowtime

The last weekend of March has been found to be the most common weekend for mowing the lawn. A survey, carried out by leading lawnmower manufacturer Cub Cadet, found that

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Record Numbers to Bloom

A record number of almost 120,000 people attended Bord Bia’s Bloom festival in the Phoenix Park, Dublin over the June bank holiday weekend. Tara McCarthy, Chief Executive, Bord Bia told

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NEXT ISSUE SHOW SPECIAL!

Don’t miss the next issue of The Landscaper. It’s going to be a bumper 100 page issue Show Special with extensive features on Chelsea, Chatsworth and the Bloom Show in

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EGO Power+ FREE TRIMMER!

  By  purchasing an EGO Power+ self-propelled lawnmower, buyers  can receive a free ST1210E line trimmer worth £109. An EGO lawnmower and line trimmer are the perfect combination to tidy

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True five-tonne excavator

The ECR50D is Volvo’s first true five-tonne excavator, replacing the ECR48C. Compared to its predecessor, the ECR50D packs extra weight and brings a longer under carriage offering better stability, which

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SPIDER

  As part of a continuing strategy to strengthen distribution across Europe, Dvorak, the Czech manufacturer of Spider mowers, has appointed Machines4Green of Hooghalen in the Netherlands as their distributor

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Extreme brushcutters

Canycom UK (exclusive importer ICB Plant & Machinery Ltd) has  announced  that Essex based, plant hire and sales company, Dale Hire Centres, have become an official Canycom dealer for the

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Pitch match-fit

The Principality Stadium, previously known as the Millennium Stadium, was opened in June 1999 and has welcomed an average of 1.3 million visitors per year through the gates. The pitch

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SEVENTH GOLD RoSPA SAFETY AWARD

ISS Facility Services Landscaping have won a further Gold Medal Award at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2017. The Gold Medal

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Blending with the environment

Path lighting in a landscape of any size is important, namely for illuminating safe access routes. By Martin Bennett  The correct fittings can form part of a satisfying overall garden

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WONKY BOLLARD LIGHTS!

Wonky, lopsided, corroded bollard lights are a blot on the landscape and can often be seen around the best resort hotels, and public spaces. By Martin Bennett The cost to

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Top of the tree for Woodmen UK

When arboricultural specialists Woodmen UK Ltd needed to replace an incumbent fleet vehicle, the North Wales company specified a new 17-plate Isuzu Grafter 3.5 tonne rigid to work on its

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BALI comment on Budget 2017

Announcements by the Chancellor in his Spring Budget regarding an increase in Class 4 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for the self-employed and a delay for certain unincorporated businesses in the

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Living Hut

Plankbridge, has launched its new Living Hut, adding a larger and more versatile moveable space to its already established collection of huts. Offering more room to play with and added

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Colour to Culzean Castle

Johnsons of Whixley Wholesale Commercial is working alongside The National Trust of Scotland to add vibrant colour to the newly re-modelled entrance to Culzean Castle, and the surrounding country park,

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Strong performance

Germinal has relaunched its best-selling sports pitch seed mixture, A20 Premier Ryesport, with the inclusion of Eurosport perennial ryegrass.  Eurosport joins the A20 line-up in place of Cadix and Promotor,

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More targeted spray

All bottles of the barrier acting, total herbicide, Pistol  from Bayer, will now  be supplied with two low drift sprayer nozzles and a stewardship checklist attached.  The addition of the

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Learner of the Year Awards

John Boyd, a talented horticulture apprentice from Port Glasgow, has won the horticulture category at Lantra Scotland’s annual Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards. The runner-up spot went

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30th anniversary

Image  (From left to right) Steve Ashworth, Director at Wyevale Nurseries, Ray Jenkins, Production Director Transplant Division and Jules Griffiths, Transplants Office Administrator, celebrate the Division’s 30th anniversary.  STAFF at Wyevale Nurseries’ Transplant Division recently

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The all-new Jeep Compass

      The all-new Compass is a further expression of the Jeep brand’s constant evolution in terms of refinement, innovation, technology and performance and will expand its global reach,

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Continuous development

STM Co Ltd in Warwickshire represent SCAG grasscutting machinery in the UK and Europe, so much so that they were given the award International Distributor of the Year by SCAG

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Fastest growing market in the world

In June 2017 the Shanghai World Expo Convention & Exhibition Center (SWEECC) will be transformed into a meeting place for China’s green professionals.  Decision-makers from China, who plan, construct and

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For landscape professionals

Hayter have  introduced  the Harrier 41 Pro to their range. Designed for landscape professionals, this mower is an all-new addition to the Harrier rear-roller mower line-up that’s been integral to

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Sales opportunities

Regen is the 3rd Annual free-to-attend Exhibition, Conference & Networking Event for the UK Regeneration Industry. For the 50+ exhibitors, Regen will once again provide significant sales and business development

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BRINGING COLOUR GARDENS

In winter, gardens can look very bare and drab during the day but can be enlivened with some colour lighting after dark. Martin Bennett reports  The ever popular Spike lights

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Green spaces are at a tipping point!

The Parks Alliance (TPA), the UK’s voice of parks, today responded to the Communities and Local Government Committee’s report on their inquiry into public parks by calling on the government to take a joined up approach

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Cultivate London

An Innovative urban farm and social enterprise based across multiple derelict sites in West London. They train unemployed young people in landscaping and horticulture, and produce a range of edible

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185 Years of Mower Manufacturing

This year sees a major milestone in the grounds care industry with Ransomes Jacobsen celebrating its 185th anniversary of mower production at Ipswich. Edwin Budding’s historic lawnmower design was patented

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Rolling fine lawns

Poweroll rollers are used on cricket wickets, tennis courts, both grass and clay, croquet lawns and may be found at relatively modest homes and country estates, rolling fine lawns and

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Building on success

Screwfix LIVE is returning to Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre (29 September – 1 October 2017) for what is set to be its biggest show ever. Building on the

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STRENGTH AND EFFICIENCY

Cub Cadet have launched the latest generation of lawn tractors, with 13 brand new models being created within its newly developed Enduro Series.  The new series, sets a new benchmark

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CONTINUES TO BLOOM

Pictorial Meadows, supplier of  meadow seed mixes and related products, is delighted to be continuing its partnership with Prof. Nigel Dunnett at the Trentham Estate in Staffordshire for a third

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Greening Grey Britain

To meet the challenges of climate-change and rapid urban development, the Greening Grey Britain Garden, a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) feature at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show showcases how and

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Multi-million pound park

Johnsons of Whixley has supplied a contract grow worth £138,000 to supply a historic park in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.  Brooke Park, located near the city centre, has recently been reopened

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Wining designer

Provender Nurseries in conjunction with Capel Manor College, Regents Park campus have selected a winning design by Tish Potter after judging 30 entries in a garden design project submitted by

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Win new business

Natural Paving Products has  announced its new homeowner rating system is now live and fully integrated into its 2016 Landscaping Professional Awards, which are now open for entries. Updating the

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GOLF REACHES NEW HEIGHTS

  Huxley Golf has proved that the sky’s the limit when the world leader in all-weather golf surfaces installed golf greens high in the Hong Kong skyline in a partnership

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Dealers Rewarded

      Three lucky Etesia UK dealers recently jetted off to Japan in a  an once-in-a-lifetime trip, as part of the company’s Attila sales competition. With a total of

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Two prestigious awards

Polaris authorised dealer Congleton Garden Machinery is the winner of two prestigious awards. At the recent Service Dealer Conference Awards ceremony the Cheshire based company took the award for ATV/Quad

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Aeration on the golf course

Terrain Aeration has been receiving a marked increase in the number of golf courses requesting their specialist soil compaction and aeration service. Normal aeration on fairways such as Verti-draining is

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Successful show – attendance 8,754

Independent audit confirmed that the combined attendance at SALTEX  over the two day exhibition totalled 8,754. With 292 exhibitors (28 more than 2015), increased show features, an enhanced education programme

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FIRST IN INDUSTRY

  Reesink Turfcare’s Clive Pinnock who has been in the industry for over 32 years is the first in the turfcare sector to achieve a level four in the Landbased

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New Chinese Business

  STRI Group has launched its new Chinese company with partners Shanghai KeHua Sports Promotional Co. and Beijing iRENA Group. The inauguration of Shanghai Tizan Turf Science Co. Ltd, took

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“Samurai” arrive in UK

    Bedford based ICB Plant & Machinery  has just been granted the exclusive distributor rights to market the Japanese Canycom range of brushcutters in the UK and Ireland.  Marketed

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Cricket Seminar Date

Dennis and SISIS have announced that they will be holding their  cricket seminar on February 16 at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. Groundsmen from all levels of cricket will be able

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Win a Cast Iron Stag!

This Christmas RoundWood of Mayfield giving away over £1000 of prizes in a festive competition! First prize the  Majestic Stag RRP £743 All you need to do to is follow

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Bumper 2017 Product Catalogue

Green-tech has announced that their new 2017 Green-tech printed catalogue is back from the printers and is being mailed out to landscaping contractors, architects and garden designers across the UK,

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Business blossoms

An award-winning Birmingham landscapes service is seeing its business blossom after securing its third new maintenance contract within a matter of months.     Bournville Village Landscapes’ (BVL) latest contract will

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NEW CORDLESS MULTITOOL

 The biggest change in recent times in the garden machinery sector has been the prominent emergence of lithium-ion technology EGO Power+ remains the only brand to consist solely of battery

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The 2016 IOG Industry Awards

Now in its eighth year, the Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) annual Industry Awards took place at the National Conference Centre. The awards ceremony celebrated the quality standards of groundscare achieved

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Eight years protection

Sadolin Superdec user Gary Davies has gone on camera to talk about his passion for colour using the wood protection product. The video showcases a number of projects carried out

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Grass reinforcement

TERRAM  has expanded its  GrassProtecta range of grass reinforcement mesh products. The product is  specifically produced to reinforce and protect grass surfaces that are prone to becoming damaged by vehicular

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DRIVEWAY BOLLARD LIGHTING

Now that winter is approaching its time to think about making your driveway safe and inviting for visitors. By Martin Bennett     A gravel drive is a great deterrent

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Don’t slip up !

Timber decking is becoming an increasingly popular design trend for a wide variety of landscaping projects.  One particular concern with timber decking is that conventional deck boards can becomeslippery in

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New warranty deal

Pitchmark suppliers of line marking paint, machines and equipment, has announced it is to offer a three  year warranty on its spray and transfer wheel line markers from November 1st.

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NEW HOCKEY PITCH

One of the oldest schools in the country, The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Hertfordshire, has given its talented hockey players a new place they can call home with

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Special discount of £500

Polaris is offering substantial savings with autumn special offers on new Polaris Ranger utility vehicles and utility ATVs. From Monday 3rd October you can take advantage of a special discount

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CONFERENCE A SUCCESS

This new event over the weekend of 3-4 September was well attended with close to 80 delegates, speakers and exhibitors, at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, UK. The launch of

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With a humble hut at its heart

Draped in ivy, wildflowers and even a healthy covering of moss on the roof of a Plankbridge shepherd’s hut, a rediscovered garden design by Anne Jennings of Viridian Landscape Studio

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RURAL APPRENTICE SCHEME

Makita is providing support for an innovative apprenticeship scheme that will provide a comprehensive grounding in rural maintenance techniques to six young people in the Lake District. Organised by the

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New careers initiative

BALI has announced  that it will be launching its new education and skills initiative, GoLandscape, this November at, FutureScape 2016. GoLandscape aims to combat the ever increasing skills shortage prevalent

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New pick -up

Powered by a 2.2 litre Euro 6 turbo-diesel engine, the new Musso pick-up delivers huge value. Designed to appeal to those who need a competitively priced work truck, the practicality

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Don’t slip up!

Long Rake Spar are suppliers of White Marine and Pink Rock Salt which is used for De-icing footpaths, drives or communal areas. White Marine Salt provides a cleaner solution for

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BRITAIN’S BEST LAWN

A Bolton garden has won a prestigious accolade thanks to its luscious lawn, that rivals any premiership pitch! Keith Chuck, with the help of Danny Hibbert, has been announced as

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Do not disturb!

When working in public areas such as parks, schools, hospitals or tourist hotspots, sound levels are always a concern so as not to disturb the peace. Likewise, noise levels are

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FIND ‘UK’S BEST PARK’

A nationwide search to find the country’s favourite local green space nominated and selected by public vote Do you think that your local park, playground or playing field is the

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New online opportunities

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) has agreed a new strategic partnership with Nottingham based, web design and digital marketing agency, Adtrak, who are also Google Premier Partners. This

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BALI – SHOW SUCCESS!

 The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) confirms record breaking show for the Association at Landscape 2016, receiving over 40 new membership enquiries, two successful seminar performances and its largest

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Kikka Digga

Kikka Digga is a universal attachment for all digging forks and spades, it was designed to make digging easy by attaching a pivoted footplate to help with insertion and leverage,

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UNITED WE STAND

There are no shortage of issues and challenges impacting upon the amenity sector. These include BREXIT and its implications, the recent protracted process leading up to re-approval of glyphosate, the

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New Gatwick contract

National green services provider Glendale has begun a four year contract to deliver grounds maintenance at Gatwick Airport. The company will carry out work including grass cutting, shrub bed maintenance,

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Cleaning water – naturally

Naturally occurring wetlands have a natural, innate ability to remediate contaminants from water. Over the decades British Flora have supplied many millions of reeds, Phragmites communis, for both habitat creation

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Glendale- New Gatwick contract

Glendale has begun a four year contract to deliver grounds maintenance at Gatwick Airport. The company will carry out work including grass cutting, shrub bed maintenance, weed control, woodland management

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Overseas garden tours!

With ‘singles’ making up almost one third of clients going overseas to view exotic and often very private gardens, the tour operators of Worldwide Garden Tours are working hard to

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Green Apple Awards

Leading architecture practice Holder Mathias has won a ‘Green Apple Award for the Built Environment and Architectural Heritage’ in recognition of its pioneering approach to designing sustainable cabins for Forest

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Life across UK roundabouts

Pictorial Meadows has helped eight roundabouts across the UK burst into bloom with a profusion of meadow flowers, bulbs and hardy perennials as part of a two year project conceived

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EXPANDING NATIONAL SALES TEAM

Midlands-based Boningale Nurseries has added two new members to its sales team in order to facilitate the company’s growth and expansion plans in the North and South. Lucy Bravington, who

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Bespoke landscape artwork

Hardscape is a supplier of hard landscaping materials sourced from its wide network of quarries and manufacturers around the world Hardscape’s creative approach – coupled with its technical ability and extensive

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Pond of the month

This is a central, circular pond with surrounding curved pools designed by Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens. Water Gems, the contractors are an Edinburgh based landscape and water features specialist.

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A safer working environment

There used to be a time when we had no choice but to put up with the emissions our machinery  created. No longer – following  the introduction of the Aspen fuel range, an

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WIN WIN WIN ! The DECIMATOR

  The DECIMATOR, a new 4mm cable-reinforced grass cutter that has been designed for professional landscapers. The DECIMATOR is the latest innovation in the BesserTrim Grass Cutting System. This cable-reinforced

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High satisfaction

Writtle College has excelled in postgraduate satisfaction as revealed by the latest industry students’ survey results. This year’s Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES), which is open to all postgraduate students

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Increased UK coverage

Green-tree soils increase Southern coverage with addition of two new partner production sites The Green-tree soils and growing media division of Green-tech has increased its UK coverage with the addition

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Growth in Operating Profit

Notcutts, the UK’s largest family owned garden centre group, has today announced operating profit for the 12 months to February 2016 of £1.29m vs £1.08m prior year –  a 20%

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State-of-the art boiler

 BSW Timber has become the first UK sawmiller to generate electricity from biomass fuel with the commissioning of a £2.5 million Combined Heat and Power (CHP) boiler at its Carlisle

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Brown’s Birthday Bake

No birthday is complete without balloons, presents and most importantly, a birthday cake. In light of this, the Capability Brown Festival are launching Brown’s Birthday Bake – a competition taking

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Garden makeovers

A national children’s charity has been able to enhance the lives of a dozen seriously ill children and their families thanks to the support of the UK’s leading artificial grass

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Floating beer garden

Johnsons of Whixley has been chosen to supply over 700 varieties for a unique floating beer garden display for a famous Belgian beer brand.   Johnsons of Whixley was selected

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Garden to entertain

Provender Nurseries in conjunction with Capel Manor College, Enfield campus, have announced two winners of the Provender Nurseries Redesign competition 2016. Provender Nurseries sponsor a garden at Capel Manor College

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Cutting edge appointment

    Foley United has appointed Ian Robson as the company’s Importer/distributor for the UK and Ireland, encompassing their extensive range of professional grinders, as well as the Neary Technologies

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Move to a beautiful location

B&P Handelskwekerijen from Kesteren has moved to a beautiful location in the heart of standard tree centre Opheusden. “B&P can now be found in a character building, where the past,

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An event to remember

 Image: From left: Wayne Grills, Monty Don, Sue Biggs and RHS Young Landscape Contractor Ewan Sewell The inaugural RHS Young Landscape Contractor competition has turned out to be an event

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Astraw-naut at Hampton Court

  Mandy Bartlett-Richards pictured with her pupils from Abbeys Primary School were delighted to be awarded  3rd place out of a total of 62 entries for their scarecrow Astraw-naut. The Hampton

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New Range Knapsack Sprayers

DMMP Limited are excited to announce the launch of their new range of Magnum Knapsack Sprayers – the MS1000 Commercial and the MS2000 Professional. These high quality sprayers meet the

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Seed meets Technology

The third edition of Seed meets Technology is even bigger than in previous years. This year the list of exhibitors has grown to nearly 40, so the show area has

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All Aboard!

Enviromat sedum matting from Harrowden Turf Ltd has been used for an unusual but fascinating project in a private garden in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Andy Barr, Head of Heritage Operations for

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POND OF THE MONTH

With Chelsea Flower Show just a weeks away we re-visit the M& G garden designed by Jo Thompson. Jo asked Martin Kelly of Fairwater Ltd to install the liner and

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The Healing Power of Nature

A high-end, mixed-use development that forms part of a new urban township called Medini in Iskandar, Malaysia, is nearing completion. The flagship scheme for Medini features over 2.0 hectares of

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FURTHER INVESTMENT IN TECHNOLOGY

Rolawn has spent this past winter extending their Profresh facilities.  The patented unique process that draws on a number of processes, including a vacuum, gas exchange and temperature controls, to

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Fruit, glorious fruit!

People’s Trust for Endangered Species launches the first ‘FruitFinder’ database as part of ongoing orchard conservation There are around 5,000 fruit varieties grown in the UK, many of which are

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Pitch Focus 2016

ICL, along with specially selected partners – Syngenta and Bernhard and Company, recently hosted another successful Pitch Focus event. This year’s venue was at the Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre in

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Isuzu Success story

A-Plant has been specifying Isuzu trucks in its fleet since 1999, based mainly around the hugely popular Isuzu 7.5 tonne chassis. However, recently the company has specified its first ever

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ARBORETA – BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN!

Arboreta is an oak frame design and manufacturing company specialising in garden rooms, orangeries, conservatories and annexes with over 20 years’ experience in the building industry, and offers a complimentary

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Versatile side-by-side

Polaris have introduced the Polaris GENERAL which they describe as ‘the most versatile side-by-side ever built’. Starting with a 100 horsepower ProStar 1000 engine delivering the most power and torque

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RHS Diary Dates

This autumn the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) offers a huge range of exciting talks and events at its four gardens – RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, RHS Garden Hyde Hall

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Landscaping hailed a success

Green-tech has supplied national Solar Park landscape specialist Orchard Groundcare  with tree planting materials to landscape the largest grid connected Solar Park in the UK. Located in Kent, Orchard Groundcare

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Preventing pollution

 A below ground washpad water recycling system is, believes the Highspeed Group, the most cost effective and efficient biological system available. ClearWater’s increased popularity is seen by the company as

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Perfect machine

Lee Evans, head groundsman at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, claims that the Dennis G860 is the ‘perfect machine’ for him and his grounds staff. “I’ve been using Dennis mowers

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The Savage Garden

The National Trust for Scotland’s spectacular Inverewe Garden in Poolewe has added a slightly sinister new feature for 2016 – a garden of carnivorous plants. The Savage Garden has been

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Attachment specialists

RSL Engineering  are excavator attachment specialists based near Watford. They have a wide range of machinery and a clear,  easy to navigate web site. RSL Tree Shears 12 and 16.5

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Guest speaker at Open Day

A ROYAL Horticultural Society (RHS) gold medal winning garden designer and TV presenter will be the guest speaker at an Open Day at one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries

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Landscaping hailed a success

Green-tech has supplied national Solar Park landscape specialist Orchard Groundcare  with tree planting materials to landscape the largest grid connected Solar Park in the UK. Located in Kent, Orchard Groundcare

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Flood repairs

Neil McLoughlin, course manager at Deeside Golf Club, has been in the industry for over twenty years. Last year the River caused the courses to flood six times and this

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Academy Day at Flower Show

 image: The five Writtle College horticulture students taking part are Ben Francis, Juliette Steyl, Michelle Fisher, Ben Pizzoferro and Kamen Walmsley.  Five Writtle College students will be part of a

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New lease of life for surfaces

TigerTurf UK has unveiled TenCate Ecocept , a pioneering new system which makes use of recycled plastics and old artificial surfaces in the construction of brand new artificial grass pitches

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The spraying season

Winter has been one of the wettest in recent memory. Mildness before Christmas led to a lot of vegetation growth, but late frosts in February and March is slowing spring

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IT PAYS TO ACCESSORISE

  Backpack or knapsack sprayers are unquestionably useful tools. Professionals are missing a trick or two when using knapsack sprayers as they may be much more versatile than one first

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Free! Powered Grass Collector

Customers purchasing a new Countax garden tractor before 31st August 2016 will be offered a free 300 litre Powered Grass Collector (PGC) worth a Suggested Retail Price of £495 inc.

