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Welcome to May 2016 Welcome to the May issue of Pro Landscaper.

This month is all about teamwork – most of you will be coming into the busiest period of the year, and possibly expanding your teams, bringing in new people to work with your core staff.

Pro Landscaper’s team, along with the rest of us at Eljays44, recently enjoyed a team clay pigeon shooting day to celebrate our achievements over the past year, and look forward to all the exciting plans we have going

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forward – it was a great opportunity to get to know everyone better outside of the work environment and certainly seems to have strengthened relationships in our team.

This month’s main focus is on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Good luck to all those starting on site. We know the pressures involved to produce amazing work, but along with the blood, sweat and tears comes great achievement – we can’t wait to see the design drawings we’ve been looking at for months now come to life. See our special Chelsea supplement along with this issue to find out about the gardens, exhibitors and people at this year’s event.

The May issue has some excellent features and columns.

What particularly caught my eye was Noel Kingsbury’s view on the humble conifer – if we’re honest, it’s definitely made us look at it differently. Visiting Matt Keightley

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on site for the Let’s Hear it From interview was a great opportunity to see how a large landscape project works; he talks about his experience of Chelsea over the last two years, and explains why he took a break this year. Continuing with the Chelsea theme, Sean Butler of Cube 1994 talks through the process of building the Breakthrough Breast Cancer garden in the Fresh category in 2015’s show. And lastly, our Agenda asks the very topical question: ‘Are landscapers given enough recognition at RHS Chelsea?’ We’re sure you can guess the answer that most participants gave…

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May 2016 INFORM

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Agenda Is there enough recognition for landscapers at RHS Chelsea?

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News

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Our usual roundup of industry news over the past month; a report from the BALI-NCF ‘Managing Our Green Spaces’ conference; plus the latest news from efig, BALI, SGD, the APL, the Parks Alliance, RHS and BALI-NCF

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Creating A New Leadership Sue Ireland responds to Phil Jones’ March View From The Top column

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30 Under 30 This month we ask: Is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show good for our industry?

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A few top players have always dominated the grounds maintenance industry. Consolidation will be an ongoing challenge, says Phil Jones

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Beauty vs Budget Adam White reviews the return of the Landscape Institute Conference

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Team Effort Andrew Wilson laments the ‘last one in’ syndrome that afflicts the industry

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Modern Minimal Frosts provided a fitting setting for an architectural new build home in Burnham Market, Norfolk

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What are you Most Looking Forward to at Chelsea?

RHS Flower Show Cardiff All the highlights from the show

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Latest products Resin bond, resin bound, lighting, garden buildings and planters

Genesis Landscapes uses smart technology to give a Cambridge garden a contemporary update

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Southwark Park Quadron Services works in partnership with Southwark Council to maintain this much-loved London Park

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Al Fresco Living Anji Connell explores the practical options for outdoor kitchens

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Landscaping Solutions instilled this London garden with a Japanese ambience

Diversity Deficit Lesley Malone asks if the media’s representation of landscaping has an adverse effect on the recruitment of young people

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Needs Must The skills shortage needs to be tackled – starting with the basics like laying turf and trimming hedges, advises Angus Lindsay

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A Mutual Understanding Advice from David Dodd on what landscapers can offer designers new to the industry

LANDSCAPING SOLUTIONS

Negativity on social media is a scourge of our time, but it can and should be used positively, says Pete Jones

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Ideas Given Life We spoke to Cube 1994’s Sean Butler about the process behind the ‘Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden’ at last year’s Chelsea

Nursery news News bites from some of the UK’s top nurseries

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Chelsea Plants Some of the best trees and plants at this year’s show

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Nursery Visit Palmstead Nurseries

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A New Perspective Noel Kingsbury considers what went wrong for the conifer

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CONTRIBUTORS Phil Jones MD of ISS Facility Services Landscaping Andrew Wilson Garden designer and lecturer Angus Lindsay Head of fleet at The Landscape Group Lesley Malone Freelance writer and photographer David Dodd Landscaper and lecturer

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Big Is Beautiful Ian Drummond on architectural plants

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From Seed To Spotlight Jamie Butterworth reveals how the plants of Chelsea’s Main Avenue are grown

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Keeping It Real

Adam Corrie gives advice on mastering the tender presentation

Plant Medley

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Water Tight The IP rating is an important but often overlooked factor, says Robert Webber

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Jonathan Bourne shares his experience as a supplier of topsoil

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The Snowball Effect Aim to take on the work you want to be known for, says Mike Long

Andy McIndoe asks if show garden designers are creating unrealistic garden goals All plants in a display need to work hard, says Lee Heykoop

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Coping With Difficult Sites Janine Pattison advises on how to appease neighbours and avoid trouble during a build

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Adam White Director of Davies White Landscape Architects

Jason Lock highlights the importance of outdoor workers protecting themselves from the sun

Outdoor protection, power tools, arb kit

107 What I’m Reading Paul Hensey’s review ‘101 Things I Learned in Architecture School’ by Matthew Frederick

108 Trading With Mark Stone, managing director of Plantscape

109 Three Peaks A look into Perennial’s services

114 The Little Interview

Jamie Butterworth Plant manager at Hortus Loci Andy McIndoe Leading horticulturist

Ian Drummond Creative director of Indoor Garden Design

Noel Kingsbury Garden designer and writer Janine Pattison Garden designer and horticulturist Robert Webber Founder of Scenic Lighting Mike Long Owner of Genesis Landscapes

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IS THERE ENOUGH RECOGNITION FOR LANDSCAPERS AT RHS CHELSEA? The RHS announced this year that it will be introducing a Best Construction Award at the Chelsea Flower Show.

This has prompted the debate of whether enough is done to recognise those who build the show gardens, with attention focused around the designers. We asked both landscapers and designers what they think…

Giles Heap Managing director, CED Ltd There are three things that make a world class Chelsea garden: an amazing design, top of the range materials and a team that can build, to the most exacting of standards, these extraordinary designs in an inordinately short period of time.

However, if the last requirement is not met, it matters not who the designer is, nor what they use. If it’s not built to utter perfection, it won’t win. Simple.

To be a top contractor at Chelsea is somewhat akin to being the Special Forces of the landscape world. Without their commitment, sweat, tears and often blood, there would be no medals and no glory. Anyone that has been at Chelsea during the build-up knows that it is in many ways, a war that only the brave (and slightly crazy) will win. So how many people outside of our industry actually know who is responsible for constructing these amazing gardens? Not one. I rest my case.

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Rae Wilkinson Owner, Rae Wilkinson Design Ltd

It’s important that designers gain recognition for their work at the world’s most iconic flower show, but without the contractors who build their gardens, their ideas simply wouldn’t be realised.

I have never understood why contractors are not awarded medals, let alone mentioned in media coverage of the show. The effort and input which goes into producing gardens to such a high standard in such a short space of time is immense, and is never undertaken lightly.

Designers rely on contractors to bring their visions to life and this should be acknowledged.

The move to include a new award category for construction this year is a real step in the right direction, but I think there is a lot more to do to bring a decent level of recognition to our highly valued and highly skilled contractors.

Darren Hawkes Owner, Darren Hawkes Landscapes

Contractors should definitely receive more recognition at RHS Chelsea. It seems the pecking order for PR is designers, growers, plantsmen/ women and artists/makers, while contractors get a write up in the local press if there is anything left unsaid! BALI and the APL awards are positive in their promotion of the industry, however this

doesn’t reach beyond the trade press. All too often, particularly in the provinces, landscapers can be viewed as little more than labourers with a horticultural bent. RHS Chelsea is the most fantastic example of project management, engineering, logistics, craftsmanship and dogged hard work that exists within the profession and we should be screaming about the merits of the best teams in the industry. Not only will this highlight the great skilled work that is already going on, but in turn may trickle down to those smaller landscaping businesses who could benefit from being inspired and encouraged to reach beyond the acceptable and go for perfection.

Ruth Wilmott Director, Ruth Wilmott & Associates

If you ask any garden designer at Chelsea, the vast majority would state that exhibiting a garden is impossible without collaboration with a great contractor. The scoring of gardens does assess the contractor’s construction – awards are given to a garden, not just to the designer.

However, in terms of the media coverage surrounding RHS Chelsea, there does seem to be an emphasis on the designers and sponsors of gardens, and to a much lesser extent the contractors. It would be good to see more TV and media coverage given to the very regular and experienced contractors at the show and those achieving exceptional awards with www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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designers. Certainly visitors attending the show express interest in how gardens have been built. TV presenters at Chelsea go around looking at ‘take home’ design and planting ideas – perhaps it’s time for construction insights and tips from gardens by our most experienced Chelsea contractors.

waiting for promotion from someone else won’t get you anywhere, so be professional, enjoy the experience and the rest will follow.

Dan Flynn

Chelsea is a great platform for both landscape contractors and designers – but the recognition for both isn’t equal. A successful garden is down to good communication and teamwork between the designer and contractor, and this should be celebrated as a whole.

It isn’t complicated to resolve – the RHS needs to simply award both contractor and designer at the same time. These fantastic gardens wouldn’t be so fantastic if it were not for the highly skilled landscapers that build them. The media also needs to do more to cover the technical build that goes on behind the scenes of Chelsea.

For example, the work that went into our Breakthrough Breast Cancer garden last year is difficult for the untrained eye to notice. The ripple in our water feature came on every ten minutes and pulsed for three seconds, off for one, and repeated for two minutes. This was created by myself, testing and re-testing for hours at home until the effect was right. All this in an infinity pool that needed a 17,500L pump just to break the surface water tension.

Come on RHS, award us contractors, too.

You know it makes sense!

Owner, Gardenlink Ltd

I would expect that many contractors would say no after all the blood, sweat and tears they put into the gardens they build. However, I feel that you have to look at things differently.

Most of the time (hopefully all), we get paid for doing a job and our clients, the designers, have worked hard to get a sponsor and to get into Chelsea. I feel an important part of the contractor’s job is to help steer them through the process and to give as much to the garden as we can, both through quality of work and past experience.

If a contractor agrees to go to Chelsea with the aim of filling order books, they are going to the wrong place. What we should be doing is going there to do a job and to do it as well as we can. This includes promoting ourselves and using the forum to widen our network of contacts. Our work isn’t just on site, it’s before, during and after the show, so allow time to be around, offer help and you’ll never know what can come along. Just sitting there www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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Jody Lidgard Managing director, Bespoke Outdoor Spaces

I often listen to people’s views on this subject and remain mercenary in my outlook. As a contractor, we are the power house behind 99% of all builds.

A punch bag for when things go wrong, a shoulder to cry on when designers realise they are not chuffing mythical gods and goddesses. A source of irritation for health and safety, an absolute saviour when the right medal rolls in – need I drone on? It’s a career-defining venue with more ups and downs than the Brecon Beacons.

However, have I mentioned it’s a paid project?

Recognition and respect is a given – you’re involved with the most prestigious garden event in the world.

Therein lies the clue. I say wipe away your tears and keep yours eyes on the prize.

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NEWS Final report released on Garden Bridge design procurement process

Chichester College awarded the People’s Choice Award

A final report has been released this month by the GLA Oversight Committee regarding the Garden Bridge design procurement process.

Boris Johnson had promoted the Garden Bridge in San Francisco with Thomas Heatherwick before the official 2013 contest, suggesting that Heatherwick was selected beforehand for the £175m project. The report by the GLA Oversight Committee is a culmination of four meetings that investigated and scrutinised the process by which the designer was chosen.

The majority of the Committee found that the Mayor should have been more upfront about the contact between Heatherwick Studio, himself and TfL. The report states that the evidence gathered on ‘failures of process’ led the Committee to conclude that ‘the objectivity and

Chichester College was awarded the People’s Choice Award at the Young Gardeners of the Year Competition, chosen by visitors at the Ideal Home Show sponsored

by Zoopla.

The annual competition is organised by TV gardener David Domoney and offers students an opportunity to showcase their work and celebrate the best of British gardening.

fairness of this procurement process was adversely affected by these actions, which casts a shadow on the ultimate outcome.’

The Committee makes a number of recommendations in the report, including that Tfl should at least consider reimbursing the bidders who were unsuccessful to compensate for the time spent on the design proposals and any expense incurred because of it.

Furthermore, it suggests that the Mayor’s office should compile written records of all meetings the Mayor holds with external bodies, clarifying what capacity he is there in. www.gardenbridge.london

David Domoney said: “A delightful win for Chichester College.

The students have captivated the visitors of the Ideal Home Show.”

Each college was given a 4 x 5.5m plot to plan and design a sustainable garden.

The show gardens are meant to inspire city dwellers, showing all that can be achieved in urban locations, and create a sense of tranquillity. www.idealhomeshow.co.uk

Cowen Garden Design receives Best of Houzz Award Cowen Garden Design has been awarded the Best Customer Service Award on Houzz, the leading platform for home renovation and design. The 20-year-old garden design company was chosen by more than 35m monthly users that make up the Houzz community.

Director Andrew Cowen said: “Winning the award is a testament to our firm belief that good design starts with excellent communication between client and designer.” www.cowengardendesign.co.uk

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Sales take off for new turf and topsoil web shop The owners of a new turf and topsoil website have achieved an ‘amazing’ level of sales in the first quarter of 2016.

“We’ve smashed our targets, especially on topsoil sales and are continuing to trade strongly as the season progresses,” said director Paul Watt. “Our strengths lie in having a reliable supply chain and automated systems. That way we don’t need to hire admin staff, we can keep our prices low.”

The website went live in October 2015 and services trade and domestic customers throughout the UK. Paul added: “It’s attracting quite a lot of repeat business. We’re trading with landscapers and garden centres as well as with the general public. It’s quite flattering to think that people are happy enough with our quality and service to come back to us.”

The website is set up for maximum convenience. It can email you a quote for your chosen products and orders can be made quickly with an account. www.topsoilandturf.com

London Stone to team up with Millboard London Stone has teamed up with Millboard decking as a key distributor. The Millboard brand shares London Stone’s vision and ethics to deliver a comprehensive range of composite decking products alongside its own natural stone range.

A range of Millboard stock will be kept at London Stone’s West London depot, meaning that they

The Eden Project’s horticultural apprentices have been awarded a silver medal at the Cornwall Spring Flower Show for an exhibit that did not feature a single flower.

