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Welcome to the March issue of Pro Landscaper. Spring is upon us, which will hopefully bring drier weather. Water seems to be a recurring subject amongst our contributors this month, which tells us the problem is industry-wide.

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CONTENTS

March 2016 INFORM

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Agenda Is the Garden Bridge good for our industry?

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SGD Awards A rundown of the winners from the prestigious SGD Awards

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News

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THE SGD AWARDS

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Association News Registration is now open for the APL WorldSkills 2016; plans are being finalised for the RHS Flower Show Cardiff; efig celebrates its 15th birthday; the SGD announces the winner of the John Brookes Lifetime Achievement Award; BALI updates us on upcoming regional events; the Parks Alliance reviews the first in the series of its roundtables; upcoming seminar and workshop for local government officers from BALI-NCF

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An exclusive interview with Willerby Landscapes

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All Systems Go David Dodd reveals all about his new venture ‘Go Landscape’ that he has set up with fellow BALI director Nigel Bowcock

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Pro Landscaper visits the RENSON showroom in Belgium with Garden House Design

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New Product Releases

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Composite Decking

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Traditional Paving

Close Harmony

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Robert Straver created an urban garden that fits into its surroundings with the use of traditional planting

Artificial Grass In Prestigious Places

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Site Visit: Griffin Glasshouses

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A private garden at Costells in Scaynes Hill, West Sussex was given a modern update by Nigel L Philips

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Character Building Atelier DYJG took on a government commission to develop the southern side of Yantai city in China with a cultural plaza

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Angus Lindsay on why water management should be a consideration in landscaping

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High Flyers

The Landscape Architecture Foundation has launched a website designed to monitor a landscape project after its completion – Lesley Malone explains

View From The Top Phil Jones airs his views on the latest report from the Parks Alliance

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Adam White on the Chartered Landscape Architects’ graduation ceremony, which he co-hosted with Noel Farrer

Pro Landscaper asks last year’s class of 30 under 30s: “What was your biggest challenge of 2015?”

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Flower Show The Landscape Group maintains Jephson Gardens in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

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Plantsman’s Plot A selection of plants and trees from the UK’s top growers

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CONTRIBUTORS Phil Jones MD of ISS Facility Services Landscaping David Dodd Landscaper and lecturer Angus Lindsay Head of fleet at The Landscape Group Andrew Wilson Garden designer and lecturer Adam White Director of Davies White Landscape Architects

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Robert Webber tackles the issue of burying conduits and digging trenches for cables

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Water, Water, Everywhere Tips from Janine Pattison on how to handle too much water on site

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Considerations When Buying New Or Used Machinery With spring upon us, Ian Mitchell examines the options for buying kit for the upcoming season

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Rise Of The Humble Garden Shed Sheds are worth £8bn to the British economy – Anji Connell looks at the different types of sheds that are on offer today

Water Ways Noel Kingsbury on how sustainable drainage is influencing landscapers and property owners

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Lesley Malone Freelance writer and photographer Jamie Butterworth Plant manager at Hortus Loci Ian Drummond Creative director of Indoor Garden Design Andy McIndoe Leading horticulturist

Noel Kingsbury Garden designer and writer

Janine Pattison Garden designer and horticulturist Robert Webber Founder of Scenic Lighting Anji Connell Interior architect and landscape designer Ian Mitchell Founder of High Five Training

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IS THE GARDEN BRIDGE GOOD FOR OUR INDUSTRY? The controversial Garden Bridge started out as just an idea of actress Joanna Lumley but, following funding from major donors such as Sky, construction is due to begin later this year. The project has received a mixed response, costing £175m, with the private sector having pledged £85m of this and the public £60m so far. The 366m bridge will be situated between the Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges, linking Temple underground Charity Garden Bridge Trust station to the Southbank. Due to open Lead design Arup Designer Heatherwick Studio to the public in 2018, the annual Landscape designer Dan Pearson Studio maintenance and operations of the Preferred construction bidder Bouygues TP-Cimolai JV bridge will be £2m. We asked people Planting contractor Willerby Landscapes Ltd working in the sector what they think...

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I’ve always thought that anything related to public green spaces can only be a good thing and this is pretty much how I feel about the Garden Bridge. Thomas Heatherwick has created a beautiful design for the bridge itself and I know Dan Pearson will produce a beautiful garden. It’s what they do! I don’t agree with people calling it a vanity project. To me it’s another example of investment in keeping London as one of the most culturally creative cities in the world. I’m also pleased to see it’s going to be free for the public so everyone can enjoy it. My only argument against the project is that there are still a great many deprived areas in London and could the money (currently around £175m) have been spent on creating more public gardens and green spaces which would benefit a greater number of people?

Imagine having £60m to fund 500 pocket-parks and local landscaping projects across London.

Each project could be unique; local residents, schools and designers working with each site’s particularities to create greener, safer, walkable communities. Biodiversity would be improved city-wide. Now consider the Garden Bridge; a money-sucking private development and a rigged procurement to enable an actress’s personal vanity legacy. Fabricated in Italy then built by a French contractor, it saves only 30 seconds on a walk from Waterloo Station to Fleet Street and the carbon expended on thousands of tonnes of concrete will never be offset, so it’s a huge net loss environmentally. It doesn’t begin to engage with the wealth and subtlety of landscaping, design and horticultural ideas which could be employed to improve the city immensely.

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Philippa O’Brien Owner, Philippa O’Brien Garden Design The Garden Bridge is one of those projects, like the London Eye or the Angel of the North, which is simply larger than life. The idea for a magical garden hovering above the Thames where Londoners and tourists can wander at will sounds blissful. I think that the bridge will be a great example of the best of British design and will undoubtedly draw tourists and show off British gardens to the wider world. It is a landmark project and one that will be good for our industry.

However, as with any public project, maintenance and management will be key. Could this be the lever which encourages the government to invest more in horticultural training?

Mark Gregory Managing director, Landform Consultants The Garden Bridge has certainly caused some debate, and I can see both sides of the argument.

I think London needs to keep up there in terms of innovation, and as a world destination we are seen as a nation of garden lovers and becoming ever so slowly more green and aware. The Garden Bridge demonstrates leading design both in engineering and horticulture alike; I believe it will keep British design at the forefront and London gets another attraction. That said, £175m would have funded lots of greening of www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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London and other cities in need of makeovers. I cannot help but think it is a bit of a vanity project; why not build further down the river where another bridge would be really useful? We understand pedestrians will be limited at any one time and accessibility restricted. Concerns over the blocking of views of the city are real. The High Line project in New York took a disused elevated rail line and made a cool linear urban park which, for me, ticks all the boxes. The Garden Bridge is an expensive imitation which misses an opportunity to make a massive difference to a much bigger audience.

Wayne Grills Chief executive, BALI The Garden Bridge Trust states on its website that this visionary project “will be an opportunity for the UK to showcase its expertise in design, engineering and landscaping…”; and therein lies the nub. The designer of the bridge structure, Thomas Heatherwick, is already a household name following his design of the 2012 Olympic flame and the latest version of London’s Routemaster bus. His beautiful design for the bridge is taking centre stage. Dan Pearson’s involvement with the bridge’s landscape design team has been trumpeted and, as happens every year with Chelsea show gardens, the landscape design is the focus of media attention. Where and when will the landscaping contractors and plant and product suppliers receive the publicity due to them for actually creating the vision? The Garden www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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Bridge will be a showcase for horticulture and landscaping but if this project is to be truly good for our industry then we must be given, and use, every opportunity to proclaim our contribution, repeating the success of the Olympic Park.

John Wyer Founding director, Bowles & Wyer So what’s all the hoo-ha about; why is the Garden Bridge so contentious? Much of the controversy is not around the idea itself, but the procurement process and funding. Critics say that Heatherwick was already lined up for the project before the competition was launched to find a designer; clearly unfair, but no one could doubt the beauty of the structure and the imagination of the idea. The bridge is costing around £175m, of which £40m is from public purse and a further £20m public loan. Given that two-thirds of the money is coming from private funding, it seems churlish to complain. This will be a world-class project along the lines of the London Eye; a major draw for the city and a boost to its economy and status. Those alone are sufficient justification for the funds, roughly £5 for every Londoner. To put it in context, that’s around the cost of one to two secondary schools, or somewhere between a tenth and third of the cost of a hospital, although of course no fewer schools or hospitals are going to be built because of the bridge. It will be a landmark project and a flag waver for garden design; we should get behind it.

Ken White Managing director, Frosts Landscapes Is the Garden Bridge good for the industry?

The question itself has been interestingly worded away from the debate which rages on as to whether or not you are for or against the Garden Bridge. On this question I have to say, as a landscaper, that I am absolutely in favour of it. Frosts Landscapes was one of the final three companies selected to tender for the bridge; unfortunately we lost out to a very worthy competitor in the form of Willerby Landscapes (see our interview on page 21).

We decided to tender for the contract, not on terms of income and return, but rather because we believed in the design concept and the project as a whole. I for one cannot wait to see the finished article; Dan Pearson’s design for the garden is outstanding. The Garden Bridge will showcase British horticulture and without doubt will be good for the industry; we are, after all, the best gardeners in the world, in my humble opinion.

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SOCIETY OF GARDEN DESIGNERS ANNOUNCES WINNERS IN THE SGD AWARDS 2015

The finalists

simple, geometric layout’ and the use of ‘light, airy planting and strong architectural forms’.

The garden won the International Award and the Planting Design award for its ‘sophisticated and harmonious planting and subtle use of topography’.

Congratulations to James Basson MSGD and There was a unanimous decision to give John Moreland FSGD, who took the two most John Moreland FSGD’s garden for Newton prestigious awards of the night, receiving House the Judges’ Award as an almost the Grand Award and the Judges’ faultless example of traditional Award respectively at the values. The judges said the fourth annual ceremony. garden was ‘a very beautiful The 19 awards transformation with a presented at the fantastic sense of place, ceremony included excellent scale and recognition for proportion and a design community garden that sits effortlessly in the projects, international countryside setting’. schemes, excellence in Arabella Lennox-Boyd public and commercial MSGD took the Historic outdoor space and a special Garden Restoration award for lifetime achievement award. the garden at Eaton Hall, which the The Grand Award – Stephanie Harrod and The Grand Award, the most judges felt was arguably one of the James Basson MSGD celebrated award of the evening, most important garden restoration went to James Basson MSGD for Les projects in the UK in recent years. Developed Canebiers (pictured left) – a new French garden over 24 years, it includes 36ha of gardens and deeply rooted in Provençal culture and the a 4ha lake. The judges called the project a bastides. Majestic in scale and ambition and ‘masterclass in design and planting’ and with a great sense of place, the judges had no remarked on the ‘exhaustive historical hesitation in awarding Les Canebiers the Grand research’, saying the result was ‘traditional, Award. The panel remarked on the ‘beautifully contemporary, ecological and practical in

Four hundred guests filled the Grand Ballroom at London’s Landmark Hotel on Friday 29 January to hear designer and broadcaster Joe Swift MSGD reveal the winners of The SGD Awards 2015

James Basson MSGD – Les Canebiers

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THE WINNERS equal measures and provided a legacy for future generations’.

Emily Erlam, a newcomer to The SGD Awards, was granted two accolades. She received the Small Budget Garden award for a garden for a beach house converted from an old marine testing station that the judges described as ‘thoughtful, naturalistic and fun’. She was also named one of the two ‘Future Designers’ for a modern country garden concept that the judges called ‘skillful and confident’. She shares the title with joint winner David Loy. The SGD student awards This year the SGD introduced two new student awards covering domestic and commercial design. Both hotly contested titles were scooped by rising star Tom Massey for his conceptual designs for France Farm and the Cassell Hospital Ecotherapy Garden respectively. The judges said Tom was ‘a clear winner in both categories, who demonstrated a sensitive use of historical landscape and a confident and sophisticated approach to the handling of the space’. They described his projects as ‘good, honest design that was conceptually interesting and well laid out’ and remarked on his competent handling of complex scales and architectural styles.

Commenting on The SGD Awards, Philippa O’Brien MSGD, chair of the SGD said: “The quality of the work submitted this year has been simply stunning and covers a huge range in projects. I am so pleased that the society has this opportunity to showcase our members’ work.”

• International Award James Basson MSGD • Designing for Community Space Tracy Rich • Student Award – Domestic Tom Massey • Student Award – Commercial Tom Massey • Public or Commercial Outdoor Space John Wyer FSGD • Pocket Garden Stuart Craine MSGD • Small Residential Garden Charlotte Rowe MSGD • Medium Residential Garden Keith Pocock MSGD • Large Residential Garden John Moreland FSGD • Small Budget Garden Emily Erlam • Hardscape Juliet Sargeant MSGD • Paper Landscapes Joanna Midwinter • People’s Choice Award Joe Swift MSGD • The John Brookes Lifetime Achievement Award Robin Williams FSGD • Future Designer joint winners David Loy and Emily Erlam • Planting Design James Basson MSGD • Historic Garden Restoration Arabella Lennox-Boyd MSGD • The Judges’ Award John Moreland FSGD • The Grand Award James Basson MSGD

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NEWS SHED Isuzu Truck (UK) Ltd and TVS Supply Chain Solutions celebrate 20 years of collaboration Isuzu Truck (UK) Ltd and TVS Supply Chain Solutions are celebrating 20 years of collaboration by signing a further three-year renewal contract.

This continued relationship is particularly positive as Isuzu continues to develop an increased share of the UK truck market, with market leaders TVS playing a fundamental role in supporting these developments through its extensive range of aftersales parts services.

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Isuzu Truck (UK) Ltd managing director Peter Murphy said: “We are delighted to be continuing our long-standing relationship with TVS and look forward, once again, to receiving the excellent service levels we have come to expect from them.”

Andrew Jones, CEO at TVS added that: “TVS look forward to continuing to provide Isuzu with the same excellent levels of support.” www.isuzu.co.uk

Inleaf offers franchise opportunities Interior landscaping company Inleaf is looking to acquire four more territories by offering people the opportunity to become a franchisee.

Commercial director Daniel Atherton said: “The business is really well suited to a network of independently owned and operated offices that can deliver a fantastic service to clients and build a business for themselves.” An initial three-month training programme will be provided to the franchisees,

London Stone supports ethical project in India The managing director of London Stone Steven Walley has announced that the company is supporting an ethical project in India.

The goal of the project is to create zones free of child labour in the sandstone cobble producing areas of Rajasthan and get children back into school. London Stone will be working with non-governmental organisations on the ground in India along with Stoneasy, a Belgium Stone importer. London Stone has started a six-month campaign to

making qualifications preferable rather than necessary, with Inleaf offering ongoing support and mentoring following completion of the programme.