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Be green…in more ways than one

Many machinery operators, including golf courses, sports & leisure facilities, local authorities and contractors, are proactively seeking to protect the environment from pollution through a reduction in exhaust emissions from

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Patio perfection

Bradstone has launched its new garden and driveway landscaping collection including new products in both contemporary and traditional styles, range extensions and a number of new landscaping features.  Rectangular Porcelain

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Grange – REFINED APPEARANCE

Garden structures and fencing company, Grange has recently unveiled its collection of re-engineered timber products with a ‘Fine Sawn’ finish. A first to the market, the Fine Sawn range features

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Solving a sticky situation

Spinaclean, has launched New Slipstream Pro 20, a flat surface and traditional pressure washer for large areas of commercial and domestic paving, brickwork and decking. Resulting from trade customer research,

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Chelsea garden relocation

   image: Matthew Wilson leads the planting on behalf of Greenfingers at the relocation of his Chelsea garden at Earl Mountbatten hospice. L-R Emma Hanford, Greenfingers; Craig Ratcliff, C.A.R Gardens;

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Solving a sticky situation

Spinaclean has solved a sticky situation for London and South East cleaning company GLC Maintenance.  The Company is constantly asked by its commercial clients to remove chewing gum from paving. 

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DIGITAL SUCCESS!

new.landscapermagazine.com 865975 hits  52700 visits a year The Landscaper Newsletter Regular • The Landscaper Sent on Tue, FEB 23 2016 7:07 am 3,502 Subscribers 28.6% Opens Twitter Twitter analytics (March

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Garden for Peace

Kate Gould has been invited to design a garden for the Beşiktaş International Garden and Flower Festival in Turkey.  The festival will run from May 7th to 15th 2016 and

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Ultimate flat surface cleaner

Spinaclean, has launched New Slipstream Pro 20, a flat surface and traditional pressure washer for large areas of commercial and domestic paving, brickwork and decking. Resulting from trade customer research,

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Sculpted golden daffodils

This beautifully sculpted tree trunk captures the essence of the host of golden daffodils which surround it at a private house in Staplefield, West Sussex. The West Sussex-based Woodland Centre

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See the earth move

You will literally see the earth move in the new Terrain Aeration video which demonstrates how one metre depth aeration relieves compaction, waterlogging and panning. The benefits for sports pitches,

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WHITE LIGHT

Top-quality LED systems from manufacturers like Wilderness Lighting provide massive levels of illumination from light bars that are discreet, offer long life and are unbelievably tough. Established car makers like

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Germinal – Ecological success story

After a 33-year absence, a widescale environmental and landscape enhancement project involving nine golf courses along the Ayrshire coast has successfully reintroduced a small but significant population of Small Blue

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Five in one machines

 The decision to cut and collect is one to consider as the preference in most situations would be to leave a clean, cutting-free environment in which to enjoy those green

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NEW CORDLESS RANGE

Honda is set to introduce its first range of products in the battery powered handheld market. These high performance products compliment Honda’s market-leading Lawn and Garden line up, extending it’s

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Natural beauty

 Colas Rail appointed Sky Garden to create a space of aesthetic natural beauty for their employees at Rugby, as well as add several benefits to the building itself. The living

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Optimistic outlook!

The UK’s tradespeople have optimistic business outlooks for 2016 as a result of expected high business levels, increased enquiries for work and confidence in the wider national economy, according to

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Shades of grey

Charcon has introduced six new shades to its  Andover Washed concrete block paving range. The three new grey shades – Light, Mid and Dark Grey – have been added to

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Clever solution!

The meander board 30/60  is a clever solution and a patented system for water retention on green roofs using an innovative new drainage board called Meander. The principle behind this

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Fresh new look

A bar and restaurant with picturesque views of Rutland Water has transformed its terrace area thanks to a LazyLawn installation. The Harbour Café Bar and Restaurant in Rutland now has

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POSH BIRDS!

The Posh Shed Company has unveiled its new bird box for spring 2016, a redesign of the popular Posh Bird Box predecessor. The 2016 edition Posh Bird Box is uniquely

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Young Gardeners of the Year

The team behind the Writtle College entry to the ‘Ideal Young Gardeners of the Year 2016’ competition have been busy making the final preparations to their Show Garden which will

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Best in the business

Marshalls has once again celebrated the quality and workmanship of its accredited landscape contractors at its prestigious annual award ceremony. The Marshalls Register Awards celebrated the best garden and driveway

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Give them shelter!

Site Relief is a non-profit, charitable organisation that has been set up to aid humanitarian projects around the globe. By sending skilled tradesmen with tools and funds for resources, Site

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Chelsea gathers momentum

Plans for a horticultural industry garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 are gathering momentum with nearly 60 companies signing up to contribute to what will be an industry first.

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Stamping out rural crime

Law-breakers across rural Oxfordshire villages are thinking twice before carrying out agricultural and construction machinery thefts or taking part in anti-social behaviour thanks to Kubota’s RTV-X900 utility vehicle. The sturdy

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Perfect finishing touch

Kelkay  has introduced  new additions to their Borderstone paving range which includes patio kits, stepping stones, edgings and walling. The  new products include the new Abbey 1.5m and 2.4m Twist

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The uncomfortable truth

Children are still involved in the stone quarrying industry in India, and in particular in the production of cobbles.  Located at the heart of the sandstone quarry belt in Rajasthan,

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Tested to the edge!

Ecofield run three tracked Norcar A75’s from it’s base next to The National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire. The investment in the tracked version of the 45hp articulated mini-loader has

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VICTORIANA WINS!

Sales of bespoke structures from Griffin Glasshouses in its 50th year have been at record levels and the key driver has been continued consumer demand for the Victorian style which

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Getting better all the time

Walk-behind, ride-on, stand-on remote control mowers  blowers and vacuums. That’s the simple way of describing the comprehensive range of machines from STM. The SCAG name is a familiar sight.  They have

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Inexpensive and effective

Gravel is one of the most attractive, economical and versatile surfaces on earth. But without help, it’s inclined to move around, creating ridges and ending up where it shouldn’t. CORE

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DON’T PANIC!

The 1935 Ford BB van, which features in the legendary sitcom “Dad’s Army” as Corporal Jones’s van, has been given a new lease of life as a new Dad’s Army

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FUNKY GIBBON HABITAT

Twycross Zoo is amongst Warwickshire’s most popular visitor attractions, a major part of its remit is animal welfare and conservation. Construction is under way of a new £1.8 million gibbon

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Very clean design

Rising star receives British Sugar TOPSOIL-sponsored Student Designer Commercial award at SGD ceremony Garden designer Tom Massey, ( pictured right) based in Richmond, Surrey, is celebrating winning the British Sugar

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NEW HARD TOP

The Alpha E-type Canopy joins a long list of accessories that allow owners to tailor their D-Max to suit their specific individual requirements. Stylish, strong, reliable and durable, the new

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Volunteers Appeal !

Volunteers are wanted to help restore the historic gardens at the Broomfield Hall campus The restoration programme has been launched by Head Gardener Samantha Harvey ( pictured) who is working

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Bradstone Winners Announced !

The 2016 winners with host and judge, TV gardener David Domoney (far left) and awards presenter, Bradstone’s commercial director Toby Stuart-Jervis (far right).   Bradstone has announced the winners of

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Busy start to the year

Practicality Brown has busy start to the year, planting hedges, moving trees and clearing the land . With more than three decades experience in the horticulture and forestry industries, this

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Planting trends 2016

D W Frost (Wholesale Nurseries) Ltd is a family run business with 35 years of experience in growing and selling quality trees, shrubs and hardy ornamental nursery stock to the

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Xylella fastidiosa

There are known outbreaks of Xylella fastidiosa in Italy, France (Corsica and mainland France). An outbreak in the UK could lead to destruction of host plants within 100 m and

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Young green talent

The 2016 ‘Young Gardeners of the Year’ competition launched at the end of 2015 is being supported by landscape supplier Green-tech. Green-tech will be donating the Mona irrigation system and

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Quality – top priority

George Davies Turf supplies turf, various topsoil’s and bark to landscapers, developers, golf courses and domestic customers in the Home Counties, Northants and Bedfordshire areas.  Over the last 15 years

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Last chance to book

This is the last week to book tickets to join the world’s best ornamentals growers at the AIPH International Grower of the Year Awards 2016.  Last day for booking is

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Needs of the American market

The Campey Turf Care Systems and Imants BV partnership will be exhibiting at the STMA/GIS 2016 in San Diego (19-22nd January) under the Campey/Imants banner with support from American company and

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Subtle tones

The Playhouse Company, has reported a change in its customers’ habits and preferences.   Over the course of its 20 years the Playhouse Company has noticed an emerging trend of

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New finance options

Etesia UK has announced affordable lease and hire purchase finance options to allow its customers flexibility when purchasing new Etesia and Pellenc machinery. Designed to give buyers the power to

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New Year, New Headquarters

Oak View Landscapes has relocated to purpose built headquarters on a commercial site owned by an associated company near Colchester, Essex. Paul Downer, Managing Director told The Landscaper,  “We are

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£40m nationwide contract

Ground Control has been awarded nationwide contracts by Network Rail, to help with the effective management of trees and plants that line the rail network, they will support Network Rail

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The new star

The Sportsman 450 H.O. is the new star of the Polaris Sportsman range, featuring Polaris’ automatic 4×4 system with On-Demand, True All-Wheel Drive which engages all four wheels when you

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Awarding success!

Green-tech is delighted that a record number of guests attended the BALI National Landscape Awards in their first year as headline sponsor. Nearly 900 people attended the awards ceremony which

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New Dealer for Hampshire

Etesia, the exclusive distributor of Pellenc battery-powered equipment in the UK, has announced Hampshire based Mid Hants Mowers as a new Pellenc dealer. Established in 1978, Mid Hants Mowers provide

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New ! Dual bin trailer

A new easy to use attachment has been added to the SCH (Supplies) Ltd range to make transportation of  wheelie bins easier and quicker. Hitch the two wheeled trailer to

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Support is the key

Western, a brand with 65 years of experience in North America, is continuing to develop their product range, with new Pedestrian Spreaders, Tailgate and Hopper Spreaders they have units all

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Smooth working on severe terrain

With 5000 operating hours completed, Zurich’s grounds maintenance team have replaced their 13 year old Reform Muli transporter with the company’s latest T10 X Hybrid Shift model. The team were

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Expanding turf business

Ben Burgess & Co will be expanding its professional turf business in East Anglia from January 2016. The Norwich-based company will be selling and supporting the full John Deere turf

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100% recycled!

Launched in 2005, the voluntarily run Bisley Community Composting Scheme transforms unwanted garden waste from the local community into re-usable compost for its members and local allotment holders. In early

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Expected life of 30,000 hours!

During 2015 Lumena has continued to upgrade and add to their extensive range of high quality Outdoor and Commercial Exterior Lighting with a special new edition – The Ledifice Bollard.

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£1,000 for 3-storey sunflower

A gardener with a lifelong passion for sunflowers has won £1,000 following a nationwide hunt for the UK’s tallest specimen. Seed and plant specialist Thompson & Morgan announced the biggest

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New Reuse Hubs across London

Groundwork London and the London Community Resource Network (LCRN) have launched five new reuse hubs on housing estates across London. The hubs, known as ‘The Loop’, will collect, refurbish and

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Milestone

Kubota U.K’s longest standing engine dealer is this year celebrating 30-years in partnership with the brand having sold Kubota’s full diesel engine range since 1975. Across the construction, groundcare and

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New Fullback

FIAT Professional  unveiled the all-new FIAT Fullback pick-up truck at the 2015 Dubai International Motor Show. The new, medium-duty pick-up will join the FIAT Professional range in autumn 2016 and

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Major industry initiative

Rigby Taylor has reached agreement with The FA to be the Official Supplier to the FA Pitch Improvement Programme. This four year agreement will see the supply of Rigby Taylor

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BRANSON TRACTORS ARRIVE IN UK

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Ariens ECHO Stand C090 SALTEX

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Green-tech celebrates a record year

Commencing its 21st trading year, leading landscape supplier Green-tech is celebrating a record  year. Heralded as their most successful year to-date, achieving a record £10.6 million turnover, Green- tech’s head

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Grinders and Chippers!

Regular servicing is essential to maintain the efficiency of equipment. Danequip’s state -of –the-art servicing and workshop facility is designed to reduce the time machinery spends off-line The facility ensures

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New Bordering System

Uniborder is a simple raised upstand bordering system  where there is no need to stake to the ground. The system utilises an adhesive base making installation of the border much

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Two for one

Take the many advantages of an outfront mower and give it the ability to cut both long grass and sports turf and you’re surely on to a winner. The Wessex

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Orange Plant – open day

On Saturday 24th October Orange Plant will be holding an Open Day, with Countryside Training & Tree Management Limited. If you are already an Orange Plant customer or maybe just

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Solar powered Christmas tree

A company which pioneered the country’s only lamppost-mounted solar-powered Christmas trees has launched a brand new hanging version of its ground-breaking design to help spread even more festive cheer this

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Awarding times

Green-tech has been named as one of three finalists for the 2015 Press Business Awards Large Business of the Year.The awards are in their 25th year and receive entries for

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Power Beyond Belief

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SHAPES UP FOR THE FUTURE

Investment in energy efficient plant and machinery, environmentally friendly LED lighting and an ambitious employee skills development scheme are just part of M&M Timber’s plans to consolidate its position in

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Bradstone- Ultra-modern feel

Bradstone’s Mode porcelain paving adds an ultra-modern feel and look to any garden setting. Available in 20mm thick pavers in two finishes, each with four attractive shades. Bradstone is an

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£70,000 on staff training

Rochford Garden Machinery dealers  met up  this month  for the annual dealer day presentations at Haynes Motor Museum. Rochford Managing Director Stewart Anderson talked about the £1m investment the company

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Volvo CE appoints Rockbreakers

With its headquarters located just off the M9 at Bo’Ness, Rockbreakers UK has been appointed as Volvo Construction Equipment’s utility equipment dealer for Central and Southern Scotland with immediate effect.

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Landscaping at the NEC

Mitie has begun providing landscaping services to the NEC in Birmingham. The three year contract, providing grounds maintenance, winter services and interior tropical plants to the Birmingham-based venue is being

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Dandelions – new source rubber

Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) has entered into a joint research project with US biotech company Kultevat to investigate the potential of utilising Russian dandelions as an alternative source of natural

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Glendale’s 7.5 tonne fleet

Following the successful operation of its first two Isuzus that have been in service for just over a year, specialist national green services provider Glendale Managed Services has taken a

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Green Heart

Mixed-use development at the centre of Singapore’s business district aims to become its signature real estate development. Its brief is to define new standards of luxury urban living and to

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A family Business

Originally cultivated in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), tulips were imported into Holland in the sixteenth century. As the Dutch Golden Age grew, so did this curvaceous and colourful flower.

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For the fencing sector

BeA – the manufacturer of fastening tools and consumables for the fencing sector – has recently acquired additional warehousing at its Woodmansey East Yorkshire site. The new facility will be

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Investment for a lifetime

  Reclaimed York stone paving has a classic character that is unique and sets it apart from any other stone.  York stone has been quarried for hundreds of years and

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Discounts for landscapers !

City Irrigation now  have a trade counter in SE London and a comprehensive web site. Landscapers can register on line to receive attractive  trade rates. City Irrigation’s  products include Drip

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£1,000 Cashback!

Kubota UK is helping landscapers, amenity professionals and turf care professionals to get their hands on the next generation of compact tractors with a tempting new cashback offer available across its B50 Series range.

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Ashes fans bowled over

Cricket fans seeking lunchtime refreshment during the Ashes were  greeted by a riot of colour after thousands of flowers were installed to create a series of dazzling displays in a Nottinghamshire

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STUMP GRINDER OFFERS IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY

Some Stump Grinders are over complicated – not so models in the Toro STX range which offer reliable performance day-in, day-out – clearing tree stumps in minutes with minimal effort. The Toro Dingo  TX-style control system

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New broom sweeps in

Wessex International has introduced a new push broom suitable for a wide range of industrial, groundscare and agricultural uses. The BroomEx Pro-240 2.4m designation indicates the 2.4m sweeping width (94”

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Cutting edge visit

Second-year engineering undergraduate students from Oxford University, studying Engineering Science, had a recent tour of the Ariens Company factory in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. The visit offered students the opportunity to

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Six finalists – APL WorldSkills

  Horticultural students and apprentices from across the nation have taken part in three knockout heats over the past few months, both run by the Association of Professional Landscapers. The most recent

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‘Beast in the East’

Sam Colman, Sales Manager for British Sugar TOPSOIL, demonstrated a flair for go-kart racing when he won the BALI East Anglia Region ‘Beast in the East’ go-kart challenge recently as

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Extreme weather- rapid growth

This is the second growing season for the trees planted by Grace Landscapes on the 5 hectares surrounding the biggest Dairy processing development in Europe, at ARLA, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury.

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Plant consultation advice

ALB Plants Limited are a retail and wholesale plant nursery (cash & carry) based in Buckinghamshire. Their clients are garden designers, landscapers, landscape architects, developers, builders, golf clubs and councils. Their

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The Budget – BALI COMMENTS

BALI statement on the Chancellor’s Summer Budget 2015 ‘This is headlined as a budget for working people, which means that it will inevitably impact on the country’s wealth creators, i.e.

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Plain Flailing

Councils and contractors looking for a no-nonsense, robust flail mower for the maintenance of grassland and roadside verges should seriously consider the Wessex SF Series. The range comprises four models

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BUDGET REACTION: HTA DELIGHTED

Following the chancellor’s budget statement yesterday, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is delighted to hear that that there are moves afoot to relax the Sunday Trading Laws in order to

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Putting safety first!

Simon Richard Ltd  report increasing sales of both their Reform Metrac bank tractors, (safe for working at up to 45 degree angles) and Shibaura SG280 Slope mowers, (rated for safe

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New options for aerator

Classen has announced the introduction of optional solid tines for the RA21 aerator. This gives the groundsman the choice of hollow or solid tines, depending on their preference for the

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Down to earth

The no-nonsense BLEC PBR80 Power Box Rake the ideal tool. The multi-use, quick fit machine can do it all in one pass with a powerful contra rotating tooth rotor penetrating

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Roundabouts set to bloom !

The University of Sheffield Department of Landscape, Pictorial Meadows and Enterprise Rent-A-Car work together to bring sustainable wildflower meadows to urban roundabouts across the country Following a 12-month collaboration with

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Another great year for APL !

Members of the APL group are celebrating their success at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show APL’s success continued this year at Hampton Court continued with an impressive

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Best Plant Display

ONE OF THE UK’s leading commercial nurseries based in Hereford has this week (June 23, 2015) won the Best Plant Display Award at the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) National Plant Show. Wyevale

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Back To The Fuchsia!

The below research, commissioned to mark the launch of the Nectar Business Small Business Awards, also looks at the importance of business names to the success of a business and

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WiFi irrigation !

Connects  with up to five local weather stations  Hydrawise can adjust your watering schedules automatically based on actual conditions. It’s an ideal piece of kit that ticks all the boxes.

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Power grinders

Danequip’s 13 & 15pp grinders use the tried and tested Kohler Command motors giving power and reliability. They can be used for the most difficult jobs as they are fitted

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Clearing up !

Kite Packaging has launched a range of bags to benefit the landscaping industry. The first product in the range, FIBC bags, are made from woven polypropylene and can be loaded

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Tylers join Godfreys

  Godfreys (Sevenoaks) has announced  it has taken over  assets of Tylers, the Sussex based garden machinery distributor. The acquisition of Tylers provides Godfreys with an established and well respected

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Record highs!

  The May digital  edition of The Landscaper was published on May 18 within five days 7,793 had seen the title ( Issuu) Although of course the vast majority of

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Great corporate opportunity !

African Vision Malawi (AVM) support orphan and vulnerable people (with disabilities, ultra-poor and HIV+) in a rural area in Malawi.  Projects through education, clean water, reforestation, health access and self-sufficiency

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Time for tees

Golf tees sink and settle over time, Speedcut re- grade  ageing tees and restore them to top condition with their Laser Grade Teams. A major project was carried out at

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Fuel consumption – 20% saving

Glendale has cut operational fuel consumption by 20% by switching to Makita’s 4-stroke blowers, line-trimmers and pole hedge trimmers. “We have cut petrol consumption by 20% since buying Makita 4-stroke

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New dealer for Orange

Orange Plant, the European Partner for Carlton Stump Grinders, have appointed M.Large as their Irish dealer for this highly acclaimed machinery. M.Large will stock and sell the products from their

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New Team at the Top

Tracmaster has announced  that Alex Pitt has been promoted to Managing Director Working alongside him on the senior management team is John Bates as Sales Director, Jody Symons as Technical

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£1 million investment

Kelkay has reinforced its position as a leading manufacturer and distributor of aggregates and paving with a £1 million investment in new state of the art machinery. The significant investment,

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Racing ahead

Polaris maker of the Sportsman ATVs and Ranger UTVs is also taking the lead in the growing popularity of quad racing with the Polaris Factory Racing Team and the company’s

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The Tree-Lopper

As the appetite for wood fuel has increased over the last few years so has the range of equipment that is available to cut and process it. The Tree-Lopper fills

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Funchal Flower Festival

Take in the scents and colours of the annual ‘Funchal Flower Festival’ with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines 23rd March 2015 Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering guests the chance to visit

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VW MOTORS AHEAD!

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles delivered 445,000 urban delivery vans, Transporters and pick-ups to customers all over the world  revenue rose to 9.6 billion euros   Dr Eckhard Scholz, Chairman of the

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Installed by the best in the business

Marshalls celebrates Register member success Marshalls has again celebrated the quality and workmanship of its accredited landscape contractors at its prestigious annual award ceremony. The Marshalls Register Awards held at

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WIN! WIN! WIN! SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

Can you spot how many differences there are between the two pictures? If you can, just email david@new.landscapermagazine.com with your contact details including daytime telephone number, stating how many differences

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Jaws!

Terex Finlay have announced the launch of the NEW J-1170AS jaw crusher, the latest in a range of tracked mobile jaw crushers.