The garden included flowerless plants such as ferns, moss and

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Managing director of London Stone, Steven Walley, said: “In terms of style and quality, Millboard composite decking is excellent, and we’re very much looking forward to working alongside them.” www.londonstone.co.uk

lichen, with the main features being a moss wall and a water feature.

Jolene Aitchison, horticulture apprentice and project leader, said: “We couldn’t be happier with the result. We’ve all worked so hard.” www.edenproject.com

Haddonstone is launching the Soane Inigo Jones bust, which is a replica taken from a plaster displayed at the Sir John Soane’s Museum. It will mark the 400th anniversary of the commencement of work at his most famous commission – the Queen’s House in Greenwich, London. www.haddonstone.com

Young Londoners to receive training in green economy

Groundwork London has launched a city-wide programme to introduce secondary-school children to the green economy and create 400 training and work experience programmes over the next five years. Welcome to the Green Economy will engage 700 students in 70 London schools. www.groundwork.org.uk

Capability Brown talks on film

A new six-minute film about Capability Brown and his work is now available on YouTube. The animation, They Call Me Capability Brown, was commissioned by the Capability Brown Festival.

It is intended to act as a lighthearted introduction to Brown and his work. www.capabilitybrown.org

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Eden’s horticultural apprentices achieve silver for flowerless garden

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Hillier Landscapes retain the Investors in People accreditation Hillier Landscapes has recently been successful in retaining its Investors in People accreditation which has been held for the past 20 years.

This recent achievement follows the re-structuring of the company’s senior management team at Ampfield House near Romsey in Hampshire. The company’s accountant Debbie Parvin, senior commercial contract

manager Peter Dyer and senior contract manager Peter Langton will lead the company into the next phase of growth. Richard Barnard remains at the helm as managing director and Lynda Barnard as director. Hillier Landscapes has also launched a new maintenance service and horticulture consultancy for both private and commercial clients. www.hillier-landscapes.co.uk

Quadron Services and South West Trains support Malden Manor Community Project

their green fingers, enjoy gardening and hold various community events and activities.

Preeti Chatwal-Kauffman, Quadron Services’ development manager, who designed and managed the project, said: “Quadron Services is delighted to support South West Trains and Malden Manor Project on the John Everett Millais Community Garden.

“This project is a fabulous example of a sustainable green community project that has helped strangers become neighbours. We look forward to the project becoming a community hub for keen gardeners across Kingston to meet and exchange horticultural advice, and provide a destination spot for Kingston’s London in Bloom entry in future years.” www.quadronservices.co.uk

South West Trains and Quadron Services have created a new pocket community garden next to Malden Manor Station in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in support of the Malden Manor Community Project.

The garden will be a space where people can meet, exercise

EGO doubles trimmer range for 2016 EGO Power+ has introduced two new line trimmers to its range, bringing the total variety within its trimmer product line to four.

Previously the range had consisted of a 30cm option and a 38cm brushless model, but now two new string trimmers with brushless motors have been introduced to complement the existing two. These are a 33cm option with a 2mm dual line and two speed functionality, and a 38cm option with a 2.4mm dual line and variable speeds, and a bike handle for extra manoeuvrability.

All four trimmers boast a free-rotating bump feed cap, meaning that the cutting head can be rested on the ground during use without being worn away, as well as a quick adjustable handle for maximum comfort and control.

The 30cm (with a single speed option) and 33cm (with two speeds) models have a 2mm line diameter, whilst the two 38cm models (with variable speeds) have a 2.4mm line.

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MANAGING OUR GREEN SPACES ARE WE FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE? The fight to protect our parks and open spaces continues with the ‘industry first’ BALI-NCF seminar on how best to maintain them In what can only be heralded as an industry first, 70 senior local authority officers and their service delivery partners have gathered together at Kew Gardens. The aim of the event was to address and find workable outcomes to the key challenges faced in maintaining the UK’s parks and open spaces, and was organised by the National Contractors Forum (BALI-NCF), a specialist group supported by BALI. The seminar entitled ‘Managing our Green Spaces: Are We Fighting A Losing Battle?’ sought to promote collaboration between the private and public sectors, in identifying the major areas of change necessary to meet the quality expected by key stakeholders.

The day commenced with a welcome and introduction by Phil Jones, chairman of the NCF. This was followed by key note speaker Mike Windsor, principal of Mike Windsor Associates who delivered a ‘no holds barred’ view of the barriers facing the industry. The conclusion was that these challenges would only become surmountable when service delivery partners and their local authority clients work together in an atmosphere of trust and openness, a principle which was to be echoed and reinforced many times during the day.

Steven Brown, principal consultant and knowledge leader at Ricardo Consultancy, followed with an in-depth look at the state of the local authority market. The rest of the day was given over to workshops and open debates surrounding both the green space industry itself and the contract relationship.

A major outcome of the discussions was the agreement by all parties that the key priority is to raise the profile and importance of www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THOSE REGULATING BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS OF MANAGED GREEN SPACES parks. It is essential that those regulating budgetary constraints understand the significant benefits of managed green spaces to the health and wellbeing of local communities. Involvement needs to derive from all key stakeholders and be backed by statistical data, which can leave no room for argument.

Other discussions centred on the role of Friends Groups and how time has seen them mature into a powerful lobbying force and subsequently an effective route for discussion and pressure for change; the more intellectual use of our parks and open spaces to match societal changes; and the decline of the ‘intelligent client’ and how that impacts on

effective and efficient procurement and delivery of services.

Relevant to the contract relationship between service delivery partner and client were conversations which agreed that solutions to existing challenges would only be found when both parties work toward common goals in the spirit of a true partnership demonstrating openness, honesty, trust, transparency and communication.

Phil Jones, chairman at NCF, said: “The ‘Managing Our Green Spaces’ seminar has been a first for our industry. It has demonstrated the commitment of the local authorities and their service delivery partners to work together, to find a way through the many challenges that are presented to us today. It is the intention of the NCF to continue to strengthen our alliance with our local authority partners to further reinforce the case for government action, and to gain market data and intelligence to raise the profile of green spaces and their importance, to affect tangible change. More needs to be done by those who have real influence.”

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RHS to provide £20,000 worth of support to communities gardening for Health and Happiness Community gardening projects that will see fire-fi hters in Cornwall using gardening to help dementia patients integrate into the community, and a London initiative designed to tackle social isolation by bringing the elderly and cub scouts together, are among 40 groups that will receive support from the RHS

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as part of the charity’s 2016 Britain in Bloom campaign.

Under the banner of RHS Greening Grey Britain for Health and Happiness, the groups will receive up to £500 worth of gardening materials to help develop projects to improve community cohesion, promote healthy lifestyles and increase wellbeing.

RHS advisors will also be onhand to provide the groups with expert gardening advice, tips and insight in order to ensure that they make as big an impact

as possible on the local community. rhs.org.uk/ communities RHS Garden Bridgewater master plan announced Worl -class lan sca e architect om tuartSmith, who was appointed to create the plan in November, has shared his initial proposals for the 154acre garden, which will bring back to life the lost historic grounds at Worsley New Hall, Salford.

Key elements of the aspirational horticultural master plan include: ● An entrance garden laid out like a web and planted as a perennial meadow ● A new lake which anchors the new visitor building within the landscape ● A water garden of interlocking streams and rocky waterfalls ● The reconstruction of the historic walled garden, to include a therapeutic garden, vegetable garden

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate Queen’s 90th birthday The RHS will celebrate the 90th birthday of HM the Queen with oral arches at helsea Flower Show. The primary arch (above), by leading esi ner an royal orist hane Connolly, will be created from British blooms and will span the iconic Bull Ring gate entrance, situated on the bank of the River Thames, while its sister arch will welcome visitors to the London Gate. www.rhs.org.uk/flowershows

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SGD bulletin Introducing Tech Exchange 2016: Trees The Society of Garden Designers has launched Tech

Exchange – a new series of one-day conferences exploring some of the technical aspects of landscape and garden design.

Conferences will look at various subjects in-depth, o erin resentations

and talks from experts in a s ecific fiel o stu y with the aim of sharing knowledge throughout the industry. he first con erence which focuses on trees, has been produced in partnership with Barcham Trees. The event will be chaired by Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and will take place on Thursday 9 June 2016 in Jodrell Theatre at Kew. he event o ers a uni ue opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most progressive minds in the industry. The panel of seven speakers includes Sir Terry Farrell, Dr Charles

Mynors, Dr Henrik Sjoman, Lord Framlingham, Dr Mark Johnson, Dr Michael Raupp and Keith Sacre of Barcham Trees.

Tickets, priced at £75, are limited and available from the SGD website, where you can also download the agenda and read more about the speakers.

Visit www.sgd.org.uk/techexchange-trees

BALI briefing

RHS Young Landscape Contractor supported by BALI The entries are now in for this new com etition to fin the brightest young talent in the world of landscape contracting. Taking place at this year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in July, alongside the RHS Young Planting Designer competition, the RHS YLC 2016 will provide a wonderful opportunity for three finalists a e an un er to show their landscaping skills.

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Tea for Two at Harrogate Spring Flower Show At the time of writing BALI Yorkshire & North East Region members are busy building the BALI show garden ‘Tea for Two’ at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show; BALI contractors Northumbrian

Landscaping and Turf’n’Earth, an numerous A A liate (supplier) members, will be hoping they can do enough to win Gold and maintain BALI members’ medal success at this great northern institution.

New marketer at Landscape House We welcome Darren Taylor, who has joined BALI as marketing and communications manager.

A professional marketer, he joins the association with an armoury of skills that will be called on to strengthen awareness of the BALI brand.

Darren is based at Landscape House but looks forward to

seeing members at shows and events throughout the year.

To contact Darren email darren.taylor@bali.org.uk.

Chelsea beckons BALI and its members will be out in force at Chelsea this year, on the show gardens and on BALI’s stand EA 465 on Eastern Avenue. Do come and say hello. www.bali.org.uk

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State of UK Parks update The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced an update to their State of UK Parks report for publication later this year. The 2016 State of UK Public Parks

report will provide an update on the fin in s o the report, and already a survey is being run to gather views from park managers and friends/ community groups.

The new report will focus less on the wider social values of public parks, as HLF feels that the case has been well made, and more on the impacts that changes in management and condition are having on the quality of parks and green spaces.

The Parks Alliance would encourage all of you who love parks to complete the survey.

In the light of this, the Alliance has approached Marcus Jones MP, the

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minister responsible for green spaces, to discuss the issues and risks parks are currently facing. In the meantime, we are seeking real examples of the loss of services that we can use to help us make the case for parks. Your

exam les with acts an fi ures will be used in our promotional material and in engagement with civil servants and politicians.

Contact us at communications@ theparksalliance.org www.theparksalliance.org Twitter @ParksAllianceUK

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Favourite Office Plant of the Year By the time you read this, our Annual Awards Dinner and Garden Party will have taken place and the Leaf Award Winners will have been named.

Meanwhile, we have begun to ask for votes for Favourite ce lant o the ear.

The eventual winner of this campaign will not only be announced during National Plants at Work Week in July, but also feature in our

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promotion of that event.

However, we have a way to go before we get there.

First we are asking members, friends and website visitors to vote for this year’s nominations, which are: ● Pachira (1) ● Peperomia

● Rhipsalis (2)

● Euphorbia tiracalli

● Stags head (Platycerium

bifurcatum) ● Zamioculcas (3) The criteria to consider this year is all about recognising the benefits o brin in the outdoors into the workplace so

that we can connect with nature wherever we are. Plants that: ● make you feel good ● make you feel more relaxed ● are easy to maintain Which ones will get your vote?

The three plants that receive the most votes will be considered by an independent panel of judges at the end of June and the winner announced in July. Have your say by completing the form on our website.

Footnote Next month’s column will cover the winners o efi s annual ea Awards of Excellence and there’ll be a double-page spread covering the event – one not to miss. www.e g. o.uk

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APL update

2016 APL Apprenticeship Programme – spaces filling up fast!

Following the success of the 2015 APL Apprenticeship Programme, the 12 places on this year’s 2016 APL Apprenticeship Programme are now open for registrations (member and non-member).

If you are interested in expanding your business by recruiting a new member of sta or trainin an existin sta member then the 2016 APL Apprenticeship Programme will provide you with quality learning, delivered

in a more manageable way.

Gabriel Pol, director of Green Rooms Landscapes and Gardens Ltd recruited Harry onto the 2015 APL Apprenticeship Programme and said, “Before taking advantage of the apprenticeship programme we were fin in it i cult to recruit a new youn sta member who had the right mix of intelligence and work ethic to stick at it. Through the APL scheme we now have a great new member of our team who we know will be with us for a minimum of two years who is committed and hardworking.”

A delivery partnership between the APL, Myerscough College and the Landscape Skills Academy will provide you with re-assurance that the

support and learning received are to industry standard, pace and quality. Throughout the two-year programme the apprentice will take part in a total o seven five- ay lon bootcamps delivered away from the workplace. The bootcamps provide highly intensive and practical learning ex erience o the ob where as an employer you will see a

i erence in the nowle e an skills that the apprentice brings back to the workplace.

For further guidance, including entry requirements and funding, please go to the APL website.

To register a place(s) contact Penny Evans, APL Academy and careers manager on 07739 325 408 or email penny.evans@hta.org.uk. www.landscaper.org.uk

the governance surrounding rebated red-dyed diesel.

Although it can be used in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, HMRC’s view remains clear that this does not include landscaping and the maintenance of recreational facilities. When using tractors or ride-on mowers on public roads, contractors do not qualify for the use of red diesel, resulting in an increased tax burden on the sector.

As a first ste in establishing greater clarity,

NCF has produced a white a er ocument which o ers general guidance surrounding the issues involved.

The landscaping sector has in the past not taken part in working groups and consultation meetings prior to passing law, and therefore our case and particular circumstances have never been taken into account.

The NCF’s subsequent action would be to formally take this forward to HMRC in order to be included in the ‘conversation’ and to seek the clarity and efinition that is re uire .

BALI NCF notes An i entifie ey strategic goal, as well as an industry topic for concern, is UK parks get-together In March, BALI-NCF achieved what can only be called an in ustry first by atherin together, at Kew Gardens, 70 senior local authority o cers and their private sector delivery partners, to explore workable outcomes to the key challenges faced in managing and maintaining the UK’s parks. his was a si nificant ay an is reported in full in a special News Extra Feature on page 11.