Those looking to get involved will need to put forward £30,225 plus working capital. Prospective franchisees can fill in a form on the Inleaf website requesting a franchisee prospectus, and following this will be invited to attend a discovery day to discuss their interest and the opportunity further. www.inleaf.co.uk

raise awareness of the good work that’s being done on the ground in India. Steven said: “I’m very excited about the project.

Spending time out in Budhpura has been both humbling and inspiring.

“The project only has one ambition: that no child labour is involved in the production of sandstone cobbles in Budhpura and its surrounding villages.

Children should be in school and that’s what everyone is working towards achieving.” The project can be followed by its blog and via Twitter: @Children4School. http://nochildleftbehind.co.uk

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Mitie staff to take Ground Control raises Ground Control raised a total of part in charity cycle over £1,000 for World £1,600 which is a new fundraising record for the company, including for Action Medical Cancer Day £153 of sponsorship for Marcus Research Watson, managing director, to Employees at Mitie Landscapes are cycling from London to Paris this summer in aid of UK-wide children’s charity Action Medical Research. A team of 17 will cycle 300 miles to the French capital from 20 - 24 July to help raise money to save and change the lives of babies and children.

Managing director Tim Howell said: “We wanted a great charity to do it for and it’s impossible not to get enthusiastic about Action Medical Research – the work that they do for children is very inspiring. We’re starting a regular motivating newsletter to record training and give advice and support to all of us who are taking part.” Action Medical Research has played a significant role in many medical breakthroughs for more than 60 years, helping to save thousands of children’s lives and change many more.

It is currently funding research into meningitis, Down’s syndrome, epilepsy and premature birth, as well as some rare conditions that severely affect children. To help Team Mitie reach their fundraising goal of £24,000, please visit: action.org.uk/sponsor/Mitie

Award-winning commercial grounds maintenance contractor Ground Control has raised over £1,000 for Cancer Research UK. The company’s staff came to work dressed as superheroes and Disney characters in aid of World Cancer Day on 4 February 2016.

Marshalls launches graduate scheme The Marshalls Graduate Scheme is due to start this summer and will recruit four graduates in sales, operations, marketing and corporate support. Graduates will take up a permanent role at the end of the scheme which will last for two and a half years.

Marshalls is working with the University of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University and is developing closer links with other local universities. Phil Daniels, Marshalls’ people development manager, said: “As Marshalls continues to grow and evolve, it is vitally important that we have the

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right people in place to whom expertise can be passed on, as well as developing the new skills and competencies that will inevitably be required in the future.”

This is an exciting initiative for Marshalls, and focus on early careers is critical to ensuring there is sustainable talent in the pipeline for the future. www.marshalls.co.uk

RHS Flower Show Cardiff to celebrate Roald Dahl

A garden celebrating 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl will be one of the floral focal points of the RHS Flower Show Cardiff in April. The show will include a garden inspired by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory created by award-winning designer Tony Smith. www.rhs.org.uk

An evening with Horatio’s Garden designers

Horatio’s Garden designers James Alexander-Sinclair and Cleve West will present their insights into designing therapeutic gardens at the Healing Gardens on 10 March 2016, from 7pm to 9pm at the Salisbury Arts Centre. Tickets include a glass of wine. All profits will support the work of the charity. www.horatiosgarden.org.uk

Green-tech’s Richard Gill elected as chairman of BALI North East and Yorkshire

Richard Gill, sales development manager from Green-tech has been announced as the new chairman of BALI North East and Yorkshire.

Richard will be responsible for organising committee meetings and representing the region at BALI events. www.green-tech.co.uk

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dress up as Captain America.

Money was also raised from Unity Bands, cakes, sweets, bingo and raffle tickets and staff also took part in a ‘how many marshmallows can you fit in your mouth’ game, won by Dan Bridgen.

A prize for the best dressed Ground Control member included a three course meal at Prezzo for two with wine, and was awarded to operational systems manager James Harris for his Princess Leia costume. www.ground-control.co.uk

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Celebrating 300 years of Capability Brown with Butler Landscapes

Butler Landscapes has been commissioned by the team at RHS Tatton to design a show garden to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Capability Brown. The

garden is to be showcased at the RHS Tatton Park Flower show from 21 - 24 July 2016, with the potential

Green light given to over 80 pocket parks More than 80 unloved and neglected urban spaces across the country will be transformed into green oases for everyone to use, thanks to a share of a £1.5m dedicated fund, communities secretary Greg Clark has announced. Increasing the availability of green space draws more people outside, giving residents, particularly in urban areas without gardens of their own, more space to relax, get together with their neighbours, grow food and provide a safe space for their children to play. Now 87

Pete Jones joins BALI South Thames Committee Following the recent BALI regional AGM at Merrist Wood College in January, Pete Jones of Kentbased BALI Registered Contractor Land Design Partnership Ltd has joined the BALI South Thames Committee.

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community groups, from Newcastle to Penryn in Cornwall, will have the money to create their own ‘dream’ pocket parks, developing small parcels of land, sometimes as small as the size of a tennis court. For details of the 87 pocket parks receiving funding from DCLG visit: www.gov.uk

services, promoting BALI and the benefits of membership, and organising regional events.

Jones commented: “I don’t think there has been a better time to get involved with BALI, with the landscape industry in such a buoyant and positive mood. The South Thames committee is a group of highly professional individuals from some of the industry’s most reputable companies and I look forward to working alongside them to engage with South Thames members and raise the profile of BALI across the region.” www.bali.org.uk

to relocate the garden or certain elements of the garden to a more permanent location.

The show garden, measuring 900m2, has a vast amount of educational elements within, outlining his achievements, life, and career path, along with the many skills he introduced on many of his commissions all incorporated within the design.

The main purpose of the design is to celebrate the life of Capability Brown and showcase some of the key features of his work. Butler Landscapes is seeking headline sponsorship of the garden, but is more than happy to work with a syndicate of sponsor companies to enable the team to create this historical and educational garden. www.butler-landscapes.co.uk

Glendale joins The 5% Club

Glendale has joined industry-led initiative The 5% Club showcasing its commitment to the next generation. The scheme is designed to get the UK’s public and private sector companies to commit to having 5% of its total workforce as apprentices, sponsored students or graduates within five years.

Andy Corcoran, managing director at Glendale, said: “We are proud to be part of The 5% Club and are looking forward to making a positive difference to our next generation by providing them with the professional qualifications and practical training needed to build a career.” Dr Sam Healy, programme director of The 5% Club, said: “We’re delighted to welcome

Glendale to this initiative. The company’s existing efforts to invest in the next generation are greatly welcomed and together we can strive towards a brighter future for young people in Britain.” www.glendale-services.co.uk

ARE YOU GOING? MARCH 4 APL Awards The Brewery, London www.aplawards.co.uk 8-10 Eco Build ExCel London www.ecobuild.co.uk 10 Managing our green spaces, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

APRIL 22 efig Awards 2016 America Square Conference Centre, London www.efig.co.uk DATE FOR THE DIARY TUES 15 NOVEMBER

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APL update Enter APL Awards 2017

The APL is looking for projects that show technical and horticultural excellence.

You need to demonstrate disciplined construction methods with a quality finish whilst giving value for money.

Show us how you’ve used your imagination to overcome

any construction or site issues and where you’ve gone the extra mile to ensure complete customer satisfaction.

Awards will go to entries that show attention to detail, technical excellence and an overall level of quality. The entry process is all online.

Visit www.aplawards.co.uk for further information.

Entry is £40 + VAT. Please ensure online entry forms are completed and entries paid in full by Friday 25 March 2016.

RHS report Rocketman Tim calls on schools to sign up for science experiment Schools across the UK received a video message in January from British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake, who

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is currently on a six month mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

He asked children to help the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and the UK Space Agency with an educational initiative called Rocket Science.

In a nationwide experiment taking place in April this year, up to 10,000 schools will grow rocket (Eruca sativa) seeds that Tim is looking after on the ISS and compare

APL WorldSkills 2016 – registration now open The APL invites you to consider member(s) of your team for the 2016 WorldSkills Competition, entry for which is now open.

Speaking of the 2015 competition, Ainsley Courten of Gardenscapes said: “Neal and I first heard about the WorldSkills competition two years ago and thought it would be a good experience for our apprentice, Will Burberry, to enter.

“The APL was very helpful and supportive throughout all stages of the competition, and kept us well informed of the event. As employers, we have found the whole experience exciting and very worthwhile, right from

the beginning when Will built a garden at the Tatton Park flower show, through the final challenge, seeing Will declared

them with seeds that have remained earthbound.

The RHS will be accepting applications for Rocket Science until March 2016, when Tim’s seeds return to Earth. https:// schoolgardening.rhs.org. uk/Competitions/RocketScience-Application-Form

vibrant celebration of spring to the Welsh capital.

A focal point will be floral content celebrating the ‘Wonderful World of Roald Dahl’, marking 100 years since the author was born in Llandaff, Cardiff. www.rhs.org.uk/cardiff

RHS Flower Show Cardiff

The RHS and Cardiff Council are busy putting final plans in place ahead of this year’s RHS Flower Show Cardiff.

From 15-17 April, Bute Park will be awash with all things floral, bringing a

the overall winner of the competition and receiving a Gold medal.

This experience is also testimony to the apprenticeship scheme and I know that it is more than worthwhile taking the time to invest in and train future landscapers.” To find out more, please contact Lara Rixon at lara.rixon@hta.org.uk or call 07748 745 014. www.landscaper.org.uk

RHS Flower Show Tatton Park RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (20-24 July) returns to Cheshire for its eighteenth year with a host of displays and new features for the perfect summer day out.

Highlights include an Evolution Gardens category, an all new Talks Theatre in the Floral Marquee, where you can garner advice from a host of gardening experts and TV personalities, and The Vineyard, an area dedicated to English wine. www.rhs.org.uk/tatton

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efig outline Fifteen years of efig It was 15 years ago that a group of interior landscapers got together to form the association because they wanted one voice to represent the industry.

It was prompted by the furore around Portcullis House at the end of 2000/2001. There was widespread concern over the money spent on the project

to house MPs’ offices at Westminster, from the fit-out costs for each office to the 12 large Ficus trees in the atrium.

The trees seemed to take centre stage in every report, particularly how much money had been squandered on them.

A few spoke up for the benefits, such as pumping oxygen into the atrium. efig was formed initially to act as a voice for the industry

SGD bulletin The John Brookes Lifetime Achievement Award Every year the Society of Garden Designers names the latest recipient of the John Brookes Lifetime Achievement Award. Named after one of the society’s life members, the award is granted by the SGD Council to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the landscape and garden design profession.

This year there was a unanimous decision by the

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council to give the award to garden designer, author and teacher Robin Williams FSGD.

and to speak up in cases Awards time like this.

Yes it’s that time of year again, It blew up again in 2012, when efig members anxiously when there was await news of how they an outcry about have fared in our industry the annual cost of awards. The judges had the trees. Our then their initial meeting on 13 chairman, Kenneth February to assess the Freeman of 39 entries. Now they are Kenneth Freeman Ambius appeared busy arranging visits to on Radio 4 and BBC 2 in an assess the schemes. The results effort to save the trees. He will be announced on 22 April finally succeeded by meeting at our annual awards dinner in the Government Estates London. Good luck everyone Management department and we are sure your hard work will sending a full report. be rewarded.

We will have news on how www.efig.co.uk we will celebrate our fifteenth birthday in the next month or so. Meanwhile if you’d like to see those trees in situ, check out this virtual online tour. www.parliament.uk/ efig’s Award judges from L-R: Rob Stirling, visiting/online-tours Greg Woodward and Nicola Bristow

A statement by the SGD council said: “As a founder member of the SGD, Robin Williams has spearheaded and actively supported ground-breaking work within the Society of Garden Designers to ensure that landscape design is taught and implemented to the highest possible standards.

“His design work, which exemplifies this attention to detail, has been most generously and humbly shared with students, mentees and members alike.

He communicates these timeless qualities of good design in his written works and in the many gardens that have stood the test of time.”

The award was presented in front of an audience of 400 guests at the SGD Awards ceremony in London’s prestigious Landmark Hotel in January.

You can watch a short film about Robin Williams and the John Brookes Lifetime Achievement Award on The SGD Awards website. www.sgdawards.com

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BALI briefing Membership Renewals Most BALI members have already taken advantage of the Earlybird rate but if you haven’t renewed your membership yet, please do so by 31 March so that if you’re a registered designer, contractor, affiliate or training provider, your details will be sure to be published in the 2016/17 BALI Who’s Who Directory. This is widely circulated to clients, specifiers, landscape architect practices and other potential sources

of new business so it’s an important publication in which to promote your business.

BALI events March and April will be busy months for events at Landscape House and across

Horatio’s Garden

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In the first of a series of roundtables, The Parks Alliance hosted a cross section of stakeholders on Friday 22 January to discuss future funding models for parks.

The group was presented with international comparisons and experience by Neil

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McCarthy of the World Urban Parks forum. He made the point that all successful funding models are linked to leadership.

Neil said that the sector had been struggling with a new funding model for the last 10 to 15 years and it was now time to do things differently.

the regions. Here’s a selection to whet your appetite: ● 10 March – BALI South West AGM followed by a talk by James Alexander-Sinclair and Cleve West, designers of Horatio’s Garden. ● 15 March – BALI East Anglia AGM and tour of the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. ● 16 March – Capel Manor College Careers Fair. BALI members are invited to exhibit at the fair, where students will be researching potential employers. ● 17 March – BALI North West AGM and Trade Skills and Business Development Day at Myerscough College, Preston.

The next BALI Affiliate Forum is on 19 April. To book, contact carly.button@bali.org.uk. www.bali.org.uk

With no silver bullet, many contributors thought that finance was not the issue in itself and that governance, leadership and collaboration were key. On the wider point, as a sector we need a step change in how we think about space, who uses it and for what purpose.

While all acknowledged the severity of the challenges we face, there was support for the sector trying new business models and being brave enough to accept that some might not work.

The Parks Alliance will seek to create space for further and greater community involvement and future roundtables are planned on other topics. www.theparksalliance.org @ParksAllianceUK

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notes In January’s edition, we updated you with our progress on the National Living Wage. BALINCF and BALI sent a joint letter lobbying government ministers and the Low Pay Commission to find a fair resolution to the negative consequences for grounds maintenance contractors.