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Cut, clean, roll and spray

The increased popularity of ATV’s and quad bikes to perform all sorts of tasks, often in difficult terrain, had led in recent years to Wessex International’s expansion of their range

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Bookings Flood in for SALTEX

Bookings Flood in for SALTEX SALTEX 2015 has seen a huge amount of exhibitor bookings from a wide range of sectors in recent weeks. Companies representing forestry, play, groundscare machinery,

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SNOW BLADES

It makes great sense to be able to put STM’S SCAG SWZ Zero-Turn mowers to work outside the grasscutting season. Removing the standard grass-cutting deck and installing a blade takes

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Shortlist announced!

The Association of Professional landscapers (APL) has announced the shortlist for the APL Awards 2015. The annual awards ceremony, sponsored by Bradstone, takes place on Friday 13 March at The

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Perfect pitch

The 1st round of the FA Cup recently made its debut on a 3G artificial pitch between Maidstone and Stevenage with synthetic surface maintenance specialists Replay Maintenance playing a key

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Taking a stand

The most recent exhibitors to confirm their presence at SALTEX are Kubota, Lely (UK) and Rigby Taylor. As one of the UK’s leading supplier of products for the improvement, maintenance

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Hedge Fund

Practicality Brown’s Elveden Instant Hedge helped Patrick Collins recreate his Chelsea Garden at St George’s Hospital for First touch – a charity that supports sick and premature babies at St

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Trip to French Headquarters

Etesia rounded of another successful year by inviting a group of UK dealers to its Wissembourg headquarters in France to provide an insight into the past, present and future of

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Hard-working vehicles

On display at LAMMA 2015 the full-size Ranger Diesel 1000 and Ranger Diesel 1000 Crew. The Ranger Diesel is a favourite hard-working vehicle amongst farmers and anyone who uses diesel

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Cradle to grave approach to chippers

GreenMech, supported by dealers Orange Plant opened up their Alcester factory and gave demonstrations of some of their most popular equipment. Managing Director of GreenMech, Jonathan Turner, welcomed the press

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Aerating the soil

David Green arrived at Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club with the Airforce Scamper Terralift machine to contribute to the end of year maintenance, at the behest of Course Manager, Tony

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New-look Balmers

Balmers GM Ltd, the agricultural and groundcare equipment suppliers in Lancashire have recently completed a major move from their Trafalgar Street, Burnley premises to a large purpose-built complex in Dunnockshaw,

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SALTEX Gathers Pace

As SALTEX begins a new era in 2015 with a new venue, a new date enhanced educational opportunities and the inclusion of the IOG’s annual Industry Awards, anticipation is already

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Flawless decking finish

OSC, distributor of self-drilling fasteners and screws, has introduced the new CAMO Marksman Edge hidden fastener solution, specifically designed to tackle decking projects with awkward corners or angles. Handheld and

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Rain stopped play

Duncan Ross sportsturf construction and drainage contractors has completed a major project to install drainage and renovate the pitches at Lancashire based Bolton RUFC. Four years ago Bolton RUFC would

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Gussie Park Redevelopment

SIS pitches has been appointed by Dundee United Football Club to install a new£300,000 state-of-the-art 3G pitch at the Club’s Gussie Park. The company has manufactured and fitted both synthetic

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On the right lines

Managers from UK railways commissioned the trial of the Weed-IT system with a view to actively reducing the reliance on older blanket spraying of contact products. Key requirements for the

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The Future of parks

National green services provider, Glendale, has called for the general public to be involved more in the future of parks. The company has witnessed a decline in spend on parks

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Fully trained arborists on standby

DART, the Disaster Arborist Response Team, is now equipped with Makita chainsaws ready to deliver humanitarian aid and rescue services anywhere in the world. Wherever a natural climatic disaster occurs,

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Rugged petrol generators

Makita has introduced a four-model range of rugged petrol generators for off-site power operations. These reliable and durable generators are powered by a heavy duty OHV 4-stroke engine that fully

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Presentation is very important

Cambridge United FC have purchased a Dennis G860 professional mower complete with a range of interchangeable cassettes to maintain the high standards set by award winning head groundsman Ian Darler.

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Classic New Landscape

The grounds at Boringdon Hall Hotel, the seductive manor house in Devon, have recently been redeveloped. The premises has a stunning new landscape consisting of paving supplied by Tobermore. The

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Going for Gold!

Investors in people (IIP) is the UK’s leading accreditation for business improvement through people management and provides a wealth of resources for businesses to innovate, improve and grow, with a

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Control Your World

The new WiFi RF from RF Solutions, offers the freedom of controlling outdoor appliances from a mobile phone. The compact radio transceiver is quick to setup and allows a simple,

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Tracmaster New Lawn Scarifier

Tracmaster have announced the launch of the new CAMON LS14 lawn scarifier, which is now available Designed and manufactured in the UK and based on the popular CAMON professional scarifier,

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Built for professionals

ECHO’s CS-280TES top handle chainsaw is built for professionals. It has been ergonomically designed to provide operators with control and manoeuvrability whilst maintaining a high degree of comfort – even

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Natural wildflower for roundabouts

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is launching a national ecological initiative to commemorate 20 years of business in the UK. In partnership with local authorities, as well as with the University of Sheffield’s

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Out-front mower

Sandiway Golf Club of Northwich Cheshire recently took delivery of an FD2200 out-front mower with collection. Commenting on the purchase Mr Brian Taylor, Course Manager said, we looked and evaluated

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The Core opens for business

With the opening of ground-breaking new building The Core, Newcastle’s multi-million pound Science Central development is established as a new quarter of the city centre. The Core provides contemporary office

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Warning…wear a mask !

Gregor Campbell, is joining doctors this autumn to warn landscapers who have asthma or a weak immune system to be on alert for a deadly fungus that lurks in compost

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Instant Hedges!

Practicality Brown specialise in the supply of quality specimen and semi mature screening trees offering immediate impact on any landscape project. At their nursery, they stock a wide range of

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Crushing and mulching

Suitable for tractors, with a power class between 150 and 250 HP, the Seppi Star soil tiller and stone crusher, is equipped with a new traction system that simplifies work

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WAVE POWER

Formerly a service facility for the 2012 Olympics, Drapers Field was redesigned by Kinnear Landscape Architects (KLA) as a vibrant community space, improving sport and play provision and encouraging more

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Champion of Champions

Shrewsbury has been crowned the Champion of Champions of this year’s Britain in Bloom. The town was given the Royal Horticultural Society title at an awards ceremony yesterday , marking

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Green careers

Opinion Later this month employees from Glendale Liverpool will descend upon Liverpool town hall to receive awards for their commitment to Glendale as part of a prestigious event. Paul Cosgrove

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Performance upgrades

Seventy-five percent of the Polaris Ranger line-up will have performance upgrades and restyling, based on the line’s flagship the Ranger XP900. The first Rangers to receive the new treatment is

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New Reelmaster 5410

One of the top boys’ boarding schools in the country, Tonbridge School, in Kent, has added to its Toro machinery fleet with a new Reelmaster 5410. The new machine has

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SandCat draws a line

The STRI recently hosted an Open Day event to highlight some of the research and trial work they are currently conducting. Campey Turf Care Systems have submitted the Imants SandCat

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Sweetest year ever

British Sugar TOPSOIL has declared the past year its best ever for sales. In the year to September 2014, the company supplied 240,000 tonnes of BS 3882:2007 topsoil to projects

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Plain flailing

Heavy duty, no frills or things to go wrong, Wessex CountryLine FL flail mowers have a reputation as very tough performers. For control of dense vegetation, long grass and woodland

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Greenfingers garden opens

Greenfingers the small national charity dedicated to creating gardens in children’s hospices across the UK, opened its 44th garden last week at Little Havens( Hospice in Essex. A fully accessible

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Helps young trees to survive

Sherriff Amenity has announced that it is now offering the Fortetub range of twin walled tree shelters exclusively to the UK market. The Fortetub range enhances plant survival on all

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£16.5 million redevelopment

Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Lancashire, has recently undergone an amazing transformation following a £16.5 million redevelopment project delivered by construction firm, Wilmott Dixon. Tobemore, the world class paving and walling manufacturer,

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WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Worsley Plant have conducted a video experiment to show potential customers why they should consider a Remu Screening Bucket to replace their existing Riddle Bucket. The video demonstrates just how

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BALI – 2014 award winners…

Fifty One BALI members out of 77 who entered over 100 entries have won awards in this year’s BALI National Landscape Awards in association with Horticulture Week and headline sponsor

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New Turbo Z 322 Diesel –

GIANNI FERRARI sales in the UK are reaching new levels in the face of difficult financial constraints across the markets – not least in the public sector. Feedback from customers

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Don’t Slip Up !

Slips and trips account for the majority of major injuries in the workplace As an example of the scale of injuries, throughout 2013 there were 78,222 reported non-fatal injuries to

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Reliability & Robustness

The Landscape Group has added to its collection of Etesia pedestrian mowers by recently purchasing a range of PRO 46 PBE push and PBTS self-propelled models. The mowers, which are

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Pineapple Princess Glitter

ONE OF the UK’s leading nurseries in Hereford has unveiled a new plant. Eucomis ‘Pineapple Princess Glitter’ is new and exclusive to Wyevale Nurseries and was bred by New World

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New BALI Chairman

Robert Field, a long-standing contracting member of the British Association of Landscape Industries, has been elected as the Association’s National Chairman, taking over from Q Lawns’ Chris Carr who remains

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Windsor vs NEC

At meeting yesterday the IOG management outlined some of the advantages of moving the Saltex show to the NEC in 2015 after 33 years at Windsor.   The NEC is

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Spreading the load

SnowEx have been meeting the needs of those dealing with hard North American winters since 1993 There is a complete range of SnowEx salt and grit spreaders, which has rapidly

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Winter protection

The Howolis Early Green fleece cover provides winter protection on golf greens. The lawn regenerates better and is game-ready quicker in the spring. The principle is simple: Shortly before the

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More power! More tools!

Makita has introduced more tools for grounds care and horticultural operations that are powered by twin 18v Lithium-ion batteries designed to deliver 36volt performance. Many grounds maintenance professionals and landscapers

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GrootGroenPlus…..Bigger than last year!

GrootGroenPlus 2014 exceeds last years show in terms of activities, exhibitors and pre- registered visitors. The composition of participants is very diverse with over 25% international exhibitors. Around-the-large-green-table sessions, so

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Show Heads to Scotland

Organised by SAPCA (the Sports and Play Construction Association), The Sports Facility Show, will have the added benefit of including several key speakers that are practising athletes – which offers

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Sherriff for Jersey

Turf technology was the theme of the most recent seminar for groundsmen and greenkeepers in the Channel Islands which was organised by Sherriff Amenity. Twenty-five turf professionals representing sports grounds,

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Pegasus goes live!

Trimax has released a new video featuring in action the company’s best-selling Pegasus S3 wide-area rotary roller mower, a stalwart of the Trimax mower range since 2001. Published on YouTube

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Tackling Theft

Rural theft, including theft of expensive vehicles is on the rise in the UK, with the figures for 2013 up 5.2% on 2012. According to the latest data from NFU

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Chat with Queen Vic

Statues across London and Manchester are telling tales of the past through the voices of recognisable British actors. To hear the talking statues, visitors must swipe their smartphones over signs

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Only a few places remaining

With 303 participants already registered this year’s 32nd Plantarium is almost fully booked. A total of 50 foreign companies from 12 different countries have registered. “The number of participants means

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Tackles tree stumps

Ecoplug Max delivers glyphosate directly into the tree stump, killing its root system and preventing re-growth using a patented method which minimises the risk of herbicide exposure for the operator

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Less than 35 days to go!

In about five weeks’ time, the UK’s national trade event for all those working in grounds care, pitches, landscaping, outdoor play and green space management takes place at Windsor Racecourse.

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Slim &powerful

New Holland’s new T3.75F is a versatile and agile machine with a compact and narrow body yet can lift its own weight, at 2.2t on the powerful rear linkage. It’s

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25 Green Flags!

John O’Conner provide specialist grounds maintenance services across the UK. The firm have supported their clients and local community groups to achieve 25 Green Flags across their contracts, bringing considerable

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Over 58% turned down by banks

Despite Britain’s van drivers contributing more than £43.8 billion to the UK’s economy, nearly 60% are still being turned down for funding by high street banks, according to a new

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Pulling Power

Post Pullers have recently developed a machine specifically for the safe removal of safety barrier posts. Current common practises include using clamps and chains to remove these posts. This technique

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PULVERISED!!

A FORMER World War II bomb proof radar station is proving no match for a state-of-the-art piece of demolition machinery. Durham-based demolition and asbestos removal experts, MGL Demolition are using

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Hungarian success

Because of the Hungarian climate, pitches there are normally turfed with grass imported from Europe. The Ferencváros Stadium, home to Ferencvárosi TC – one of Hungary’s most popular and successful

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World Record!

The Rabaud Xylo’ Show featured the full range of Rabaud Forestry Equipment – Logsplitters from 6t to 80t, Log-saws, Firewood Processors, Wood chippers, Post Peelers, Post Pointers, Shear grabs all

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Beauty spot

Green services provider Glendale was part of a team working to restore a Birmingham park’s ‘hidden gem’ to its former glory, alongside 60 armed service personnel. An island at the

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Tottenham Hotspur FC grounds manager Darren Baldwin has chosen a SISIS tractor mounted brush combination of a Zig Zag brush and Flexibcomb which have been fitted to a Twinplay frame

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All hands-on deck

The new Wessex RMX-800 8M Tri-Deck Roller Mower has no electric clutches and the wing control is independent. This means with one wing lifted it can cut gradients from -30°

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Hugh King & Co’s sand

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club has completed a six-year search for the perfect top-dressing in time for this year’s Senior Open Championship. The revered Welsh club, which started its quest due

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World Cup 2018

As the excitement of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil draws to a close, attention is being turned to the competition in four years’ time which will take place in

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National catastrophe

Q Lawns from Norfolk is using its grassland knowledge to help reverse the catastrophic decline in Britain’s wildflower meadows. Specialists at the company have grown a specially developed turf that

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United in front

The new Wessex FRX-150H hydraulic Out-Front Flail Mower has been specifically developed in conjunction with Stiga & Ransomes Jacobsen exclusively for their hydraulic power units. This is a mower that

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Combat and provide solutions

Rochford Garden Machinery has announced the launch of the B3C Fuel Solutions range in the UK. B3C Fuel Solutions LLC is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly products and solutions for

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Waterproofing green roofing

Enviromat’s Sedum Roof System is specifically designed for flat and shallow pitch roofs and weighs in at a meagre 44Kg/m² in its water saturated condition. One of the best features

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Flower power

The Landscaper team visited the world’s biggest flower show at Hampton Court to record the themes and ideas for 2014 and check out the winners.. full 10 page report and

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Very British summer

This year’s summer programme at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg Germany, home of VW, will be a celebration of everything British. British landscape design creates an inviting atmosphere for guests to

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Business for sale

Redwood Stone has decided after a break of seven years to offer its unique range of Kingfisher Ornamental Stone for sale in its entirety. All Moulds and Masters have been

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WorldSkills

The Association of Landscapers (APL) have announced the sponsors for the 2014 WorldSkills UK competition. Organising partner APL have once again joined forces with Makita UK, Marshalls, Jewson and Greenwood

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Big stump – no problem

After you’ve felled a 125ft tall triple stem Lime tree the resultant stump needs the best equipment to clear it away and John Stenning of Canadian Roots Tree Surgery always

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UK parks in crisis

Commenting on the Heritage Lottery Fund ‘State of UK Parks 2014’ report Mark Camley, Chairman of The Parks Alliance – the newly formed voice of UK parks, which brings together

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Dedicated to customer service

Deco-Pak, supplier of aggregates and landscaping products, has confirmed that it is has further invested in its stock and transport systems, to ensure even higher levels of service and customer

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£700,000 new contracts

Oak View Landscapes kicks off its 10th anniversary celebrations in style on the back of new contracts secured to the value of £700,000 during May and June 2014. Oak View

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Plant Selfie

Fairweather’s Nursery is celebrating winning the Plant Selfies Photography Competition launched at this year’s HTA National Plant Show. As part of the show’s 5th birthday celebrations exhibitors were asked to

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ALL-IN-ONE!

The great thing about creating a green roof is that there are so many ways this can be achieved. A complex roof garden requires incredibly careful construction in order to

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All-round versatility

Wessex AR rotary mowers have proved themselves to be robust and durable machines, ideal for private estates, farms and studs. Available in 1.2m, 1.5m, and 1.8m working widths and with

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Tractors gets a facelift

A new design for the John Deere X300 Select Series range of lawn tractors has been introduced to coincide with this year’s launch of the new X310 model. The bonnets

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PLAYGROUND ORDERS FALLING

First quarter UK orders for playgrounds and play equipment fell to an eight year low in 2014, according to the Association of Play Industries (API). API member companies reported £42

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Star rated loppers

WOLF-Garten has created a new star rating system for its Power Cut System Series loppers. The range uses an improved cutting head technology which better transforms applied strength into maximum

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Three year warranty

Etesia UK, the UK distributor of Pellenc battery-powered tools has announced it will now offer a three year commercial warranty as standard. The warranty is an extension of the normal

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Big lamb stakes

The Dykes family, recent stars of BBC’s Lambing Live needed to replace their existing UTV. They had a number of machines on demonstration for several days but chose the new

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Changing Places

Kris Heard worked for Zigma Ground Solutions for seven years. After two years of sustained growth at Zigma Kriss was promoted to Sales Director Europe. Kris has now founded his

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DRAGONS’ DEN BUSINESS MENTORING

An architectural and garden lighting company has won a month of priceless, one-to-one business mentoring from former Dragons’ Den investor and Yo! Sushi founder, Simon Woodroffe, thanks to Volkswagen Commercial

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GUERNSEY GOES WILD

Wild flowers are on public display in Guernsey for the first time, as a tribute to those who died in the First World War. ‘Flowers of Flanders,’ which will be

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INSPIRATIONAL

Travis Perkins has launched a new Inspirational Gardens & Driveways brochure with new products, photography and advice. Backed by Travis Perkins’ heritage of providing heavyside and timber products, the new

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A 325th birthday!

Husqvarna Group is celebrated its first 325 years of innovative Swedish engineering. on April 27 The Group has a fascinating manufacturing history, from weapons to robotic mowers. Since starting out

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Talk of the clubhouse

Bunkers are a regular clubhouse talking point – often as a negative one – Sherriff Amenity now offers something that will raise their profile favourably and be a useful course

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New RHS web site

The excellent new RHS web site contains more than 6,000 pages of content (excluding all the plant details pages which takes it to over 225,000!), 35,000 images and hundreds of

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‘GARDEN OF ELEMENTS’

Andy Sturgeon Landscape and Garden Design has been commissioned to design three new roof gardens for London’s iconic Battersea Power Station working as a consultant to design, environment and sustainability

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Fighting the invader

Japanese Knotweed comes with a fearful reputation and, given the damage it can cause and the inconvenience and costs it can incur,this is not without some substance. David Layland describes

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Topping everything

The recent mix of warmth, sunshine and lighter rain have combined in most parts of the country to promote rapid growth of vegetation. If you have an ATV/UTV, or a

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Great Easter trade boost

Garden centres were reporting record trading over the holiday with plants and garden sundries sales particularly strong. Simon Fraser of Ben Reid Garden Centre in Aberdeen reported that they had

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No resting on Laurels

Laurica Plants are widely regarded as one of Europe’s premier laurel nurseries. The bay trees grown at their Belgian nursery attracts many landscape architects and garden designers to see and

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Talent seekers

Alexander Tredwell is a new specialist recruitment consultancy operating in the Horticultural Industry and specialising in the Garden Retail, Landscape and Amenity, Commercial Horticulture and Garden Industry Supply Chain sectors.

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Standing the Test of Time

A range of Etesia mowers, including two new Duocut RMHB 46cm pedestrian mowers, are helping to maintain the green space areas surrounding and including Durham university – the UK’s third

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Three into one will go

The Wessex ProLine STC is three machines in one. It’s ’s a sweeper collector that picks up litter and leaves in parkland and amenity areas. It becomes a flail collector,

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Demos impress

UK importer Pro Mach Environmental is currently demonstrating the new remote control slope mower Ferri 4 cylinder 50 Hp diesel engine iCut4 to amenity contractors, internal drainage boards and Environment

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Step into Spring

It’s that time of year when the shift in landscaping is changing to that of maintenance, seed planting and weed control. Green-tech has just launched their Spring catalogue, packed with

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Conifers for Colleges

The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is launching a flagship programme – Conifers for Colleges– to involve forestry students in research into the species which will ensure a healthy UK timber

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THE LANDSCAPER….SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

THE LANDSCAPER SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM MAY 2014 THE LANDSCAPER WILL BE PUBLISHED BY CURTIS MEDIA LTD EDITOR /PUBLISHER DAVID CURTIS TEL 0208 891 4850 07780967735 David@new.landscapermagazine.com COMMERICIAL MANAGER MATTHEW CURTIS

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Support for Olympic trees

Ormiston Wire supplied the wire tree supports necessary to provide stability for 4,000 trees as they developed their roots, contributing to a massive planting programme that played a fundamental part

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A Brush with performance

The Scari-Brush Groomer is the latest addition to the SCH (Supplies) range of artificial and natural sports surface maintenance machines. The two wheeled unit comprises of two brushes, the first

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Roboworld

The last time I visited the picturesque town of Ludlow I had a deservedly junior job on Farmers Weekly – my main port of call was the thriving livestock market.

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Rolling down the road

Ease of maintenance, speed and quality of cut have all been cited as good reasons to look into Wessex ProLine RMX roller mowers. Existing users of the Wessex machines say

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SAVE TIME AND MONEY

Bradley Demolition, one of the North West’s premier demolition services, have enjoyed time, cost and diesel savings on recent projects by adding a selection of market leading Rotar demolition attachments

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New compact excavators

AH Plant Hire continues to make a significant investment in choosing Volvo compact excavators having just added a further nine machines to its fleet. Managing Director Andrew Heaton has continued

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Gardening annoyances

Cat poo has been voted the nation’s top gardening annoyance – according to a new survey. The poll by online gardening retailer, GardeningExpress.co.uk quizzed more than 600 shoppers about their

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No flyby night

Hugh Bunting goes back 34 years as a Landscaping & Habitat Manager, looking after 350 acres of landscaping and green space on the non-operational external areas around Manchester Airport His

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On the pull

Postpullers (UK) design and manufacture a range of machines for the easy removal of all kinds of posts. From fence posts to street signs, gateposts to motorway barriers, their new

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Smooth addition!