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In the March edition of Pro Landscaper, Phil Jones lamented the slow-moving fight to protect our parks. Sue Ireland, vice chair of the Parks Alliance, responds with why the journey is so arduous and what the Parks Alliance is doing to gain momentum I understand the frustrations behind Phil Jones’ article in the March Pro Landscaper.

This was exactly why we set up the Parks Alliance – to bring together key leaders from across the UK and provide a single unified voice for parks and green spaces, and especially to address the serious funding crisis in the sector. We welcome the challenge, and it is a challenge, one that can only be met by all sectors and those who care about parks coming together.

Those of us that love parks have a role to play but we need to acknowledge that all of us have been struggling to make the case for increased funding for years. In the public sector, it is just not feasible to expect that more money is going to be found from the public purse. That is not a defeatist argument, or to underestimate the scale of the crisis in which parks find themselves, but we need to accept there is no silver bullet solution. Parks face relentless cuts and many will have to look for additional sources of funding to cover upkeep and improvements.

We will all need to find new ways of keeping parks and green spaces open to all and we should never lose sight of the people that use our parks. They are not interested in how services are delivered, just that they are

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CREATING A NEW LEADERSHIP

FOR PARKS AND GREEN SPACES delivered. We can only ensure the future of our parks by exploring new ways of funding them, which may involve the private sector or the voluntary sector. We need to support the people we entrust to run and protect our parks to try new business models, and strike the correct balance to protect public green spaces for future generations.

This year will be another challenging year but things may be coming to a head, as we have an update on the ‘State of UK Public Parks’ from the Heritage Lottery Fund later in the year. In addition, the Parks Alliance has called on several occasions for the Communities and Local Government Committee of the House of Commons to undertake an inquiry into parks and we hope that the Committee will respond positively to this call soon. Any resulting inquiry will be the platform for us to get our voice heard and the resulting findings will give us ammunition to influence future government decisions.

The Parks Alliance is currently seeking real examples of the loss of services, with facts and figures, that can be used for further engagement with the Committee and government ministers.

Any case studies of good practice would also be welcome and we currently have our ‘Parks Watch’ which is seeking testimonials.

To achieve all of the above the sector needs strong, committed and cohesive leadership, and the Parks Alliance provides the means for

everyone to get involved and pull in the same direction. That’s why we, with the help of the HLF, are currently running a project that will provide a model for establishing a connected community network of those who support the aims of the

WE NEED TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WE ENTRUST TO RUN AND PROTECT PARKS TO TRY NEW BUSINESS MODELS Alliance. We hope to reveal findings of the project soon and use these to take the work of the Alliance forward. This will set out our membership model and other proposals for raising funds.

The Alliance is also agreeing a business plan and structure as a solid and sustainable foundation to be the voice of parks that can influence and grow long term. Commercial support is fundamental and we would welcome the involvement of companies.

Creating a new leadership organisation is hard work. It requires the time and effort of all of us who care deeply about the industry and the parks and green spaces we cherish. It won’t happen overnight, but for those who express frustration at the speed of progress I would say only one thing – come and join us. Help us make sure that parks remain at the heart of UK life. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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“Is it time to show the world what else we can do?”

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is known throughout the world, even to those who do not otherwise have an interest in the industry. It’s shown on television and publicised in national newspapers. This can, however, sometimes mean that this is all people believe we can do. Whenever I tell people I’m a landscape architect, they come back with the answer: “Oh, when are you going to design my garden?” People assume, by what they see on television, that no matter what part of the industry we come from, we all just design gardens. Don’t get me wrong, Chelsea is the pinnacle of garden design expertise, and it is an honour to be included in that legacy. But is it time that we show the world what else the landscape industry can do?

LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE, GARDENSCAPES

Yes, I think the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is very good for the industry. I think most landscapers and designers would aspire to create a garden there – obviously it is one of the most prestigious flower shows in the world. From a designer’s point of view, they are widely recognised and rewarded at this show. I am in the landscaping sector and I would like to see more publicity and recognition of the highly skilled landscape contractors that make the designers’ ideas become a reality. It would be nice to see, as part of the gardens, a time-lapse video showing the build so that the public can see how much work goes into each garden.

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RYAN MILLS

“I would like more recognition for the contractors”

ANDY MIGHALL

WILL BURBERRY

IS THE RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW GOOD FOR THE INDUSTRY?

ASSISTANT CONTRACTS MANAGER, GAVIN JONES

“We should encourage more young people to go, and be inspired” Yes, I believe so. Surely anything that promotes our industry is a good thing? For me, it’s a brilliant chance for companies and individuals to showcase some of their grand schemes and ideas.

People from all over travel to see the Chelsea Flower Show – it doesn’t matter where you go, if you mention it to people they have at least heard of it.

My biggest drive would to be to encourage younger people to go, and be inspired to see what’s possible when the imagination is allowed to take over in working with the outdoors.

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Yes, because it’s always raising the industry standards.

It promotes the designers more than the landscapers, but without the designers the landscapers wouldn’t have any of these projects to aspire to t s the est flower show i the world, as far as I’m aware, and it’s the creativeness of the designers that challenges the landscapers and sets them apart from others, and once the e ishe the ui it s a great credential to their sales team. It also allows landscapers to go a bit wild and do something out of the ordinary.

I’m going there this year to build with Landform Consultants and then hopefully next year we’re going to build our own.

“In a promotional sense, it’s great for the industry”

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION MANAGER, GREEN-TECH

“The media coverage kick-starts many landscaping projects” Without a doubt, yes. It’s a really high pro e e e t th t ttr ts lots of attention and gets people talking about landscaping. They create amazing outdoor spaces at Chelsea and demonstrate that anything is possible – imagination is the only limiting factor.

Chelsea provides an amazing opportunity to see the good and the great of the industry – products, plants and people – in one location. It showcases an abundance of ideas and gives inspiration to the industry and clients. What we see at Chelsea we eventually see in the public domain several months later.

Chelsea makes gardening and landscaping exciting; the media coverage is vast which ignites the passion and kick-starts many landscaping projects. A great thing for the industry, I’d say.

SOLE PROPRIETOR, BEESLEYS LANDSCAPES

I’m a civil engineer by education, so the Chelsea Flower Show isn’t really one for me, but it’s good to publicise the industry, and that’s what I really get out of it. I’ve never been to it myself, but from a horticultural aspect and promotional sense it’s on the BBC and that’s great for the industry. The majority of things that I’m involved in are civil engineering and you don’t really get to see that end of the landscaping industry at Chelsea. There’s no reason why it can’t delve into this aspect on a small scale, but the show is more domestic than commercial, which is what we do a lot of. You do get some of the science behind it, but the sort of stuff that I’m involved in doesn’t get much exposure.

RICHARD WEXHAM

THOMAS DIFFER

“The show adds a great credential to landscapers’ teams”

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MATTHEW KEIGHTLEY This month, Pro Landscaper met Matt Keightley, who for the last two years running has won the People’s Choice award for his RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens – the Help for Heroes and ‘Hope in Vulnerability’ Sentebale exhibits. He’s taking a break from Chelsea this year but has plenty to keep him busy, showing us around a project he is currently working on whilst chatting about his career to date and plans for the future

How did you get into landscaping?

I fell into landscaping by chance really. I hadn’t aspired to be a garden designer, but it started because my parents needed their garden rejuvenated when I was 17. I had always been very practical and my grandpa bought me my first toolset when I was about four or five, so it seemed natural for me to design and build the garden. I took advice from local garden centres from the experience and knowledge they could provide me. I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience and that was the spark that got me hooked. The work started coming in once people heard about what I was doing, and there was no turning back.

Did you have any idea on how to structure this first project?

I think I had a natural spatial awareness, an instinct to creatively use form and structure, to utilise the existing features the garden had to offer. I am one of five boys and we all have a love for the outdoors. We were constantly outside playing, exploring and competing. I think without realising it, I was just touching on one of the key aspects of a designer-client relationship, which was knowing how my folks were going to be using the garden. It’s quite simple – I knew they would want a seating area at some place in the garden, and somewhere a little quieter out of the way, plus something as simple as a path to get from A to B. It was a very basic garden but it was definitely the starting point for me in my career. I relied on going into garden centres and asking people with industry experience, hoping to pick up the knowledge www.prolandscapermagazine.com prolandscapermagazine.com

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as I went along. I probably got three or four years into building gardens for friends and family, and then became self-employed and thought I should probably receive some formal training. So in 2004 I began studying for a degree in landscape design at Nottingham Trent University, which was strong for architecture and other design courses so seemed a good choice for me.

Did your education make a big change to what you had done previously?

I certainly wanted to pick up more understanding of the horticulture side and improve my plant knowledge, but what was more important was that it was a chance to confirm whether or not this was going to be a career I wanted to go into. And it did exactly that. After I left, I started focusing and taking it a bit more seriously, and I realised I now had slightly more ambitious goals than before.

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How did you go about fulfilling your goals and targets?

I came out of Nottingham Trent and continued designing and building gardens in South West London, but started targeting particular areas rather than waiting for work to come to me.

I was becoming more proactive as a designer and I learnt that I could be more ambitious and adventurous with my designs the more diverse my network of specialist contractors became.

This was a big step for me; I used to take on far too much and ended up building the majority of my early projects myself with a very small team.

Although I thoroughly enjoyed being on the tools it didn’t make sense if I wanted to take the design side of things more seriously.

Three years ago I joined Farr & Roberts, a construction business run by a family friend, and started a landscape division. It was with that platform and network of employees and various contractors that I came up with an idea for the Help for Heroes garden at RHS Chelsea.

That was a fairly pivotal garden for me and as a

I LEARNT THAT I COULD BE MORE AMBITIOUS WITH MY DESIGNS THE MORE DIVERSE MY NETWORK BECAME result began my journey to build a reputation as a designer.

How did the Help for Heroes RHS Garden come about?

Shows have never really been on my radar.

Embarrassingly, I had never been to Chelsea. The first time I stepped through the gates was the first day of the build. I had the idea for the Help for Heroes garden before I even thought about the show. I had always wanted to work with them so I just made a call. At that point I hadn’t got a drawing but I suggested we could design and build a garden at one of the recovery centres, and the way to raise awareness could be at one of the RHS shows. So I managed to get a meeting, still with no drawings or plans. I was quietly confident in the idea and suggested we build at Chelsea and then move the garden to one of the recovery centres. We then managed to find a private sponsor to cover the costs and approached the RHS. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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How would you define the experience of building at RHS Chelsea Flower Show?

I think ignorance was bliss for me. I didn’t know what to expect, what to fear or what to worry about, so I was just able to crack on. I tried to treat it like a normal job because that’s all I knew. We used our own contractors who although had never built show gardens before are extremely talented and it seemed to work well for us. It is a crazy fantasy world that is addictive. You learn huge amounts every single day on the show ground from people who have more experience – it’s a really nice industry for that. I thought it was going to be a hugely competitive environment, but everyone seemed to look out for one another. It felt quite bizarre that role models I’d looked up to were helping me out. It was a great experience and I was humbled to be a part of it.

How did it affect your business?

I think in the long term it will definitely help regarding raising the profile and awareness for what we do. We have been commissioned directly from that particular Chelsea show, but it is a tough one to answer. I think there are mixed feelings amongst the designers. Some people I spoke to ahead of Chelsea the first year said they’d get no work whatsoever but use it purely for publicity and marketing.

People still phone the office now and say that they saw our Help for Heroes garden and want something similar. I hope it will always resonate with people as it was a garden that meant a huge amount to me personally.

1 Matt Keightley in his People’s Choice-winning ‘Hope in Vulnerability Garden’ for Prince Harry’s Charity Sentebale at Chelsea Flower Show 2015 2 Ariel view of Matt’s ‘Hope on the Horizon’ garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2016 3 Meeting the Chelsea Pensioners at Chelsea 2015 4 Matt giving Prince Harry a tour of his ‘Hope in Vulnerability Garden’ at Chelsea 2015 5 The woven wall of the ‘Hope in Vulnerability Garden’ at Chelsea Flower Show 2015 6 Colourful planting is the star of the show at Chelsea 7 Chelsea Pensioner enjoying the ’They are just blokes, but they are our blokes’ bench in the ‘Hope on the Horizon’ garden; at Chelsea 2014 8 Matt reviews his plans with the Rosebank construction team 9 Matt with fellow young designers David Rich, Hugo Bugg and Harry Rich on his ‘Hope on the Horizon’ garden, Chelsea 2014 www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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Did you have the same feeling for the second year at RHS Chelsea?

I most definitely had the same buzz, the same excitement that you get wrapped up in. There’s always going to be pressure because the eyes of the industry are on you, but it was a different pressure. It was very exciting to do it again, but I always felt if we did it would need to be for the right garden and opportunity. I don’t want to do Chelsea just for the sake of it. It was unbelievable that only two weeks after my first Chelsea I found myself sitting at Clarence House talking with the Prince of Wales and Prince Harry about a second garden. It was bonkers.

Was it a conscious decision not to do RHS Chelsea this year?

Yes. The thing with working with such a decent team is that it has to be a collective decision with my colleagues in the studio. You need to be grown up and make business decisions as it could be easy to get carried away and endeavour to create a show garden every year. It’s nice to have a bit of relief because your day to day work can suffer if you don’t have the right guys in place – and Chelsea is an event that requires your full attention, so I guess it’s about finding the right balance. During Chelsea last year we had about four or five projects still running. Luckily clients seem to be fairly understanding. You just have to manage expectations.

I ALWAYS FELT THAT IF WE DID CHELSEA AGAIN IT WOULD NEED TO BE FOR THE RIGHT GARDEN AND OPPORTUNITY Are you purely design and build now?

Rosebank Landscaping offers both design and build services and have an extremely exciting year ahead with the projects we have coming up. We hope that the new website illustrates that as well as our own design projects. We have the capacity to carry out contracts for other designers too.

on site on any one day. But generally we have enough teams to run several projects at once.

Would you offer maintenance contracts at the end of your gardening?

We do offer maintenance on the medium, large and estate projects, yes. But rather than just lawn cutting, we like to place a head gardener or team of gardeners at a particular project full time and that way the client knows that the garden is going to be managed properly through us.