The Low Pay Commission invited Phil Jones, chairman of BALI-NCF and Wayne Grills, BALI chairman to discuss the issue with the commission’s head of policy and administration, Tony Studd, and policy advisor John Caseley.

The outcome is that BALI-NCF has been asked to contribute to Chapter 2 of the commission’s 2016 report to government on the impact of the National Living Wage and will be included in future consultations.

In the spring of 2016, BALI-NCF is holding a seminar and workshop for local government officers and their grounds maintenance partners – Managing our Green Spaces: Are we fighting a losing battle?

The seminar will explore and determine workable outcomes to the key challenges that make it harder to deliver good quality, cost effective services. The desired outcome of the day, which is to be held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will be to identify key areas of change and agree useable solutions for all parties. www.bali.org.uk

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LATEST PRODUCTS Pro Landscaper’s ’30 under 30: The Next Generation’ initiative was launched last year to celebrate those under the age of 30 who have already made an impact in the industry and to encourage more young people to get involved in horticulture. As we prepare to accept applications for the 2016 scheme in mid-spring, we are asking our inaugural 30 under 30s a different question each month about their thoughts and experiences, to inspire potential applicants and others within the industry

PRO LANDSCAPER ASKS...

WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN 2015?

MIKE LONG

MANAGING DIRECTOR, GENESIS CONSTRUCTION AND LANDSCAPES LTD

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TAMARA BRIDGE

GARDEN DESIGNER, TAMARA BRIDGE GARDEN DESIGNS

“Our struggle has been how to market our achievements”

“My overall aim for the garden was that it should be fun”

Have you ever walked into someone’s office and seen all the plaques on the wall and thought they look great but what do they all mean?

Last year we won a bunch of awards but our struggle has been how to market our achievements and educate our clients as to what they mean.

All our leads come either through our website or word of mouth. Our website is our shop window; we want people to land on our home page and instantly see what we’ve achieved. They then have the option to explore each achievement further.

It’s an ever changing issue across many sectors – new awards are developed, fresh education is required. But, I’m not moaning, what a great problem to have!

There were many milestones for me in 2015, but my biggest challenge was my show garden at the RHS Flower Show, Tatton Park. The challenge does not lie entirely in the design and build, however. In fact, that felt like the easiest bit.

Once you are on site and all the planning has been done you can just get on, but keeping your home life and business functioning while you are leading up to and then immersed for four weeks in a show garden is tough. You simply have to make it all work.

My overall aim for the garden though was that it should be fun. For us, this was definitely the case; we had a real can-do attitude throughout and it showed in the garden afterwards.

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ASHLEY GREEN

JOSHUA NOAKES

CONTRACT MANAGER, JOHN O’CONNER GM LTD

LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE, IPM FACILITIES

“My biggest challenge in 2015 was recruitment”

“Adjusting to full time study has been a huge hurdle”

As a contract manager my biggest challenge in 2015 was recruitment. It was a struggle to locate suitably skilled candidates. Once they were identified and on board there were often issues retaining them.

An area of particular difficulty was recruiting apprentices – we had very few applicants during 2015. It is not possible to offer huge financial incentives, so my answer has been to focus on continuing professional development, sharpening employees’ existing skills and looking at building new ones to prepare them for the next step in their careers.

I found this to be very useful for succession planning and I have a very capable team working with me in the delivery of our contracts.

It has been a year of change, upheaval and challenges.

2015 certainly had some memorable experiences.

Being acknowledged by Merrist Wood College, BALI and Pro Landscaper for my work with IPM Facilities and my academic achievements have certainly been some of the high points.

Being accepted to study Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield was the major high point and simple changes such as living away from home and getting used to undergraduate life have been the biggest challenges.

Adjusting to full time study has been a huge hurdle but I’m looking forward to 2016 and the challenges this year will bring. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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SAM COX

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SALES MANAGER, LANDSCAPEPLUS

“With my new job title came new responsibilities”

“It’s been a great year for Landscapeplus and for me”

My biggest challenge of 2015 was being transferred (TUPE) to a new company that initially didn’t have a role for me.

When we came back to work in January an immediate promotion was established.

Still working with colleagues from the previous company we got stuck in, whilst dealing with the unknown.

With my new job title came new responsibilities, new systems to learn, working out of temporary offices whilst organising new ones, getting to know new colleagues and management from all sectors of the company and welcoming their friendly voices.

My year has since gone from strength to strength and now my role has changed once again. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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It’s been a great year for Landscapeplus and for me. I was promoted to sales manager, which has provided an exciting opportunity to learn new skills and take more responsibility in a growing business.

The greatest challenge was leading the development of a new ecommerce website.

This meant liaising with web developers, designers and Landscapeplus staff in order to develop a brief, organising the production of thousands of images, videos and datasheets over a six month period. The result will make it easy for every customer to access information and purchase products, either from their offices, on site or on a smartphone. It was a hectic year but I’ve enjoyed developing my skills.

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ALASTAIR HENDERSON

OWNER, TOM MASSEY LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN

“Conceptual gardens are more about ideas” The biggest challenge of 2015 was designing and entering a conceptual show garden for RHS Hampton Court 2016.

Unlike traditional show gardens, conceptual gardens are more about ideas, less about immaculate construction and a beautiful aesthetic. The concept has to be clear and the message decipherable by the general public.

It is an interesting challenge to distil a conceptual theme into a garden setting. Getting the garden accepted was the first challenge, finding sponsorship to get it built the second. Luckily we managed to find a charity that understood the idea and loved the concept. This year brings the challenge of building the garden and bringing it to life!

SENIOR LANDSCAPE DESIGNER, ARALIA LANDSCAPE DESIGN

“Large landscapes force you to work on a wider scale” The biggest challenge I had to overcome in 2015 was the transition from working with small and medium sized gardens to larger landscapes and country estates.

Smaller gardens are often bounded by four walls; disconnected from contextual influences and are therefore much easier spaces to manipulate and control. Large landscapes force you to work on a wider scale while ensuring the designed spaces remain comfortable on a human level, a challenge often exacerbated by complex site conditions and preserving the relationship between the site and its surroundings. My introduction to this was a country house in Hertfordshire where I led the master planning of the entire site.

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WILLERBY LANDSCAPES

In an exclusive interview, Pro Landscaper spoke to the senior management team of Willerby Landscapes, about how they run their business, the high end projects they take on, and the state of the industry

How and when did the company start?

The company was formed in 1983 to fulfil the contractual obligations of Comtec (UK) Ltd, which wanted to close its landscape division to allow it to concentrate on other business opportunities. This provided an order book of 18 months’ worth of confirmed contracts, which allowed us to transfer staff across to the fledgling company with confidence. This provided a solid base against which the business could begin to grow.

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How much of your work is commercial?

It varies year-on-year and does not follow a set formula. We focus on the quality of the scheme rather than its position in the market and if we feel that we fit the requirements then we hunt it down. As a rule of thumb we generally have approximately 20% of our turnover generated from maintenance. The remaining 80% is made up of high end domestic projects or large scale commercial projects. We are very fortunate that we have a number of long term relationships with key clients that also offers repeat business year on year.

What is the structure of the business?

Our head office is staffed by 16 extremely dedicated and capable individuals who support the 90 external staff employed by the business.

The majority of these people have been with the company for many years and are absolutely integral to its success. When required we employ specialist subcontractors, but we prefer to train inhouse. Here we can mould, develop and adapt their skills, which ensures that our

WE HAVE A REPUTATION FOR DELIVERING VERY LARGE AND COMPLEX SCHEMES, ON TIME AND ON BUDGET

staff are constantly challenged and moving forward. Stimulation is key to staff retention. We have a satellite office in Scotland and another base in Stratford, London, which services our works in these areas.

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How would you describe the ideal contract?

Where we are generally engaged is where the client needs a safe pair of hands. If the client wants a project finished on time as a package, then they generally come and talk with us. From our perspective we enjoy being challenged and are not afraid of risk. We have a reputation for delivering very large and complex schemes, on time and on budget, so the ideal scheme would encompass all of these factors.

How do you make sure you are known for quality landscaping projects?

The business has a very simple philosophy that is based entirely around customer service and delivery. We view ourselves as a very straightforward team of people who care about what we do. We set out on every project to deliver the best scheme possible within the available budget. By consistently delivering this over the years we have become known

for our standards. It is then just a question of maintaining them, which we seem to do year on year.

Sometimes this becomes a bit of a challenge as we have a reputation for delivering against all the odds. If a job is behind or a programme is under pressure, it is often the case that the clients turn to us to think outside the box or work unusual hours to catch up. When the call comes we have to respond as that is what we are known for. Failure is not a word that features in our vocabulary.

Where does Willerby’s sit in terms of pricing?

We have never claimed to be the cheapest in the market, but clients recognise that paying a small premium guarantees them the quality of scheme they require. It is worth noting, however, that the majority of our schemes are won at tender, so our pricing is constantly market tested and seems to generally be competitive.

Have you had any pressure placed on you about the price you charge?

There is constant pressure on price. The recession we’ve just come through has probably been the worst we’ve experienced.

It was so bad that client confidence was lost in the market generally and has taken a lot of rebuilding.

IT IS OFTEN THE CASE THAT THE CLIENTS TURN TO US TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX We took the decision to reduce volume in order to protect our margins. This philosophy has stood us in good stead coming out of recession.

Our margins didn’t dip during the recession but they did coming out of it as prices rose quickly against contracts that had been priced in the depth of the recession. We have weathered the storm and, with exceptionally low gearing, we are well set to move forward.

Do you have much difficulty in recruiting staff?

Luckily, we don’t need to recruit very often. It’s about getting the right people and then looking after them. For example, we had a guy who was working for a piling company for a number of years and we suggested he come and work for us as a lorry driver. He was concerned as he didn’t have an HGV licence and the company didn’t own a lorry. So we promised to put him on an intensive HGV course and purchased a lorry. He was then part of our team for 27 years. This type of situation has arisen time and time again. It’s about getting the right people and finding opportunities to stimulate them. We encourage our staff to come forward with ideas and constantly stretch them so they remain interested. However we are very fortunate to have such a tight knit and loyal bunch of people working with us. It also helps if they are nocturnal and have a sense of humour!

In terms of domestic projects, is there a preferable size of contract for Willerby’s?

We’re happy to undertake a range of contracts, but due to the size of our overheads, it is

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sometimes not economical to undertake projects of a smaller scale. Unless you really want to pay top dollar for your patio, then we’re the wrong company for you.

What are your views on the state of the landscaping sector?

We don’t think it has changed for the past 30-odd years. The same old mistakes are still being made and the same issues are being discussed. The market still suffers from contractors cutting each other’s throats and then delivering poor quality. A lot of people talk about doing a good job and then deliver something rather different.

Expenditure and demands in health and safety have risen enormously. Major projects seem to be more contractual and administered in a manner that requires more input from the subcontractor. There have also been major changes in technology but the fundamentals and people’s approaches haven’t changed, which is somewhat concerning.

Do you think the industry associations have a bigger role to play?

Of course, in reality the trade associations are made up of the companies who join them as members. If members haven’t changed their fundamental philosophies over the past 30 years, then it is unlikely that the associations they are part of will.

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them. Where the associations falter is actually in the implementation and audit process. If they applied the rules of ice hockey, it would be far more effective. If a player is guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct, they are suspended for the remainder of the game and depending on the severity of the penalty, will receive additional suspension. If a member of an association is found to be breaking the rules, they should be suspended for six months while they get their house in order and then be invited to return to the fold.

If that were done to one or two companies in any of the associations, it would definitely make members think. Standards would start to rise, which would benefit everybody in the long run.

WHERE THE ASSOCIATIONS FALTER IS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION AND AUDIT PROCESS What are your plans for the future?

The plan is very much for more of the same, namely striving to achieve consistency of standards. We’ve got a fantastic portfolio, an excellent client base and a valued and loyal supply chain coupled with a committed delivery team. All the ingredients are there for a very attractive future.

We have a portfolio of completed projects containing many famous and iconic landscapes.

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Parks and gardens bring massive benefits in terms of social, physical and mental health and wellbeing says Phil Jones, but we are going to have a fight on our hands if we wish to save them as places of free, universal access We are going to lose many of our parks in the next 20 years. Whilst no one can say that for certain, I believe it will be the case. Of course this is not my desire; I care passionately about public parks and the massive benefits they give to the communities who use them.

There is no doubt that being in the open air, in some cases in historic settings, amongst the product of this country’s horticulturists enhances one’s health and wellbeing and can help to prolong both physical and mental health.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE SEE TOO LITTLE BEING DONE AND WHAT IS BEING ACHIEVED IS NOT REALISED QUICKLY ENOUGH My opening statement may seem a little negative but I put it this way because I’ve just been reading yet another frustrating response by The Parks Alliance, who claim to be “The Voice of UK Parks”, to a recently released report.

I do not doubt that the alliance has the right motives but more urgent action is needed. I applaud the alliance’s commitment to the cause and its desire to bring together those who align with their aims. There is one fundamental problem with this and any other initiative in relation to parks’ survival.

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quickly enough. This is because most of the work is done on a voluntary basis by people who hold full time jobs. It is not their fault that tangible outcomes are subject to a slow burn.

Any organisation trying to influence anything or anyone has to start by raising its profile. It must gain acceptance in the circles it wishes to move in before hoping to have its voice heard.

Some get this right, others shout their message from a less than developed platform and it ultimately falls on deaf ears. This is tragic in the cases where the message is a strong and credible one.

There is much made of the horticulture and landscape industries being more coordinated of late, having been criticised for years for being too fragmented. It should, therefore, be an ideal time to bring together everyone who can add the weight of their voices to any industry issues of the day.

There has never been a better time in the last 20 years not just to comment on government reports, but to influence how they are written and to have a say in their content.

It is my belief that no matter what is happening at the moment, no matter how many good and committed people put their heart and soul into commenting on ‘this paper’ or ‘that report’, sooner or later we will arrive at the park gate to read an inscription that says: “Closed due to lack of funding.”

The only alternative I can foresee is for that message to inform the visitor how much the entry fee is.

If this is the case we would be better interpreting the sign as: “Closed due to lack of passion and professionalism a number of years ago.” That doesn’t work for me, so we need to get behind all those fighting this cause and push hard.