Ultrascape, a brand of the Instarmac Group, has developed Flowpoint Smooth – the third variation of their award-winning flowable grout, Flowpoint. For over 25 years, Flowpoint has been exceeding the

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Quick&Easy

Weed control is an easy task with an SCH ATV/Quad mounted sprayer (Q4PS). A 70 litre capacity tank fits neatly onto the vehicles storage bars. The sprayer has an integral

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Squares & gardens rejuvenated

Rolawn’s Medallion Turfmaster 1300 rolls have been used as part of a major restoration programme at two of Edinburgh’s most famous city centre gardens. Edinburgh City Council appointed specialist contractor

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Trip to Mars!

Breakthrough aerospace technology has turned science fiction into reality, and Earthwatch has announced their most exciting expedition ever – a scientific research expedition to Mars in search of water and

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Hedgehog -friendly garden

The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) and People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) have announced that their joint submission for a hedgehog-friendly garden has been selected as one of this

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CHAINSAW REACH 5 METRES HIGH

The latest professional pole-saw recently added to the expanding Makita Outdoor Power Equipment range extends telescopically to enable branches up to five metres above ground to be lopped with ease.

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French praise shockwave

One of France’s leading racecourses has purchased the Imants Shockwave Saint-Cloud Racecourse covers an area of 75 hectares and is situated right in the heart of Paris – the only

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Rough cuts

If you need to cut rough, long grass, take a look SCH (Supplies) Ltd new Field Topper. With a single blade featuring wing tips, the unit is powered by a

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Versatile material

Natratex is a leading product from the Bituchem range of hard landscaping materials, providing a natural looking finish with all the durability of regular asphalt. A clear binder developed by

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Power houses

LDA Design has been appointed to develop the landscape design proposals for the second phase of the 39-acre Battersea Power Station Development . Working as a consultant to LDA Design,

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A day at the races

Over 230,000 people flocked to the Cheltenham Word Cup this year to enjoy the four days of racing. The concentration of such a crowd in one place over those days

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Amazing success

Adrian Fisher is the world’s leading innovator and creator of mazes of all kinds, full of challenges, discovery and fun. Since 1979, we have been transforming the traditional idea of

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Record year for new products

Green-tech have unveiled three new catalogues and their latest Growing News newsletter. Catalogues have been launched for gtSpecifier, the urban landscape specification arm of the business; Green-tree soils, the soil

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Fighting UK Obesity

Designed and developed in collaboration with experts in sports, nutrition and general well-being, over 30 individual units offering specific multi-discipline fitness benefits available in a range of colour combos are

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Efficient growth

Japanese Knotweed Control has recruited an experienced professional from outside the industry as it looks to enhance its project management efficiency following continued growth. Robert Gibbs joins the Cheshire-based company

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NEW SPRAYER INNOVATIONS

DMMP Limited, the UK distributor of Chapin, has announced two new sprayer models The NEW 63800 sprayer, the new 6 inch Wide Mouth opening has a 50% wider opening with

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Compaction Panning Relief!

Flood waters can create compaction panning due to the weight of the water laying on the surface before it dissipates. Fracturing and fissuring the soil using the Terralift machine will

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Their little ponies

SCH (Supplies) Ltd have adopted some cheeky little mini Shetland ponies. Known as ‘The Gangsters’ Ronnie, Patch and Reggie ( l-r ) .the ponies dwell at Redwings Horse Sanctuary in

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Turf – holy grail

It takes many years of planning, cultivating and nurturing to produce a crop of high quality turf. However the key challenge is to ensure timely delivery to the customer, given

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Pansies and violas

Pansies and violas are two of the most popular bedding plants and are great for filling the gaps in borders once you have cleared away bedraggled or dead plants. Their

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HOT OF THE PRESS!!

RHS Garden Rosemoor, in partnership with the Dartmoor Chilli Farm, will host the county’s first-ever chilli festival with a whole weekend dedicated to the world of chillies. Devon Chilli Fiesta

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MARKET FOR UNIQUE, INDIVIDUAL PIECES

Stephen Parker’s Norfolk based team creates bespoke fountains, urns, sculpture and furniture, stone gates, balustrading and swimming pools. The company also sell from stock and offer sale bargains. After the

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Tough racking

Auto Styling Truckman, has launched the UK’s only collapsible pick-up truck racking system after striking a European distribution agreement with its US inventor, DeeZee. The Invis-A-Rack Cargo Management System is

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40 years of weed control

Monsanto celebrates a unique milestone in 2014 – 40 years as market leader in glyphosate herbicides. Roundup, which has set industry standards for weed control, was first introduced in 1974

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Register now!

The 24th edition of GrootGroenPlus will be held from 1 – 3 October 2014 Last year an app was especially developed for the trade fair. This year, special attention has

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FLOODING IN TO HELP

Jewson, has generously donated sandbags to the Nuneaton Wildlife Sanctuary after the recent wet weather has resulted in flooding leaving the animals in uncomfortable wet conditions. The Nuneaton Wildlife Sanctuary

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New portable LED floodlight

Pellenc have launched ‘Lumenion’ – a mobile, self-powered LED floodlight, sold exclusively in the UK by Etesia. Pellenc have developed a global environmental approach for many years, with a desire

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MAKING SANDBAGS OBSOLETE

A highly effective, eco-friendly alternative to the sandbag has been invented and is on sale now. Two products – the Hydrosack and Hydrosnake – create a highly efficient barrier to

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Flooding – significant breakthrough

Scientists at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), are working with partners at Rothamsted Research North Wyke in Devon to develop new grasses that enable grassland

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HIGH TAIL

THE PICTURED MOGGY HAS TAKEN TO THE RAFTERS OF A WELL KNOWN COMMERICAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY IN SUSSEX. A NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS TO LURE THE ANNIMAL DOWN HAVE FAILED.  

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Close cut family

Wessex ProLine RMX professional roller mowers have steadily built a loyal following for cutting sports pitches, playing fields, golf courses and council maintained amenity areas. In fact they are working

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Tweet success!

Turf industry marketer and commentator Ellie Parry’s social media talent has been recognised by Golf Course Industry magazine in the United States. She received an award for best use of

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Birds nest scoop!

Birstall Garden Centre in Leicester is encouraging its shoppers to get involved with National Nest Box Week (NNBW) to help give homes to breeding birds in time for spring. National

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Attract the bees

Groundsmen looking for low maintenance bedding options for parks, roundabouts and golf courses should try some of Limagrain UK’s Colour Splash range of decorative flower mixtures. These provide long-lasting low-cost

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Blooming good food

The BirdMat is a simple and effective way of helping to attract and feed a wide range of wild birds. A bio-degradable mat that is pre-seeded with a blend of

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New distinctive branding

Green-tree, a trading style of Green-tech ltd is in the process of unveiling its new distinctive branding. Green-tree is the soils and growing-media arm of Green-tech, supplying high end topsoil,

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Unique Solutions to Waterlogging!

This year has already provided the headache of waterlogging for many sportsturf managers.Terrain Aeration continue to provide solutions to this problem as they have done since 1998. One fine example

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‘Windfall’ for turbine owners

Record breaking winds are providing much needed additional revenues to hundreds of landowners who have installed power generating turbines on their land, according to a leading supplier of farm-scale wind

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Top of the pots

Choosing pots in erratic weather is difficult – it is important to protect plants from wind, harsh sunlight and drying out, as well as guarding against root damage caused by

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Fighting the flab?

The media has been full of stories about its effects on health, from obesity and diabetes to liver disease. Some stories were exaggerated, but many got it right. It’s hardly

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Need hedging this Summer?

The Elveden Instant Hedge can solve this problem as it is available to plant all year round and isn’t subject to the usual constraints of the rootball season. Practicality Brown’s

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Fixing the landscape

Instarmac group plc have introduced i-fix, the company’s new range of repair and maintenance products that can help you this summer maintenance season, and beyond. They have developed a range

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Recycle material – save money

Screening buckets are used for the primary selection, screening and separation of natural materials. They are multifunctional tools ideal for separating materials such as top soil, demolition and construction waste,

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New Pellenc Dealer

Etesia UK is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Pellenc dealership – Morris’s Stores based in Rhuddlan North Wales, covering the entire North Wales area.Morris’s Stores was first

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Silky Fox Handsaw Awards

Five new colleges have joined the RFS Silky Fox Handsaw Awards for 2014 – promoting excellence amongst students. In total 30 colleges offering Level 2 & 3 courses with strong

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When you’re in a slurry

Hitched to a skidsteer, a traditional category 11 three point hitch, a telehandler or a fork lift truck, a SweepEx broom makes clearing all types of materials a breeze, from

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Outdoor furniture chosen

Woodscape has supplied a range of hardwood street furniture to Trafford Borough Council as part of renovation works that saw new council offices and a full refurbishment of an existing

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Shortlisted for award

Mark Chapelhow (21), a member of the Wildroof Landscapes team, has been shortlisted in the Young Achiever category of this year’s Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Awards. “We’ve had Cumbrian

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Plant your own Bee Café

Burgon & Ball’s Bee Friendly seeds have been specially chosen to provide our endangered Bee population with a delicious smorgasbord of nectar and pollen producing plants. Since the 1930’s, 97%

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Pippa and edible gardens

The Edible Garden Show has announced the return of gardening expert and popular TV and radio presenter Pippa Greenwood to its line-up for 2014. A prolific author and regular Gardeners’

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2,000 pitches transformed

A new survey looking at the impact of community gardening in the UK has revealed that the amount of green space RHS Britain in Bloom volunteers manage has increased ten-fold

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101 apprentices

Glendale has boosted its ranks with its 101st apprentice, as part of its commitment to developing the talents of young people across the UK Starting work at the firm’s Liverpool

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Residential Construction booms

January data indicated that UK construction companies started the year with an acceleration of output growth at their units, boosted by sharp rises in incoming new work. Stronger demand resulted

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Test your axe and chainsaw skills

STIHL TIMBERSPORTS is considered the major worldwide league of lumberjack sports, attracting highly-skilled athletes to compete with axes and saws. Now STIHL GB wants more people to try their hand

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BAMBOO X-TREME

For landscaping and exterior projects such as decking, outside furniture and exterior cladding, bamboo may not be the first material that comes to mind. However, its exceptional performance, aesthetic and

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ACE card from Polaris

Polaris has announced an entirely new type of off-road vehicle with the introduction of the Sportsman ACE 4×4. The vehicle’s architecture is completely new to the industry and features a

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Boom time for sprayers

If you’re working in any areas where manoeuvring can be a little tight, around trees, bushes, fences and posts, there is always the danger the boom can get snagged. Not

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On- line course

The KLC School of Design Open Learning Diploma is now delivered entirely online. This course provides the perfect opportunity for students to combine their creativity with a strong interest in

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Cycle of Life

Edmond Shipway, has recently begun work on site as quantity surveyor and CDM co-ordinator on the latest development for GreenAcres Woodland Burials. Once complete, the £1.5 million venture in Rainford,

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First ‘smart’ golf car

Club Car, manufacturer of small-wheel, zero-emissions electric vehicles, will introduce the first golf car with built-in connected technology, a new electrical charging system and a reengineered and restyled line of

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New Domestic Products for 2014

Marshalls has announced a number of new additions to its domestic product range available in 2014. Driveways get a real boost with Marshalls’ new Drivesys innovative patented driveway block. It

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Aeration experts

Worplesdon Golf Club is no novice when it comes to aeration as they have been using a Verti-Drain 7215 from Charterhouse Turf Machinery on their tees and greens for the

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French connections

Noemi Petit is show director of Paysalia, the successful trade show held in Lyon France. David Curtis talks to her about exhibitions, the landscaping industry in France and plans for

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A positive revolution

A revolution has taken place at Thorney Lakes Golf Centre in Cambridgeshire – that is how course manager Sid Matthews describes the switch to John Deere course maintenance equipment. “I’ve

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Fast germination

Gloucestershire and Stroud College has three main campuses plus a number of local community venues. The College caters annually for around 15,500 full and part-time students of all ages with

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Positive impact

The new Magnum spreader will have a positive impact on the way many organisations deal with ice and snow this winter. The Magnum Poly Insert Spreader sits neatly on the

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Worlds most photographed gardens

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s garden team has taken on a compact tractor to help tend the gardens based at five Shakespeare family homes in and around Stratford-upon-Avon. They are some

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Solutions to Waterlogging!

This year has already provided a massive headache of waterlogging for many sportsturf managers.Terrain Aeration continue to provide solutions to this problem. One fine example of this solution process can

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Solution

The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire has 42,000 trees that require a great deal of maintenance. The purchase of a GreenMech Arborist 150, 26hp wood chipper, has been the solution

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TRUSTMARK – NUMBERS SOAR

TrustMark, the Government endorsed quality mark for tradesmen, today records its greatest year to date for tradesmen details displayed on the website In 2013 more than five million search results

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Landscapers Diary 2014

24-26 January Diga Indoor Garden Show Germany… 2-4 FEBRUARY: SPATEX (POOLS).. 12-13 February Executive Hire Show Coventry www.executivehireshow.co.uk 16 February Donnington 4×4 Show… 19 -20 February EUROCIDO Pest Control Germany…

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Greenkeepers advised to stock up

Forecasters are predicting this winter’s first serious, and widespread snow this week, with some predicting sub-zero temperatures for much of December and January. With this in mind, Bayer advise greenkeepers

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Increased digital power

Early results for The Landscaper reader survey indicate that our digital readership continues to increase. Over 55 per cent of the respondents indicated that they read the digital version of

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It just takes two

Here’s an ideal combination for dealing with the snow and ice, clearing the way and simultaneously treating with salt and grit. On the front is the Wessex snow plough, one

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‘Pick-up of the Year’

Volkswagen’s Amarok has scooped the prestigious ‘Pick-up of the Year’ title from specialist off-road publication, 4×4 Magazine. Seven pick-ups underwent intensive testing by 4×4 Magazine, each judged on their off-road

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100 Bowling Greens in Five Weeks

Avonmore Associates, a specialist fine turf contractor, has upgraded its turf maintenance fleet with the purchase of two SISIS Rotorake 600HD pedestrian scarifiers, which have been put straight to work

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First World War Donation

The new 2014 Green-tech printed catalogue is now available for all landscaping contractors, specifiers and architects across the UK. In recognition of the First World War centenary, Green-tech is donating

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Sickness costs £100 billion

Nearly 650,000 workers call in sick each week, according to figures from the British Heart Foundation (BHF). This figure equates to 2 per cent of the workforce being absent through

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Order now for voucher!

Bentomat is a revolutionary pond liner consisting of a layer of bentonite encapsulated between two textiles which are needle-punched together. The result is an easy-to-install, self-healing, self-seaming liner that requires

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Reaches new highs

New Bobcat excavators purchased by Kursaal Plant Hire, the longest standing hire company in Southend in the UK, have helped elevate the business to a new level. The excellent performance

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WISE CHOICE FOR RHS WISLEY

The lush lawns at the glorious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wisley show gardens will be looking even finer now following their purchase of a Makita PLM4631 mower. Peter Anderson, Machinery

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Spreading the load

Winter conditions bring extra work in clearing snow and ice to make areas safer and accessible. Large areas can be quickly treated with big, vehicle mounted hopper spreaders but what

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Kerb appeal

Research has shown that buildings which are set in well cared for green surroundings have been shown to suffer 32% fewer crimes and generally a great garden can add between

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Confidence boost

The December edition of HTA Market Update reveals that year to date garden centre sales are 5% ahead of 2012. Sales have been ahead of 2012 levels since May with

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Disease of Plane Trees

A practical management guide to massaria disease of Plane has been released by the London Tree Officers Association (LTOA) The disease, Massaria (Splanchnonema platani), affects London Plane trees (Platanus spp.).

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The CWC Stig Returns

‘The Stig Driving Challenge’ returns on the Complete Weed Control stand, where visitors can also see the range of weed and ice control services that the company offer. Visitors will

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Pole climbing

British pole climbing champion and lumberjack event competitor, has recently acquired a GreenMech Arborist 19-28 Wood chipper. Ian’s Norfolk based ‘Target Trees’ tree surgery and arboricultural consultancy business was established

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Dung Ho!

If one of your customers complains that their garden is being used as a toilet by one or more of the neighbours moggies you can now solve the problem for

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Full national coverage

Complete Ice Control is brought to you by the same people who deliver Complete Weed Control and has been introduced in response to the overwhelming need for a professional, reliable

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Snow ploughing

The Meyer DrivePro is an easy-to-use, fully functional steel snowplough and fits a wide range of vehicles. Unlike other snowploughs, the DrivePro goes up, down, right or left with the

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Estate Fencing

Paddock Fencing manufactures steel estate fencing based on the original period fencing used in parks and estates. Their estate fencing is suitable for enclosing livestock including cattle, horses, deer and

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Shop online

AVS Fencing Supplies offer a complete range of products that provide solutions for all fencing, decking and landscaping requirements. They also hold the largest range of railway sleepers in the

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Future Trends

As London plans for a grand Garden Bridge across the Thames, we look at the garden landscape future on a slightly smaller, although not necessarily any less grand, scale. Ffion

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David Keary wins Design Competition

David Keary wins Design Competition David Keary, from Leicester based Keary Coles Design wins the Battersea Park Promontory Design Competition. Organised by LANDSCAPE, the trade show for the landscaping industry,

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In all weathers

At Aviva Premiership side Bath Rugby Club, training can go ahead in all weathers, thanks to a half-size 3G rubber crumb-filled synthetic pitch. “It’s ideal for pre-season training and for

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Forget Me Not

Greenfingers the small charity dedicated to creating gardens in children’s hospices around the UK, held an event at Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice in Huddersfield to encourage local horticulture businesses

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Mowing Partners

Places for People, one of the largest property management, development and regeneration companies in the UK, has recently upgraded their fleet of grass cutting machinery with the purchase of Etesia

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Chosen for Finish

The proven reliability and consistent finish achieved by Charlie Yeomans, Head Groundsman at the University of Warwick and his existing Dennis cricket wicket mower made the British manufacturer the obvious

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The easiest way to lay a patio

Buzon UK’s adjustable screw-jack pedestals have been included within Bradstone’s new Patio Deck system. The paving pack contains everything needed to lay a patio in just a couple of hours.

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Expanded horizons

  Grass Greener is Paxman Landscape’s latest innovation launched at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. The introduction of Grass Greener to Paxman Landscape’s impressive portfolio of horticultural services has expanded

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Landscape 2013…… It worked!

Have a look at latest edtion of The Landscaper. All the details about the succesful trade show- Landscape 2013 . Plus live video interviews ( p50) http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/05bc2027#/05bc2027/52    

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ANIMATED 3D FLY-THROUGH

A stunning 3D fly-through featuring the innovative designs for Northumberland’s planned new national Landscape Discovery Centre and YHA Youth Hostel, has been revealed for the first time, by award winning

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NEW SLIMLINE CHAINSAW

Makita chainsaws are the exclusive choice of the British Military and the latest addition to the Makita professional chainsaw line, the EA6100P45D, is a 61cc machine developing 4.5hp and running

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One-stop-shopping

An entirely new market sector providing one-stop-shopping for landscape gardeners buying paving and patio materials has been being unveiled . Build Mate is the centrepiece of Kelkay’s launch of 78

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Full national coverage

Complete Ice Control is a private snow clearance and gritting operation with full national coverage. They specialise in making sure that essential private access areas are kept open through the

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For the birds

A new bird of prey at the Wildwood Trust in Herne Bay will be named ‘Jewson’, in recognition of the builder’s merchant’s generosity over the years. The Canterbury Timber Specialist

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New efficient system

The Sixways 12000 plus capacity Stadium is the home of Worcester Warriors rugby union premiership team. It is a year round, multi-use venue located close to Junction six of the

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Top machinery dealers gather

An excellent turnout of the top machinery dealerships from the UK and Europe were represented during three dealer educational days recently held by Campey Turf Care Systems at St Georges

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Open day success

  Simon Tullet Machinery (STM) open day was well organised, well timed and very well attended by a large number of dealers and engineers. A number of exciting new machines

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More thieves!!

Sonic Grounds Maintenance based in SE London are specialists contractors operating throughout London, Kent And Surrey – For the third time this year they have had tools stolen from the

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Compact tractors updated

John Deere’s updated 2R Series small chassis compact tractors replace the previous 2020 Series and, along with their new model numbering, now feature a reverse implement option (RIO). Adopted from

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Marketing Specialist

Sarah Johnson is no stranger to working on massive global brands and in accepting the position of Marketing Specialist UK, EMEA at Polaris Britain she is looking forward to the

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Boost income

UK-based manufacturer, Instarmac Group Plc, is helping landscapers and builders to boost their order books this season with its i-fix Pothole Fix. Developed using the same technology and expertise applied

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Avoid winter damage

With the advent of Autumn its now time to consider how best to protect sports pitches and amenity areas in advance of Winter through to Spring 2014. Terrain Aeration offers

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Money well spent!

If you are involved in Hire, Landscaping or Sports Turf Renovation then you will most likely at some stage have a requirement for a good Turf Cutter. If you get

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Impressive New Sports Facilities

White Horse Contractors (Northern) have handed over a state-of-the-art natural and artificial sports facility in time for the new school term at new specialist arts college Kingswood School in Corby,

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Apprentice of the Year 2013

Hampshire based landscaping company Hambrooks has awarded one of their apprentices, Steve Pidgeley an ‘Apprentice of the year 2013’ Award. Steve along with four other apprentices recently completed their course,

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Annual rejuvenation

ETC Sports Surfaces have purchased a Redexim Charterhouse Verti-Top 1200. Bradley Wells, Business Development Manager for the company said “a major part of our business is the work we carry

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£9 million plus business

Sherry Bonnett, Gemma Cunliffe, Rebecca Gethin, Sarah Hayes and Lesley Spence are the latest additions and arrive at a time of continued growth and expansion for the landscape supplies business

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Thirty Second Challenge!!!