Who inspires you?

It’s impossible not to be inspired by the old greats such as Capability Brown, but I think more poignantly for me there are a number of designers whose work I have followed for many years. I must say it was a super feeling What size team have you got? exhibiting on the same stage as Cleve West It switches between our own employees and during my first Chelsea Flower Show. Just a specialist sub contractors, but when this particular genuinely decent bloke and extremely modest project was at its busiest, we had 25 to 30 guys about the fantastic work he does.

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So when you get time out from working, what do you enjoy doing?

I try to spend as much time as I can with my wife and daughter. Poppy’s our first child and arrived just two weeks after the first RHS Chelsea. Friends’ weddings seem to take up a lot of time at the moment – it’s a lot of fun though, because with weddings come stag dos!

1 Matt Keightley on his People’s Choice winning ‘Hope in Vulnerability Garden’ at Chelsea 2015 2 A view through the kitchen garden 3 The structure and form of the parterre comes into its own when signs of summer have long since disappeared

CONTACT Rosebank Landscaping Richmond, Surrey Email: info@rosebanklandscaping.co.uk Web: www.rosebanklandscaping.co.uk

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The grounds maintenance industry is one that has always been dominated by a few top players. Consolidation will be an ongoing challenge, says Phil Jones Consolidation in the grounds maintenance industry has been relatively unknown for a number of years. The market, for as long as I can remember, has operated with a number of easily recognisable brand names.

In 2014 we saw French capital backed Idverde Group acquire The Landscape Group, in what they said publicly was a move to establish a UK-wide landscape company. Idverde said at the time that this wouldn’t be the last acquisition in the UK and the beginning of this year saw the acquisition of Quadron Services.

It seems that the French are on the march to take over the UK grounds maintenance industry.

I predicted in the horticultural press in January 2016 that there would be further consolidation of the UK grounds maintenance industry, and so it is transpiring. What does this mean for our UK industry, for those employed in the target companies and for their customers?

Given that there are relatively few players delivering large scale grounds maintenance, it doesn’t take much to alter the face of the industry. In a small industry where the main players are well known and know each other well, it takes only a little change to influence the thinking of both peers and customers.

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management team, values of the staff who have little or no say at lower levels as they are traded between one capital house and another, and values of the customers who have certain expectations of their service delivery partners.

IN A SMALL INDUSTRY WHERE THE MAIN PLAYERS KNOW EACH OTHER WELL, IT TAKES ONLY A LITTLE CHANGE TO INFLUENCE THE THINKING OF BOTH PEERS AND CUSTOMERS Make no mistake these are financial transactions, driven by financial institutions, aimed at financial gain for the stakeholders. It is to be hoped in any deal such as these that as many of the grass roots staff can benefit as possible. This is not very often the case and few employees are won over by the ‘deal day’ public sound bites of promises of further career progression, better promotion chances and greater opportunities. They are, in my experience, simply looking for job security and comfort in knowing that any changes will not put their jobs at risk.

There are those who will say that whatever the new branding, it’s all about the way it’s done and employees retaining an identity isn’t really a major issue. This approach brings with it dangers of overlooking the employee needs in day to day life and particularly during a period of change.

I would maintain that if there is a positive, motivated spirit amongst the workforce as a consequence of good management and leadership, then most change can be effected with minimum negativity, and in such a way that effective and more successful integration is achieved. If these factors don’t exist beforehand, the road to success in any acquisition will be much harder. I believe an employee needs to have a sense of identity and a belief in the business they work for, which will carry them through the period of uncertainty as change takes place.

As for customers, how does this affect their view of the industry? In their shoes I think I would resent the narrowing choice that consolidation brings. However if, as a customer, I hadn’t been happy in the past I may hope for improvement driven by the new parent company.

Whether it is staff or customers, during the next few years we will see the effects of industry consolidation take hold. Both will be influenced by finance driven decisions, based on the best returns for those who have a stake in the company. There will inevitably be a ‘cash in’ time when the acquisition wheel will turn again, with the same issues and consequences coming round full circle.

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BEAUTY VS BUDGET ADAM WHITE

Adam White reviews the return of the Landscape Institute Conference, now combined with its popular CPD days and partnered with the University of Sheffield At the start of March I attended and facilitated a CPD workshop at the Landscape Institute Conference, which is back on the calendar after a six-year absence. The conference addressed the highly topical question of how landscape architects can continue to create beautiful, sustainable landscapes at a time when budget constraints, particularly in the public sector, could lead to a reductive focus on function.

The event was hosted in partnership with the University of Sheffield’s Department of Landscape.

It included thought-provoking talks from a distinguished roster of speakers and a selection of breakout CPD sessions. Site visits allowed delegates to see the most interesting recent landscape projects in and around Sheffield.

Landscape Institute president Noel Farrer gave the opening address and Professor James Hitchmough from the University of Sheffield welcomed all the delegates to the city and

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university. Professor Brian Evans from the Glasgow School of Art asked: “Where do our concepts of beauty in the Edward landscape come from?” He Hutchinson’s talked about how the sublime sketchbook and the picturesque contribute to beauty. Professor Nigel Dunnett challenged us about the possible dangers for the profession of pursuing beauty as a sole objective and Anna Jorgensen took a look at the potential impacts of forgetting about beauty in landscape architecture.

Andrew Grant gave an inspirational presentation about his work, profiling schemes from the shores of Southampton to the gardens of Singapore. He explained how clients and landscape architects need to prioritise the value of both function and beauty. He gave an in-depth look at the Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore, of which his practice, Grant Associates, planned the whole of Bay South.

Friday afternoon was packed full of engaging CPD workshops. In our seminar, my fellow Davies White Ltd director Andrée Davies and I shared our experience of designing nature play spaces. We explained the key techniques one needs to know to effectively enable a community when developing a playful landscape project.

Our session was the ultimate hands-on workshop as we got the delegates reconnecting with their inner child through model making.

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Using a variety of everyday materials you might find around the office, we got them to make scale models of their dream play spaces and structures.

After our CPD session we got to hear from landscape architect Edward Hutchinson. He demonstrated that the ability to draw by hand is now more relevant than ever. Edward believes that a practice which develops the precision of digital drawings fused with the humanity of good hand drawings distinguishes itself from its competitors.

Here at Davies White, we couldn’t agree more.

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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A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING DAVID DODD There is much to be said on the relationship between landscaper and designer – and more to be said on how best this relationship should function. David Dodd considers how he thinks this two-way street should operate What can a good landscaper offer a designer?

At first glance it may sound like an odd question, because it should have a pretty obvious answer: ‘to build the designs beautifully with a minimal amount of fuss’. However, having had meetings with several new designers this year, it’s made me think there’s far more to it than that.

I always admire a student coming fresh out of college and having a go at starting a design practice. However, even though I admire it, I still think they should get a few years’ experience working for an established design practice first.

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I advise them to go and have a face to face meeting with a well established contractor and not only find out what information they need to provide, but also to ask what that contractor can offer them. It really needs to be an open, honest conversation, so don’t try and blag anything – you’ll get caught out.

A GOOD CONTRACTOR SHOULD INCREASE THEIR PROFITABILITY THROUGH REDUCING A DESIGNER’S TIME ON SITE I tend to find the best designers appreciate a contractor with good design knowledge as they can often spot mistakes in the plans. However, it’s important that these are pointed out privately and not in front of the client. You don’t want to undermine the designer’s work, leaving the client unsure as to whether or not they’ve chosen the right person.

I always explain The Outdoor Room’s process, from taking the design through the build phase to completion. If the specification is lacking in detail I explain what is missing and why. This can be a tricky one if it’s out to tender, as a less scrupulous contractor may well take advantage of an inexperienced designer and price for exactly what is on the spec, knowing full well it won’t suffice, but it does

get their bottom line the lowest it can possibly be. They then rack up the extras the minute they set foot on site, which is really annoying to the client and makes the new designer look incompetent. I’d rather have a few lines detailing what they want, so that I can sit down with them and go through the construction of each element. I find this more beneficial than being handed a generic specification, which they’ve often been shown at college but don’t fully understand.

Believe it or not, I’m quite blunt with new designers as to what to expect, but the good ones learn quickly and respond in a positive manner. This isn’t being bullish – it’s helping them to realise that they’re now in the commercial world and mistakes cost money. I’m always happy to share knowledge of how things should be built and planted properly. This leads to building a good relationship based on trust as well as increasing client confidence and satisfaction.

So what about well established and experienced garden designers and architects?

Well, a good contractor should increase a designer’s profitability in the sense that they can reduce their time on site. They can foresee issues during the build phase thus creating fewer mistakes and revisions to plans and costs.

Finally, both new and old designers’ profiles can be raised or simply maintained with well taken photos of their high quality gardens.

An RHS medal or BALI award doesn’t look too shabby either.

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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Tackling the skills shortage has to begin with making jobs like hedge cutting, laying turf et al safer, less arduous and more productive, says Angus Lindsay We’re nearly halfway through the year and by now we should be well into the season of doing what we do best, albeit with a few more issues to contend with, not least of which the recently introduced National Living Wage. While personally I think this is a good initiative, it does make things in our industry all the more difficult when on one side we are faced with increased wage bills and, on the other, further cuts to our clients’ budgets. Ironically, both of these issues are driven by the same government – does no one else find this farcical?

We’re all familiar with the skills shortage within our industry and the need to invest more in training and the development of the next generation of landscapers, parks supervisors and contract managers. But it starts with the basics – laying turf, strimming, pollarding trees, hedge cutting, digging graves, marking football pitches, a huge range of skills undertaken in a range of sometimes difficult environments and varying weather conditions. To my mind, attracting new people into our industry has become a lot more

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more comfortable alternative? Sure we can make things more pleasant by putting cabs on machines, but then we’ll need air conditioning, and the weight will go up so we’ll need bigger trucks to carry/tow these machines, then we’ll need different driving licences and an operator’s licence – whoever said grass cutting was easy?

We do, however, need to look at more inventive ways of reducing some of the arduous tasks faced by our staff to make things safer and easier for them. It could be as simple as

NO LONGER CAN WE WHOLLY RELY ON THE SINGLE TASK RESOURCE. WE NEED TO BE MORE MULTIFACETED

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combining two operations – initially expensive, but not when you look at the cost of the labour versus the investment in machinery. Sometimes it might be as simple as sitting on a machine rather than walking behind it. Good examples of equipment that makes life easier for the operator while increasing productivity are the ATV based ride-on line marker, the stand-on rotary mower, remote control banks mower and the use of front linkages on tractors.

A word of caution at this point, I have in the past seen several examples of locally built adaptations which on the face of it seem a good time-saving idea, but none of them would pass any sort of scrutiny should there be an accident.

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The strive for efficiency, better use of the prime mover and the person operating it has seen some innovative ideas coming from the continent. The out-front rotary can be fitted with a flail, power brush or snow plough, increasing its year round use. A Danish company has even produced a front-mounted hedge cutter. It’s not yet in the UK, but that’s only a matter of time.

So is the title of this article applicable to the current state of our industry – when the need for something becomes essential, you are forced to find ways of achieving it. Personally, I think it is, and this should be our point of reference for the future. No longer can we wholly rely on the single task resource. We need to become more multifaceted in our thinking, our staff training and capital investment. In today’s environment, there is no place for the ‘one-trick pony’.

ABOUT ANGUS LINDSAY 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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DIVERSITY DEFICIT LESLEY MALONE

Are celebrity gardeners and A-list designers good or bad for the industry? And does the media’s representation of landscape and horticulture have any influence on diversity and attracting a wide range of new recruits to the landscape sector, asks Lesley Malone I watched a thought-provoking debate unfold online recently in response to a post pronouncing that the media paints an unrealistic picture of the industry, in which only big name designers and white middle-aged gardening hobbyists are visible to the public, contributing to a lack of diversity and an unpleasant whiff of elitism within the sector.

Furthermore, as anything relating to gardens and landscape tends to be portrayed as a leisure activity for the affluent, it was argued, it’s unsurprising that landscape professionals can also be seen as semi-hobbyists, with years of training and hard-won qualifications unappreciated.

Making a living out of something that people usually do for fun comes with a unique set of problems. Ask any performing musician (me, for instance). The instant fame factory of X-Factor, Pop Idol et al does nothing to portray how a musician’s craft is developed over years, or to show the realities of the music industry – and it certainly doesn’t represent all the other skilled specialists from other disciplines on whom the

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inspire someone to train as a sound technician.

Interconnected specialisms and little-known but vital roles are ignored – because in the current celebrity-obsessed age, it’s all about the star.

The lack of diversity in media representations of the industry is an issue not only because it fails to reflect reality but also because the preponderance of ‘pale, male and stale’ garden celebrities makes sparking a connection with anyone outside that demographic much less likely. Given the recruitment difficulties the industry faces, it’s essential to look at ways of attracting young people, and positive media representation can be a game-changer.

According to garden designer Charlie Bloom (@bloomsblogs), who kicked off this discussion: “Whole sections of a diverse industry are either wholly ignored and therefore sidelined into obscurity, or portrayed in a manner that makes them undesirable career propositions. When a career is perceived by the general public as either elitist or a hobby, this filters down into perceptions

of the professional’s worth.”

Community schemes and urban greening initiatives – perhaps more engaging and relevant for younger people and those who don’t live in affluent suburbs – are similarly marginalised and invisible in the media. These kinds of projects could do much to showcase the worthwhile career options available and to highlight the value of green jobs, but they rarely get the exposure.

I like the adage that rather than asking children what they want to be when they grow up, we should ask what problems they want to help solve. When children now have a greater understanding of environmental issues and threats than previous generations ever had, isn’t this sector’s potential to sustain and support the environment the greatest recruiting tool it has?

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

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ANDREW WILSON Andrew Wilson bemoans the ‘last one in’ syndrome that afflicts the garden design profession. Could we have more integrated approaches and strategic thinking?

I love being a garden designer. I always have and hopefully I always will. But sometimes I do get tired of particular recurring scenarios with new clients, in which many of our related professionals are complicit.

It is a rare thing indeed to be a garden designer who is appointed at the start of a wider project, even though we have several completed projects in the studio archives from which we can demonstrate the benefits of basic planning, cost saving and programming.