ABOUT PHIL JONES Phil Jones is managing director of ISS Facility Services Landscaping and is based at the company’s head office in Woking, Surrey. He gained an HND in landscape construction and moved into grounds maintenance early on in his career, further gaining an MBA. He has been with the company since 1987 and as well as running the landscaping business he sits on the UK operational management board of ISS Facility Services and is chairman of BALI-NCF. Follow Phil Jones: @philjonesISS Follow ISS Landscaping: @ISSLandscaping

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ALL SYSTEMS GO DAVID DODD

BALI directors David Dodd and Nigel Bowcock are heading a new venture, GO Landscape, which aims to promote landscaping as a career option for those choosing their non compulsory school subjects and to help colleges develop industry-driven training It was great to hear that the ‘GO Landscape’ initiative was approved by BALI’s board of directors in January. So what is Go Landscape and is it really going to reduce the skills shortage as is so desperately required?

GO Landscape is an initiative put together by myself and Nigel Bowcock of Acre Landscapes, with two main objectives. The first is to promote landscaping as a serious career option to students choosing their non-compulsory GCSE or Standard Grade subjects, as well as older students where opportunities arise through an outreach programme. The second objective is to engage with horticultural colleges to discuss and develop industry-driven landscape training.

I’ve done several careers evenings and each one had a mixed response. I feel that landscaping is still not seen as a professional career and if we’re going to appeal to schoolchildren, landscaping needs to look dynamic, exciting and dare I say it, sexy! We need to come across as professional because so often at careers events there’ll be the armed forces, police and the banks, all of whom will

have such amazing displays that I’m tempted to sign up myself. Okay, maybe not the banks – I’ve got some principles.

Part of the GO Landscape budget will be spent on branded displays and a booklet for parents and pupils that explains potential career paths. It will be image led, easy to read and will promote the benefits of working in each sector. It will also direct them to the

website www.golandscape.co.uk (currently under development), where landscaping will be explained in detail. It will be linked to the BALI and BALI Chalk Fund websites as well as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. There will also be a page for BALI employers to advertise trainee vacancies offering clear career paths.

The key messages for school leavers are: ● Landscaping is a serious career path with a host of opportunities ● Landscaping is a fun, rewarding and prestigious industry ● The industry needs people of all abilities, from practical/vocational to degree level

To get the ball rolling with GO Landscape’s second objective, we’ve sent a SurveyMonkey questionnaire to all BALI employers about their staffing shortfalls and training requirements. Once we have all the feedback, we can organise a BALI conference for colleges to discuss the issues.

I’ve felt for some time now that colleges providing landscaping courses are becoming more and more detached from the industry and its needs. I don’t think it’s always the colleges’ fault as so many companies are now creating their own in-house training. I worry that many students are leaving college, gaining employment and soon realise just how far short they are falling of the standards the industry expects, leading to a sense of despondency and then leaving landscaping before they’ve really got started.

It can only have a positive impact on the industry if employers and colleges engage with GO Landscape. Hopefully, colleges will be able to provide courses that properly prepare students for the world of work. This will make graduates feel valued and keen to develop their careers as well as helping reduce the skills shortage.

I know GO Landscape will have its critics and there’ll be a lot of teething problems. I also know that, working with someone as passionate as Nigel Bowcock and with the rest of the BALI board, it can, and will work. I applaud initiatives from other industry bodies such as the APL and RHS, so let’s pull together and ensure the future of landscaping is in good hands.

ABOUT DAVID DODD David Dodd has been in the landscape industry since the age of 17. Having studied and then taught at Merrist Wood College, he set up The Outdoor Room in 1995. In 2013, he went into business with Landscape Architect, Joe Perkins to form Longview Design Ltd. David has also lectured in design and construction for over 20 years.

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WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS ANGUS LINDSAY

While the major causes of flooding exist on a global and regional scale, water management is also a micro-landscape issue and should be a consideration where planning, hard landscaping and grounds maintenance are concerned, says Angus Lindsay Despite a relatively mundane season weatherwise, the end of 2015 saw some of the heaviest rainfall the UK has ever experienced. This resulted in unprecedented flooding destroying infrastructure, businesses and property – a life-changing situation for some of those

Not as common a sight as it used to be

affected. True to form, we started looking for someone or something to blame – global warming, the Environment Agency, local authorities, budget cuts, the list goes on. In some cases rightly so, but we also need to look at some of the construction practices of the last couple of decades.

It’s easy to blame a lack of river dredging, ditch clearing and irregular cleaning of gulleys.

Consider the loss of land to building, however.

Huge tracts of land that used to naturally absorb water have been replaced by acres of tarmac and huge retail parks whose roofs collect and channel thousands of gallons into inadequately maintained drainage systems.

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planning look at the definition of a floodplain, I wonder?

To a lesser extent, reduced maintenance in the form of drainage and regular aeration of sports fields and parkland means water doesn’t drain the way it used to and field capacity is reached a lot quicker. Running vehicles over wetland can exacerbate this, causing unnecessary compaction. The unusually mild conditions at the end of 2015 meant grass kept growing, leading in some cases to unreasonable demands to keep grass heights within specification, regardless of the damage to the soil structure below.

There is no simple solution. Drainage and aeration would definitely help, as would a more realistic approach to operating in wet

HUGE TRACTS OF LAND THAT USED TO NATURALLY ABSORB WATER HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY ACRES OF TARMAC AND HUGE RETAIL PARKS

Will flooding of this magnitude become an annual event?

More thought needs to be given to construction projects. Large or small, we should consider how much water there will be and where it will go. Flood prevention needs to be a key consideration. Block paving is all very nice and easy to maintain but it doesn’t absorb water so why not consider porous paving, grasscrete and the like. It could be that in six months’ time we will be suffering a drought and subject to hosepipe bans, such is the fickle nature of the British weather, so we should also consider storing some of this water.

I’m no expert in landscape construction, soil mechanics or flood prevention but common sense tells me that water will always follow the path of least resistance and if you limit its options, this may coincide with our residential and leisure spaces, wreaking havoc as it goes. It’s becoming obvious that global warming is no longer a myth and extremes of weather are becoming the norm.

We need to plan accordingly and not wait until the water is flowing under our front doors to wonder if the tarmac drive was such a good idea.

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We should consider the long-term damage of driving over wet ground

conditions. A 2m hover mower would be good though we might need the magician Dynamo to operate it as he’s the only person I’m aware of who can walk on water.

Angus spent several years working on arable farms in Scotland before joining VSO in Egypt, implementing a mechanisation programme, managing field operations for a commercial cotton plantation in Nigeria and working as a contract instructor for Massey Ferguson in Yemen. He gained an MSc in agricultural engineering and mechanisation management at Silsoe, joining Glendale as machinery manager in 1994 and then in 2009, The Landscape Group as group head of assets and fleet.

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Andrew Wilson looks at the way CAD dominates design when there are simple alternatives we can always rely on. Who needs designer stress?

NASA supposedly spent millions of dollars inventing the Space Pen so they could write in space, whereas the Russians took a pencil – not strictly true, but you get the gist of the idea.

At some point every year, my students panic.

They panic about all sorts of things, at which point I feel like the calm at the eye of the storm.

After 32 years in education, I can stay calm in that way – it comes with the territory.

Their main panic is CAD – first of all Sketchup, closely followed by Vectorworks and Photoshop. While they panic, I calmly say to myself: “I’m a designer, here to teach you design – show me your design.” Sometimes I say it out loud and I get a crazed look from my students as if to say: “Are you mad?” as they struggle to call up their latest on-screen visual.

No, I’m not mad. I completely understand the need for students to understand CAD and how to use it but fundamentally I’m teaching people how to design, how to create beautiful spaces, elegant layouts, glorious planting and imaginative construction. That capability is latent within them, the computer is merely the means of delivery.

Give a designer pencil and paper and it’s possible to draw anything, create sumptuous curves, elevations, perspectives, texture, scale, proportion. Within minutes a whole place, garden or landscape can be created, explained and explored. With a simple overlay that basic design can be improved upon in minutes, compared to its predecessor and perhaps developed and refined further.

Give the designer CAD and a mechanical process gets underway, snapping to pre-set curves, creating a Heath Robinson monstrosity that takes hours to build. Accurate yes – inventive, not always! I exaggerate of course but hopefully you get the point. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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I’M TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO DESIGN, HOW TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL SPACES, ELEGANT LAYOUTS, GLORIOUS PLANTING AND IMAGINATIVE CONSTRUCTION. THAT CAPABILITY IS LATENT WITHIN THEM, THE COMPUTER IS MERELY THE MEANS OF DELIVERY In the studio Gavin and I switch between CAD and hand drawing when developing a project. We start by hand and create the landscape and layout we want. We scan into CAD and refine, using the drawn work as a base. We then move into Sketchup to create the model and generate views but we often hand render those views. In this way, we can create a signature approach but also refine and improve the images and design as we go.

As a teacher of garden design, I’m there to inspire, excite and enable my students, all of which can be done with pencil and paper, a few colours and a sense of adventure. I’ll mark anything design-like that they submit to me. I don’t care if it is delivered in CAD or by hand, on greaseproof paper or photorealist CGI – actually, I do care really as I want my students to be employable.

Much more importantly, I want them to be the designers of the future. That requires brains and skill, thoughtfulness and discernment, sensitivity and insight. Only ultimately does it need to be delivered digitally.

Yes I know we need CAD, and we certainly teach it at LCGD, but it can sometimes get in the way!

ABOUT ANDREW WILSON Andrew Wilson is a landscape and garden designer and a director of Wilson McWilliam Studio. He is also a director of the London College of Garden Design, an author, writer and lecturer.

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HIGH FLYERS ADAM WHITE

I was delighted to be invited back to host the evening with Landscape Institute president Noel Farrer, who presented the certificates to each candidate. This is just the second year a ceremony has taken place for newly chartered landscape architects and it looks as if it will now become a regular fixture in the Landscape Institute’s calendar.

After completing their studies at an accredited university, graduate landscape architects can apply to join the Landscape Institute’s Pathway to Chartership, often referred to as the P2C, which leads to them becoming a Chartered Landscape Architect. This process is founded on active learning, mentoring and an oral exam. It is based upon the learner’s knowledge and practical experience and completed at the candidate’s own pace. Successful candidates can then add the letters CMLI after their name.

Recent graduate Ben Brace said: “I am delighted to have achieved CMLI status. The Pathway to Chartership process has given me huge confidence, especially when speaking to other consultants and clients. Following my exam success a great deal of people, including my colleagues, have noticed how I have grown as a professional. I feel I have more valid and

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considered input during project discussions. I am now keen to continue to promote our profession and support the Landscape Institute.”

REACHING CHARTERED STATUS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES IN ANY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT’S CAREER, BUT IT IS ONLY THE START The evening began with a presentation by Noel Farrer, who talked about the importance of landscape in society and how it effects everyone.

He highlighted the important role the Landscape Institute has on the political stage and urged the newly qualified chartered landscape architects to get involved with supporting the profession at a local, regional and national level.

Reaching chartered status is one of the most significant milestones in any landscape architect’s career, but it is only the start. The Pathway to Chartership is not about passing an exam, it’s about becoming a competent and professional landscape architect and being able take on your own projects with confidence.

I was given the opportunity to share my experience of becoming a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, going on to direct my own practice and being made a fellow of the

institute. Alice Knight CMLI tweeted: “Totally inspired by an animated Adam White, I’m backing his appeal for more public nature play spaces.”

I took the opportunity to remind the new CMLI members that they are an integral part of the Landscape Institute – criticise it and you criticise yourself; if you feel there is a need for change or improvement then you need to be present to make it happen.

As with many of the landscape industry’s governing bodies, the Landscape Institute relies heavily on volunteers and interaction with its members. The new CMLIs will have some great opportunities to support the Landscape Institute and become ambassadors

Adam White, Sabina Mohideen, Andrew Cocks

for the profession. An ideal starting point is to promote the www.bealandscapearchitect.com campaign and attend the annual conference in Sheffield this March, which will be looking at ‘beauty, function and sustainability in the age of austerity.’ To see who graduated visit: www.davieswhite.co.uk/site/blog.asp ABOUT ADAM WHITE FLI Adam White FLI is a director at Davies White Ltd, a multi award-winning Chartered Landscape Architects’ practice in Kingston upon Thames. He is the youngest landscape architect to be made a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and an RHS Gold Medal and BBC People’s Choice Award winner. His practice has recently completed the design and delivery of the new Commonwealth Games Legacy Park in Glasgow.

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In January a new wave of graduate landscape architects were presented with their Chartered Landscape Architect certificates at a ceremony at University College London. Ceremony host Adam White shares his thoughts

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FOR GOOD MEASURE LESLEY MALONE

How can we measure the benefits of a landscape project after its completion?

Lesley Malone discusses a website with a host of tools and data to help do just that Last month, I talked about ways of approaching consultation and community engagement on landscape schemes in order to find out what people want and to involve them meaningfully in the design process. But what about when the scheme is completed and in use? How do we measure what a landscape is achieving and assess the extent to which it is fulfilling its intended objectives? Do we continue to engage with users or hand over and move on?

Landscape design blends art and science.

Creating a landscape that provides experiential pleasure is an art, underpinned by the science of designing a place that performs vital functions and provides numerous benefits to humans, wildlife and ecosystems. While beauty and aesthetic quality are not easily quantifiable, a completed landscape project can be measured and analysed for sustainability, social, ecological

HOW DO WE MEASURE WHAT A LANDSCAPE IS ACHIEVING AND ASSESS THE EXTENT TO WHICH IT IS FULFILLING ITS INTENDED OBJECTIVES? and economic indicators to assess its effectiveness. This kind of data is vital to promoting landscape, showing that good design, construction and maintenance pays dividends in many ways.

The Landscape Architecture Foundation in the US has launched a website designed to do just that (http://landscapeperformance.org).

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studies, a ‘fast facts’ library and a collection of performance measuring toolkits and calculators, all fully tagged, categorised and searchable, offers a knowledge base for anyone needing to backup arguments with facts and figures.

The fast facts section consists of a great collection of published research evidence showing the proven positive impacts of a wealth of landscape interventions, from natural play areas to street trees, sustainable drainage systems and green roofs. There is useful data on flood reduction techniques, natural noise barriers, traffic management, planting choices and more. References to articles and real world case studies are included wherever possible. The case studies are currently all projects in the US, but the evidence for the demonstrable social and environmental benefits of landscape is universal.

According to the Landscape Performance Series website: “By embracing performance measures and evaluating the performance of built projects, we can elevate the quality of designed and planned landscapes.

“As we continue to study the connections between landscape and the health of ecosystems, people and economies, we increase our understanding and our collective

capacity to achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability. As the body of knowledge related to landscape performance grows, it will inform public policy, reduce investor risk and improve return on investment.”