SISIS …. Thirty Second Challenge!!!   Polaris …Thirty Second Challenge!!   Post Pullers …Thirty Second Challenge   Ransomes … Thirty Second Challenge!! STIHL …. Thirty Second Challenge   Complete Weed

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Venture Cove

Edmond Shipway, has recently completed its role as project manager and quantity surveyor for Center Parcs’ new, £3 million family and toddler water playground. The launch of Venture Cove at

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Wilt to full bloom

Paxman Lanscapes will take centre stage at the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Networking Seminar in Kent this month. Justin Paxman (director) will deliver a speech to delegates on the

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Passion and dedication

James Lanwarne, ( pictured left) founder of Lanwarne Landscapes, has beaten hundreds of small business owners to be named Nectar Business Tradesperson of the Year 2013, by a panel of

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Servicing is simple and economic

  The children at Dulwich Preparatory School, Kent are fortunate to have outstanding facilities including 50 acres of superbly presented and well kept sports fields in addition to two gymnasiums,

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Fabulous fountain needs a home

Harrogate based master sculptor John Schofield dedicated 18 months of his life to designing, importing the marble and hand-carving his magnificent Neptune Fountain which now needs to find a permanent

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TRANSFORMING BATH RAILWAY STATION

Forest Pennant has recently supplied sandstone paving and setts for the regeneration of Bath Railway Station and the adjacent Vaults Development. Funded by the Southgate Limited Partnerships, the re-development scheme

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High profile site

The grounds maintenance team at Gavin Jones have secured another contract term on their existing contract with Duxford Imperial War Museum along with IWM Ickleton and The Royal Anglian Regiment.

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Innovative and unique

Kilsaran International, has announced an exclusive collaboration with renowned Irish garden designer and television presenter, Diarmuid Gavin, to design and produce a high-end, bespoke range of contemporary paving products and

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Complete Freedom from Bracken

After a decade in the planning, the £250 million development of the latest Centre Parcs holiday village – Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire, has rid itself of a significant stumbling block

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Fun in the forest

Makita’s Outdoor Power Equipment (OPE) trade day held in the beautiful forest of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, attracted a large number of customers and dealers. As Makita continues to expand their

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BALI – 2013 award winners

Forty Six BALI members out of over 130 entries received have won awards in this year’s prestigious BALI National Landscape Awards in association with Horticulture Week and headline sponsor Rigby

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Rough meets tough

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WORKING HARDER THAN EVER

Tradesmen are working longer hours than ever, willing to sacrifice holidays and weekends in a bid to squeeze more jobs in. The average tradesman works between 41 and 50 hours

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THE EDGE

A sportsground contractor who renovates 15 to 20 cricket clubs each autumn takes more than a professional interest in the game. For Richard Bryce, proprietor of Sports Ground Services in

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DOUBLE BALI WINNERS

Gavin Jones has won two awards at this year’s BALI National Landscape Awards; Domestic Garden Construction (Construction cost over £250k) and Restoration and Regeneration Scheme. The Domestic Garden Construction Award

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Online turf management

TurfKeeper.com is an online turf management system for the Turfkeeping Industry, offering access to a wide range of resources and business tools. The site allows users to manage staff and

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Caught on video

While golf fans around the world were watching Phil Mickelson win The 2013 Open Championship, John Deere was winning fans of its own at Muirfield. As the official golf course

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Challenge of a lifetime

A team of 19 landscapers and nurserymen are each clocking up at least 12 hours training a week for what they say will be the challenge of their lifetimes to

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Win Win Win!!

Kindle Fire Tablet 7″ LCD Display, Wi-Fi, 8GB The perfect family tablet – beautifully simple, built to last and perfect for playing, reading, browsing and more Simple to use –

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Top Gear from Countax

Countax tractors featured in Top Gear’s ‘Britain is Great’ episode – a celebration of the very best of British engineering. BBC 2’s Top Gear aired the final episode of the

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Blinder Bunkers in Germany

Blinder Bunkers has taken to the autobahn to spread the word about the revolutionary bunker liner system. Profusion Environmental under took a road trip to Germany to install trial bunkers

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RoboVario

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Spray Training Course

It is now a legal requirement to have a valid spray certificate, e.g PA1 & PA6AW to spray professional chemicals in any landscaping or agricultural situation. Indeed, due to current

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Metallo arrives in UK

    Sorbus International has been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Metallo, the Dutch brand of cutting and pruning tools. Metallo has for years been known in Holland and Europe

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All year round solution

Direct Artificial Grass offer an “all year round” solution with a comprehensive range of synthetic grass surfaces to fulfil any need. On the standard side they have products such as

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Sharp increase in sales

There has been a sharp increase in sales of artificial grass as a result of the changing weather. Homeowners are looking for alternative, low maintenance ways of keeping their outside

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Suppliers to the Royal Family

Gavin Jones joined more than 200 suppliers to the Royal Family, holders of the prestigious Royal Warrant, who gathered at Buckingham Palace to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s

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QUALITY ON ALL FRONTS

More than 200 turf enthusiasts attended the 2013 TGA Turf Show, staged by the Turfgrass Growers Association last month on Fineturf’s 135-acre turf farm, run by Simon Hutton at Carlton

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Preparing for The Open

As the world’s premier golfers head to Muirfield for The 142nd Open Championship, they will be supported by a committed band of BIGGA volunteer greenkeepers who play a critical role

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New Managing Director

White Horse Contractors have announced the appointment of Gary Kneller as their new Managing Director. Gary originally joined the company as a graduate in 1994 and worked his way up

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SEVEN SCHOOL LANDSCAPE SCHEMES

Environmental firm, SLR Consulting, has been appointed to develop landscape designs for seven new schools being constructed across the North East of England as part of the Government’s Priority School

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Putting the fun into fencing

A new product from renowned play specialists Timberplay has the capacity to transform boundaries within play spaces into key play features in their own right. These timber play panels offer

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Made for the country

The Wessex Country range was developed to meet the need of groundscare contractors, smallholders and estates. The range was originally launched with finishing mowers, flail mowers, fertiliser spreaders and rotary

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Daring elements

A new outdoor activity centre, “SKYTrek” will be completed by August. SKYTrek will consist of a number of exciting and challenging elements including a high (15m) and low (5m) ropes

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Fusion Media Selected

Sherriff Amenity, one of the leading turf care and sports equipment suppliers in the UK, has chosen Fusion Media (Europe) Limited to PR and advertising activities in the UK. Formed

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NEW FENCING BREAKTHROUGH

The recent launch of M&M Timber’s new range of long-life machined rounded fencing timbers has been met with an unprecedented rush of enquiries from contractors and suppliers says Andy Hodge,

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Safety first

ZT Safety Systems have announced the latest addition to their fall safety harness range the ZT ‘Universal’ Harness. The ‘Universal’ benefits from 5 point attachments, front, rear and Side loops

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Horrendous weather

Souters Sports, crown green construction contractors, were chosen to construct the new bowling green on a former decaying factory site for Budenberg Bowling Club in Broadheath, near Stockport. The new

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Dakota Park

Designed by the creative team at Wicksteed Playscapes the bespoke Dakota Rockscape is a thrilling climbing unit. Commissioned by Warrington Borough Council to design and install two separate play areas

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Ford Civil Engineering builds fleet

Established in 1982, Ford Civil Engineering has specialised in providing first class groundworks and civil engineering services to the house construction industry for major house builders such as Bellway Homes,

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From Apples to Apps

Is digital technology reshaping the landscape? Digital trends influence the way we do business. It can be confusing. Ffion Llwyd-Jones talks to industry insiders who are using the technology, and

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Prize Winning Pools

The Design Frog King for the Natural Pool and Living Pool has been awarded for many years for the best pools of the year, and is one of the most

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High scores

Image: The Fulwell GC team, with Paul Brown, Course Manager, 3rd from right surrounded by their Wiedenmann kit and the world famous black Labrador, Oscar (Centre front) Fulwell Golf Club

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NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR

Kubota UK has announced the appointment of Dave Roberts as the new Managing Director. Dave was previously General Manager – Sales and Marketing for Kubota’s three main product sectors –

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Sports turf test bed

After hosting the Eurovision Song Contest the Azerbaijan authorities won the rights to host the 2012 Under 17 Women’s World Cup Finals – but to host the event they had

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Rugby Centre of Excellence

The £4 million WRU National Centre of Excellence, which provides training facilities for the Welsh rugby team, Cardiff Blues, Cardiff City FC and the Welsh FA at the Vale Resort

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Traders’ Choice

Fiat Professional’s Doblò Cargo has picked up another award, this time winning the Traders’ Choice accolade in the 2013 Trade Van Driver (TVD) Magazine Awards. This latest title completes a

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Well done!

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Fuel for thought

Southern Tank Services are celebrating 10 years as a specialist in fuel, chemical and water storage, ranging from commercial and domestic oil tanks to diesel and petrol storage, water tanks,

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School report

Headland Amenity’s Multigreen fertiliser range has brought about a dramatic change on the hardworking playing fields of an Oxfordshire school. When Rob Eason ( pictured) took over as Head of

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Just a week away!

With the first event in the MAP Live series now less than 1 week away STRI and Fleet Line Markers are the latest, firms to confirm their attendance, according to

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Deliveries go eco

Q Lawns turf growers have taken delivery of four new lorries in a bid to save costs, minimise environmental impact and improve services. All four trailers will be hauled by

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Greater later Life

McCarthy & Stone have enlisted award winning garden designer Chris Beardshaw ( pictured) to create an original and striking conceptual installation during the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show which

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Club Tropicana

It was without doubt a glittering evening. The great and the good of efig gathered to celebrate their annual awards. There was good reason to celebrate. In total 48 Awards

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APPROVAL FROM THE HOME OF GOLF

(Pictured St Andrews Links’ course managers, Gordon McKie (left) and Kevin Muir, with their MF 1547 compact tractors, used primarily on the Old Course and the Eden, Strathtyrum and Balgove

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Perfect pitch

Groundsmen responsible for professional stadium and training facilities need look no further to improve the durability and health of their pitch. Known as Terraplaning, the latest style Koro Field TopMaker

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Spring and 27 new products!

Tracmaster has extended its Popular CAMON Range of Landscape Machinery to include Lawnmowers, Brushcutters, Hedge Trimmers and Hole Borers. Lawnmowers Offering maximum reliability and mowing quality for the tiniest patch

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New-generation grower

Charlotte Richards has been appointed a director of her family’s horticultural business – Golden Acres – which her father Paul started in 1980. Charlotte (19) is currently working her way

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FIRST DAY

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World-wide ‘Quiet Mark’

The Grass Group have confirmed they have been awarded a world-wide ‘Quiet Mark’ licence accreditation for the ATT INFiNiPower Hybrid Mower, developed for the professional turf care market. The Quiet

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Celebrated excellence

Marshalls national awards covers a range of categories from ‘Best Driveway Transformation’ to ‘Best Use of Marshalls Fairstone’, with this year’s awards attracting over 600 project submissions from its over

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New showroom…. West Sussex

Tracmaster continues to expand the options available to customers with the launch of its new showroom in Burgess Hill West Sussex. A convenient way for groundcare professionals to come and

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Wanted FOOTBALL ‘FRIENDLIES’

Staff from Cambridgeshire container tree nursery Barcham Trees have recently joined the Ely Seven-a-Side Soccer League and are now on the lookout for likely opponents for friendly matches. “We would

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Popular stumper

Very popular stumper for light and medium stump grinding projects, bringing compact size and impressive performance to an affordable, self-propelled machine. Enter the 2550XP, using the same beltless, hydrostatic direct-drive

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Simply Play

Free assessment tool hopes to improve children’s play opportunities High quality, effective design of playable spaces is benefitted by being based on a solid foundation of play theory, knowledge, and

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Deer Deer

The deer population is currently estimated at around 1.5 million. Researchers from the University of East Anglia suggest harvesting the animals for meat to make a cull ethically and economically

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Memorial to lost

A Kingston University graduate’s design for a WWII memorial is being built at the entrance to East London’s Bethnal Green tube station to mark the place where the conflict’s worst

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Rough and tough

The Wessex Scrubmaster rotary slasher has been described as unstoppable and built for longevity. Certainly it is known that spare parts for Scrubmasters over thirty years old are still being

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Play Continues

Souters Sports has recently carried out extensive drainage works at Dunikier Golf Club in Fife, to help allow for almost uninterrupted play during wet weather. The golf club has had

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Safety first

Health & Safety certainly played a major role in the decision making process which led Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, to work with Etesia as one

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Perfect for Pollinators

RHS say that Meadowmat and Enviromat are Perfect for Pollinators Q Lawns turf growers have announced that Meadowmat Wild Flower Matting and Enviromat Sedum Matting have both been recognised as

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Modern landscaping revolution

Evergreens UK has launched a new product range exclusively for the trade market. Under the banner, iGrass, the products have been created in response to the ever growing landscaping revolution,

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Quality, durability and strength

BSW Timber has expanded its Timeless Timber range to include beams, brushwood-finished decking, tongue and groove boards, and cladding. The new range will focus on quality, durability and strength –

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Special edition

The Great Wall has introduced two special edition models – the ‘Steed Chrome’ and ‘Steed Tracker’. Both special editions go on sale in March. Building on the array of standard

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Cash bonus for customers

  Specialist nursery Architectural Plants is offering its trade customers a cash bonus – in addition to normal trade discount – to reward loyal customers for their business during the

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LIGHT-TREADING BUFFALO

  Rob Lane, head groundsman at West Bromwich Albion FC’s Hawthorns stadium, with his two new Allett Buffalo 34 sportsground mowers.   West Bromwich Albion, has purchased a pair of

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New joint venture

Campey Turf Care Systems in a joint venture with Imants has become a Stadium Partner for ESSMA in the field of pitch management. Professional football is one of the most

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Passion for plants

Provender Nurseries enjoy working with students of design and horticulture at all levels, introducing students to new varieties of plants. With a history of hosting student visits both here on

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Turf 2013

The UK produces around 27,000 acres of turf every year. It’s an essential commodity for us all at times ..we look at the latest news in the turf world. The

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BEST FORCES FORWARD FOR 2013

Mike Beardall reveals a “think-tank” landscaping group giving the New Year a boost by putting best brains together to deal with the issues affecting the industry LANDSCAPING had its share

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Escape to France

Over the last twenty years there’s been an exodus of people from the United Kingdom seeking a better life in Europe or further a field. Reasons for leaving may be

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Two year service intervals

Vauxhall has introduced two year service intervals on Combo, Vivaro and Movano while also slashing emissions and improving fuel economy on its Movano ecoFLEX van. From March, all Combo, Vivaro

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Quality and established reputation

(left) Craig Chalmers, Salesmen at MacGregors Forest and Groundcare (middle) Callum Sim the Branch Manager at MacGregors Forest and Groundcare and (right) Dougie Archibald, Northern Area Territory Manager for Charterhouse.

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Challenge of a lifetime

  A team from the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) are taking on the challenge of a lifetime walking 100km (62 miles) for charity. The team, called the Hortsteppers is made

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Investors in People success

  Hillier Landscapes continue to be recognised as an Investor in People following their fifth review. Hillier Landscapes is the longest recognised Investor in People Company in landscaping in the

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PUMP UP A STORM

The new Makita PF0300, 300 watt electric submersible pump will deliver 140 litres per minute at up to a 7m head height and can be submersed to 5m depth. It

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Fast cut

LumberLite sawmill has now been converted by Logosol for electric operation, using highly efficient 4 kW and 8 kW motors. Measured in terms of horsepower, the larger motor has a

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Shade solutions

Sherlock and Watson supply & install a wide range of rain and shade solutions. Mr Jon Clapham MD told The Landscaper, “We started by designing & installing simple shade sail

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Parks and people

This year’s national Love Parks Week will take place from Saturday 27th July to Sunday 4th August, coinciding with the first week of the school holidays. Love Parks Week, now

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Easy to budget

Volkswagen is making its vans really affordable and easy to budget for with contract hire or finance lease offers until the end of March starting from £199 a month (plus

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New look shows

This year will be an exciting year for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (9-14 July) and RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (25-28 July). The shows have undergone a

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Green roofs

Emilio Ambasz found a home for a 100,000-square-foot park in the form of 15 terraces atop a government building in Japan. This green roof features a whopping 35,000 plants representing

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One-Stop-Shop

Four Oaks Cash & Carry now incorporates 9 specialist nurseries. Over 1500 lines of trees and shrubs will be on display from starter plants to specimen sizes in addition to

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High quality bulbs

  Based in Fife, bulbs4u, now in its 9th year, is a small family company that specialises in the sale of high quality garden bulbs. Husband and wife team; Nick

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Best of British

The HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, will see the industry buzzing when it brings the best of British plant suppliers together all under one roof this June. The

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Top 100 Global Innovator

John Deere has been named a Thomson Reuters 2012 top 100 Global Innovator, joining companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike and Sony. The list is an initiative of the

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Designer grass seed

Limagrain UK has published a new 2013 catalogue for the Designer range of amenity grass and wild flower seed mixtures. The Designer range includes popular mixtures: Action Replay for renovating

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TIP TOP CONDITION

  ATTACHED: Photo showing Extreme RPR, right, compared to Perennial Ryegrass   Barenbrug has added Extreme RPR to its range for 2013, a grass seed which complements the existing BAR

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MORE CONTROL FOR YOUR MONEY

Vitax’s Esteem, (produced by Dow Agrosciences) their most effective selective weed killer to date is suitable for use with all types of sprayers from tractor mounted machines to pedestrian models

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RHS welcomes 400,000 member

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has achieved its highest membership numbers ever, welcoming the landmark 400,000th member to the gardening charity at its flagship RHS Garden Wisley, in Surrey. The

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Rugged and luxurious

Mitsubishi Motors in the UK has announced a special offer available at all Mitsubishi retailers nationwide now. The deal offers buyers of the rugged Mitsubishi L200 Trojan a massive £2,000

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New cab

Designed to provide more comfort, performance and versatility, John Deere’s 5E Series three-cylinder utility tractors will be available from this spring with a new John Deere designed cab. The tractors

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Seeding the land

Limagrain UK has published a new 2013 catalogue of sports and amenity grass seed mixtures for the MM range. Three new grass varieties – Cyrena, Nikky and Heidrun – have

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GIANT BEES BUZZ PM

Giant bees descended on Downing Street to sting the government into delivering a Bee Action Plan, as part of Friends of the Earth’s Bee Cause campaign. They delivered over 64,000

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Bunker Plug

  One of the biggest-ever orders for the British innovation the Bunker Plug, is being installed at The Evian Masters Golf Club, France, host of the 2013 Evian Championship, the

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Nought but the best

Polaris has extended the 0% finance scheme for all Polaris ATV’s and UTV’s through until 31st March 2013. Business users can arrange interest-free finance on all new Polaris ATVs and

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The Incredible Bulk

  The SweepEx brush ban be easily attached to the host vehicle, be it a tractor, forklift, telehandler or skidsteer. Now there’s a new addition to the SweepEx range, the

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Hunt for buried Spitfires

JCB Diggers are about to embark on a mission to help recover Spitfire warplanes believed to be buried in Burma. The unassembled planes are thought to have been hidden in

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Plant Promenade Zundert

PlantPromenade’s B2B Fair is taking place this week. Buyers from across Europe will be able to source and order from a broad selection of plants including specimen, (ornamental) shrubs, conifers

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House sales set to rise

House sales across the UK look set to increase for the coming three months rose significantly, says the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS ) January 2013 housing

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Turf 2013

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Great Stone Walls

  For domestic gardens, commercial developments or estates its worth considering Natural Cotswold Dry Stone Walling. Smiths Bletchington, a long standing, family owned quarrying company from Oxfordshire, offer this traditional

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Ministerial walkabout

  Pic Richard Marshall, MD of Timberwolf with Lord Green   Timberwolf, played host play host to the Trade Minister for UKTI last month. As part of his visit to

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Club out of a hole

  Photo: Keith Alexander, head green keeper at Crow Wood Golf Club   Crow Wood Golf Club, just ten minutes from Glasgow city centre, is a gem of a course

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World’s largest

Preparations for the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica 2013 are now well underway. The organizer DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – (German Agricultural Society) has again arranged two

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Dennis and Sisis

  Dennis and Sisis will be exhibiting the Sisis Rotorake TM1000, this popular tractor mounted scarifier gives the user a combination of scarification and linear aeration allied with heavy duty

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DLF

                    Following on from the successful launch of their new ‘Tenuis Bent’ cultivar, Arrowtown, visitors to the DLF stand will have

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Rigby Taylor…..BTME..Hall C, Stand C62

Rigby Taylor has significantly extended its range of industry-leading products by releasing the first dedicated Landscaping Sundries catalogue. Designed to offer a comprehensive selection of essential items for those involved

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Lindum Turf

Lindum Turf has developed a range of products for golf courses, sports grounds and landscaping, and has earned a reputation for consistently high quality turf and innovation in grass technology.

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Be wise ………….ABC

Before booking space in any magazine it’s advisable to ask if the title has any independent confirmation of its circulation. If it has not you should excercise diligence and ask

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Abacus flies in to Manuka

  Abacus secured one of the biggest export contracts in their history by winning the contract for Manuka Oval, Cricket and Australian Rules Football Stadium in Canberra, Australia. The scheme

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Cobbletech

Marshalls have announced some new additions to their product range available in 2013. Cobbletech Marshalls claim ‘a market first’ with the revolutionary Cobbletech driveway system. Designed to give a natural

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Sunday Glee

Following significant industry feedback, extensive post show research and a number of targeted focus group sessions i2i Events Group, organisers of Glee, has announced its vision for the 2013 show

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Rollers find favour

    Nation-wide equipment hirer Fork Rent PLC of Ipswich Suffolk has opted for ten Volvo DD25w tandem rollers following a successful trial and evaluation of Volvo’s latest 2.5 tonne

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Stop the Spread!