Ultimately, we have to have a client who is thinking beyond the completion or extension of their house and into the logistics, as well as the design quality, of their complete environment.

Perhaps even more useful to us would be to have architects who don’t think they can sort out the garden and landscape themselves, and accept that they need dedicated designers who can do a better job. Fundamentally, this comes down to basic architectural education which promotes an attitude of arrogance towards other associated professions. We are frequently invited to help deliver a garden project when all the hardscape and planting beds have already been designed or created by the architects (because they think they know how to do it). Our first response is generally to suggest we start again, which obviously goes down like a lead balloon. Trying to plant sustainably into a 300mm wide raised bed is a challenge to anyone unless a sedum carpet is the desired outcome.

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IT IS A RARE THING INDEED TO BE A GARDEN DESIGNER WHO IS APPOINTED AT THE START OF A PROJECT house sits like a beached whale in a sorrowful desert – no one seems to care about the rest of the property. At the end of their architectural build, many clients start their garden design meeting with the phrase: “We have no money so what can be done?” Well, erm, let me think about that one... but not for too long.

We currently have a client who has forbidden any excavation or mechanical removal of material in the garden on the basis that this will upset the neighbours. The decision comes at the end of an architectural build that includes a substantial basement excavation. The noise and disruption in the garden would take a week, maximum, as opposed to the many months for the creation of the basement. Another client pulled the plug on their front garden design which would have completed the wider garden project as all the neighbours were suffering from excessive build fatigue on a property which had been modernised fairly consistently over a period of three years.

I remember Jill Billington once being utterly delighted to be commissioned by a client in London to design and build the garden first before their house was rebuilt and modernised.

The lack of access to the rear garden in many London properties means that garden costs at the end of such projects can escalate as all material in and out has to be bagged and transported manually.

It would be nice to think that Building Information Modelling (BIM) might provide an answer to these issues as it percolates through the industry, but somehow I think it will take a major change in attitude from everyone involved in domestic design projects to push any kind of change. We must all try to see our projects holistically as single compositions in which many hands are hopefully making light work.

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There is too much noise, particularly online, generated by people who only offer negativity. It’s time to start discussing solutions instead, says Pete Jones At such a positive time for the landscape industry, the number of people who are quick to cast their often ill-informed opinions on all subjects landscape-related amazes me. Sadly, this includes those proficient in a particular sector of the industry, but who are quick to cast aspersions on the work of those of another.

Not only do the majority of these people have very little knowledge of the industry as a whole, but they have even less ability to influence it in a positive manner. Despite this, they are happy to castigate any individual or organisation, at every opportunity, in as public a forum as possible.

How many of these people have actually stopped to think about their impact on the industry and wondered whether there was a

MAYBE THERE IS NO DESIRE FOR A RESOLUTION, JUST AN OVERRIDING NEED TO AGGRAVATE, DISRUPT AND ANNOY better way to use their time? Is it inconceivable that time to reflect might present them with something real, useful and possibly even helpful to others?

Surely this is preferable to spending their time goading people for a response while feeding their ego by claiming to be the largest and fastest growing entity.

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a difference in opinion that should be discussed. Maybe there is no desire for a resolution, just an overriding need to aggravate, disrupt and annoy.

We need to remember that many of those who put themselves in the firing line as members of committees or organisations are doing so for no recompense, something pointed out in a recent Pro Landscaper ‘View From The Top’ article. Those involved with trade associations are there to improve industry standards through and for its members and to offer support and guidance where sought. All these people share a common goal, trying to improve our industry.

I see no benefit in some people’s provocative offerings. I only see them being divisive and wasting the time of those with good intent. If they were to stop and think occasionally, perhaps they would be able to see through the fog that they have created and put their time to better use.

I am tired of listening to criticisms and negative arguments. Engage with the right people on the correct level and address the issue. Do so from an informed position and an appropriate platform – a platform from which you can find a resolution without the need to sweep along those of a similar mind hovering over the ‘like’ button.

THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO EMPLOY, TRAIN AND DRIVE IMPROVEMENT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DESERVE THE PLAUDITS The landscape industry is in a very buoyant position, so why do we find ourselves still trying to silence these inerudite people? Sadly, I fear they will always be there, unable to make a worthwhile contribution.

You can easily tell those who are truly aligned with our industry’s interests. Those who are trying to generate further grassroots interest and who continue to employ, train and drive improvement are the people who deserve the plaudits. They are the people who are doing something, not simply talking about it, and they are the people who deserve our support.

ABOUT PETE JONES After 20 years in the landscape industry working across many sectors, Pete is now creating and maintaining award-winning landscape solutions with LDP Ltd. BALI NCF and BALI South Thames committee member investin time and effort to improve our industry wherever possible.

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FROSTS LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION LTD Frosts was tasked with creating a fitting setting for this architectural new build home in Burnham Market, Norfolk

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esigned by Thomas Faire Architects, ‘Saltmarsh’ house is a newly built architectural statement that sits juxtaposed within the rural Norfolk landscape of Burnham Market. The house has predominately clean, hard lines with a relatively high number of architectural finishes on the exterior of the building. The interior is strongly zoned in terms of functionality, with a large proportion of the day-to-day living space on the first floor, which is essentially a glass box. This affords elevated views across the garden and surrounding fields, which roll away to the sea, just visible in the distance. There is also a large mezzanine deck area extending from the side of the house. The majority of viewpoints of the garden are therefore from an elevated position.

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The challenge was to create a setting in which the house could sit comfortably without diminishing the experience of the wider landscape, tempering and complementing the house’s stark profile while reflecting its zoning and varied use of materials.

ABOUT FROSTS Established in 1974, Frosts Landscape Construction Ltd is part of a family owned group of companies. rosts is very different in terms o its operations but the fundamental values of quality, teamwork, safety and innovation are still at the heart o the business. he main office in ilton eynes is the base from which the company provides its range of specialist garden design, landscaping and maintenance services throu hout the . rosts continues to be at the cutting edge of the industry.

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The brief The clients specified that the front drive space should be open, simple and uncluttered to allow the parking of several vehicles with easy turning, while planting should emphasise texture and floral interest. Further desirable features were an open air spa area, lawn, access from the stairs on the eastern side of the house to an existing garden gym, and access along the northern side of the garden. The client also wanted improved views of the surrounding countryside and towards the sea at the rear, as well as increased privacy from the road on the western boundary. In all other respects the design brief was open, but with the objective of creating a sense of place and allowing a journey through the garden and around the house.

Design and build The design used a limited palette of hardscape

surfaces, employing industrial style materials such as Corten, galvanised mesh steel fencing and gabion cage retaining walls to bleed through into the soft landscaping. As a reference to the nearby

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Tel 0845 021 9001 Email info@frostslandscapes.com Web www.frostslandscapes.co.uk Construction Frosts Landscape Construction Ltd

Tel 0845 021 9001 Email info@frostslandscapes.com Web www.frostslandscapes.co.uk Paving Schellevis Beton bv

1 Strong verticals and topiary shapes at elevated eye level 2 Abundant textural planting 3 Entrance corridor, day one

Tel 07774 923 181 Email gordon@schellevis.co.uk Web www.schellevis.nl Trees Europlants UK Limited

4 Entrance corridor, groundworks and bed preparation in progress

Tel 01707 649 996 Email enquiries@europlants.net Web www.europlants.net

5 Entrance corridor completed

Plants

6 Spa room with Schevellis paving, cedar screens and architectural planting 7 Planter from gabions and Norfolk cobbles with Olea europaea, underplanted with Lavandula angustifolia

Joseph Rochfords Ltd

Tel 01707 261 370 Email sales@rochfords.net Web www.rochfords.net Aggregate supplies Frimstone Ltd

8 View from basement deck

Tel 01366 388 900 Web www.frimstone.co.uk

9 Permeable resin bound driveway surface is SUDS compliant

Topsoil, cobbles and gravel

10 Schevellis ‘Anthracite’ 1m flags 11 The olive is several hundred years old. It has acclimatised well in the light soil selected

Baileys of Norfolk

Tel 01603 754 607 Email info@baileysofnorfolk.co.uk Web www.norfolktopsoil.co.uk

Zones were allocated for relaxation (spa room), sensory experience (east-west entrance corridor on the south side), informal play and outdoor exercise (gym room lawn) and utility (east-west corridor on the north).

Planting was naturalistic rather than formal around the entertaining/relaxation zones of the garden. Form and plant texture were relied upon to achieve a sense of calmness and unity with loose planting and natural organic and mineral textures contained within clean flowing lines.

A sense of visual rhythm was achieved by repetition of form and strong verticals through the choice of trees. Views of ‘borrowed landscape’ beyond the hedges were created by selective removal of existing trees and reduction of hedges. The design brought the garden closer to the interior living space and mezzanine deck through use of standard tree planting and bringing form into the eye line. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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SMART SCAPE GENESIS CONSTRUCTION AND LANDSCAPES LTD Genesis used smart technology, rustic planting and contemporary details to bring this Cambridge garden bang up to date

Project value £80k with Genesis, £15k with electrics and top lawn landscaped Build time February to July 2014 Size of project 700m2

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his project embraced a contemporary look while using rustic materials and plants. Living close to and working at a technology park in Cambridge, the clients wanted to have a garden that was fully automated – the lights, sound and water are all controllable from their smart devices.

Design and construction When Genesis first met the clients they had already drawn up plans, but the design wasn’t yet ticking all the boxes. Genesis helped to give the garden a clean, more spacious feel, eradicating unnecessary busyness and level changes, while staying true to the original plans.

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was spent on site. These extras included moving oil tanks, patio extensions, running cables to the trees on the perimeter of the garden, pop up irrigation and external Wi-Fi cabling.

Stones and steps The main patio areas were laid in Marshalls’ natural slate with its Argent edging. As the garden evolved, it was felt coping stones and large bespoke steps would be a good addition.

Working with the client, companies were found that supplied slate window sills which were used for the coping. Originally starting at 1800mm lengths, they were cut down to 600mm units and angled to fit around the enormous curved outer and lower walls – a time-consuming task.

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COMMENDED PROJECT VALUE £60,000-£100,000

the time did an incredible job of carefully joining the coping stones, bullnosing all steps and polishing the faces of the already rounded stones. It was through his handiwork that such bespoke pieces were achieved while on site.

Render Wetherby’s silicone render was used for the white rendered walls, which goes on the colour you choose and is fully water resistant. This material costs about three times as much but gives a professional finish.

Technology Stainless steel pop-up sprinklers by Hunter were installed, powered by a system called Etherrain. These can be set on a timer to come on as and when required. Using Wi-Fi or a 1 Marshalls Stoneface walling on 6m curve 2 Panoramic of garden from top lawn 3 View from side of house 4 CAD drawings on Google Sketchup 5 Marshalls natural slate paving from house

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unique IP address, you can be sitting in Australia while watering your lawn in Cambridge. The external speakers were connected to the client’s existing Sonos system via the use of an amplifier wired to the Sonos bridge. Finally, the water pumps and garden lighting were set up to be operated from the client’s smartphone using a Z-Wave system, a piece of hardware that uses Wi-Fi to communicate with the lights and pumps.

Challenges There were two main challenges, access being the first. The only way to get a digger into the garden was via a half-mile bumpy track, through a field and over the client’s lawn to where the main landscaping took place. All materials had to come in and out this way. Starting the project in February, for the first three months no large lorries wanted to risk getting stuck in the mud.

As a result all loose aggregates were loaded into a dumper and driven to where needed.

The second main challenge was discovering

PLAN chalk below 300mm of soil. Neither the client nor Genesis had realised that their entire two acre garden was on chalk. The design was effectively built into the hillside and around 1000t of chalk and 500t of soil had to be excavated.

Another notable difficulty was to install Marshalls’ stone face walling onto a 6m curved water feature – Genesis is thought to be the first to successfully attempt this. When the wind blew, the water hit the tiles and was absorbed by the slate, but a simple waterproof sealant fixed this issue.

ABOUT GENESIS CONSTRUCTION AND LANDSCAPES LTD Mike Long has worked in the landscape industry for ten years, running his own company, Genesis Construction and Landscapes, for six of them. He won Contractor of the Year with Marshalls in 2015 and Genesis recently won a ‘Commended’ award in the £60-£100k category at the APL Awards 2016. Mike lives in Bury St Edmunds with his wife and two young boys. www.genesislandscapes.co.uk

1 Lower steps at night 2 CAD drawings on Google Sketchup 3 Panoramic of patio from house 4 Three stainless steel blades at 900mm 5 Bespoke bullnosing by hand on site 6 Garden at night, colour changing LED’s in water feature 7 Hidden pipework for automatic lawn irrigation 8 Using chop saw on Jacksons acoustic fencing 9 Month two – start of block work 10 Hand bullnosing slate steps 11 Month one – excavation of chalk

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REFERENCES Landscaper

Planting

Genesis Construction and Landscapes Ltd

Fordham Nursery

Tel 01284 386 162 Email info@genesislandscapes.co.uk Web www.genesislandscapes.co.uk

Tel 01638720 455 Email enquiries@fordhamnursery.co.uk Web www.fordhamnursery.co.uk Render

Patio slabs and walling Marshalls Plc

Tel 01422 312 000 Web www.marshalls.co.uk

Wetherby Building Systems Limited

Tel 01942 717 100 Email info@wbs-ltd.co.uk Web www.wbs-ltd.co.uk

Pond liner Butyl Rubber Products

Tel 01277 653 281 Email enquiries@butylproducts.co.uk Web www.butylproducts.co.uk

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WINNER Domestic Garden Construction – Construction cost between £30k -£60k category

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £35k Build time First contact April 2014, completion July 2014 Size of project 250m2

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New tree – Japanese Maple

New bench

Multi-stemmed Betula utilis ‘Jacquemontii’ Existing dining table & benches

Compacted gravel

Pond with boulders

Lawn Compost bin Tea house with shed attached

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Existing Loquat tree & Camellia

Lawn

Stepping stone boulders set into lawn

Existing Holly tree with retaining wall

Existing circular planting bed

New tree – Japanese Maple

Path using existing flagstone and setts in compacted gravel

Old wall replaced with new

Existing paving

Existing steps up to balcony & ground floor of house

Existing steps Existing lower terrace

New bench

Multi-stemmed Betula utilis ‘Jacquemontii’

GOING EAST LANDSCAPING SOLUTIONS

Landscaping Solutions gave this London garden a Japanese feel with boulders, Acers and an ornamental water feature

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andscaping Solutions was approached as part of a tender process to build the rear garden of a recently renovated terraced property in Wandsworth, south-west London.