The Landscape Architecture Foundation’s aim is clearly not only to raise design standards and advance the functional effectiveness of landscapes, but also to improve the status of the landscape profession in the eyes of clients and decision makers.

Landscape practitioners know that landscape design is about more than making a place look nice. Good landscape can have significant positive effects on mental wellbeing, physical health, children’s development and a sense of community, not to mention improving biodiversity and air quality, reducing flood risk and the list goes on. Such claims carry little weight without credible evidence to back them up, however. This new website will help practitioners provide exactly that.

ABOUT LESLEY MALONE Lesley Malone is a freelance writer, editor and photographer, with a focus on public space and regeneration. She blogs at tangentialism.org and tweets at @tangentials

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Design and build The result is a mass of foliage with soft colours in the flowerbeds, surrounding a warm and welcoming Yorkstone terrace and a sizeable lawn where children and dogs can play. It’s a modern and functional outdoor space with clean lines that feels warm and inviting.

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that ensures the edge of the terrace flows naturally into the lawned area without any element looking fussy or overdeveloped. The traditional planting and contemporary structure sit together in complete harmony.

The complexity lies in the cleanness of the overall design – the client wanted simple and elegant, yet functional.

Entry to the garden is via stairs leading from the house to a patio paved in attractive sawn Yorkstone. The patio is flanked on the left by a bed of herbaceous perennials, bulbs and shrubs with box hedging and topiary added for shape. On the right there is another flowerbed with the same planting. This adds softness to the terrace and creates balance.

The steps leading to the lawn from the side of the terrace to the middle were moved. They are now wide and impressive with three stunning Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’ on each side, adding a sense of drama as well as separating the two areas. This reflects the grandeur of the house and links the outside space with the interior.

The sawn Yorkstone continues from the patio to the lawn, with a paved sitting area on the left side, perfect for catching the afternoon sun. The large square lawn is surrounded by paving, creating a sense of order. At the back of the garden there is a raised bed, clad in the same Yorkstone as the patio, with three mature Magnolia grandiflora trees and soft coloured herbaceous perennials and shrubs.

ABOUT ROBERT STRAVER Robert Straver has over 20 years’ experience in horticulture, garden design and landscaping. He heads up the company and ensures that his high standards filter through right down to the smallest blade of grass. Robert is a third generation plantsman. The company’s gardens are built to last and will only become more beautiful over time. Its focus is on quality, never cutting corners and leaving you with the garden of your dreams that will delight for years to come.

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Challenges The biggest issue with this project was dreadful access. Parking was three-quarters of a mile away so getting materials in and out was a complicated procedure.

There was a huge amount of rubble and debris generated when the garden was excavated and existing structures and plants removed. Deliveries had to be carefully managed to ensure materials could be brought to the site.

The closest place to position a skip was on a one-way street around the corner from the property. Even with the skip in place, there were 150 uphill paces to get to it. With heavy wheelbarrows and a mountain of rubble, this

required a substantial amount of manpower.

The large slabs of sawn Yorkstone for the terrace and paving had to be carried the same distance and manoeuvred through a narrow gate. All the planting and aggregates also had to be delivered to the site.

Throughout the process there was a constant check on client satisfaction to ensure that the project stayed on brief. The client was delighted with their new streamlined garden and what seemed like a much bigger space. Before the reconstruction they did not spend much time outside as it was not a particularly inviting place; they now use their garden throughout the year and it provides enjoyment for the entire family. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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1 Steps leading to the terrace 2 Traditional ‘English’ planting complementing a contemporary stone terrace 3 Replanted Pyrus Chanticleer to each side of the terrace 4 Stripping away the old to create a blank canvas 5 Heavy work moving the old stone!

6 Formation of the new scheme well underway 7 More demolitions 8 Beautiful Gaze Burvill furniture to enjoy the new terrace

REFERENCES Garden design

Stone

Turf

Butter Wakefield

Yorkstone Paving Supplies

Rolawn Limited

Email butterwakefield@gmail.com

9 Padden Brook Mews, Romiley, Cheshire SK6 3AL Tel 0161 612 6311 www.yorkstonepavingsupplies.co.uk

Elvington, York YO41 4XR Tel 0845 604 6060 Email info@rolawn.co.uk Web www.rolawn.co.uk

Landscaper Robert Straver

Unit C1f, Fairoaks, Chobham, Woking, Surrey GU24 8HU Tel 01276 472 737 Email robert@robertstraver.com Plants

Furniture Gaze Burvill

Tel 01420 588 444 Email info@gazeburvill.com Web www.gazeburvill.com

Hortus Loci Ltd

Hound Green, Hook, Hampshire RG27 8LQ Tel 0118 9326 495 Web www.hortusloci.co.uk

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Aggregate supplies Jewson Ltd

Saint Gobain House, Binley Business Park, Coventry CV3 2TT Web www.jewson.co.uk

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riginally designed by the late Ryl Nowell in the Eighties, Costells Garden had become tired and over mature. Nigel Philips was asked to create an English country garden on a traditional theme of herbaceous borders, bog garden, woodland, cutting garden, vegetable garden, meadows and leisure area. The client was keen to have a garden that she could work in, alongside a resident gardener to carry out maintenance.

There were several existing small specimen trees, for example Liquidambar styraciflua and a ABOUT NIGEL L PHILIPS Nigel Philips trained at Merrist Wood College and has been a practising garden designer since 1981. He has run his own design and build company and now lectures in related subjects and runs various courses on garden design at Plumpton College in Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers and a BALI designer member. He resides in Sussex and works mainly in the South of England.

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NIGEL L PHILIPS Nigel L Philips gave this private garden at Costells in Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, a modern-day country garden update beautiful Acer Japonica ‘Purpureum’, which were to be incorporated into the new scheme. There was also an existing mature oak woodland to play with and a wildflower meadow developed over a decade, having started life as a paddock.

To add to this, the client was keen on sculptures and there were a number of pieces dotted around the garden. As the design developed, these were incorporated into various parts of the garden, most notably a David Harber globe armillary that was designed and built as a one-off for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The most recent acquisition, a Walter Bailey wood carving, was sited amongst the foliage planting of the bog garden.

Design and build The design needed to take into account the position of the garden. Surrounded on three

sides by oak woodland with a centre of field and grass, it was necessary to integrate this open and closed space into the design, making sure the lines between were blurred.

The woodland was extended with some new planting feeding into the middle of the garden. The meadow was pushed into the lower part of the space to blend into the vegetable and fruit garden. In parts there were changes in level, which allowed part of the sloping site to have a flat lawn.

The formal part of the garden was saved for the front of the house. Pleached trees and box hedging delineated the parking on the drive with a Quercus palustris as a focal point. A box and lonicera knot garden defined the area in front of the main entrance giving a sense of unity with the era depicted by the exposed timber beams.

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9 David Harber globe armillary hovers above the meadow as seen from the terrace

PROJECT DETAILS Size of project 16,000m2 Build time Three phases over eight years, completed 2013 Project value Up to £75k

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DESIGN PLAN by the same firm that created the first garden, a small family firm who worked their way diligently from one phase of the work to the next over the eight years of the build. This provided a continuity throughout the construction, where possible difficulties with the site were easily overcome.

Materials The hard landscape for the work was limited to sandstone for the paving and walling sourced locally from Lambs’ Quarry near West Hoathly, West Sussex. There were also some exposed aggregate concrete stepping stones from the terrace to the cutting garden.

Challenges Drainage was necessary in parts of the garden where the planting of some yew trees was proposed and this has been largely successful. The slope from the cutting garden to the fruit garden was divided by the dry stone wall and each side levelled to relate to the house and drive levels, providing easy access to both.

1 Blurred line between woodland and meadow 2 Late summer border of grasses – Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ and late flowering perennials – Eupatorium and Asters 3 The doves by Guy Portelli 4 ‘The Dancers’ created by a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors

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REFERENCES Design

Planting and hedging

Nigel L Philips

Provender Nurseries

7 Vegetable garden with fruit cage made by Studio Forge

Garden Studio, 38 Prince Edward’s Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1BE Tel 01273 477 746 Email nigel@nigelphilips.co.uk Web www.nigelphilips.co.uk

The Landscape Centre, Leydenhatch Lane, Swanley, Kent BR8 7PS Tel 01322 662 315 Email enquiries@provendernurseries.co.uk Web www.provendernurseries.co.uk

8&9 Vegetable garden in progress

Contractor

Sculpture

Simon Hadley

Walter Bailey

3 Watch Oak Cottage, Watch Oak Hill, Blackham, East Sussex TN3 9TN Tel 01892 740 247

Email walterbailey2@icloud.com Web www.walterbailey.co.uk

5 Outline of the knot garden 6 Completed knot garden using box and Lonicera nitida

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Ironwork for the gates and fruit cage Richard Heanley of Studio Forge

Stone for paving and walls WT Lamb & Sons Ltd

Nyewood Court, Brookers Road, Billingshurst, West Sussex RH14 9RZ Tel 01342 811 311 Email sales@lambsbricks.com Web www.lambsbricks.com

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Studio Forge Offham, Near Lewes, East Sussex BN7 3QD Tel 01273 474 173 Email rheanley@studioforge.co.uk Web www.studioforge.co.uk

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CHARACTER BUILDING

PROJECT DETAILS Project value RMB 57.5m (£615k) Build time 2009-2013 Size of project 11ha

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Atelier DYJG took on a government commission to develop the southern side of Yantai city in China with a cultural plaza

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he north of Yantai city in Shandong Province faces the sea and a range of hills 70m high, while there were major roads to the east and west. It was inevitable therefore that the city would sprawl southwards, and in 2007 the government made the decision to invest in the area and build a museum and plaza at a site along its southern edge. The museum was to be located at the foot of Qinglongshan Hill, covering an area of about 2ha, and adjacent to it would be Qinglongshan Cultural Plaza, 11ha in size.

Atelier DYJG was commissioned to build the plaza in 2009. At that time the site had been flattened and a 33m-high sculpture, designed by a local artist and based on the ancient Chinese written character meaning ‘dragon’, had been erected in the centre of the site as a visual focus. The design of the museum was finished and was ready for construction.

The brief The client gave the following requirements: firstly, the site should be a venue for festival events and performances, and serve as a daily recreational and attractive place for the public.

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well as promoting the construction of new urban areas located in the southern part of the city.

Lastly, the client specified that the site should provide some service facilities.

Design and build A series of green islands were used to separate the enormous site into several reduced-scale spaces with different functions, landscapes and elevation changes. These green islands also connected Qinglongshan Hill and its plants, and created a visual combination between the hill and the plaza.

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Parking was consigned to the edges of the site to keep the central area as open as possible, while an event space was included in front of the museum. Four different types of local stone were used for the paving to produce vivid effects in the large-scale hardscape.

Sunken buildings Following investigation, it was discovered that the seemingly flat site was located on a gentle slope.

This meant the museum would be slightly higher than the surrounding roads, while the edge of the site was a full 1.5m lower.

To combat this, two sunken buildings were created along the edge to solve the height difference. With two main roads in such close proximity, the site was also very noisy. The boundaries of the underground buildings were used to block the traffic noise, successfully creating a quieter environment for the plaza.

The underground buildings were hidden under an undulating grass slope. Another sunken area was designed close to the commercial buildings, creating an independent business area and subdividing the space, reducing the sense of scale. Pavement, benches and plants further divided the sunken space for future outdoor commercial use.

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isolated – into the plaza. To create a symmetrical space, a second fountain was designed on the far side of the museum entrance. The fountains were designed so that the upper and lower pools formed waterfalls.

A series of green islands with wooden platforms and benches created spaces of ‘human scale’ on the upper plaza. Irregularly arranged tree beds and long stone benches were used to provide a relaxing environment.

Alongside these features several small open-air amphitheatres were built to the southwest of the museum. Sculptural steel colour-changing lights run around the amphitheatres and unite them.

Lastly, the designer used the ancient Chinese dragon character throughout most of the landscape elements, including buildings, green islands, benches and lighting. The character was even used to form patterns on the plaza pavement.

Qinglongshan Cultural Plaza is a lesson in how to successfully integrate several very different

elements – the museum buildings, existing sculpture, city roads, river and other surrounding environments – to become a vital and cultural urban public space.

1 The site before works begin 2 The sunken buildings, a work in progress 3 Before the fountain surrounds the sculpture 4 The sculpture ‘bursting’ from the water

ABOUT ATELIER DYJG Atelier DYJG was founded by Wang Xiangrong and Lin Qing in 2000. The office is engaged in landscape architecture practice and theoretical research, and has delivered over 80 successful landscape projects. The company has an international reputation, and has won an ASLA award twice and BALI National Landscape Award four times.

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THE LANDSCAPE GROUP

WINNER Grounds Maintenance –

Free Public Access

PROJECT DETAILS Size of project Approx 60,000m2 Build time Eight-year contract period starting in 2013

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Maintained by The Landscape Group, Jephson Gardens in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire is renowned for its striking colourful displays

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ephson Gardens, originally known as the Newbold Pleasure Gardens, was created in 1831 and has been a central attraction of the town of Royal Leamington Spa ever since. In 1998, the park and many of its attractions were badly damaged by flooding of the River Leam. The devastation that followed required a £3m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore original features, as well as add a number of new ones. Managed by

Warwick District Council (WDC), which pays a great deal of attention to standards of care and maintenance in the district’s many high specification green spaces, The Landscape Group was awarded the grounds maintenance contract for Jephson Gardens in 2012, commencing works in April 2013. The gardens form part of a district-wide grounds maintenance contract, however their status and well defined parameters make them a clearly distinct grounds maintenance unit of the contract and they are managed as such.

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ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE GROUP The Landscape Group is one of the largest and longest established green service specialists in the UK. We care for the UK’s green infrastructure, delivering a range of quality grounds maintenance, tree surgery, street cleansing and landscape construction services to customers including local authorities, private businesses, schools, hospitals and the construction industry. Now part of Europe’s market-leading idverde group, The Landscape Group commits to quality, sustainability, community focus and generating best value in every project delivered.”

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Gardens gained the highly coveted Green Heritage status.

In modern times the gardens provide a tranquil place for local office workers to enjoy lunch while children play and horticulture enthusiasts meander through the range of formal bedding, Grade II listed monuments and green canopied walkways.

Maintenance The diversity and high specification of Jephson Gardens demands a full-time head gardener with support from other members of the horticultural team, including an apprentice.