  Jo Thompson will be building her garden ‘Stop the Spread’ for sponsors Fera at next year’s Royal Horticultural Society’s Centenary Chelsea Flower Show. This is a garden of two

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Winning image

    The British Wildlife Photography Awards exhibition opens at Moors Valley Country Park on 2nd February. Incredibly for a competition of this stature, three of the twelve category winning

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Building pitches for 30 years

Regular maintenance of artificial turf is necessary to keep playing surfaces clean, bacteria-free and allow water infiltration. So offering a maintenance package to clients for whom Smith Construction has just

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Students learn about threat

Students from East Durham College have been treated to a talk regarding ash dieback by a leading professional working on the problem. Andrew Kirkwood, a Plant Health and Seeds Inspector

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Stony Hills

  Alnwick Golf Club in Northumberland is known locally as ‘Stony Hills’, so the technology on the Charterhouse Verti-Drain comes in handy as Course Manager Allan Golding explains: “The ability

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Friendly clean and easy

Broadwood International has launched Wessex ThawEx liquid brine solution to complement their range of liquid ice-melt products. The use of liquid brine solution has become increasingly popular with councils, contractors

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Wildlife reflecting pond

Phase one of the regeneration of Rathbone Market has been completed by the developers English Cities Fund in partnership with the London Borough of Newham. Throughout the re-development the market

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Radical new range

M&M Timber has introduced a radical new range of ‘price-axed’ lines, aimed at giving retailers a more competitively priced volume product with added customer appeal. Specifically designed with the changing

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Sales boosted – costs cut

UK Olive tree supplier, Villaggio Verde, is to enhance their landscapers’ package, cut their costs and reduce carbon emissions, by using online video. The package, which involves taking a full

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Shredder for limited access

Ryetec Bugnot BVE 3 brings high performance commercial shredding to areas with limited access, no wider than a wheel barrow at 76cm (30”) allows the BVE3 access through standard pedestrian

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Collaboration produces results

  Simon Richard UK Agent for the Reform & Shibaura tractor and Muthing flail ranges has introduced the MU-FM Hydro flail in collaboration with Ransomes Jacobsen. Commenting on the new

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Civic pride – public health

  Earlier this year Living Streets launched the State of Our Streets Awards. The competition invited the public to nominate the best and worst examples of street maintenance in the

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Two Decades of success

  Q Lawns have been supplying landscapers and garden centres with turf, topsoil, sedum matting and wild flowers for two decades. Angela Lambert gives us an insight into what to

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How to make a flood claim

Hundreds of businesses have been affected by the latest round of extreme weather, making 2012 the worst year for flooding since 2007. So far, the South West has been worst

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REPLAYED … HOLMES PARK

  The Leicestershire arm of the Football Association (FA) has revived the synthetic turf pitch at its county headquarters thanks to synthetic sports surface maintenance company Replay. Holmes Park, in

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Replayed

The Leicestershire arm of the Football Association (FA) has revived the synthetic turf pitch at its county headquarters thanks to synthetic sports surface maintenance company Replay. Holmes Park, in Whetstone,

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Cost saving seed

When Alec Davies, Course Manager at Denton Golf Club, Manchester was tasked with removing a roundabout and upgrade an access road leading to the clubhouse, he also had to work

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LARGER HEAD OPTION

Kuhn has added a 1.5m flail head option on its 5.5m Poly-Longer long-reach hedgecutter to increase the machine’s working capacity and improve its overall reach. The 1.5m head has 28

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Day of the Knotweed

Once desirable, it is now seen as aggressive, virulent and definitely not a plant to be trifled with – Japanese knotweed, that is. Ffyon Llwyd- Jones weeds out the facts.

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Unique Olympic legacy

Chichester’s Weald and Downland Open Air Museum have benefited from a unique Olympic legacy that will protect rare native wildlife in West Sussex – a donation of wildflower turf used

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Landscape 2013

  If you are looking for lighting, fencing, software, turf, decking, nurseries, stone, paving & aggregates, conservatories, furniture, greenhouses, pools, soils, artificial plants and shrubs as well as real ones,

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Competition is launched

The Institute of Horticulture Young Horticulturist of the Year 2013 competition is forecast to be the best ever, with over 2000 young horticulturists, who are either studying horticulture or working

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GROUND-BREAKING ANNIVERSARY

About 80 former staff and students attended the 40th anniversary reunion at Merrist Wood College. Pioneers who helped create new standards in the UK landscaping industry celebrated a milestone in

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Out now

The new Green-tech catalogue for 2013 is now available for landscape contractors, specifiers and architects across the UK. With over 3500 product lines and a national delivery service Green-tech offer

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SPREADING THE BUZZ

    British Seed Houses has become one of the first in the industry to use the RHS ‘Perfect for Pollinators’ logo on its UK native wildflower mixtures.   The

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New family of uplights

Lighting for Gardens has expanded it’s Elipta range of professional garden lighting with a complete new family of metal halide uplights and spotlights. The Apollo range of metal halide spotlights

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New broom

The MegaMax ‘C-broom’ is not just a push broom but a bulk volume mover. It combines all the benefits of the best-selling SweepEx concept of a heavy-duty push broom with

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Bin sense

Drayton Manor theme park is reducing its refuse sent for landfill by using a range of recycling and novelty bins around the park grounds. The Midlands theme park, which has

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Growing UK network

      Screwfix has opened its 250th store, further extending the brand’s growing UK network of stores. The new store is the second to open in Poole, has brought

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Urgent call for clarity

The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is calling for clear guidance for woodland owners and managers wondering how to proceed with planting schemes which include ash amongst the species. The RFS

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Saw-horse

Timber Teeth’ a versatile accessory that turns a workbench into a saw-horse, quickly and easily without any workbench modifications. The product which is patented and manufactured in the UK, is

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Really good idea

Stockwell is one of London’s most deprived areas, but now a bid to build an urban jungle play area by sharing the cost using crowdfunding could open up a whole

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More Snow Blowers

The Bobcat range of attachments and machines for winter work has been widened with an extension to the company’s offering for snow blower attachments. Already one of the widest ranges

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New members…..APL Committee

Three new members have been welcomed to the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Committee following the AGM held at Wyevale East Nurseries in Kent on 17 October. David Sewell from

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Lots of time to think

Phil Voice: Felt emotional One man has completed a 1,250 mile journey on a ride-on lawn mower in aid of national horticulture charity Perennial. Phil Voice trundled into John O’Groats

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Decorative planter

Stewart Garden’s new Piazza decorative planters are the perfect new planter for people looking to modernise their gardens. They come in three different sizes and two design colours, granite and

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Trade-In Offer Returns

Due to the success of last year’s trade-in offer, Suzuki has announced the re-launch of the campaign. Customers are able to receive £300 off a new Suzuki KingQuad 400 or

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Wild Kingdom for children

The first legacy project to be delivered after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has opened. Wild Kingdom is a unique and distinctive new play area where children can

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Proactive Council

Essential maintenance work is now being carried out on trees across West Oxfordshire following a district wide tree survey. West Oxfordshire District invited Treework Environmental Practice to assess the condition

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New Development Director

The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) has announced the appointment of Simon Lloyd to the new post of Director of Development. Simon, 54, from Oxford, will be based at the RFS

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SUGAR!SUGAR!

From left to right: Kylie Balmain (from the RHS), Sarah Eberle (Garden Designer & Chelsea Gold medal winner), Nick Coslett (Palmstead Sales Manager), John Langman (Chairman & founder of Palmstead

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OLYMPIC WILDFLOWER

WILDFLOWER turf grower James Hewetson-Brown has won the Turf Pro Special Achievement Award. His crowning glory was growing the wildflower turf used for the Olympics opening ceremony and parts of

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Blue grass…..Chelsea FC

Chelsea FC kicked off the football season in style with a revolutionary new addition to the pitch at Stamford Bridge. During the summer break, over 1000m2 of brand new Profoot

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Mighty punch

The Cyclone 8000 Buffalo Turbine Debris Blower from Lloyds & Co of Letchworth may be small in stature but it still packs a in the fight against debris. Short in

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Blinder Bunkers

Profusion Environmental has been responsible for installing in excess of 10,000m² of bunker lining at golf clubs within the UK and Europe since joining forces with Blinder Bunker Liner in

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Containerteelt Elst-Bevers

Corné (pictured) and Magda van Elst of Containerteelt Elst-Bevers produce a large assortment of deciduous and evergreen shrubs for the trade. The company was founded in 1994 and now has

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Sprenkels BV

Frans Sprenkels (pictured) specialises in ornamental garden plants: shrubs, conifers, and climbing plants. He started his company in 1980. He really loves plants and likes to take on a challenge,

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Herplant BVBA (B)

Herplant BVBA specialize in growing buxus and taxus in open ground and pots, in almost all shapes and sizes. Buxus sempervirens is the most popular and most grown type of

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Roller mowers

The new- Wessex ProLine RMX roller mowers RMX-560 and RMX-680 are’ the ideal choice for councils, local authority contractors, sports complexes and other large amenity areas’. All the features and

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Vandal attack

ISS Facility Services Landscaping successfully diffused a serious incident in Maryport’s Town Centre Memorial Gardens, within two hours of receiving the emergency call from Allerdale Borough Council. Vandals had cut

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Pickie Pool

Abacus have recently supplied their energy efficient lighting scheme as part of the £2.6m Pickie Pool redevelopment which sees this fabled Northern Irish family venue redeveloped for generations to come.

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Building blocks

L&S Waste has developed a new multipurpose interlocking block, made from 100% recycled aggregate. The ECOblock system is ideal for creating temporary road blocks, protecting vacant sites from unwanted visitors,

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Winning the battle

Continuing its commitment to thought provoking seminars, Dennis & SISIS recently held one for Cricket Groundsmen at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff. Keith Exton, Head Groundsman of Glamorgan CCC, together

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Life in the fast lane….

National Groundcare contractor CDTS has recently purchased a Reform Metrac G3X tractor which will be put to work maintaining banked areas alongside the M25. Rated for safe working at angles

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Boxes ticked

Launched over 100 years ago, Joseph Rowntree established the trusts bearing his name. JRHT (Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust) owns the freehold of the vast majority of the properties in New

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Damcon Nursery Equipment

Damcon specialise in a full range of equipment for open ground tree nurseries, with all the machinery needed to bring the tree on from freshly-rooted cutting to full-grown plant. The

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Betuwe Plant BV….Holland

31 0 488443202 Betuwe Plant B.V., established by brothers Karel and Cor Huibers, will have been in business for twelve years this October and specialises in trees for garden centres.

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View from The Shard

The View from The Shard is the new premium visitor experience at the pinnacle of The Shard, London’s newest landmark, Britain’s first vertical town and Western Europe’s tallest building. The

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Hassle-free gravel paving

COREgravel Gravel Stabiliser is the core of hassle-free gravel paving for all types of vehicle or pedestrian traffic with no compromise in strength and durability. Part of a natural porous

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Removing fallen leaves

SCH (Supplies) recommend their Professional Leaf Suction Unit (Ref PSU). Powered by a 9hp Honda engine, the unit is mounted on a two wheel chassis with an integral tow bar

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MARUYAMA PRODUCTS TRIAL SUCCESS

The Maruyama range includes trimmers and brush cutters, multicutter systems, edgers, blowers, hedge trimmers and accessories but it was the Maruyama Multi-Cutter with Landscape Blade and the new Maruyama Brush

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Ice-busting products

DMMP Limited has a varied stable of products, which includes spreaders designed to handle potentially more difficult damp salt which may have been stored for some time. The vehicle-mounted Magnum

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Digging deep

Technical sales staff and directors from Everris’s York-based distributor, Green-Tech descended nearly a mile underground and travelled seven miles out beneath the North Sea to witness the extraction of raw

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Spike Lights

Outdoor LEDs new Spike Lights are robust, energy efficient LED lamps fitted to a 36cm pole which can be pushed into soft ground, or fixed into concrete and other materials.

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Machine expected to clean up

Pinnacle Power Equipment have taken delivery of the world’s quietest industrial duty leaf and litter vacuum in its class, the new QUIETVAC from Billy Goat. “With noise levels as low

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New range

The new Etesia duocut range of mowers is capable of mowing with or without collection in all conditions, or for high-quality mulching, with no need for an accessory. That high

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Core Recycler

The new Wiedenmann Core Recycler is a self-propelled machine that lifts cores from the turf surface following hollow coring. It instantly and easily separates organic waste matter such as ‘thatch’

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Six new Boomers

New Holland’s popular range of Boomer Compact tractors has been further extended and upgraded with the introduction of six new Boomer models producing 23hp – 47hp. An upgraded EasyDrive continuously

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Saltex warning

2.5 DI-D 4WD Barbarian Double Cab Automatic (Diesel) £29,158.80 Visitors parking at next week’s Saltex show should take extreme care as The Landscaper editor David Curtis will be trying to

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Poleclimbers

More than 50 of the world’s top pole climbers will arrive at APF 2012 to compete in the Husqvarna World 25m Pole Climbing Championships. This biannual competition involves the climbers

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Plant Life

Daniel Chamovitz, writing in the latest edition of New Scientist puts forward a compelling argument that although they lack noses, eyes, ears, mouths and skin plants are capable of seeing,

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Die Fly

The House fly (Musca domestica) is, perhaps, the most common and widespread animal in the world and can carry a number of particularly unpleasant diseases. They also have an incredible

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Gardens of the World

The HESCO Garden 2011 claimed a second successive gold medal for Leeds at the Chelsea Flower Show The show garden which secured back-to-back gold medals for Leeds at the RHS

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Horticultural Excellence

Andy Sturgeon won Gold and the prestigious ‘Award for Horticultural Excellence’ for a contemporary tropical garden at the Singapore Garden Festival last month. The biennial garden event, which launched in

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Made in Britain

Fabweld Steel Products, manufacture of access covers and drainage equipment, have signed up to the Made in Britain campaign which wants to create a national marque to demonstrate products which

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£2.2m HLF grant

Engineers at multidisciplinary consultancy Pick Everard are leading a team currently working on North Tyneside Council’s plans for restoring Northumberland Park to its Victorian glory. A £2.2million grant awarded by

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Dustfighter

The Smart Dustfighter from DF Ecology is designed to provide outside workers with safe protection from airborne contaminates and is ideally suited for contractors working with dust producing equipment, such

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Specifiers handbook

Limagrain UK has published a Specifiers Handbook in which technical information and advice on grass species and recommended mixtures for a range of different situations are provided. The 36-page A4

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Check Those Leaves

The RHS has issued advice to help deal with fungal and bacterial diseases following the recent warm, wet weather. There has been a surge in fungal and bacterial diseases which

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New irrigation website

Irrigation specialists Access Irrigation have launched their all-new website The comprehensive website provides a wealth of information on the design and installation of irrigation for a wide range of applications

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New reservoir

Growing demand for Paynes Turf’s products has led to another significant investment by the company, with the building of a new 10 acre reservoir in Great Bentley, Essex. It is

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Grant helps tree nursery to grow

British Hardwood Tree Nursery has secured a £30,000 grant that will be invested in warehousing, a new computer system and bespoke software at its Snitterby base. British Hardwood Tree Nursery

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16 GREEN FLAG AWARDS

Green Flag for Hotham Park, Bognor Regis – Arun District Council. Michael Rowlands, Park Manager, Arun District Council (far left) with Eddie Packman, Guy Hunter and Adam Marshall, all operatives

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Isle of Wight…….Polaris

Dorset based groundscare and agricultural dealers C & O Tractors have been appointed official Polaris dealers on the Isle of Wight . The company, which has its head office at

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The Sun

The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum – in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year – with over 200

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Flight path

JS Agriculture have landed a new Grounds Maintenance Contract at London City Airport. London City is technically the only airport actually in London. It is ideally located for those who

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Sharp results

A new high-capacity transfer wheel line marking machine from Techneat Engineering now gives a more flexible, easy-to-use, low-cost option for managing a wider range sports pitches. The Acu-Line TWL20 uses

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Unveiled at Fruit Focus

One of the highlights of the New Holland stand at this year’s Fruit Focus show in Kent was the debut of the new range-topping T4060F tractor. New Holland dealership Haynes

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Sky maps

Cambridge City Council has used a digital map of trees, created by aerial mapping company Bluesky, to inform tree planting and management. As part of a wider project to address

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Save over £60 million

Unnecessary idling wastes millions of pounds of fuel and reduces air quality, London drivers are warned Research shows that if London’s drivers turn off their engines rather than idling for

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Carbon Neutral

Chris Welbourn, Global Operations Director of Abacus Lighting ( left) and Mark Lay, Director of OxTreeGen. Abacus Lighting have announced Carbon Neutral options on their entire product range. Abacus’ Green

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ON THE ROAD

The season of arboricultural seminars is once again under way at Barcham Trees’ Ely nursery, giving professionals from allied disciplines the opportunity to hear the latest in tree care thinking

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Metered-dose injector

Micron Group, has launched InjectorDos Pro – a metered-dose injector for the control of Japanese Knotweed aimed at the professional contractors and local authorities. The new InjectorDos Pro features a

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Sunshine show

The sun shone through, just, for the second BALI Landscaping Show, which took place at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry. Show organisers, Brintex, were delighted with the turnout at this year’s

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Floriade 2012

BALI Yorkshire and North East Region have organised a trip to see this year’s horticultural highlight – Floriade 2012 in Venlo, Netherlands Schedule Depart: Thursday 27th September 2012 Return: Sunday

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On the wire

Since 2000 S3I have provided high quality stainless steel hardware and wire rope fittings. Their range of stainless steel fittings and components are the best combination of design, quality and

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Keep on top

In the current weather conditions it is obvious the problems that contractors are facing trying to keep on top of grass cutting, with more than enough rain and warm conditions,

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Petrified Wood

Extremely rare and exquisite pieces of prehistory unearthed by Oxfordshire-based Jurassic Stone mare now available as works of art. Petrified Wood is a remarkable and fascinating phenomenon; a three dimensional

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DISCOVERS JORDAN

Designer, Paul Hervey-Brookes, at the Forest of Deans Stone Firms’ Barnhill Quarry, selecting one of his Pennant sandstone feature stones. Pennant sandstone from the Forest of Dean helped Gloucestershire-based designer,

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Robin good

  The new Robin 3.4m and Robin 4.3m arm mowers feature the Bomford rationalized style taken from their big sister, the Falcon Evo. The Robin has twin pump independent hydraulics

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Suet Balls

  ChapelWood have launched new range of products for the 2012/2013 season The 50 Finest Suet Balls contain premium ingredients including mealworms and peanuts and are presented in a reusable

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New training requirements

The Crop Protection Association (CPA) is to take the lead in developing a certificated E-learning course to meet new statutory training requirements for retailers of garden care products. New UK

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Brush up

Overstone Park Golf Club in Northamptonshire has recently taken delivery of a Sisis Flexibrush, designed to groom and stand up the sward as well as removing dew, using floating v-brush

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New optional trailer extras

Over the past few months, Apache’s technical experts have been busy designing a range of optional extras to enhance the trailer range. Now the standard trailers have a range of

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Cutting back…..AS-Motor

  AS-Motor from Bühlertann has developed the AS 65 Scout to tackle troublesome, fast-growing saplings The AS 65 Scout was developed on the basis of the AS 65 Allmäher, AS-Motor’s

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Bomber Command Memorial

Serco has been chosen by the RAF Benevolent Fund to look after the grounds maintenance and care of the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial which the Queen unveiled as part

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Northumberlandia turns green

The Northumberlandia giant earth sculpture is turning green as the swathes of seed sown across the iconic structure spring to life. DLF Trifolium Johnsons and hydroseeding specialists CDTS teamed up

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NEW ‘MEMORY’ KNEEPADS

After 4 years of research and development, a completely new, non-foam based safety kneepad which ‘memorises’ its original form without reducing its cushioning effect from consecutive or prolonged use, is

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Specialist landscaping website

  Jewson has re-launched its specialist Landscaping website, designed to showcase its full and extended product range for garden projects. The new site invites customers to select from Jewson’s wide

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Climate Calm

Timberplay were selected by cutting edge landscape designer Nicholas Dexter for incorporation in his entry for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show – entitled Climate Calm. With a widespread drought forecast

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Herbicides & hard surfaces

Compliance with new labelling requirements for the use of herbicides on hard surfaces will help ensure targeted, effective weed control and responsible stewardship by the amenity sector, according to the

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Dennis Scores At Euro 2012

Dennis mowers are set to put in a winning performance at the European Football Championships, known to millions of fans simply as Euro 2012. Hosted in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan and

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TENSAR’S EURO ROUTE

TENSAR’S EURO ROUTE Creating a 17.9 km bypass to improve traffic flow, the new Gdansk road is being built as part of a programme of infrastructure improvements which includes those

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New contractor equipment

Stem Injection Systems specialist in the supply of products and equipment for the treatment and management of invasive, non-native plants, continues to focus on an improved equipment range for contractors

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Contractor goes electric

Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), also known as White Finger, is a condition affecting nerves and circulation caused by vibration. The effect is cumulative – each exposure can worsen the condition.

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Elizabeth Taylor’s Choice

Interhort is a division of Taylors Choice, a family run business spanning four generations, and has been serving the horticultural industry for almost 50 years. “ Horticulture is in our

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Rust Spotters Needed

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is working with the Sylva Foundation to run a survey in the TreeWatch initiative to map the incidences of European pear rust across the country.