The project was designed by Pamela Johnson and Landscaping Solutions worked closely with her throughout the build. They have worked together several times over the past five years, Landscaping Solutions admiring her wealth of experience and thorough, beautifully presented plans.

The brief The client desired that the garden have strong features to view from the house windows, a space that could be used for relaxation and to entertain family, and a focus on a large lawn space. The 1 View across the pool back to the house 2 Pamela Johnson’s concept plan 3 View down the dry stream bed to the tea house

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brief noted the potential for a Japanese influence, suggesting Acers and boulders, and an ornamental water feature – which could be a new pond – integrated into the design.

A dining area for six to eight people with further bench and chair seating was specified, as well as a summerhouse or small greenhouse plus rainwater storage and irrigation. Good winter access to the rear of the garden and compost area was required, such as via a new pathway, as well as a lighting scheme. The client wanted the garden to include four seasons of planting interest with lots of colour and scent requiring medium maintenance.

ABOUT LANDSCAPING SOLUTIONS

Construction The site was cleared of unwanted masonry, stone paving and planting, some of which was retained for reintroduction. An existing pond was removed and filled in, and approximately 25t of banked soil was excavated and removed by hand from the site. The renovated interior of the house was protected and left in the same condition as when work started. Jacksons Fencing trellis was mounted to the south and rear boundary walls.

Landscaping Solutions is a Walton-On-Thames based contractor dedicated to creating and maintaining rst class private ardens throu hout ondon and Surrey. Managing director Ben West is a Capel Manor trained garden designer and horticulturalist with experience working both at home and overseas. ood customer service ethical or in practices and an e cellent eye or detail have all led to the company winning multiple RHS and BALI awards.

www.landscapingsolutionsltd.co.uk

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A bespoke ‘tea house’ was mounted on a raised base consisting of reclaimed yellow stock bricks of local provenance. The tea house makes a great spot to view the garden and relax in all weathers, with extra storage space.

A pool and dry stream bed were created involving the excavation of a large amount of soil, some of which was recycled and used in forming the new lawn. The pond had an average depth of 900mm with a 200-300mm shelf for marginal planting. An overflow pipe was included to ship excess water to a shingle-filled soakaway in an adjacent border, and pool sides were constructed and edged with large gneiss boulders. The dry stream bed was built to run into the pool and shares the same edging materials. The success of the design was proven when amphibians and insects began taking up residence from day one.

The dining area adjacent to the pool and dry stream bed was surfaced with a self-binding aggregate in a silver colour to complement the gneiss boulders. The close proximity of the dining area to the pool makes it another pleasant place to unwind, and a Japanese feel was achieved through the subdued minimal colour scheme and orderly nature of the layout.

Paved pathways lead around and through the garden, linking and providing access to all the major features. Consisting of riven sandstone in warm buff colouration, all stone was cut on site to form the desired curved lawn edge. Stepping

stones across the lawn including a selection of some of the flatter gneiss boulders were added to keep shoes from getting muddy in winter.

All borders were prepared and dressed with well-rotted manure compost and a tap-mounted timer-driven drip irrigation system was fitted to service all borders. The new lawn was edged with metal where necessary to retain adjacent aggregates and soils. Uplighters were fitted to illuminate the major planting features and lights added on to the tea house – all electrical work was outsourced to Electrosafe Landscape Lighting.

Challenges Access through the house was the biggest challenge of this build – tight doorways, steep slopes and a lot of stairs to navigate. In all instances, maintaining integrity and cleanliness of the property and good relations with the client was paramount.

1 Sketch showing view of tea house/summerhouse either bespoke or adapted from a ready made building 2 A place to relax 3&4 Construction in progress

REFERENCES Landscaper Landscaping Solutions

Lyon House,16 Lyon Road, Walton-On-Thames, Surrey KT12 3PU Tel 020 8241 2402 Email info@landscapingsolutionsltd.co.uk Web www.landscapingsolutionsltd.co.uk Garden design Pamela Johnson Garden Design

Tel 020 8767 1458 Web www.pamelajohnson.co.uk Rockery stone, paving and aggregates CED Ltd

Tel 01895 422411 Email sales@ced.ltd.uk Web www.ced.ltd.uk Drainage and irrigation Landscapeplus

Tel 01666 577577 Web www.landscapeplus.com Turf Spooners Turf

Tel 01252 793748 Web www.spooners-turf.co.uk Electrical services Electrosafe Landscape Lighting Ltd

Tel 020 8394 1098 Web www.electrosafe.com Metal edging EverEdge

Tel 01453 731717 Web www.everedge.co.uk Trellis Jacksons Fencing

Tel 01233 750393 Email sales@jacksons-fencing.co.uk Web www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk Building materials Travis Perkins

Tel 01604 752424 Web www.travisperkins.co.uk

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SOUTHWARK PARK QUADRON SERVICES

Quadron Services works together with Southwark Council to maintain this long-standing and much-loved municipal London park

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uadron Services has been working in partnership with Southwark Council to maintain Southwark Park since 2004, when the company was awarded Southwark Council’s Integrated Parks and Grounds Management Contract.

The 25ha park is credited as one of the first municipal parks in London, having been opened by the Metropolitan Board of Directors in 1869. It benefited from a £2.5m Heritage Lottery Fund grant in 1999 which enabled extensive improvements to be carried out, and now boasts a wide range of facilities for www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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visitors including a lake, bowling green, cricket oval, tennis courts, children’s play area and beautiful gardens, including the stunning Ada Salter garden.

There are swathes of close-mown open grassland, mature broadleaf and coniferous trees, ornamental shrubberies and bedding, small areas of woodland, a wildlife area and some spring and summer meadows. Bats, greater spotted woodpeckers and stag beetles have all been sighted in the park, while the flowers in the borders and the meadow areas are an important habitat for pollinating insects.

Awards The park has been Green Flag accredited since 2002. In 2014, Quadron was awarded a prestigious BALI Principal Award for its maintenance of the park.

Maintenance Quadron’s maintenance team at Southwark Park is led by head gardener Lynne Olding.

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PRINCIPAL AWARD WINNER Grounds Maintenance – Free Public Access

Shrub beds – Shrub beds are managed to maintain healthy stocks of plants. Pruning is carried out as appropriate for each species. Renovation work has been undertaken to the shrubberies to open up views

Avenue – Walking along the tree-lined avenues it is easy for the visitor to forget they are in the city

The Ada Salter garden is one of the highlights of the park. It was constructed in 1934 as a semi-circular herbaceous and English Rose Garden. The area is paved in York Stone crazy paving and has a split level with a raised terrace to the north with benches set against the retaining wall facing towards the lake

public. She is supported by a team leader, three gardeners and an apprentice.

Southwark Park has an active ‘Friends’ group and Quadron staff regularly attend their ABOUT QUADRON SERVICES Founded in 1993, Quadron is a green space management company that prides itself on its proactive approach towards cultivating sustainable green communities. It provides grounds maintenance services to local authorities and housing associations throughout London, the Midlands and the South West.

Quadron was purchased by Idverde in 2016 and is now sister company to The Landscape Group.

www.quadronservices.co.uk

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meetings in order to update the members on work in the park and to better understand the aspirations of the park’s users. Quadron and the Friends also organise community events in the park such as bulb and hedge planting, as well as occasional tours of the park’s Ada Salter Garden for members of the public.

As an ISO 14001 accredited contractor, Quadron aims to employ sustainable maintenance methods in the park. Green waste is composted and returned as mulch, and a bulb and bedding reuse scheme operates, which sees material that cannot be reused in the park donated free of charge to the local community.

The use of pesticide is avoided wherever possible, with innovative alternatives such as Foamstream chemical-free weed control used instead. A John Deere electric Gator vehicle is deployed in the park for its zero emissions and quiet operation, and a ‘FIDO’ machine is used three times a week to remove dog faeces from the park.

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Apprentice Aron Burls with Head Gardener Lynne Olding

Bowling green – Southwark Park’s bowling green requires particularly careful maintenance to ensure it remains in excellent condition throughout the playing season. This includes maintaining the grass height at between 3mm and 6mm and carrying out regular rolling and scarifying

free, with litter collected from surfaces and bins at a frequency that avoids rubbish lying around and being blown onto adjoining beds, or suggesting that the area is neglected. ● The bowling green to be maintained as a healthy, tight and close mown sward, maintained to a high standard suitable for play. The hedge is kept to a height of 1m for natural surveillance and to allow people to view the bowling. ● Rose beds to be kept in a clean and weed-free condition at all times. Roses pruned according to type. Roses to be dead headed and mulched. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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● Flower bed maintenance – spring bedding

consisting of main bedding, edging plants and bulbs; summer bedding consisting of main bedding, edging plants and dot plants.

Bedding to be kept weed free and dead headed as necessary. There is approx 330m2 of bedding in the park.

Development Quadron is pleased to support the council in the realisation of its aims for this well-loved London park by continuing to preserve and enhance the historic character of Southwark Park, increasing its amenity and biodiversity value while satisfying the needs of current and future generations of parks users.

REFERENCES Bedding Downs View Nurseries

Tel 01243 641053 Electric Gator vehicle John Deere Ltd

Web www.deere.co.uk Shrubs and trees Palmstead Nurseries

Tel 01233 813340 Email sales@palmstead.co.uk Web www.palmstead.co.uk Provender Nurseries

Tel 01322 662315 Email enquiries@provendernurseries.co.uk Web www.provendernurseries.co.uk

Images © Gerry Kelsey, Quadron Services

● Hard surfaces to be kept clean and weed

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IDEAS GIVEN LIFE Pro Landscaper’s Nina Mason spoke to Cube 1994’s managing director Sean Butler about the process of building Ruth Willmott’s show garden last year and how more could be done to recognise the efforts of contractors at Chelsea

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he ‘Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden’ designed by Ruth Willmott not only won a Silver-Gilt Medal at last year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, but also received the People’s Choice Award for Best Fresh Garden. Whilst a huge achievement for Ruth, the contractor that brought her award-winning design to life was Cube 1994.

The Essex-based company was set up 22 years ago, offering a combination of design, build and maintenance. Managing director Sean Butler admits he was looking for a change in direction and turned his hobby of gardening into a career: “I got my first commission of £5,000 soon after setting up the business and haven’t looked back.”

The company’s involvement in show gardens got off to a rocky start when it tendered a design for Merrill Lynch’s garden in 2003 but was unfortunately overlooked for lack of experience. Over the following years, business picked up considerably, and show gardens were put on hold. “Then in 2012, we 58

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were approached to do the Veolia Water garden with Vicky Harris in the Artisan section at Chelsea and I liked the design, the simplicity of it, so we accepted.”

Sean and his team made such a strong impression whilst working on Vicky’s garden at Chelsea that neighbours and design duo Ruth Willmott and Frederic Whyte asked the company

WHEN I WAS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING I USED TO RESOLVE PROBLEMATIC SITUATIONS BY PREFABRICATING OFF SITE TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS. I ADOPT THE SAME PRINCIPLE FOR LANDSCAPE BUILDS to build their garden the following year. Achieving a Gold Medal further confirmed the competency of the team, and Ruth Willmott brought Cube 1994 back for her garden in 2015.

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1 RHS Chelsea 2015 Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden built by Cube 1994 2 Sculpture by Rick Kirby 3 Ribbon of pink planting including Iris sibirica and Myosotis sylvatica 4 Cube 1994’s Sean Butler alongside the People’s Choice Award winning garden

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discuss the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Garden: “When she showed me the design, I instantly liked it. I felt that it looked harmonising and peaceful whilst at the same time making a poignant statement. And the statement was in the water features.”

A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer approximately every ten minutes in the UK and the water feature was to be emblematic of this statistic. “Ruth wanted the infinity pools to ripple every ten minutes, but that’s the designer’s point of view. It was up to us to deliver the technical. I knew it could be done, I just had to think how.”

A background in civil engineering might not seem the most obvious path towards landscaping, but when it comes to building show gardens Sean uses it to his advantage. “I always ask myself what can be built off site to make building the garden on site at Chelsea easier.

When I was in civil engineering I used to resolve a lot of problematic situations by prefabricating off site to speed up the process. I adopt the same principle for landscape builds.”

The water feature was the most challenging part of this build, according to Sean, spending 79 hours on the prefabrication alone, from finding the right sized pump to removing eddies for a seamless effect to creating a ripple every ten minutes.

Prefabricating is not the only thing Sean suggests for a smooth build. Before the building begins, he recommends that a site visit is always wise for those making their debuts. “You need to plan logistically all of your movements for the whole period of the show, including deliveries; it’s a very tight space, and planning is one of the key elements to creating a successful garden through to fruition.”

He also recommends a discussion with the team prior to the build about the expectations for each day: “We were finished building by day seven and then it was just planting. On a ten day build, you ideally want to be finished by day eight so that you’ve got time to assess the garden and

look for what the judges might spot.”

Despite the immense amount of hard work that goes into building a show garden, the focus of RHS Chelsea tends to be on the designers.

This year, RHS director general Sue Biggs announced a new Best Construction Award to recognise the ‘unsung heroes’ of Chelsea.

Sean said: “The RHS needs to applaud the skills and hard work that the landscapers put in equally to the skill of the designer. You can draw almost anything on paper but unless you’ve got

IT’S A TEAM EFFORT...

YOU NEED A FANTASTIC DESIGN BUT YOU ALSO NEED A FANTASTIC LANDSCAPE TEAM TO DELIVER IT the people with the skills to produce it, the garden is not going to look like the design.”

He still thinks more could be done to recognise the contractors, however. “I think the landscapers should be interviewed alongside the designers and both should be handed the medal together. It’s a team effort; one can’t be without the other. You need a fantastic design but you also need a fantastic landscape team to deliver it.”

Having been approached by the RHS Hyde Hall Essex garden in Essex, Cube 1994 is now looking for sponsorship for next year’s RHS Chelsea to build a garden promoting awareness of dementia, which will take permanent residence at the RHS Hyde Hall Essex following the show.