This constant resource is responsible for every facet of the gardens – horticultural maintenance including the new Sensory Garden, the grass border and the recently installed Remembrance Garden and sculpture, of which all works have been completed with support from The Landscape Group’s local Variation Orders (VO) team, working direct to WDC parks manager.

The Jephson Gardens team is supported by the contract supervisor, contract manager and the general manager, all of whom are located within easy distance of the site. With Warwick District Council located nearby, The Landscape Group is able to work closely with it to deliver the colourful displays that the gardens are known for, as well as ensuring that the other horticultural features always look their best.

The park team undertakes regular activities to the specification set by Warwick District Council including:

Development With tens of thousands of visitors flocking through the gates each year, it can be a juggling act to keep the maintenance standards high without impacting on the public’s enjoyment of the area. As such, maintenance regimes are carefully planned in conjunction with council officers to be timed around events and anticipated busy times. Since commencement of the partnership, Jephson Gardens has achieved Green Flag Award and Green Heritage Site Accreditation status every year. In addition,

the park has received a TripAdvisor Award of Excellence and a 2015 BALI Award for the grounds maintenance in the Free Public Access category.

1 Sensory Garden – Tulip ‘Ballerina’ 2 Memorial area commemorating the centenary of WW1; ‘Barbed Poppies’ – a WW1 poppy sculpture 3 Preparing the floral fountain to accept the final section 4 Installing the floral fountain 5 Jephson Gardens’ formal bedding area 6 Sensory Garden

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Bernhard’s Nurseries

changed in May/June and September/October.

This includes the impressive three-tier Floral Fountain displays which require lifting into place with a telehandler ● Maintenance of shrub beds including seasonal, species specific pruning as well as ornamental shrub pruning ● Weeding/pruning/plant management of the herbaceous and sustainable beds, grass borders and the newly planted Sensory Garden and Remembrance Garden ● Maintenance of topiary and hedging ● Maintenance of the ornamental lake and water features ● Grass cutting, including the edging of lawns, undertaken by a mobile grass team on a weekly basis

The Landscape Group

Landscapes House, 3 Rye Hill Office Park, Birmingham Road, Allesley, Coventry CV5 9AB Tel 02476 405 660 Web www.thelandscapegroup.co.uk

The Straight Mile, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 9QQ Tel 01788 521 177 Email sales@bernhards-nurseries.co.uk Web www.bernhards-nurseries.co.uk

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Plants Baginton Nurseries

12 Stoneleigh Road, Baginton, Coventry CV8 3BA Tel 024 7630 2619 Email enquiries@bagintonnurseries.co.uk Web www.bagintonnurseries.co.uk

Honiley Road, Fen End, Nr Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 1NQ Tel 01676 532 334 Email sales@hawkesmillnurseries.co.uk Web www.hawkesmillnurseries.co.uk Architectural metalwork and metal fabrication George Worrall Engineering Ltd

James Coles & Sons Nurseries Ltd

624 Uppingham Road, Thurnby, Leicester LE7 9QB Tel 0116 241 2115 Email info@colesnurseries.co.uk Web www.colesnurseries.co.uk

8 Collins Road, Heathcote Industrial Estate, Warwick CV34 6TF Tel 01926 422 733 Email management@gwe-ltd.co.uk Web www.gwe-ltd.co.uk

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West Sussex-based landscaping company Garden House Design is keen to tell landscapers about a fantastic new louvered canopy it is selling in the UK for the first time

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e wanted to find a product that extended people’s living time outside. That’s our caveat – our strapline is ‘live outdoors’,” explains Rod Winrow of Garden House Design. Talking to Pro Landscaper in an exclusive visit to the RENSON showroom in Ghent, Belgium, Rod explained how Garden House Design first became involved in the European market.

The company first came across louvered canopies on a visit to New Zealand whilst looking for a new concept to diversify with, but it was too difficult logistically to import from such a distance. Captivated by the product itself that could increase the time people spend outdoors, Garden House Design looked into companies in Europe: “We realised that the gateway to Europe for UK companies was much easier than many people think. What we wanted to know was, would the product actually work well? Was it priced correctly? And RENSON ticked both those boxes.”

Having had no previous contact with RENSON, the company took a gamble and drove to Belgium for an unannounced visit. Paul

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Renson, the CEO, and fourth generation, allowed Garden House Design to take its products to Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2013, and depending on the results of this, he would decide how the relationship developed. A record sale of six products off the stand that year secured the deal, and Garden House Design is now used as a model to develop creativity within the UK. Outdoor living After signing a non-disclosure agreement, Pro Landscaper was also given a sneak peek at the latest RENSON products to be launched this spring. This was not an easy feat; a visit to the Polyclose Exhibition allowed us to see the whole of the existing range, but discussions ensued as to whether we would be allowed to enter the secret showroom. The company’s hesitancy is understandable – 70% of RENSON’s market growth in the last five years has come from innovation and new products.

Made in Belgium, RENSON canopies are modular units that can be used to create an outdoor area in any landscaped garden, restaurant or hotel to extend their functional space all year round. A family business spanning over 100 years and four generations, RENSON’s products are sold all over Europe thanks to their stylish design and flexible sizes. The roof is what makes

the products popular – they are waterproof when closed, and even when tilted using the louvered system the water runs off the roof, which is installed at a slight angle from right to left, into gutter channels and through the support legs into the ground. Even after rain, once the roof panels have been opened, there is very little chance of water entering the protected space. The products are also available with sides, which come in the form of wind-tight fixed screen blinds, or glass or wooden sliding screens to allow a breeze through, or to shut the cold air out.

Virtual reality Garden House Design is now the biggest reseller of RENSON products in the UK and the third biggest in Europe but it’s not stopping there. “We’ve got big growth plans. We want landscapers to know that, with the help of a fully trained virtual team at Garden House Design, they can profit from this really great product.” As the first UK ambassador for RENSON, it is the first company to use RENSON’s electronic system, allowing drawings and full quotes to be produced – other landscapers can specify the product whilst Garden House Design works beside them as a virtual team.

Room service Garden House Design insists it’s easy for garden designers and landscapers to offer this product.

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Landscapers don’t even have to install the product – we do that. We have a good reputation in the marketplace as competent APL members and we want to provide a good service for that landscaper so they keep coming back.”

Where and when Garden House Design will be taking RENSON’s products to most of the major shows in the industry, including Grand Designs Live, Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and FutureScape.

The canopies can also be seen and demonstrated at Garden House Design’s offices in West Sussex, as well as at their partners’ showrooms in Chester and Kent. For more information, contact Debs Winrow on info@ gardenhousedesign.co.uk or 01903 774774.

1 Wall mounted Camargue 2 Loggiawood sliding panels 3 Free standing Algarve with automatic blinds 4 Camargue over a swim spa 5 Ideal for restaurant applications 6 Algarve with fix-screen blinds 7 Camargue with glass sliding doors

CONTACT Garden House Design 4 Roundstone Barn, Roundstone Farm Littlehampton Road, Ferring, West Sussex BN12 6PW www.gardenhousedesign.co.uk

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GRIFFIN GLASSHOUSES Pro Landscaper’s Nina Mason visited Griffin Glasshouses’ factory in Ropley, Hampshire to see how its bespoke greenhouses are conceived, designed and built

Griffin Glasshouses, which celebrated its 50th anniversary at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show last May, creates bespoke glasshouses for the domestic market from its factory in Ropley, Hampshire. The company is smaller than its competitors but boasts unrivalled personal service. It grew by more than 100% in 2015 and expanded from seven to fifteen employees between February and June.

Family business David Griffin founded the business in the 1960s and created glasshouses on a commercial scale until cheap imports meant he could no longer compete. He scaled down to suit the domestic market, but maintained the commercial attributes such as good ventilation and internal shading systems. The business remained in the family following David’s retirement four years ago, with daughter Linda Lane running the company alongside her brother Peter and cousin Paul.

Linda said: “We still use the glazing system David designed, but we’ve improved the look. In the last three years we’ve also brought out a new glazing system that appears the same but goes together in a different way. It resembles wood even more, with the fixings neatly hidden.”

this because several of our clients open their gardens through the NGS and people were coming from all over, seeing a Griffin glasshouse and enquiring off the back of this.”

Building relationships Aside from this, all greenhouses are bespoke.

Linda visits the customer, though if it’s more complicated Paul, the technical director liaises with the client and builders. Following an initial free consultation, the client can either hire a builder or Griffin Glasshouses can supply one to complete the entire process of design, build and installation.

Linda also believes it’s important for Griffin Glasshouses to build strong relationships with landscapers and designers. “They are key to our industry. They’re dealing with clients who have specific requirements and are sourcing products for third parties who we sometimes don’t meet. It’s important they understand how our products work and how ours compare to others on the market.”

When possible, the company deals directly with the client, which is one of the reasons Griffin Glasshouses takes part in events throughout the year, particularly flower shows. Last year, the company attended the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which generated great interest. A couple from Norway spotted the company at Chelsea and are now looking to market the products from their hometown near Oslo.

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NURSERY NEWS Glendale Horticulture consolidates its three nurseries

Glendale Horticulture has strengthened its position as a leading supplier within the horticulture industry by consolidating its three nurseries.

The company, which acquired Coblands in Kent in 2006, RA Merediths Nurseries in Gloucestershire in July 2013 and Mahood Brothers in Lancashire in November 2014, employs more than 250 people. Centralising its administration, finance, logistics and distribution operations at its nursery in Gloucestershire has enabled the company to streamline its operation whilst still offering the same high quality products and service. Andrew Bennett, managing director of Glendale Horticulture, said: “The structural changes implemented will enable the company to move forward as one entity, with common processes and procedures to ensure the quality and service is of a consistently high standard across the group and to offer a wider range of products to the customer base.” www.glendale-horticulture.co.uk

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Wyevale Nurseries supports Greenfingers fundraiser Wyevale Nurseries has announced it will be continuing to support Greenfingers by backing its Turn Old into Gold fundraiser.

In 2015 the Hereford nursery raised £286 from the initiative, which sees discontinued or unwanted stock auctioned off in aid of the charity and creates gardens at children’s hospices nationwide.

Adam Dunnett, sales and marketing director, said: “This year our aim is to really get behind the Greenfingers Turn Old into Gold campaign and raise at least £1,000 for the charity.

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and will continue to do so throughout 2016.

“It’s great that we can dispose of unwanted stock and know that it will be going to a good home while also raising money for a great charity. For more information, visit www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk

NURSERY NOTES

Expansion is continuing apace on the nursery, with the final phase of work being done on the extra seven acres that we acquired last year. The final roadways have gone in and the new beds are being finished off.

On the new beds more space is being given over to Readyhedge bag production to make a great product even better. The new hedges that we planted on the nursery to act as windbreaks are having irrigation lines put on them in the hope that it will be a warm dry summer.

As well as expansion on the main site we are growing 3.5km of hedge at a satellite nursery in Oxfordshire, where it is grown

Agrumi UK supplies award-winning garden UK topiary and specimen plant specialist Agrumi supplied an almost 4m Arbutus Unedo, which was planted at the Greenwood Theatre Pocket Park designed by Joe Swift and Zandra Rhodes.

The garden won the SGD People’s Choice Award 2015 and was created in partnership with Team London Bridge, King’s College London, Network Rail, Southwark Council and Gardenlink.

Agrumi is celebrating its tenth anniversary and its approach to providing garden designers and professional landscapers with a competitive one-stop-shop means it’s growing strongly.

With a two hectare nursery located in the heart of the New Forest National Park, it deals in large specimen shrubs, ornamental trees, evergreen screening, Mediterranean plants and all kinds of topiary. www.agrumi.co.uk

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PLANTSMAN’S PLOT A roundup of trees and plants available at some of the country’s best nurseries

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Best for: low hedges A good alternative to Buxus sempervirens is Ilex crenata especially the variety ‘Dark Green’. The small leaves are the nearest to box of any of the alternatives and it is able to be kept down as a low hedge for parterres and knot gardens because it grows slowly. Not only can it be grown as a low hedge it can also be trained into various topiary shapes. It suffers from very few pests and diseases and is suitable for all well drained soils. www.readyhedgeltd.com

Best for: year round interest Espaliered apple trees look wonderful at any time of year. The delicate blossom of pink and white and fruit in autumn is followed by the wonderful tracery in the winter, which improves with age. This artistic training of trees has long been popular; they bring formality and structure to small spaces.

Grown on a wall or used as a partition in a sheltered garden these trees allow you to grow fruit in a restricted area. After the initial pruning is established they require only light pruning. Available as plants up to 2m, these trees bring instant impact. www.agrumi.co.uk

Best for: vibrant summer colour A brilliantly contrasting plant, Foeniculum ‘Purpureum’ is the ornamental form of fennel. With its bronze and purple colours it stands handsomely, displaying its intricate shades on fine, feathery foliage.

Come summer it bursts into a vibrant head of yellow flowers. Delicately aromatic, ‘Purpureum’ grows around 1.8m in height and spreads 60cm across. A great way to engage the senses, plant now to experience all this fantastic fennel. www.howardnurseries.co.uk

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Best for: late winter flowers Cornus mas is thoroughly reliable as a small tree or large shrub to provide sulphur yellow flowers in late winter/ early spring, plus fiery autumn leaf colour in autumn. In naturalesque planting it can be grown like hazel or can be pruned to form a small tree for modest sized domestic gardens. A useful substitute for the much more demanding Hamamellis, especially on calacareous soils.

Available in a range of pot sizes. www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk

Best for: summer shade Akebia quinata ticks many boxes when looking for a dainty climber for a partially shady spot. The exotically maroon scented flowers with a slightly spicy, chocolate scent are freely produced in March and continue until May/June. Akebia quinata ‘Cream Form’ is equally vivacious in its appeal, with cream flowers and maroon anthers. It will happily twine around any structure up to 8m in height and provides shade in the summer months. In the winter months the foliage takes on a delightful purple tinge and the bizarre shaped fruits are certainly a talking point in the autumn. www.provendernurseries.co.uk

Best for: robust planting The Acer platanoides ‘Cleveland’ has been in cultivation since 1948 and has an upright habit and an oval head of branches with big, dark green foliage. It is considered as one of the best clones for street planting by arborists in America as it does well on most soil types, tolerates air pollution and resists drought. It has an excellent autumn colour of golden yellow and retains its oval to rounded habit through to maturity www.barchampro.co.uk Pro Landscaper / March 2016 69

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here are few things so quintessentially British as the modest box hedge. Arguably it’s up there with the iconic red telephone box, Yorkshire puddings and who could forget, a good cup of Yorkshire tea.

It can be very difficult to beat a lush, well maintained piece of box topiary to really add structure to a garden and punctuate planting.