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Take it easy…BALI Landscaping Show

Azpects will be introducing their leading-edge hard landscaping products at the show EASYJoint the increasingly popular, environmentally friendly paving joint compound which delivers brilliant results & big savings in labour

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Once a decade

BALI is organising a trip to Floriade 2012 – the World Horticultural Exposition – at Venlo in Holland this July for members, partners and industry colleagues. This event only happens

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Climbing the heights

Paul Rochford, of Joseph Rochford Gardens is on his travels again to raise £25,000 for Tree Aid and the Kanyike Project. The quest on this occasion is Mt Denali, in

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Finance offers

Contract hire and finance lease offers are available from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, even a large Crafter van is available from £309 a month. In addition, the best-selling Transporter, which fits

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Green Spaces Transferred

The future of an attractive woodland, a play area and seven other pieces of land in Warrington have been secured thanks to a deal between the Homes and Communities Agency

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Builds on reputation

Trade Van Driver has announced the winners of its 2012 Trade Van Driver awards, with the Isuzu Grafter 3.5t rigid truck winning the award for ‘Best Builder’s Truck 2012‘. According

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Big brand showcase

Glee has confirmed that over 80% of the show’s dedicated landscaping and garden design category is now booked With such a strong presence the show promises to bring buyers thousands

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Swept away

BroomEx produce a range of powerful yet easy to use walk-behind rotary brooms for all small to medium sweeping and collecting tasks. There are four models to choose from, each

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Turf advice

On 21st May all seven water companies who had imposed Temporary Use Bans announced an exemption for the establishment of newly laid turf, and plants, for up to 28 days.

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Red white and blue

A floral features supplier has planted around 90,000 red, white and blue flowers to create a host of displays designed to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations across the country.

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Wolf package

For the first time since the Amarok was introduced in the UK launch last year, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is introducing a competitive finance offer from £299 a month (plus VAT

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Panache

Bradstone’s Panache paving range has been used to unite landscaping and nature in an innovative Fresh Silver medal winning garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Created as part

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Industry delight …. Hosepipe ban

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) today welcomes the news from the water companies that landscaping and turf businesses will have further exemptions from the hosepipe ban. The adjustment

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APL and Chelsea

Members of the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) and Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) presented the best examples of horticultural excellence, design and landscaping at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

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Out of the Blue..Bronze

‘Out of the Blue’, a joint collaboration between award-winning landscape artist Alan Gardner and turf specialist Lindum, has won a bronze medal at the RHS Chelsea 2012. The garden is

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Gold Chelsea

The M&G Garden has been awarded a prestigious Gold medal at the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, designed for the show’s main sponsors M&G Investments by award-winning landscape

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Winning landscape

An amateur photographer originally from Slovakia has been picked by TV explorer Ben Fogle as the winner of a national photo competition to find the UK’s winning National Parks landscape.

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New from Old

Playtop has launched a new safer surfacing system for children’s playgrounds, which is at least 82% re-used materials. This latest range from Playtop uses a base made from recycled truck

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ELECTRONIC TRAINING MANUALS

Elmwood College, Cupar, Scotland, through a licence agreement with The Greenkeepers Training Committee (GTC), is extending its greenkeeper training provision by embracing the latest eportfolio technology. The college will be

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The ARB Show 2012

With exhibitor space at a premium The ARB Show 2012 is turning out to be a bit of a showcase. Five companies have chosen The ARB Show 2012 to launch

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Tractor News…..Next issue

CDC Contractors is based in Sizewell, Suffolk and has diversified from smallholding to landscaping and grounds maintenance work. The family firm have a major contract for the local authority, cutting

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Concrete Skate

Timberplay have further strengthened their offering for Urban Spaces and Public Places by joining forces with Concrete, the German owned Skate Park specialists. This new partnership complements Timberplay’s existing product

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SHEPHERD’S HUT GARDEN

The Plankbridge Shepherd’s Hut garden is a nostalgic, relaxing, Dorset wild flower garden, featuring the first shepherd’s hut to be exhibited in a show garden at RHS Chelsea. The hut

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Job losses

Member of the Turfgrass Growers Association who supply to the seven water company regions where hosepipe bans are in place have described the impact on their businesses as “very serious”

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Versatile solution

THE BLEC Multivator is the answer to the growing demand for de-compacting and topdressing by recycling natural buried and existing soil/sand up to the surface – saving time and money.

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Lunging and parrying

Hillier Garden Centres in the South of England are set to host a unique form of community involvement this month. Seven Hillier branches have linked up with sportsmen and women

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Rainforest Secured

Canvey Wick, on Canvey Island in Essex, is a c19 hectare site (an area equivalent to around 25 football pitches) which has been hailed in the past as a ‘brownfield

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Pennies to run

The Tomberlin VANISH, from ePower Trucks, costs just pennies per mile to run, it offers big savings on fuel as well as CO2 emissions. Lighter, more powerful and with more

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April Showers

Following the record rainfall over the last month, representatives from the landscape and turf industry are calling for water companies to review their Temporary Use Bans and provide concessions for

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Bird problems

Professional Bird Spikes, supplied by Procter Pest-Stop, are the proven solution to problems caused by birds such as feral pigeons, herring gulls and starlings to property and public spaces. Supplied

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Highly manoeuvrable

The Wessex ProLine TGX-150-H, designed in conjunction with Ransomes Jacobsen is quiet, smooth, fast and highly manoeuvrable. It will cope with longer grass on roadside verges, an important factor with

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Watch out for The Steed

Visit any event in our industry and the car park is packed with 4X4’s. The latest arrival is from Great Wall – The Steed. David Curtis gets behind the wheel

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Stop the thieves….lock up

Recent research by Screwfix, has revealed that nearly half of tradesmen are more security-conscious than they were 12 months ago, with 38 per cent stating that they are now ‘very

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Win! Win! Win!

The Travis Perkins scratch card competition is open to trade customers spending over £100 excluding VAT on landscaping products. The scratch card offers the chance to win a range of

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Tough get trailing

The latest additions to the Wessex range are Professional and Country trailers, which have been specifically designed for use with a compact tractor. Wessex Professional trailers are built tough to

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Tricky course

Head Greenkeeper Steve Horwood is working with Headland Amenity to achieve significant improvements to a tricky course while making savings on seed and chemicals that benefit the budget, the environment

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Spring into action

When mowing on hills the AS 9404 Sherpa gives the necessary protection with its roll bar and integrated differential lock, while the permanent four-wheel drive and 22.4 HP twin-cylinder engine

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Spring into action

When mowing on hills the AS 9404 Sherpa gives the necessary protection with its roll bar and integrated differential lock, while the permanent four-wheel drive and 22.4 HP twin-cylinder engine

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Long range irrigation

Revaho UK distributors for Hunter irrigation products, have announced the launch of the ST 1600 long range sprinklers. The ST-1600 had been specifically developed for irrigating large areas where sprinklers

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Three into one will go

The Wessex ProLine HTC-18 collector is a sweeper, a scarifier and a flail mower. You simply order it as either the sweeper, flail collector or scarifier and then change modes

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Beat up…….Rockwool insulation

Dom Sweet’s (15) garden-shed music sessions led to his drum kit being confiscated by Tewkesbury Borough Council, following complaints from his neighbours. Dom could now see his beloved drums returned

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New broom sweeps clean ….

The SweepEx push broom system has the ability to sweep virtually any material , Fine dust, grain, small stones and pebbles, packaging scrap, metal swarf, mud and even snow. You

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Versatile planter collection

Stewart offer a wide ranging, versatile planter collection. Their decorative planters are especially stylish yet manufactured in tough, durable plastics. This makes them much easier to lift and move than

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UK FIRST FOR THE DRIFT

The Drift has become the first golf club in the UK to upgrade to Toro’s new Lynx irrigation control system software. The 18-hole woodland course in Surrey was installed with

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New RHS Plant Finder is Out

The latest edition of the Royal Horticultural Society’s annual publication, RHS Plant Finder 2012-2103 is now available by mail order and from bookstores for £15.99. This encyclopaedia of around 70,000

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Wet Easter does not dampen demand

Reports from HTA’s regional team suggest garden centre trade in the first three months of the year ended strongly although sales over the Easter weekend proved disappointing. Warm, sunny weather

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To the rescue

Huddersfield College contacted specialist contractors Artificial Grass Maintenance when their pitch started to show signs of increased contamination causing substantial drainage problems. Following a site appraisal by the company’s staff,

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QA units cut precious time

Appleby Golf Club’s course manager Steve Campbell (foreground) and assistant Grant Dougherty on their time-saving John Deere E-Cut hybrid mowers, equipped with QA cutting units. Appleby Golf Club’s long-serving course

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£80million Redevelopment Scheme

The Crescent, Hinckley regeneration scheme has today received the go-ahead from the Secretaries of State, who have confirmed both the Compulsory Purchase Order and the linked Highway Stopping Up Order.

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Rocket Continues Growth

Continued growth at Rocket Rentals Gloucestershire, has led to an increase in the number of Doosan excavators in the company’s fleet to well over 60 machines, all supplied by the

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GOLD AND TWO SILVER

For the fifth consecutive year ISS Facility Services Landscaping has been honoured amongst the ‘best of the best’ with the attainment of one gold and two silver leaf eFIG (European

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UK Drowning Stats

There were 420 water-related deaths from accidents or natural causes across the UK in 2010, according to a report published today by the National Water Safety Forum (NWSF). The report,

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Expert maintenance

The National Trust’s Wicken Fen is a National Nature Reserve with 650 acres of wetland of European importance offering primary habitats for a number of endangered species. Additionally, as a

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Market Update

The April issue of HTA Market Update reports that garden centre sales to the end of February are up 2%. Garden centres traded strongly through January (up 10%) but fell

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UK FIRST FOR THE DRIFT

The Drift has become the very first golf club in the UK to upgrade to Toro’s new Lynx irrigation control system software. The 18-hole woodland course in Surrey was installed

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New dedicated brochure

Hanson Formpave have produced a new dedicated merchant brochure. The brochure is aimed at the paving and landscaping contractor. It is easily navigated, defining the three key paving collections; the

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Rainwater management

RainWater Harvesting has just launched the latest version of the Rain Director, a rainwater management system for the control of rainwater around the home and garden. It is a sophisticated

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Fit bootcamp…

A group of likely contenders Smashing results week after week Fit bootcamp has been voted the hardest toughest ever! With amazing average inch loss of 17.5” and 8.5lbs it is

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Front runner

The Wessex Proline TGX outfront flail mowers complement all the leading brands and make short work of long or fine grass. While a rotary will cut longer grass it will

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Recycled furniture

A new range of recycled furniture is helping to reduce the amount of agricultural waste sent to landfill sites and cut emissions by recycling the materials that are used to

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Water Once a Week

A product designed to help container gardeners and grow your own enthusiasts reduce their water consumption has been developed. The ‘Water Once a Week’ planter was demonstrated at the 2nd

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Water restriction update!

The HTA has reported that all water companies that are implementing hosepipe bans on 5 April will be exempting drip watering systems. This means that Sutton & East Surrey, Veolia

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Wheeled sport solution

Timberplay have strengthened their offering for Urban Spaces and Public Places by joining forces with Concrete, the German owned Skate Park specialists. Concrete Skate represents the highest design and construction

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Brightens up university grounds

Limagrain UK’s annual flower seed mixture, Douce France from its Colour Splash range, provided stunning colour to the grounds of Bath University, in south west England, last summer. To add

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Centre of art and culture

One of London’s most celebrated centres of art and culture, Somerset House is renowned for its spectacular architecture, beautiful grounds and year-round programme of events and exhibitions. This March saw

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Landscape TV

Video from the Bali / Playfair show. Overview of the BALI and Playfair shows Overview of the BALI show Overview of the Playfair show. Andrew Rodwell from SCH Will Carr

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Feeding time

        Ever have one of those moments when you think to yourself, “Boy, I wish I had my camera?!” Well, you can enjoy the good fortune of

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COMPANIES JOIN FORCES

Bristol companies Elmtree Garden Contractors and Craig West Turf have completed works to re-turf Bristol’s College Green for a fraction of the estimated cost. The historic green area in Bristol’s

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New jobs created ……Greenscape

A Black Country-based gardening and cleaning service is expanding its operations by opening a new base in Coventry – creating new jobs and apprenticeships. Greenscape, which was established 27 years

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Commander Mulroy…..Trehane

A selection of well-established camellia and blueberry plants is being offered at half price in a special springtime sale at Wimborne’s Trehane Nursery from 31 March. The camellias include the

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Book now for the APL Awards

The winners of the Association of Professional Landscapers Awards (APL) will be announced at the presentation lunch on Wednesday 14 March at the Roof Gardens, Kensington. The Awards, sponsored by

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Cricket news……

Launched by artificial pitch maintenance experts Technical Surfaces Cricket Carpets Direct is a dedicated online service providing traditional carpets at traditional prices. A wide range of products and services are

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FOREST PENNANT PARTNERS WITH CHARCON

Foreground: (L-R) managing director of Forest Pennant, Nick Horton and Charcon commercial manager – natural stone, Steve Hook. Background: Members of the Charcon sales team and Forest Pennant sales manager,

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FIRST CENTER PARCS CONTRACT

Center Parcs has announced that it has signed an agreement with Central Bedfordshire Council to commence the construction of a roundabout near the site of its proposed holiday village at

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Emergency Drought Summit…..Syngenta

The emergency ‘Drought Summit’, called by the Government’s land resources agency, Defra, has highlighted the perilous state of the UK’s water reserves. Large parts of England are already experiencing drought

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Self-propelled…….Makita

Makita’s latest self-propelled mulching mower has a 51cm cutting width and five, easily adjusted cutting heights between 25mm and 70mm. The new Makita PLM5121 mower is powered by the latest

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2012 apprentice scheme

John O’Conner Ltd., the independent grounds maintenance company responsible for many parks and green spaces across the country, has launched its 2012 national search for five more apprentices. The scheme

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Hampton ……..Badgers Ales

L-R Mark Woodhouse Chairman, Antony Woodhouse Managing Director, David French Beer Company Director, Toby Heasman Head Brewer Badger ales is raising a glass to some very welcome news – the

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Drought Conditions

Following the announcement from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of drought conditions in the southeast of the UK, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Members’ Advisory Service

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Speed and movement

Playdale have added two exhilarating new products to their Movers range the Aero Tilt and Rota Glide. The Aero Tilt is the mischievous brother of the Aero Whirl, providing a

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Grading plane

A new Grading Plane for small compact tractors is now available from US firm Earth & Turf Products. ? Sixty-inch grading width ? 280 Lbs. weight for compatibility with small

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Top grass results ………

Wessex ATV equipment AF and AFC flail mowers are designed to complement ATV’s and UTV’s, offering heavy-duty performance coupled with a range of features well suited to controlling dense vegetation,

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Smoke and Mirrors

The Smoke and Mirrors show garden, designed by Alexandra Froggatt and supported by Brett Landscaping, has triumphed at the RHS London Plant and Design Show after winning a Gold Medal,

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Positive year

Garden centre and nursery sales in the last quarter of 2011 were up on the previous year and that interest in grow your own looks to continue in 2012 according

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Offers in Excess of £63 Million

Following conclusion of the largest open market forestry transaction in Scotland in over a year, property firm Bidwells has revealed remarkable levels of interest in two large Borders forests. The

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Launching to UK market

Following the successful launch of the ‘Floral meadow in my garden’ concept in the UK in 2010, NOVA-FLORE has redefined distribution arrangements in the UK in order to strengthen the

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Escaping justice…….

The case of a worker who was fatally crushed on a construction site is the inspiration behind a new Bill aimed at preventing companies going into administration to escape punishment

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CANAL Bespoke metalwork

When it comes to making a landscape grand, CANAL has the knowledge and engineering expertise to transform contemporary design ideas into magnificent glass and metalwork structures, that make impressive statements

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Luxurious Italian Gazebos

New for 2012, Unosider UK are bringing luxury Italian gazebos to the UK market. Their range of gazebos can enhance external spaces, gardens, terraces and swimming pool areas. Unosider UK

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Perfect for children

Play Direct UK.Com will be selling the VegTrug range into schools throughout the UK. The range of VegTrug products are the perfect tool for children to learn and understand about

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Pumping water ……HydroForce

HydroForce Pumps have produced new clean water pump for rainwater harvesting tanks. With the strapline ‘quality under pressure’, the new HydroForce pump has been designed with a number of important

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Savings boost ….Rytec

The Triflex large area mower capacity to cut grass of any length to a close high quality finish in one pass without unsightly rows or lumps of cut grass afterward

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Blaze of glory …..Plantscape

A Devon fishing town has picked up an award for staging the best eco-friendly Christmas lights display for the fourth year running after investing in the country’s only solar-powered street

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FIELD MARSHALL RETURNS

Charles Tassell who farms in Ulcombe, Kent has recently become the proud owner of a 1948 Field Marshall, Series 2. The tractor returned to home shores in October 2007 having

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No show

Phil Voice the organiser of the trade show Creating Landscapes has confirmed that the show will not take place again in 2012. Phil told The Landscaper “It was a tremendous

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Training Calendar

The Arboricultural Association provides a busy programme of events and training activities. Most activities are open to members and non-members although members can usually benefit from discounted rates and in

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New Pests

Two New Pests Slugs and snails have taken the top RHS pest enquiry slot for 2011 after having been toppled from the first place by viburnum beetle in 2010. Usually

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WEBSITE RE-LAUNCH

The trade association Interpave has re-launched its Commercial paving and hard landscape website providing the definitive information resource on all aspects of the paved environment for landscapers, landscape designers, planners,

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£190,000 contract

Maintenance firm Greenscape has won a £190,000 contract to look after the grounds of 125 housing estates in the West Midlands and Shropshire. The housing estates are all managed by

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Sailing Into Little Harbour

Hanson Formpave has recently completed the car park and landscape areas at a new hospice, called Little Harbour, part of the Children’s Hospice South West organisation by supplying 2,000m2 of

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Even greener…..INTURF

INTURF aimed to cut its use of energy by working more efficiently and so achieve a 10% cut in its carbon emissions in the process. In fact, through dramatically reducing

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SURE-FOOTED …..Centriforce

A SURE-FOOTED solution to accessing environmental education in Yorkshire has been made possible with boardwalks ‘more sustainable than wood’ – made entirely from recycled plastic carrier bags and bottles. A

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Living Wall Demonstration

Cityroofs’ Aquadyne living wall system has been installed at the London offices of architects and designers Child Graddon Lewis (CGL). The architects have an internal ‘green team’ exploring various sustainability

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Average wind speed

Visitors to the Energy Now Expo 2012 will be able to see and learn why the Evance R9000 small wind turbine is proving so popular in rural areas. Already over

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New opportunity …..Fitrite

Fitrite eco-board comes complete with full marketing support including brochures and a personalised website. New to the market , it is both easy to install and maintain and generates nearly

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Propagate your own plants

Propagation from seed is affordable providing new plants, produce and colour year round for the garden. Sankey Garden Products offers a wide range of propagation equipment. Sankey’s Grostart Propagator is

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Intelligent software… Kramp

Kramp Mobile is the perfect combination of high quality hardware and intelligent software. Based on the Apple iPad 2, this modern touchscreen tablet provides its users with the maximum degree

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Sweep your snow away –

There are many different types of snow clearing machines on the market, snow blowers, snow brushes and snow blades. If you have deep dry, fluffy snow then a blower works

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NIGEL CARTER JOINS AVANT TECNO

Avant Tecno of Thetford in Norfolk has announced the appointment of Nigel Carter as business development executive who will be responsible for expanding the brand into both established and new

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New ROLAWN appointment….

Emily Kirkland has been promoted to Customer Services Manager having previously worked for Rolawn as both a Sales Administrator and Customer Services Co-ordinator. Emily commented, “I am looking forward to

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Bookings fly in

Bookings for the HTA National Plant Show 2012 are flying in with the number of companies exhibiting and stands booked already up on last year. The show, dedicated to showcasing

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Stevenage gardens- national award

The Town Centre Gardens have picked up the prestigious best conservation and heritage title at the Landscape Institute Awards. The award comes following the completion of the restoration project funded

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Learning outside

Environmental consultancy Wildscapes has been working with a number of Sheffield schools to enhance their landscaped areas and make learning outside in the natural environment much more accessible for them.

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Many different tasks

Since taking delivery of an Avant 750 compact loader in August, Cutting Edge Grounds Maintenance of Winchester has built-up a complete package of attachments to enable it to tackle a

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Robust power

Martin Collins Equipment, which supplies compact tractors, UTVs and quads to the equestrian and rural pursuits market, has asked Briggs & Stratton to supply its Vanguard Turbo Diesel engines to

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£1.2 million contract

JS Agriculture have landed a new 3 year Grounds Maintenance Contract at Gatwick Airport worth more than £1.2m over the contract period. Gatwick Airport operates the busiest single runway airport

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Staycations

With a government backed campaign encouraging Brits to holiday at home, Jo Thompson’s ‘Staycation’ garden (‘A Celebration of Caravanning’), for The Caravan Club, at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (2012)

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Heavy duty trailers

Designed, built and assembled in Yorkshire, Adventure trailers feature a galvanised chassis and bodywork, LED lighting, sealed wiring, stainless steel fittings and a fully-independent suspension featuring Fox Racing Shox and

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Developing the estates

Peabody Trust has appointed London based landscaping company Ginkgo Landscape Contractors to change the face of the Peabody estates. Formed 21 years ago, Ginkgo Landscapes has grown from the maintenance

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National Tree Week

As National Tree Week draws closer, marking the start of the traditional tree-planting season, landscapers and contractors are being urged to do their bit to boost the UK’s tree stocks

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Calls for surplus stock

A CHARITY dedicated to creating gardens at children’s hospices nationwide asking companies to donate any unwanted stock to raise funds for its work. Greenfingers is calling for companies to send

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Antonio Carraro Calendar 2012

The Antonio Carraro 2012 Calendar is entitled “C’era una volta, once upon a time…”. In the background, historical pictures taken from AC calendars of the past, whose first edition dates

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Living walls……City roofs

Cityroofs’ Aquadyne living wall system has been installed at the London offices of architects and designers Child Graddon Lewis (CGL). The architects have an internal ‘green team’ exploring various sustainability

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Turf account……..Stewartsturf

Stewartsturf are urging landscape architects to make informed decisions about the turf they specify for clients’ projects. Duncan Forbes, a director of the company that grows turf at sites in

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Showing support

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has confirmed its support of the 2012 Glee show. The new partnership will see the HTA become official partners of Glee’s Landscaping, Garden Design and

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Moortown

Groundworks contractor Moortown has enhanced its equipment fleet with the purchase of six more Kubota mini excavators, in a deal that now takes the total number of Kubota models used

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Latest products

The latest products from Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment will be on show at the 2012 Executive Hire Show The display will feature Doosan Portable Power’s very popular compressor, generator, light

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Gardens are greener

National Trust properties in south Somerset have trimmed energy costs, time and noise as well as hedges this year. The four properties in this area of Trust administration switched to

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Best price …guaranteed

The Post Office is now guaranteeing to beat business insurance renewal quotes for self-employed landscape gardeners. The business insurance policy will provide self-employed landscape gardeners with access to the wide

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Hectare horders

The Land Trust is urging organisations to make their non-core land available to local communities by creating open public spaces that can be enjoyed by all, whilst increasing profitability for

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Deadly new tree disease…..