CONTACT Cube 1994 Ltd, 62 Main Road Danbury, Essex, CM3 4NG Tel: 01245 227148 Email: info@cube1994.com Web: www.cube1994.com

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More and more people are seeking to bring the exotic outdoor dining experience to their own homes. The options for a practical and stylish outdoor kitchen are endless, says Anji Connell Outdoor entertaining and al fresco dining are becoming a quintessential part of our modern lifestyle as we travel and experience outdoor eating. What better way to enjoy outdoor living than with an outdoor kitchen?

Letting the outdoors in and the indoors out expands our space and is now so common it has a name – the ‘transterior,’ coined by Australian horticulturist and landscape designer Jamie Durie. A passionate advocate of outdoor life, Durie worked with Electrolux Australia to produce its eco-friendly outdoor kitchen that includes beautiful countertops, an integrated burner and barbecue with built-in planting.

We may not have Australian summers, but we all appreciate getting outside and feeling the sun on our faces – add some heat to the mix with a fire pit or outdoor heater and we can enjoy it for much longer. A pergola or shelter also prolongs the time we can cook outdoors – just

Eco-friendly outdoor kitchen, Electrolux Australia

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Chi-town retreat by Chicago Green Design

remember to allow for ventilation and enough space between the grill flame and the roof.

Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev designed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken hull of a boat. It’s a unique way to provide cover from the elements, and you can wheel your kitchen outside when the sun shines.

Outdoor kitchens are quite simply a great place to entertain. They keep the mess outdoors, and the kids can do their thing Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev while the adults do theirs.

The joy of the outdoor kitchen is in its laidback and open atmosphere, where our friends and loved ones can sit and sip while we prep and cook in the fresh – hopefully warm – air.

Katrin Schön, project manager of Spoga+Gafa, reported: “The market for

cooking and eating outside is growing rapidly.

There is such a huge demand now, not just for grills and barbecues but for full outdoor kitchens.”

There are some questions your client will need to answer, however, when choosing an outdoor kitchen: • How will your client cook outside – would a grill or a hob be best suited for their needs?

• Do they have natural gas available, or would they prefer propane gas, electric or charcoal?

• Is storage for barbecue tools and dishes a factor?

• Do they need running water to wash hands and dishes?

• More luxurious considerations might be a refrigerator, ice machine, wood burning stove or pizza oven.

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house for supplies and will need the traditional prep, cook, refrigerate, serve and clean areas as well as some storage.

A satellite kitchen situated adjacent to the indoor kitchen allows prep work to be done inside the house and cuts down on appliance duplication and costs. A fabulous example of this is in the John Pawson house where the kitchen run continues inside and outside.

Think about the view, too – you probably don’t want to obstruct your client’s best views with an extractor fan.

Safety Safety is key. Think about the layout of the outdoor space – don’t place a grill near a play lawn, swimming pool or hot tub and go for a non-stain, non-slip flooring. Be sure that the area directly underneath the grill can withstand high heat and any sparks or embers that might fall.

Check that the proposed site can support the weight of the equipment as decks might need additional structural support.

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There are many outdoor kitchens and appliances available that combine style with functionality and durability in the build materials.

DIY. The DIY Outdoor Kitchen invented by Nina Tolstrup of Studiomama is a DIY project, with instructions on how to build an outdoor kitchen with a gas hob, sink, and a chopping board that fits over the trolley handles. Water comes from a garden hose, and wastewater collects in a watering can under the sink for use in the garden.

Stand-alone. The stylish Flow 2 kitchen from Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm uses kitchen waste products to grow plants, which are watered by dishes drip drying above them.

Barbecue. The Electrolux discreet and minimal Jeppe Utzon barbecue combines the best of today’s contemporary architectural materials.

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protect the cooking surface when not in use.

Ideal for a patio, balcony or roof terrace.

Modular. Described as ‘the world’s most elegant outdoor grill’, the sleek, moveable kitchen from Röshults comes with an anticorrosion frame, stainless steel, and teak wood.

Outdoor Cooking Queen has two ranges: the customisable modules and the ‘bbqube’, a complete kitchen in a cube. Both have clean design and functionality, are storable and completely mobile.

Bespoke. The Chi-town retreat by Chicago Green Design is an excellent example of how to design an outdoor space. Weight was kept down by using Fiber-create for the custom planters and kitchen bases, with a toe kick incorporating mood lighting that doesn’t compete with views of the city lights or the stars.

And if all of this is too much or space is too tight, the BBQ Briefcase from SVR Development SA might just suffice.

Happy cooking!

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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What are you most

RHS CHELSEA? Pro Landscaper put the question to 10 top designers and landscapers

Philippa O’Brien MSGD Chairman of SGD The best things about Chelsea are the three Ps: the plants, the people, and the Pimm’s. I’m looking forward to a week of glorious sunshine, a quiet critique of the show gardens with a trusted friend and a successful stand for the SGD. I will also make sure I have time for a peaceful ramble through the marquee to look at new plant introductions.

Lee Bestall

Founding director, Bowles & Wyer

I have been to the show every year since 2005. I’m really looking forward to seeing the Main Avenue gardens up close and personal – I’ll be in the privileged position of being there on press day as I’m building our first Fresh garden.

Last year’s Chelsea was really varied. I’m hoping Chelsea breaks out of the mould a little bit this year, too. In recent years, some of the gardens have been quite formulaic, and I’d like to see more bold, original gardens.

Josh Ward

Rae Wilkinson

Nigel Phillips

Garden designer

Garden designer

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I am really looking forward to seeing the Kirstenbosch stand.

They always create a stunning display which is stuffed to the brim with the most exotic and beautiful South African plants. It’s a visual feast every year that makes me smile and my heart skip a beat.

Chelsea is a highlight of the year for me – I always look forward to the work of designers like Cleve West and Andy Sturgeon. I want to see Sam Ovens take on the Cloudy Bay garden and Sarah Eberle’s version of the Viking Cruises garden. I am always eager to see the workmanship of the contractors involved in the show.

What I am most looking forward to at Chelsea this year is meeting two important clients of mine. I’m taking them to my favourite outdoor furniture firm, Gaze Burvill, and letting the super salesman Charles persuade them that a garden without Gaze Burvill furniture is like a gin without tonic.

I’m hoping he will succeed!

Charlotte Rowe

Chris Beardshaw

Patricia Fox

Paul Hervey-Brookes

Garden designer and contractor

Managing director, Aralia

One of the highlights for me is getting our Chelsea project team together again on site. We are a very small team who have worked together for many years on many different gardens, and it’s always great to be back together. After all those months of talking about the garden we can finally bring it to life.

What I would most love to see at Chelsea this year is some truly innovative show gardens. So often Main Avenue is full of the same ‘formulaic’ gardens, pressured by sponsors no doubt, but it would be fantastic to see some really different spaces. I will be hoping to return to the Aralia office full of inspiration.

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Creative director, Inspired Garden Design

I think this year’s Chelsea is all about the ladies. The two gardens the public and gardening world want to see are those by Jekka McVikka and Rosy Hardy. Both have extraordinary plant knowledge and a passion which is hard to beat, meaning these gardens sit at the top of my ‘must see’ list.

Garden designer Good to see some of the big names back at Chelsea this year, such as Andy Sturgeon and Cleve West. Both will be hard to beat. Diarmuid Gavin will no doubt produce a show-stopping number to stop people in their tracks, and James Basson has a very special touch which I love, too.

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RHS FLOWER SHOW CARDIFF 2016 Greeted by a 12ft sculpture of the Big Friendly Giant, created by Out To Learn Willow, visitors poured into Bute Park for the return of the RHS Flower Show Cardiff 2016. The show, held on 15-17 April, celebrated the works of the world famous author Roald Dahl who was born 100 years ago in Llandaff, Cardiff. Highlights included Tony Smith’s Pure Imagination show garden, mimicking the chocolate lake from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the Wonderful World of Roald Dahl wheelbarrows, where schoolchildren were asked to choose their favourite story or character as the basis of their design.

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Dibleys Nurseries Name Lynne Dibley What’s hot Streptocarpus Matilda About the plant We’re introducing four new plants this year, the first of which is Matilda which we have shown at Cardiff. The other three will be shown at Chelsea where one will hopefully be up for Chelsea Plant of the Year.

About the company We concentrate on Streptocarpus; it’s a house plant and it flowers between nine and ten months of the year. The nursery recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, and last year celebrated winning its 26th RHS Gold Medal at Chelsea.

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Name Rob Evans What’s hot Ballroom tulip About the plant It’s a new variety for us this year. It’s fringed with two tones of orange and yellow and flowers naturally outside.

About the company The family run business was established about nine years ago and has since received a number of Gold Medals at RHS shows. It specialised initially in gladioli corms but has expanded its range to include spring flowering bulbs and a number of other plants.

Name Antonia Smith What’s hot Arbequina About the plant It self pollinates and also pollinates other trees. The Arbequina is the way forward; it’s a great alternative to sloe gin at Christmas. What we have learnt is that people have very little time and want to create a garden that looks good all year round.

About the company The Norwich-based company distributes a wide selection of olive trees, which are gaining popularity in the UK. All its olive trees are ethically sourced from suppliers in Valencia and Tuscany.

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Show gardens

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The Physicians of Myddfai Magical Medical Garden Designer Anthea Guthrie with Heronsbridge and Ysgol Bryn Castell School Contractor Philip Game About This is designed to be the garden of the Physicians of Myddfai, who have left ingredients on the table for herbal remedies. Plants in the garden reflect this with ash, bark and dried leaves, thought to have healing properties.

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Pure Imagination Designer Tony Smith Contractor Hortus Infinitus About Part of the Roald Dahl theme, this garden takes its name from a song in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is reminiscent of a famous scene within the film, featuring a chocolate stream surrounded by bold green turf.

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Hospice Garden for Living Designer Jim Goodwin Contractor George Thomas Hospice Care Volunteers Sponsor Pugh’s Garden Village About A team of volunteers constructed this garden to be suitable for patients and their families, as well as those who work at the hospice. It features areas for private reflection as well as a sensory garden and additional stimulating plants.

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Designer Melinda Thomas and Fleur Porter Contractor Broxton & Maruzzi Landscaping About The garden had the theme of using your outdoor space as an extra living area. We worked together and the garden took inspiration from a ruined Welsh cottage.

Medal Gold, Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award

Alfresco Gallery Garden Designer Paul Melvin Contractor Alfresco Landscape & Garden Ltd Sponsor South Wales Turf & Topsoil About The garden was designed for a retired art teacher who loves horticulture. The idea is that they can come to the garden and sketch their favourite plants.

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Pyle Garden Centre: The Tranquil Garden Designer Lea Reynolds

Contractor Bridgend College Sponsor Pyle Garden Centre

About This minimalist garden takes inspiration from a traditional Japanese courtyard, with simplistic planting, carefully placed stones, and a wooden walkway designed to lead

Arne Maynard and Toby Buckland

Talking point

The Gardens of Arne Maynard Prolific garden designer Arne Maynard was questioned by TV gardener Toby Buckland in the RHS Talks Theatre on his personal highlights at Cardiff, his work as an international garden designer, and his book

IT’S ABOUT USING THE RIGHT MATERIALS. IT’S ABOUT BUILDING INTO THE LANDSCAPE entitled ‘The Gardens of Arne Maynard’. After confessing his favourite part of any show is the floral marquees, Maynard admits that although he does carry out international projects, he tries to stay close to home to be near his own garden.

Whilst Toby enthusiastically picks out projects in the book, Arne explains the essence of garden design for him: “Designing is creating a garden that feels as though it belongs.

It doesn’t have to be traditional, it can be contemporary, but it’s about using the right materials. It’s about building into the landscape.”

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CHOOSING

RESIN BOND Tom George, marketing manager of DekorGrip, shares why he thinks resin bond paving is both practical and complementary to any desired aesthetic The ability to create amazing shapes and safe surfaces is just one benefit of DekorGrip. Our resin bonded solution offers a variety of inherent advantages that have made it an extremely popular surfacing choice for domestic, commercial, high traffic environments and in particular, driveways, parks and open spaces.

The resin bonded system can rapidly deliver a surface with the appearance of natural aggregate which is firmly bonded to the surface. The system creates a nonpermeable surface with excellent traction in wet and dry conditions.

A consistent film of resin is applied to a clean, dry and suitably designed and constructed non-porous asphalt or concrete base, which is then scattered with clean, dry graded aggregate until the surface is completely covered and there is no resin left exposed.

Aggregates range from 1-6mm in size and are installed to achieve a hard wearing bonded aggregate surface offering a natural appearance. Resin bond is able to provide a natural looking loose aggregate finish with minimal maintenance, without the fear of the aggregate migrating away from the selected install area.

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ASCOT RACECOURSE Blend used: Brittany Bronze

Designers of the bespoke Compton Acres Gardens in Bournemouth wanted a natural stone finish that would enhance, blend with

One of the UK’s leading racetracks, Ascot, needed a surface that would match the regality of the prestigious setting, particularly

and compliment the renowned gardens.

The site had a unique set of requirements as it would receive a high amount of elderly residents, meaning it was essential for the site to a have non-slip property for safety.

DekorGrip provided resin bond to the surface in Bauxite Buff which provided not only a safe surface but also matched the aesthetics of the surrounding area.

at the entrance, an area reserved for the Queen. A 1-3mm graded Brittany Bronze, DekorGrip resin bonded system was esteemed to be both suitable and which would complement the prestigious site.

Resin bond was chosen for this project due to the hard wearing nature of the system, as the area would see heavy footfall during race times. A surface fit for a Queen.

Encapsulating the look and feel of the surrounding aesthetics with a surface is often a key target for most designers and landscapers. If the aggregate is bonded to suitably prepared substrates, it will have high abrasion and slip resistance values which means that it is ideal for driveways and other vehicle trafficked areas.

Coloured or contrasting aggregates provide clear markings for safety and hazard zones.

This also means that only one layer of resin is used in the installation and can greatly reduce costs over other resin surfacing solutions.

ABOUT TOM GEORGE Tom George is the marketing manager for DekorGrip, a leading brand owned by Meon Ltd and based in Portsmouth. He joined the company last year, which supplies quality solutions for resin bound and rubber as well as resin bonded surfacing.