However, the days of the humble box plant may be numbered.

Having grown up watching Monty Don on Gardeners’ World, I am all too aware of the numerous problems that box face in the typical English garden.

Perhaps Monty, if you’re reading this, it’s time to dig up your box and look at a more reliable and dare I say it, even fun approach to adding structure to the garden.

The main problem is box blight, especially after the warm, wet and windy autumn we have just had. This weather makes a perfect breeding ground for this troublesome fungal disease. The plants that survive this then have to contend with the menacing box caterpillar, not to mention box sucker or muscle scale.

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Cryptomeria japonica ‘Globosa Nana’ Yes, conifers can be cool! This is another curve ball that most traditional gardeners wouldn’t even consider digging out their old, dying, manky Buxus for. It is covered in texture and much more a feature plant than box ever could be. This dwarf forming evergreen conifer with a naturally dense and dome shaped growth is a very elegant option for where only a few plants are required.

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Azalea japonica Something completely fun, interesting and unique, these Azalea balls have been grown specifically as topiary but not as we know it.

They are tightly clipped to give dense foliage with the additional appeal of being smothered in incredibly delicate flowers in spring. In this case, you really can have your cake and eat it.

Some good cultivars include ‘Purple Splendour’, ‘Scout’ and ‘Dorothy Hayden’.

This semi-hardy climber is grown and shaped as a ball with the most incredible scented white flowers that smother the plant from early spring through to summer. A completely different Buxus alternative, it has that real wow factor. It requires winter protection, and light trimming throughout the summer, but is well worth it.

I would urge designers and landscapers to consider ‘thinking outside the box’. With all of these far more interesting alternatives, I struggle to think of any reason why we should continue plaguing gardens with box, which is condemned from the word go.

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This is no particularly bad thing. In fact, I believe it to be incredibly positive. It creates an opportunity to explore new, fun and exciting options that wouldn’t normally have been considered, had box not become such a pain to maintain.

The following are a few interesting, unique and fun alternative options that you can safely use to replace Buxus in the garden. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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Pittosporum tobira ‘Nana’ Like frothy dumplings with an irregular mound shape and glossy dense foliage, this is a great alternative to add structure to a less formal situation where you want something to simply punctuate the planting.

Graduating from RHS Garden Wisley with a distinction in summer 2015, Jamie now works as joint show plant manager at Hortus Loci, growing the plants for major flower shows such as RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton. Jamie is a YoungHort associate director and RHS Young Ambassador, promoting horticulture to young people across the UK. In addition to this, Jamie is also a gardening broadcaster for BBC Radio London.

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ooking for foliage colour in a planting scheme? Texture? Variety?

Succulents tick all these boxes and more – they can brighten and add interest to any indoor planting. Looking at colour alone, the variation can be quite spectacular, going from chartreuse and blue-green, flushing into pink and red, warming to yellow, before dipping to the darker spectrum of deep burgundy and almost black.

LOOKING AT COLOUR ALONE, THE VARIATION CAN BE QUITE SPECTACULAR In 2014 it was a succulent, the Echeveria, that won the judges’ attention at the annual efig Office Plant of the Year awards – the criteria being ease of care in a commercial environment, best for relieving stress and best for cleaning the air. Its charm and popularity have continued since then, particularly within our industry. The Echeveria is an ideal choice for container or terrarium planting, or en-mass on a living wall.

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Hens-and-Chicks (Sempervivum tectorum or Echeveria elegans) Both these succulents produce ‘chicks’ – miniature plants that are slightly offset from the mother ‘hen’. Ideal for use on a living wall.

Burro’s Tail (Sedum morganianum) Perfect in a hanging position as its overlapping, glaucous leaves grow to up to 1m long. A native of Mexico, it prefers medium to high light.

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WATER Succulents need to be watered generously in the summer months, when their fleshy leaves grow plump with the liquid stored in them. Make sure the soil dries out between waterings, however – a succulent will not survive if waterlogged. If this happens, it is easy to recognise. The plant will become soft or discoloured and the leaves will lose their colour. In colder months when the plant is dormant, cut watering back to bimonthly and succulents should be happy until spring.

Jade Plant (Crassula ovata) Always a favourite as it’s so easy to grow, has thick stems and beautifully plump, glossy green leaves tinged with red.

Panda Plant (Kalanchoe tomentosa) A real beauty, the green leaves of the panda plant are covered with small silver hairs, giving the plant a blue-grey appearance, with brown or rust coloured tips.

Medicine Plant (Aloe vera) Visually arresting, with blade-like leaves spotted with white. The healing sap of this medicinal plant has been used for centuries to treat wounds and sunburn.

This is ironic really because the sharp ‘teeth’ along the leaf margins can easily graze unsuspecting passers-by, so make sure it’s positioned out of reach.

ABOUT IAN DRUMMOND Ian Drummond is the creative director of Indoor Garden Design, Europe’s leading interior landscape design company. Based in Highgate, north London, IGD has been bringing nature into offices for over 40 years.

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ardens are getting smaller, buildings are getting bigger and planting is often squeezed into spaces with little direct sunlight.

The demand for shade tolerant planting is greater than ever. As far as the landscaper is concerned, the pressure is on to choose plants that succeed, not ones that struggle to survive. This is the age for the boring evergreen to come into its own. Trendy perennials and grasses have no place in this environment and most flowers are out of context. It’s all about shiny, reflective green leaves that play with the available light.

I know it is not always easy to convince a client that flowers will be a disappointing planting solution in shade. I recently recommended a large-leaved, variegated ivy for a dark city lightwell. My client, dead set on wisteria, was not convinced, even when I tried the colourful hedera trick. However, when you see just how good something like a specimen

SHINING IN THE SHADOWS

them. Viburnum davidii is an excellent container plant that copes with neglect and it also makes a superb low hedge.

Andy McIndoe Pachysandra terminalis ‘Variegata’

what about Aucuba japonica f. longifolia ‘Salicifolia’? A female form, it is incredibly free fruiting, with narrow leaves that contrast well with other plants. Partnered with Aucuba japonica ‘Variegata’ it makes a splendid bank of shining foliage with plenty of colour and interest.

I mentioned pachysandra for underplanting.

I have often seen this in open, sunny situations, where it is completely useless. In shade it is superb once established, carpeting the ground in whorls of shining foliage. Related to buxus, it is equally tough and virtually maintenance free.

The variegated form, Pachysandra terminalis ‘Variegata’ is an excellent partner for any plain evergreen shrub.

Of course a few shining, shade tolerant evergreens do produce some flowers. For me, the best is Choisya ternata. There are lots of

Choisya ternata Fatsia japonica

Fatsia japonica can look with minimal light you realise the impact of big, green and glossy plants. Fatsia is great to convey a tropical effect and in a shady, sheltered spot it is easy to maintain. Clean up a few dead leaves occasionally, cut it back hard every few years and it will thrive.

Spotted laurels are often shunned by designers. They have a bit of an association with municipal planting, but so what? They are pollution tolerant, great in shade, low maintenance and grow in awful soil. They are also great for containers. The broad leaved compact Aucuba japonica ‘Rozannie’ is the most frequently seen plain green variety, but

Aucuba japonica ‘Variegata’ and ‘Salicifolia’

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newer cultivars, but I still think the ordinary Mexican orange is the best. The foliage retains its quality better than the others and it can flower quite well in shade. Choisyas can be quite slow in the first year after planting, particularly if the plants are unstable in their pots. It is worth checking this when buying.

The gaudy yellow Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ is actually rather good in shade, where it tones down to a lively lime green.

Viburnum davidii

I am also a great fan of Viburnum davidii.

Designers seem to love the compact Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’ but it is more expensive and nowhere near as hardy as Viburnum davidii. With its very dark green, almost corrugated leaves on red leaf stalks it will form a rounded mound that looks great on its own or in a pool of green and white variegated ivy, vinca or pachysandra. The female form has blue-black berries in winter, but do not rely on

ABOUT ANDY MCINDOE Andy McIndoe is a practical horticulturist with more than 30 years’ experience in ornamental horticulture. He has designed and advised on gardens of all sizes and has been responsible for 25 Gold Medal winning exhibits at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Andy is a regular contributor to blogs, magazines and BBC radio and he lectures at home and abroad.

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looding. We are all talking about it this year, as we did the year before last and the year before that. It now seems to be part of our lives and given that flooding is a landscape-scale disaster, it suggests that the landscape profession has a role to play.

There are two givens, neither of which will change very much on the scale of our lifetimes.

One is climate change, an aspect of which is that UK rainfall seems to be becoming much more intense. The other is that a lot of houses have been built in places where they should not have been. We are much more vulnerable than we used to be.

The landscape profession, in its broadest sense, is in a key position to reduce this vulnerability. For some time it has been accepted by many who study the role of water in the landscape that the centuries old philosophy of how we drain water off land is totally wrong. Boggy ground was always seen as uneconomic – so put in some drains and take the water away. New thinking stresses the opposite. ‘Badly-drained’ ground is a natural sponge, holding on to water after heavy rain and releasing it slowly. Organisations like the National Trust and Natural England have for some years been trying to rebuild this great natural reservoir that a healthy landscape should have – putting the meanders back into rivers, blocking upland drains so bogs and other Below: A swale, using British native species such as purple loosestrife and ox-eye daisies, at the Queen Elizabeth Park, London, designed by Nigel Dunnett of Sheffield University’s Department of Landscape.

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government subsidies to do so. The implication is that in a society that has grown increasingly unequal over the years, the very landscape is becoming more unequal too, with wealthy shooting estates flushing their unwanted water onto the more humble folk downstream.

Clearly this is a political issue, but there is a lot the landscape profession can do. We have a responsibility to advise our clients to do everything they can to hold on to water on their property

THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE DRAINAGE IS INCREASINGLY INFLUENCING PROPERTY OWNERS, GARDEN DESIGNERS AND THE WIDER LANDSCAPE PROFESSION – HOLD THE WATER ON THE PROPERTY AND LET IT SEEP AWAY SLOWLY

wetlands can reform, etc. On a smaller scale, the idea of sustainable drainage is increasingly influencing property owners, garden designers and the wider landscape profession – hold the water on the property and let it seep away slowly.

Not everyone is singing from the same hymnsheet, however. A feisty essay by journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot in the Guardian recently (www.monbiot.com/2015/ 12/29/going-downhill-fast), suggests that landowners, the owners of upland grouse moors in particular, are still busily draining their land at the expense of the home and business owners further downstream, sometimes even getting

and by doing so, help reinstate the natural sponge that should help manage water flows. Even those who work on a small scale as garden designers should do their bit, especially in urban areas where impermeable surfaces greatly reduce the opportunity for water to soak in naturally and where flash floods are increasingly common. The concept of the ‘swale’ is particularly useful, a hollow that can temporarily fill with water when there is too much of it around. Another is the rain garden, where rain-derived water always goes down into the earth or evaporates, but never runs off.

Throughout history we have tended to see wetlands as unwelcoming. We use ‘bog’ and ‘swamp’ almost as insults, but now is the time to start recreating them and be more positive about incorporating them into our landscapes.

ABOUT NOEL KINGSBURY Noel Kingsbury has been involved in the horticulture industry since the mid eighties, as a nurseryman, garden designer and writer, with features appearing in The Garden, The Daily Telegraph and Gardens Illustrated. He has played a major role in introducing the British gardening public and the horticulture profession to naturalistic planting with a series of books since the mid nineties, four of which he has written with Dutch designer Piet Oudolf. He teaches and lectures widely on planting design with a particular interest in running workshops on long-term plant performance. He lives and gardens in the Welsh borders.

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Tell us a bit about yourself and what your job entails.

I’m the product development coordinator at Wyevale Nurseries. I trial and develop new plant varieties, formats and products to add to our existing range or create a new range to offer to our clients. I travel a lot to source new plants, products and ideas and bring them back to implement.

product formats into our range. I also love travelling and I’m fortunate to be able to travel throughout Europe to source new plants and inspire new ideas.

Why did you decide to pursue a career in horticulture?

I would help out at my grandfather’s nursery in Somerset and by 14 I had my own greenhouse and started growing and selling plants out of my parents’ back garden. I was also given my first part time job at the local nursery, where I learned a great deal and decided to become a horticultural leader.

You won the International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS) International Exchange Award last year and visited some of the US’ most innovative nurseries. What did you learn from it?

My trip to America was amazing. We visited over 30 nurseries ranging from some of the best breeders in the world to huge 250ha container nurseries. The style of production

What steps did you take to get into the industry?

My small business funded my studies at Pershore College, where I got a first class degree in horticultural crop production. I won various academic and practical awards including the Peter Williamson Travel Scholarship from Wyevale Nurseries and I had the chance to work in the Netherlands at two fascinating nurseries – Poppelaars Nurseries in Sprundel and Mauws Nurseries in Wernhout. All this gave me the basic skills to apply for work at Wyevale Nurseries where I started out as a management trainee.

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some fantastic plants that I hope to trial and develop a selection of them throughout 2016.

It helped me broaden my knowledge of global horticulture and provided the chance to meet and network with some of the best horticulturists in the world.

What challenges have you faced in your role and how have you overcome them?

There are lots of challenges. Wyevale Nurseries offers a broad range of products to three different markets and it is important to consider each market carefully when developing new ideas.

Linking the sales team and its requirements with the production team and ensuring the latter has all the necessary knowledge about how to produce the best crop is also difficult.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

I very much enjoy my current role, which gives me the chance to be creative so I am keen to progress in this type of role. However, I would love to work in the higher management level of Wyevale Nurseries and move into directorship.

and the finished product was very different and it was good to witness their growing culture and to share ideas. I experienced some great innovations, ranging from robotic plant handling machines to innovative branding solutions for plant collections. I also discovered

What advice would you give to students looking to pursue a career in horticulture?

I would recommend getting as much work experience as possible in different areas to get the broadest set of experiences possible.

I would also recommend societies such as the IPPS to meet industry experts across the world as these contacts can help you in so many ways.

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TOPSOIL TOP TIPS

BOUGHTON LOAM BRITISH SUGAR TOPSOIL “Ensure the certificate of analysis provided by the supplier relates specifically to the topsoil you are supplied with.”

“Seek approval and sign off for the selected topsoil from the garden designer before it is delivered and applied.”

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“When getting ready for spring and building raised flower beds, opt for a lighter soil mix. When landscaping, a mixture of soils may be required but generally we recommend ‘as dug’ or screened topsoil as it provides the perfect growing media for most garden projects.”