A deadly plant disease previously unknown in England has been found in Devon killing Lawson Cypress trees that are commonly found in parks and gardens. Forestry Commission scientists have confirmed

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BALI Award Winners

Principal and Special Awards being announced at the Awards ceremony on 2nd December. “Despite the difficulties of such a harsh winter and the tough economic climate, BALI contractors across the

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Solid granite

Stone & Water supply solid granite water features and lanterns to private gardens but are also able to produce larger pieces for commercial projects. Granite is one of the most

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ISS extend partnership…

ISS Facility Services Landscaping is all set to continue its ten-year long partnership with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead for a further four years. The extension will see

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Simple bag filing

Albutt has introduced a new product to simplify bag filling. Suitable for filling tote bags with any free flowing material, the attachment can be used with any telehandler or loader.

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Tree management

TreeCOnomics, in association with Treeworks, has provided an i-Tree Eco training and support package to quantify the societal benefits of Luton Borough Council’s parks, thereby facilitating Luton in delivering long-term

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Costa Drive-Thru

Hanson Formpave has secured a deal to supply over 300m2 of its permeable paving system, Aquaflow for a parking area and car lane at Scotland’s first Costa Drive-Thru, part of

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Leaf problem tackled…

Dominic Lewis of Harewood Downs Golf Course is delighted with the performance of the Imants RotoBlast blower recently purchased from Campey Turf Care Systems . Harewood Downs Golf Course was

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Gunman attack press conference

Mainburg , Bavaria October 6 By David Curtis A press conference, organised by the innovative Bavarian professional shoe manufacturer Haix, was interrupted by a group of armed terrorists. The firms

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Turn mobiles off

Road safety charity Brake and insurance firm Direct Line have joined forces to launch a new campaign to warn drivers about the dangers of using mobile phones while driving. A

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Glee Report 2011

Winner Glee 2011 saw the launch of the National Trust Landscape Collection – a collaboration between the National Trust and established reproduction paving company Westminster Stone. The Collection’s stand with

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Planting in Space…..

World Space Week (4 – 10th October) was celebrated around the world in as many as 55 countries by astronomy societies, museums, planetariums, schools, colleges and other organisations NASA’s programme

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Pitch power….. Agripower

Agripower Contractors have been chosen to install a bespoke drainage system for Clifton College, Bristol. The site had previously suffered with serious waterlogged pitches which resulted in numerous cancelled games

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For the birds

Two tern rafts made from Stokbord recycled plastic board became home to eight pairs of Common Terns in Watermead Country Park in Leicestershire, rearing ten young during the summer. Members

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Olympic plants….

Over 60,000 plants, grasses, herbs and flowers from across the globe have been grown in an Ashford nursery and planted along with 60,000 bulbs in the Olympic Park London 2012

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Four receive top prize

(L-R) Joe Archer, Sarah Hamnvik, Trustee -Tony Hamilton, Trustee – Lynda Hamilton, Charlotte Rodick and Will Stanger. Four undergraduate students recently received bursaries of £1000 each courtesy of the Geoff

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Cliff-top park

Perched up high on the cliff top, Filey Country Park is already a notable landmark but with the addition of a Timberplay Climbing Structure this prominent park is now more

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Eastern Promise…

DFSK UK are introducing the mini van back into the UK market. The firm is China’s third largest vehicle manufacturer, their vehicles are backed up with a three year warranty

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Money savers

Loughborough University is lowering its road vehicle emissions and saving money, after buying two new electric trucks. The Alke ATX 200E utility vehicles, supplied by ePower Trucks, can travel up

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Horticultural abseilers

At 14 stories high and one of the tallest living wall installations in the UK, the Scotscape’s maintenance team were unable to use conventional access equipment. As a result, the

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Winner!

Glee 2011 saw the launch of the National Trust Landscape Collection – a collaboration between the National Trust and established reproduction paving company Westminster Stone. The Collection’s stand with individual

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Professional choice…

Kinley Systems have recorded a significant increase in sales of its aluminium lawn and landscape edging products. “We have recorded a 330% increase in orders across our Exceledge ranges of

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Electric lights

CityFort is a new range of eco friendly electric powered vans and trucks. Road legal and right hand drive these zero emission vehicles are congestion charge and road tax exempt,

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October Snow….

After last years chaos some strange weather is on the way – with snow falling as early as October. The premature frost, with below average temperatures over the next few

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More punch to Scotsturf

BIGGA will be staging a day-long programme of seminars at this year’s IOG Scotsturf show- designed to provide added value to the time spent at the Royal Highland Centre by

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Close tolerances

The laser Grader provides the close tolerances demanded by today’s construction industry and will make a tremendous impact on the time and cost of constructing all manner of indoor and

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Restoration of Victoria Park

Kirkstone is supplying Light Sea Green slate for restoration of Victoria Park The restoration of the Old English Garden in collaboration with Sarah Price Landscapes features two circular pools and

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Reduce spray drift

BFS MD Stephen Ketely The new 0.8 White low drift Air Bubble Jet from Billericay Farm Service’s has been specially developed for greenkeeepers groundsmen and contractors. This 0.8 nozzle provides

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Peace gardens

Sixteen of the world’s best garden designers will bring relief to a nation recovering from the terrible devastation caused by March’s earthquake and tsunami as they start work on the

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Gold&Platinum

To mark two decades in the turf care sector, Wiedenmann UK is donating all proceeds from the sale of a platinum-painted Terra Spike GXi8 HD to charity. Already several bids

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Many visitors to The Landscaper stand admired our jackets .. they can be purchased ( minus our logo) by contacting … Tel 0114 2738349 www.jcbworkwear.com

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Practical skills award

Left to Right: Joshua Grafton, Operative; Keith Higgins, Operative; RAF Station Commander, Squadron Leader Carrie-Anne Rossi, Trevor Windsor, Supervisor; Phil Jones, Managing Director; Gerard Wilkins, Operative; and Adrian Nicholls, Operative.

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New Wood

The Woodland Trust has unveiled plans to create a vast 460-acre publicly-accessible flagship wood as a national symbol to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. In its largest and most ambitious

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Widest range of turf tyres

A wide representative sample of amenity and turf tyres from Alliance will be exhibited at Saltex by Kirkby Tyres including the new 381 Flotmaster – a steel belted radial developed

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Going live at Four Oaks

Floramedia have created a new product – FloraLinQ. It will enable growers and retailers to market plants in a new way, providing an instant gateway to exclusive, quality information, which

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Creating landscapes

A new trade show for the landscaping and gardening industry is to take place in October. The Creating Landscapes Trade Show will bring together horticulture practitioners with product and equipment

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Irrigation training……Acess

Access Irrigation have announced an extended seminar series for Autumn / Winter 2011/12. Of interest to all specifiers and installers of irrigation systems, Access now run 3 separate courses. The

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Pond Pixies

Bermuda has confirmed with the launch of a range of new water features, accessories and aquatic products at Glee 2011 New products include over 30 new water features, freestanding ponds,

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Hedge help

The name ‘hedgehog’ came into use around the year 1450, derived from ‘heyghoge’, because it frequents hedgerows and ‘hoge’, from its piglike snout. Hedgehogs are an icon of the British

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Be prepared………JCB

Scouting leaders lived up to their motto of being prepared by deploying 80 JCB machines to build and operate a massive campsite at a world jamboree for 40,000 participants. The

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Rover sport

The 3.0-litre SDV6 diesel engines in the Range Rover Sport now offer even greater efficiencies, with reduced CO2, improved fuel economy and an increase in power. The output of the

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Follow the herd

Herdsman Builders , East Yorkshire, has purchased a new Bobcat S100 skid-steer loader and attachments from Scunthorpe-based AMS Bobcat. The firm has purchased the S100 loader with angle blade and

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Great bulbs

The RHS is advising people to look for bulbs with an Award of Garden Merit (AGM). The RHS has awarded the AGM to over 200 daffodil varieties which therefore carry

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Reunited with meadow

A luxury country house in Derbyshire has been reunited with a nearby meadow thanks to the use of Trex Transcend Over 65 metres of the composite decking have been used

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Flagship Dealer

Warrington Vehicle Centre has moved to a brand-new £2m flagship site in Warrington, adjacent to the busy northwest M6/M62 motorway network. The award-winning Isuzu dealership now operates from a purpose

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Power trimmer

The latest mains power hedge trimmer from Makita’s Outdoor Power Equipment range has a 48cm blade length which is the double-sided, double-action design that gives cutting capacity on each side

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Refurbishment….Boston market

Ringway a highway maintenance provider, is undertaking a series of refurbishment projects at Boston Market Place, Lincolnshire. The project is due for completion in 2012 with the support of partners

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Underwater lights

Two Quellstar led underwater lights use induction technology to drive circular arrays of led’s to fit drilled water features and around fountain heads. The led array in a nickel plated

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Reach a million

Left to Right: Mayor Planting Millionth Plant Aug 11 (Picture taken by James Davis jimdavis900@btopenworld.com) In the background, Keith Wilkinson, Gardener, ISS Facility Services Landscaping, Peter Haley, Contracts Performance Officer,

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Outstanding contribution

The RHS announced the 2011 recipients of its prestigious awards for outstanding contribution to horticulture at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show when the awards were presented by HRH Princess Alexandra

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Six months free fuel!

Suzuki GB has announced a new offer which provides customers with 6 months free fuel with every new KingQuad ATV. The range of KingQuad ATVs include the economical KingQuad 400,

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Industry lost its way….

‘The Garden Design industry has lost its way…. we’ve gone down the visual route predominantly and have become detached from the practical side of things – the practical side underpins

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Win IPad & Topdresser

Celebrating 50 years of topdressing, Turfco, the Minnesota-based manufacturer and inventor of the first mechanised topdresser, has launched a promotional campaign which offers the chance to win one of six

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Turf prices to increase

Rolawn, supplier of topsoil say that turf prices in the UK are set to increase later this year. The reason is the sustained increase in material costs. The rise in

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Top Turf

George Davies Turf, a totally independent business, has been trading for nearly 11 years and in that time has built up a very thorough understanding of what each customer requires.

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Growing food in Cities

Fresh from winning the gold medal at this years prestigious Chelsea flower show, The Prince’s Foundation’s ambassador, Diarmuid Gavin, launched the charity’s new focus on community wide food growing at

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Save energy and cash…..

Green roofs benefit the environment, help companies achieve sustainability targets and payback times are getting shorter, says Atmos Consulting. The pressure is on building developers and occupiers to make sure

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National Gardening Week

The Royal Horticultural Society is launching National Gardening to get the nation growing. The RHS is calling on nurseries, plant centres, gardeners, clubs, charities, schools and media to join in

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Major project………UPM-Tilhill

UPM Tilhill’s Bury-St-Edmunds office is gearing up for the final phase of soft landscaping at Beam Parklands in Dagenham, East London. The contract includes planting 42,000 marginal wetland plants along

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Ofice plant of the year

judges Matthew Appleby, Panel chair Ian Drummond IGD, Claudia de Yong & David Curtis The judging panel – Matthew Appleby of Horticulture Week, David Curtis of The Landscaper Magazine and

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Flower Shows… light up

Brett Landscaping has embarked on a busy programme of supporting a selection of garden displays at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and RHS Tatton Park. The company is supporting

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Back on form……

Japan will prove it is well on the road to recovery, following this March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, as it prepares for a star studded international gardening championship If the

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Campey open day. 25 years

“A very very big thank you to everyone for supporting our Open Day” said Richard Campey. “We have been overwhelmed with the turnout with guests from around the world attending,

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Lightest in class

The Baroness LM56 & LM66 walk behind cylinder mowers are among the lightest in their class, solidly built, highly manoeuvrable and constructed to a quality standard second to none. The

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Show success…..

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) and show organiser, Brintex, have confirmed that nearly 1,000 visitors attended its inaugural BALI Landscaping Show which was held earlier this month (21

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Added value……..Glee 2011

Glee has unveiled initial details of this year’s visitor attractions, which are set to make this year’s show the strongest ever. As well as meeting the industry’s leading brands from

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Recycled Walkway

A FORGOTTEN ancient woodland is being rediscovered by staff at Waitrose’s Bracknell headquarters thanks to a new walkway made from plastic waste returned to the site in a imaginative ‘closed

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Save cash!

RESTORE Engine Restorer works on the worn-out areas of the cylinder walls, restoring cylinder compression and improving it to nearly new condition before the next oil change and often within

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Cuts&Drops

Grillo UK have just released two new professional cut & drop machines, the FM1100 & FM 2200. Powered by either a 25 or 44hp diesel engine they are available with

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Revised water code

The HTA welcomes the revised Code of Practice which provides new guidance on the wider range of water use restrictions that water companies can impose during times of water shortage.

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Healthy Pot……Flora-tec

In a study conducted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Uppsala University, Sweden, the presence of pot plants reduced levels of fatigue, stress and headaches among employees. The

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Open Gardens…….Thrive

Thrive’s new garden at Beech Hill, near Reading, is created for people who are recovering from a stroke or heart attack. The Hearts and minds garden forms part of Thrive’s

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Brown lawns are cool

On the day it was revealed that areas of the UK are officially in drought, the Turfgrass Growers Association provided water companies across the country with new information to help

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Creating a buzz

Gavin Jones has just completed their first commercial installation of a bee hive at their client’s site, Imperial College, London. Since last summer, Gavin Jones has kept bees at their

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Ultragroomer

The Advanced Turf Technology System ‘Ultragroomer’ can provide exceptional results on high density fine turf grasses such as creeping bents, says ATT’s John Coleman. “Bents are desirable for their tighter

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Major savings

Henbury Golf Club Course Manager Gary Hawley suggests that major savings could be made on fungicide bills by using the British Seed Houses fertiliser Vitanica RZ on greens or collars.

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World Vision

Build Center supporting the World Vision UK charity show garden at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show by supplying £2,000 worth of hardscaping products. Build Center has provided 150 bags

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Game Set & Match…Win HD TV

Green-tech is celebrating Wimbledon with some outstanding promotional offers. The nation’s favourite Summer event will finish with the men’s singles final on the 3rd of July. During the two week

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Wellies

A Hampshire couple have set up an import company to launch a New Zealand award winning product that helps dry out wellington boots. Ringwood based VTH Limited has the exclusive

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Sanli back at Saltex

Sanli will be making its second-ever appearance at IoG SALTEX with an expanded machinery display which will include several new additions to the its product portfolio as well as a

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Silver-Gilt award

John Woods Nurseries has won a Silver-Gilt Flora award for its Flora pro.activ Show Garden at this year’s Gardeners’ World Live. The award, one of only two Silver-Gilts presented at

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Top gong Trade retailer Screwfix is celebrating, having taken home a top retail industry gong for the award-winning shopping experience it offers to the trade. Honoured in the Retail Technology

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Glee success ..

Border Stone,Deco-Pak, Lafarge Cement UK,Living Stone, Longborough Concrete Meadow View Stone,Natural Paving Products and Strata Stones Foras,Haddonstone, Melmar Stone,London Ornaments,Lucas Garden Statuary, Vivid Arts,Stone & Water,Willowstone Garden Products, Ailsa Wood Products, Blakeway Stone, Eastern Connections, Henri Studios, Redwood Stone, Abitquackers and Ackerman Group

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Landscaper Plus

28th February Loseley Park, Godalming, Surrey 1st March Capel Manor College, Enfield, Middlesex
2nd March The Royal Showground, Stoneleigh
3rd March Reaseheath College, Nantwich, Cheshire

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Get set for 2011…

Vivid Arts, Eden Halls Greenhouses, Melmar Stone, Timber Garden Buildings, Foras, M & M Timbers, Kelkay, Border Stone, Deco-pak, Forest Garden, Vegtrug, Lucas Garden Statuary, Woodlodge Products, Blakeway Stonecraft, Sika, London & Lancashire Rubber Co and Stone More Garden Buildings…

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Online Auction

Tractors, Excavator, Turf Preparation & Drainage Equipment, Grass Cutting, Farm Implements, Trailers, Vehicles,Nursery Landscaping Stock…

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Scotsturf 2010 exhibitors list…(November 3 & 4)

AM Phillip Spray Techniques
Bagma
BD Supplies Ltd
Bernhard & Company Ltd
BIGGA
British Seed Houses Ltd
Broadwood International
Bryson Tractors Ltd
CED Ltd
Central Spares Ltd
Charterhouse Turf Machinery
Cleveland Site Safe
Clydeside Trading Society Ltd
Complete Weed Control
Continental Landscapes Ltd
Countax Ltd
Craigmarloch Nurseries
Denfind Stone
Dennis (Howardson) Ltd
DMMP Ltd
Double A Trading Company
Etesia UK Ltd
Fairways Group Ltd
Fleet (Line Markers) Ltd
Fraser C Robb
Garden Innovation Products (UK)
Great Dane (Henry H Sheach Lawnmowers Ltd)
Green – Tech Ltd
Grillo Agrigarden UK Ltd
Grogreen (Seed Logistics Ltd)
Groundscare Products (County Hire)
Groundsman Industries Ltd
Hayter Ltd
Husqvarna UK Ltd
JDP Ltd (John Davidson Pipes)
Landscape & Amenity Product Update
Leica Geosystems Ltd
Lloyds and Co
Logic Irrigation Supplies Ltd
Logic Manufacturing Ltd
Major Equipment Ltd
Midland Power Machinery Distributors Limited
Multihog UK Ltd
Overton Ltd
Parasaver Golf
R Aitken (Seedmens) Ltd (Aitken’s)
Rigby Taylor Ltd
Scot JCB Ltd
Scotbark
Scottish Golf Environment Group
SebaKMT UK Ltd
Seed Source UK Ltd
SGM Sherriff Amenity (Agrovista)
Simon Tullett Machinery Co Ltd
Sports Turf Services
Sportsmasters UK Ltd
Steelmaster Products Ltd
STRI LTD
Sutcliffe Play (Scotland) Ltd
Symbio
Tacit Ltd
Techneat Engineering Ltd
Terra Firma (Scotland) Ltd
The Great Lawn Company
Turffit Ltd

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Harrogates next !

Aeration, Artificial Grass, Course Furniture, Drainage, Fertilisers, Groundscare Machinery and Equipment, Irrigation, Mowers, Sand, Soil, Top Dressing, Soil Biology, Spraying, Turf and Seeds, Waste Management, Recycling, Water, Lake and Pond Management….

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Saltex 2010….

JCB,Terrain,Simon Richard DMMP,TPA,Goldoni,Sweepfast,
Grass Group, Countax, Rytec PromacSolutions,Inturf,BobcatTYM Tractors,S2T Grass Reinforcement, Rapid Tractors,Charterhouse Limagrain,Multihog TurfTeq Sanli Broadwood IPU, Tracmaster Avant Tecno Ifor Williams.STM Hardmet LAndforce..

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Innovations set for Glee …COREgravel Gavin DentDaniel Thurlow

Border Stone, Foras, Forest Garden, Grange Fencing, Haddonstone, M & M Timber, Jagram, Grange Fencing, Finsa, Kelkay, Deco Pak, Charles Centre Living Stone, AS Imprest, Blakeway Stone Craft, COREgravel UK Ltd, Dutch Imports, Everbuild Building Products, Growcamp A/S, Henri Studio, Jagram, JCB Sales, Lucas Garden Statuary, Mercia Garden Products, Plant Theatre, Scottish Prison Service and Speyside Timber Products…

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APL Awards Winners 2010

Gardens For Life scooped the top award at the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) Awards 2010 for the design and construction of a stunning natural garden with a bold and dramatic planting scheme.

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ENERGY AND COST SAVINGS

Results from Marshalls’ own Energy Saving Week this year have shown that employees could save a huge £425,000 on energy bills and cut their carbon footprint by over 3,000 tonnes.

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Slver lining Chelsea

Leeds City Council enjoyed a silver lining at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week by claiming a Silver Gilt Flora award at the world-famous event. The HESCO Garden, designed

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New contract

Steve Ayliffe, new contracts manager at Banyards, will manage the new HydeMartlet contract. Dorset horticultural firm Banyards has won a three-year contract to supply grounds maintenance for south coast housing

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Cut above

New from Broadwood International the RMX 360. As it’s name suggests the 360 has 3.6m working width, meaning that sports pitches, parkland and any large areas of grass are ‘cut

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Giant vegetarians

Reeds which originated in the Lower Himalayas right through to the Mediterranean are now screening the Rhinos of Nepal exhibit at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo thanks to Wimborne-based Knoll Gardens. Endangered

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Leave us a Lawn

Thornton Sports is a leading UK company for manufacture, installation and maintenance of synthetic sports surfaces. Athletic surfaces, tennis court surfaces, rugby pitch construction and synthetic netball court surfaces are

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Even a stripe

LazyLawn will be exhibiting at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show The firm will be showcasing one of its premier lawn grasses in a contemporary setting demonstrating the products realistic

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Seeding

The Vredo Overseeder uses v-shaped cutting discs to produce a sharp slit, preserving the turf to either side…

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IOG SALTEX NEWS!!!

The UKs most important and dynamic event for the landscaping, amenities,
grounds care, sports facilities and estate management sectors…

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Tool sheds

The Conservation Foundation has recently started receiving gardening hand tools from Royal Parks landscape contractor Enterprise for recycling through its Tools Shed project…

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Silver hammer

MyHammer, the trades and services online market place, has launched the beta version of its interactive search platform…

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