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PROVENDER NURSERIES “Testing the soil structure will help you identify the textural class of the soil you are planting into. Knowing your sand, silt and clay content will help you choose the correct additive you need blended with your topsoil.”

“Always ask for a sample and keep it on site throughout the project to ensure consistency.”

“The secret to healthy turf is your topsoil.

When laying turf, it is best to use a sandy loam topsoil that is screened to 10mm to remove any large stones or clay, whereas planting flower beds and borders requires a better screened topsoil with a higher level of organic matter to ensure that the plants have access to vital nutrients to help them grow.”

“Think about the final destination of your topsoil. You need not pay out for a blended soil if you are doing a simple turfing job but it can be essential to buy an enriched soil when planting large specimen trees that require a lot of nutrients.”

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BOURNE AMENITY “Talk to your topsoil supplier about similar projects that they have worked on and if possible, obtain a recent reference.”

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Boughton Loam’s organic blended topsoil is designed for borders, raised and flower beds and is a blend of the finest quality Kettering loam and organic compost which is screened to improve mixing. It provides additional nutrient and organic content to support healthy plant growth. Boughton Loam supplied topsoil to Surrey-based Breathe Garden Design to transform the gardens at the Old Rectory in Quinton, Northampton. The formal lawn was transformed using Boughton’s 70/30 rootzone and the new planting areas have made perfect use of Boughton’s high quality organic soil.

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Water is essential for horticulture, but when planning a site, too much can be a serious problem. Janine Pattison looks at how to mitigate the issue The extremely wet weather over the past few months has brought misery to many landscapers.

Hopefully once it stops raining, sites will dry out and works can be completed. But what can you do with a site that has permanent problems with excess water? Coming up with successful designs can be a real headache.

When assessing the site you need to identify whether the garden suffers permanently from excess moisture or whether it is only too wet after heavy rain. You need to find out if wet areas are a result of leaks, broken or collapsed drains, a hard cap under the surface, run-off from elsewhere on the site or from a neighbour, the result of a high water table or even a hidden spring.

Always investigate the simple options first, like repairing a collapsed drain or breaking through a hard cap. If there have been building works on the site, these are very likely explanations as heavy machinery will have caused the damage.

Smaller areas of poorly drained soil can have the drainage improved by adding grit and bulky organic matter. This will open up the soil structure

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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE and allow excess water to escape. Alternatively, work with nature and create a pond, bog or rain garden. With larger areas, raised boardwalks and moisture-loving plants are possibilities. Planting moisture tolerant trees can help soak up water but they do tend to grow extremely quickly and may become a problem. Willows love moisture but get too large for most gardens.

Be wary of large-scale drainage works. These are likely to be very expensive and there is a risk of making things worse. You will need somewhere to drain the excess water to, there are restrictions on piping water into the main sewer or foul drain and you can’t drain onto someone else’s land without their permission. You could create a pond, bog garden or swale if you have the space, but remember they could cause damage if they overflow.

Soakaways can be very effective but always insist on a trial pit being dug, filled with water, covered and checked 24 hours later. If the water has not disappeared you may have heavy clay or a compacted site.

If the site has a high water table you will not be able to drain into a soakaway.

Complicated technical solutions exist using pumps and float switches but these are costly and prone to problems so always go for the low tech solution first.

Raised beds are a successful way of creating planting areas above the wet soil and are ideal for vegetable and herb growing. But make sure that drainage has been considered or else the beds could fill with rainwater and drown your plants.

THINKING ABOUT DRAINAGE AT AN EARLY STAGE WILL ULTIMATELY SAVE MONEY AND DELIVER A BETTER GARDEN FOR YOUR CLIENTS Areas that are temporarily wet after heavy rain are easier to deal with and often respond well to simple improvements – a French drain is quick and economical to install; perforated plastic land drain pipe is cheap and effective; even forking pea shingle into the soil will open it up and improve drainage.

Thinking about drainage at an early stage will ultimately save money and deliver a better garden for your clients.

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Robert Webber tackles the issue of burying conduits and digging trenches for cable. Cutting corners is not advised...

At least once a week we receive a call that goes like this: “Rob, where are you working? I’m digging out and I’ve gone through a cable!”

“Oh dear,” is my reply. “Yep, it was only two inches under the lawn!” they exclaim. Between us we make a plan and get the problem solved.

We work with some great landscapers who methodically plan trenches and digs as part of their works. When we collaborate with a new company, we always sit down and talk about the best way to work together for all concerned.

How low can you go?

Burying conduits and trenching while machines are onsite is always my conversation starter for ten. “How deep?” is what I’m usually asked in reply. Well, believe it or not, there are no laws as to the depth a cable should be installed in a residential garden. The IEE Regs (our bible) only has recommendations. It is a non-statutory document, which means it’s advice, not law.

However, this is the document that’s called on in a court of law to prove competency and best

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Lampposts, to you and me.

Reg 522.8.10 states that cables should be installed at ‘sufficient depth’ to avoid being damaged by ‘reasonable foreseeable disturbance’ of the ground. Not very helpful when you have installers cutting corners on depth and cable run routes. But that’s what happens in a price-driven world. They’re cheaper for a reason!

We follow a general rule of 600mm depth on mains voltage cables, regardless of whether they are in conduit or not. The trench is then backfilled with sand and a warning tape is applied, so that any reasonable excavation would be halted.

We tend to bury low voltage cabling at approximately 300mm, a good spade’s depth.

That’s normally in a flowerbed, where digging is more regular and often done by the client or gardener. We use SY cable in flowerbeds – a braided flex that offers far more mechanical protection than a standard outdoor flex. Since using this, the incidence of damaged cables has been close to zero.

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expertise and future proofing a garden. Add it to the specification for costing. You dig it?

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glide through. Bury them 300mm deep in open soil and 600mm deep everywhere else. Always use warning tape. It’s £30 for 300m. Plan ‘from the feet up’ so cables and conduits go in at the right time and no compromises are necessary.

ABOUT ROBERT WEBBER Robert Webber is the founder of Scenic Lighting, a specialist exterior lighting company based in Berkshire. He designs and installs garden lighting throughout the UK and internationally. Robert can be contacted on rob@sceniclighting.com or via his mobile on 07766 051 000.

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Posh sheds are very much in vogue and shed envy is a new emotion for us to experience.

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partner. They make an ideal workspace or ‘shedquarters’ without the distractions you get when working in your home. They are perfect as a workshop, spare room, a sanctuary, and a destination to relax and entertain with cinemas, kitchens and hot tubs.

They are the perfect easy extension, with no need for planning permission in most cases and no space lost to stairs, corridors or cupboards.

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Eco up your shed by adding solar panels and air source heat pumps, harvesting your rainwater and using low energy LED lighting.

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Revolving ‘sheds’ that follow the sun, maximising natural light are available from the Rotating Pod Company. Inflate manufactures AirClad, funky glowing, inflatable garden and roof pods that are easily transported, taking minutes to erect

with their AirFlow technology. The Tetra Shed is an interesting office pod option with open up and close down window openings on three sides. It comes with its own foundation and can be finished with coloured paint, copper, zinc, corten steel or marine plywood cladding.

The DIY Premier by Bunkie comes with a choice of exterior and interior options, such as a queen-sized wall bed, modular cabinetry, ethanol burning fireplace and detachable seating that can be arranged any way you like. When everything is folded back into the walls, the space can be used for a variety of activities, games, movies, or yoga.

If you yearn for something a tad simpler however, take inspiration from Studio Padron’s pure, simple black cabin. Of course you can still use them as a potting shed and for all you sheddies out there, Shed of the Year competition is now open. Enter at www.readersheds.co.uk ABOUT ANJI CONNELL Internationally recognised interior architect and landscape designer Anji Connell is a detail-obsessed Inchbald Graduate, and has been collaborating with artisans and craftsmen to create bespoke and unique interiors for a discerning clientele since 1986. Anji is a stylist, feature writer and lover of all things art and design.

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New machinery Zero hours on the clock, a full warranty period and manufacturer’s guarantee, and hopefully, an attentive main dealer to support you – it’s all very tempting and you’ll have the latest model with good performance for the coming season. What you’ll also get is some very attractive financing deals as the big brands will run buying schemes to attract you. With the finance package there is usually an extended warranty option, which will mean coverage for the length of the finance. In the case of leased machinery this can be the full term, so you are never exposed to expensive repair bills.

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Independently reconditioned These equipment specialists will offer machinery from all brands. They will strip and rebuild popular products and will fit a mix of genuine and aftermarket parts. There will be some warranty and guarantee, but it’s not going to be the same as either a new machine or a factory rebuild product. There is of course a range of quality levels in this business. Some ‘reconditions’ are little more than a good steam clean and a polish while others will have a full workshop inspection and overhaul. Local independents depend on their reputation to survive, so many do offer a good service and reliable machinery.

Main dealer used machinery The dealers are taking trade-in machinery on a daily basis so they usually have a yard full of equipment ready to go. Often these machines are from finance lease deals and while they do have a few hours on the clock, they have a full service history and few faults so can offer a good deal.

You do need to know your local dealer and to understand what the after-sales terms and support is like before you buy. Ask for a workshop inspection report, so you have something to go back to them with if there are issues after the sale.

If it’s not from a local dealer but is something you have found on the internet, then do check out the local support available in your area. If there is a problem with the machine after its delivery, you’ll need to know where to take it, and who to talk to.

Used machinery traders There are traders across the country who are buying used machinery from dealers and end users for resale. These traders will have a wide range of machines covering all of the popular models. The age, engine hours and condition of these machines can of course vary considerably, as can the prices. You’ll need to do your homework on values and common issues affecting individual models before buying as there will be less after-sales support available, particularly if the trading company is not local to you.

So there are plenty of options available, each of which comes with a differing mix of cost and potential issues for you to consider. Clearly new machinery or factory reconditioned units offer the best reliability and performance as well as the widest finance options, but you do pay for it. If the funds won’t stretch to that, then the dealers and traders do have plenty of good machinery and some keen prices. With the 2016 cutting season nearly upon us, now is the time to get those purchasing decisions made and tool up for the warmer, sunnier days of spring.

ABOUT IAN MITCHELL Ian Mitchell has 35 years’ experience in the turf machinery industry. High Five Training was set up in 2015 to provide a dedicated groundscare training service to the industry.

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Biggest life influence Finally getting on top of my weight issues, losing seven stone and taking up cycling.

I’m now capable of 60-120 mile round trips and feel like I am living a new life. It really has changed my life.

Top plant Metasequoia glyptostroboides just because I love the name. It’s a great looking tree but ever

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since walking past a 4m high specimen with a name tag at Writtle College every day, it’s the name that has stuck.

Favourite tipple Red wine.

Most treasured gift My daughter Charlotte.

Lifelong fan of West Bromwich Albion – through thick, thin and even thinner – I still love them.

Your most overused saying On time, every time. I try to get my tenders back to clients on time, every time.

If not, I tell them.

Your prediction for newest gardening trend for 2016 I foresee an upturn in the number of projects as the recovery continues.

Three people you’d like to invite to dinner Harrison Ford – who wouldn’t want to talk about his characters, the great West Brom striker Tony Brown and my wife Sarah, so she could share this with me.

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ANN DUKES Owner, garden and landscape designer, Pacey-Buck Garden Design www.paceybuckgardendesign.co.uk Your most referred to gardening book The Art of Planting

by Graham Stuart Thomas.

Best garden in the UK Wollerton Old Hall, Wollerton, Market Drayton. There is something for everyone and I would happily transplant it to my home. The scale and balance are complemented by fabulous planting.

Biggest life influence Barbara Hepworth. A determined single mother for a large part of her life.

Top plant I adore peonies. I have them in my own garden and use them in many planting plans.

Favourite tipple A cool bottle of Picpoul de Pinet from the Languedoc.

Most treasured gift A moth brooch by Cornelius van Dop. Lifelong fan of The Oxford boat race team.

Your most overused saying “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

Your prediction for most exciting gardening trend in 2016 More hardy Salvia and more shrub planting in borders.

Three people you’d like to invite to dinner Beth Chatto, David C H Austin and Andy Goldsworthy.

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JASON LOCK Co-founder Deakinlock Garden Design www.deakinlock.co.uk Most referred to gardening book Notcutts Book of Plants – seventeenth edition.

Best garden in the UK I thought Michael Heseltine’s garden was amazing, especially the sculpture garden. Thought provoking spaces, even if perhaps not the best.

Biggest life influence The recently departed Charles Notcutt helped shape my career.

Top plant Currently, any Pennisetum.

Favourite tipple Chateau Lamartine Cahors ‘Expression’ 2005

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Biggest life influence My grandmother.

Top plant Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’ – it just flowers forever.

Favourite tipple Red Wine.

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Most overused saying Mmm... not sure I have one.

Three people you’d like to invite to dinner Philippa O’Brian – chair of the SGD, Wayne Grills – CEO of BALI and Mark Gregory – chair of the APL.

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Best garden in the UK I love parts of Trebah in Cornwall and The Black and White Cottage in Surrey.

Lifelong fan of England Rugby Team – despite the dismal World Cup result.

Your prediction of gardening trend for 2016 Bigger budgets as we come out of recession and softer landscapes, perhaps leaning towards more traditional design.

SAM COX

JANE FOLLIS

Your most referred to gardening book of all time Trees and Shrubs by Brian Davis.

Most treasured gift A pocket watch given to me by my father, who left this earth far too early.

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Most treasured gift My son.

Your most referred to gardening book of all time Lighting Gardens

by Michele Osbourne.

Your most overused saying Pas de problème – yes, sadly I do say it in French.

Best garden in the UK Westonbirt Arboretum.

Your prediction for the most exciting gardening trend in 2016 Please make it ‘less is more’.

Biggest life influence Teenage years spent working as a chef.

Lifelong fan of Tennis.

Three people you’d like to invite to dinner Two of my favoured guests are no longer with us – Leonardo da Vinci, Dave Allen and Chris Evans.

Most treasured Christmas gift Six Nations tickets at Twickenham.

Favourite tipple Guinness – and yes it tastes better in Dublin!

Top plant Giant Sea Holly – a robust biennial at home in a border or a flower arrangement.

Lifelong fan of Gloucester Rugby and Brentford FC. Your most used saying Don’t worry about what you can’t affect.

Gardening trend for 2016 Garden lighting, in particular LEDs. Three people you’d like to invite to dinner Mike Teague (Lions, England and Gloucester Rugby legend), Glynn Purnell (Brummie chef) and Paul Gascoigne (Gazza – no introduction necessary).

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