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CHOOSING

RESIN BOUND Kevin Weston, managing director of SureSet, considers the best of resin bound paving from its water handling ability to its bespoke possibilities Not many people know that in 1997, by applying a new approach to the selection and design of our products for optimum performance, SureSet revolutionised the concept of clear resin bound paving for external use. Since then, there has been a steady rise in the popularity of resin bound, but it was the introduction of SuDS in 2011 that saw an increase in its use for managing water runoff.

SureSet resin bound paving is cold mixed using a process that ensures

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We enjoy the challenge of trialling new uses for resin bound paving, and its adaptability and ease of application have made it the choice for a variety of different types of sites – from custom centrepieces, to more extensive areas of hard surfacing on pathways, patios, driveways, access roads and car parks.

SEABROOKE RISE Blend used: Almond, Golden Pearl

This SureSet installation in Holland Park was recently completed by SureSet approved installer Gibson Gardens Ltd for

SureSet resin bound paving was specified for the hard landscaped and pedestrian areas of Seabrooke Rise,

a Grade II listed private residence.

SureSet was specified for a 225m² hard landscaping, driveway and car lift top resin bound project in Barley Beach Natural Aggregate.

SureSet permeable paving was laid from the entrance to create a driveway and featured throughout the hard landscaping.

where they laid 1324m² of Natural Aggregate in Golden Pearl and Almond and a 15m² tree pit complete with the sub-base SureCell.

Complementing the tones of the brick work, Almond and Golden Pearl contribute to the flow of natural light into the apartments and the communal courtyard.

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every particle of ‘stone’ – specially selected for its, size, shape, appearance and durability – is completely encapsulated in a strong, non-yellowing resin, forming a structurally stable three-dimensional matrix.

During the laying process small interconnecting voids are created that imitate natural drainage, efficiently returning water to the ground and delivering many additional benefits including natural filtration, eliminating puddles, preventing weeds and contributing to flood prevention.

We normally specify resin bound to be laid on an asphalt or concrete base, which acts as a structural layer. It can be installed on other bases if a traditional base is not appropriate, by increasing the depth of the resin bound layer itself. Suitable options include: • New, or structurally sound existing asphalt or concrete, suitable for all traffic.

• SureCell – 100% recycled plastic grid structure, suitable for pedestrian and light vehicular traffic.

• Graded Type 3 sub-base with a reinforcing grid and separation membrane suitable for pedestrian and light vehicular traffic.

ABOUT KEVIN WESTON Kevin Weston is the managing director of SureSet UK Ltd, a position he has held since the beginning of 2011.

Kevin was one of the original founders of SureSet, in 1997. Specialising in permeable resin bound paving, ure et no offers an year uarantee.

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Name Matrix bollard light Power input 240V mains Best used Bolted to paving and slabs or to an optional ground-mount which can be installed in concrete prior to electrical installation Colours Powder-coated graphite Price £106.80 inc VAT WWW.LIGHTINGFORGARDENS.COM

Name Collingwood GL038A ground light Power input Mains Best used Highlighting the outside of any building or garden feature Colours Three ambient LED lights – blue, neutral white, warm white Price £147.49 inc VAT WWW.SIMPLELIGHTING.CO.UK

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A glasshouse of any size will sig i t increase the productivity and enjoyment of any garden as well as extending the growing season for the owner, regardless of the weather. A well-positioned glasshouse that captures the maximum sunlight can be used to grow a wide variety of ruits eget es flowers Even if unheated, a glasshouse provides shelter for overwintering plants and shrubs.

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Ask any passionate, experienced or novice gardener about how much time they would like to spend in the garden, and they will tell you: “All the time I could.”

Gardening is more than just a hobby for most people, and a Hartley glasshouse in your garden is much more than just a greenhouse. It’s good for the mind, body and soul all year round.

A summerhouse is not just a place to be enjoyed in summer, nor is it a grand name for a draughty shed.

Investing in the right design spe i tio is esse ti Properly designed and taking into account your plot, it can be an extension of your home.

It can be a space to enjoy ‘me time’ – whether that means working out, curling up with a book, or somewhere to enjoy the garden all year round.

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A garden room not only creates dramatic extra space but it adds value too.

Whether it’s a gym, playroom or entertaining space, homeowners are unlocking the potential outdoors. At Crown Pavilions we are working with landscapers to ensure outdoor ui i gs t se m ess i to their surroundings.

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To live closer to the outdoors seems reason enough to invest in a garden building, but to realise it can protect family and friends from the sun, wind and rain is a real winner for us at Garden House Design. Not only do outdoor buildings protect us, but the innovative designs of garden buildings today can also add real purpose to any landscape design. We also love that you can personalise them by adding light, heat and sound.

Garden buildings and sheds have many purposes, and can even act as an extension of the home. We re i re si g i g th t our customers are coming to us wanting to create a shed that can extend the home living space for usage all year round. Some of our customers have transformed their she i to home o es and sewing rooms. Gone are the days of using a shed simply for storage.

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Johnsons of Whixley has secured a new contract with Grace Landscapes to provide over 20 varieties of shrubs and herbaceous plants, as part of a landscape upgrade scheme at Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre.

Johnsons secured the five figure contract following a competitive tender issued by West Yorkshire and North East based Grace Landscapes in March this year.

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Largest number of new plant introductions to be seen at RHS Chelsea The Sun Flower Square, the industry garden led by Peter Seabrook, is set to display the largest amount of novelties on an exhibit at Chelsea, or any other UK show.

The cross-industry floral exhibit in the Grand Pavilion has some 40 new plant introductions spread over the four gardens that make up the Square. Over 80 companies are contributing to the display, which promises to showcase the best new varieties launching into the UK market.

A highlight of The Sun Flower Square will be Chrysanthemum ‘Princess Charlotte’. Named after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s daughter, the chrysanthemum is coloured pale baby pink with vibrant green tips.

It will support the children’s hospice charity which is proud to have Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge as its Royal Patron.

Other flowers exhibiting on the gardens include Sweet Pea ‘Eleanore Udall’ which is being grown exclusively for horticultural therapy charity Thrive, as well as the Time to Live Rose from Nursery Fresh which is raising money for Breast Cancer Now. www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/ rhs-chelsea-flower-show

Wyevale Nurseries lends plants to Highgrove Garden Festival Wyevale Nurseries has loaned a range of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and ferns to Highgrove Garden Festival.

The nursery has provided the plants, which represent the traditional planting at Highgrove, to be used for displays during the festival from 11 to 16 April.

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manager at Wyevale Nurseries, said: “We are delighted we could help Highgrove with its plant displays for its garden festival next week. It looks to be a brilliant event with a range of fantastic well-known guest speakers and a plant fair. It is surely an event not to be missed.” www.wyevalenurseries.co.uk

RHS to work with UK nurseries across a or flower shows The RHS is working with UK nurseries across all major RHS Flower Shows in 2016, to fire up imagination and display plants in new ways.

Award-winning garden designer Kate Gould will be mentoring 15 growers during the show season to help put their creative ideas into practice.

Nurseries from across the UK will participate, including Cornwall-based Trecanna, T3 Plants in Herefordshire, and Tinnisburn Plants from Dumfriesshire. All the growers in the project will be crafting their own fresh, eye-catching and innovative displays to best exhibit the allure of their plants.

As well as the creative challenges posed by the different design concepts, nurseries also face testing conditions individual to each show, from having to dual-manage the prime cultivation season in April, to non-stop shows throughout the summer months, and end of season plant choices in July.

Kate Gould said: “It was amazing to be asked. I think the RHS creative mentoring project is a brilliant idea as the shows are fundamentally about the plants, and the guys in the marquees bring the real magic.” www.rhs.org.uk Pro Landscaper / May 2016 75

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RHS CHELSEA PLANTS Some of the best trees and plants this year’s show has to offer

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NURTURE It’s an exciting time for Palmstead Nurseries, which will be supplying plants to one of the biggest landscaping projects of our time – the Garden Bridge. Pro Landscaper’s Fay Tate spent the day at the site just outside of Ashford in Kent to see how orders are processed, packaged and delivered across the country

Over nearly 50 years, Palmstead Nurseries has built a reputation for producing and supplying quality plants to the trade. The 53ha nursery has the facilities to grow and package plants on site and vehicles to deliver orders of all sizes nationwide. Customer operations manager Craig Pyatt and customer operations supervisor Adam Pope showed me how they process orders and get them ready for dispatch.

The first task is to pick the plants needed for an order. A set of labels is printed in the office, informing the picker what is ordered, the quantity of each plant and where it can be found. Adam took me out on the nursery floor in a buggy to pick stock from labelled bays. They started with herbaceous plants and finished with evergreen shrubs and accessories, he explained. Once we’d picked all the plants on the order, we drove back to the dispatch barn for packaging.

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pallets, cardboard boxes or stillages or they can let the nursery decide. The order we picked included ten buxus sempervirens so Adam decided to bag them in two black bags tied at the base with twine to keep them secure. The customer did not specify a packaging method so Adam chose to place the plants on a pallet, wrapped in plastic film and left in the specified bay ready for the dispatch team to prepare the lorries for the next day’s deliveries.

The nursery has its own fleet of vehicles allowing it to deliver to clients when it suits them. This is made possible by a software package called SAP, which tracks information about shipments, including packaging, loading and delivery details. SAP also allows them to add delivery instructions to notify the driver of any specific circumstances such as narrow country lanes. An SMS system is fitted into the lorries so the driver can update the customer about their delivery, particularly if

there are delays. The nursery is recognised in the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS), which is an accreditation scheme that aims to improve fleet activity throughout the UK. It currently holds a bronze accreditation and is working towards silver, for which Craig and Adam will be required to demonstrate how deliveries are safer, greener and more efficient.

I spoke with one of the nursery’s delivery drivers, Steve, after the lorries were loaded. He described the job as a ‘doddle’ but said the biggest challenge he faced was traffic. He added that he delivered plants to the Olympic Park three days a week and this had been one of the most interesting deliveries he’d had.

Palmstead Nurseries now has a busy summer ahead preparing for this year’s Soft Landscape Workshop due to be held on 21 September.

Called ‘What have plants ever done for us?’, it will be looking at the health benefits of plants, including their pollution mitigation properties. For more information just visit Palmstead’s website.

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Conifers get a bad rep, but there are many positives to these tough plants. Noel Kingsbury considers what went wrong for the conifer, and why attitudes should change

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hether they are growing in straight lines down hillsides as forestry plantations, or in the form of one of the leylandii hedges that have so often pitted neighbour against neighbour, conifers are not generally popular plants.

Conifers have had a bad century. Our attitude today is so different from that of our ancestors. Drive almost anywhere across England, or indeed Wales or southern Scotland, and it won’t be long before you spot the telltale signs of Victorian tree planting. The Victorians loved big majestic conifers: cedars, pines, firs and perhaps most successfully the tree they called the Wellingtonia, but whose naming (after a British military hero) so outraged American botanists that we now know it more diplomatically as Sequoiadendron giganteum.

Conifers make a strong visual impact in the winter, are amazingly hardy, often windproof, and are able to survive other difficult conditions such as poor soils and drought.

What went wrong? Perhaps they survive just too well and get planted too often as a result.

This might be said of the many cypress and thuja species that sprout across suburbia.

Below: Mature Sequoiadendron and pines at Cambridge Botanic Garden

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Forming a rather amorphous dull green wall, or in the case of the ‘golden’ varieties, a splurge of yellow, they seem like a landscape tree of the lowest common denominator. The dwarf conifer movement of the Sixties and Seventies has got a lot to answer for, too. They promised minimal landscape or garden maintenance, which was what people got, until they got too big and the chainsaws had to come out. Like flared trousers, they were a long-ago fashion that is always threatening to come back.

Can we use conifers imaginatively? Creatively?

Adventurously?

Careful selection helps.

And having an eye to the future. The success of much Victorian conifer planting was down to it being done by people who looked far ahead, who knew how big the trees would get and used them judiciously.

We are today the fortunate inheritors of their vision. How many places can we think of that owe so much of their sense of place to one or more

conifers from that era: the mature monkey puzzle on the vicarage lawn, a well-placed clump of Austrian pine, the towering Sequoiadendrons around a house long since turned into a school?

My concern is that, under pressure from clients impatient for results and perhaps with a shortage of people who have the knowledge of

DRIVE ALMOST ANYWHERE ACROSS ENGLAND, OR INDEED WALES OR SOUTHERN SCOTLAND, AND IT WON’T BE LONG BEFORE YOU SPOT THE TELLTALE SIGNS OF VICTORIAN TREE PLANTING the trees and their long-term performance, we are not doing enough of this planting today.

I would argue that Victorian tree planting is part of the landscape heritage of many buildings of the period and that long-term conservation demands thinking ahead and getting young trees in to replace those that might in a few decades be reaching the end of their lives.

Over my lifetime, I have been aware of the loss of cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani). So many of these trees, with their unique asymmetric layered branching, stood around late 18th or early 19th century houses, clearly marking the period of their popularity. Now many have gone or are gradually losing limbs and with them, their magnificence. In this case and those of several other species, we should be planting them for conservation reasons. The political problems of this tree’s home region have not helped belated conservation efforts and there are now very few left in the wild.

A few decades of overplanting a few dull or badly-behaved species should not deter us from being more adventurous with a very varied and robust group of plants.

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.

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here are certain points in the interior landscaper’s career when it’s time to go big or go home. It’s at this point that we wheel out the leafy monoliths of the landscaping world – large scale architectural plants.

The appeal of architectural plants lies in their arresting proportions and sculptural strength.

They fill space, yes, but they are by no means ‘fillers’. Some of the greats that fall into this category are the ubiquitous (but still fabulous)

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A tropical beauty with slender branches the diameter of a pencil. Ideal for indoor planting and quite easy to please providing it’s situated properly in slightly gritty, well draining soil. Can reach up to 10m in height, but easily controlled too.

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Olive Tree, alongside Cordyline, Strawberry Tree, Elephant’s Ear, Yucca, Trachycarpus, and Bamboo.

While perfect for large scale atriums, interior courtyards and roof gardens, they particularly come into their own when blurring the visual lines between interior and exterior planting, and if chosen carefully, these plants are as happy inside as out. For long term exterior planting, successful candidates can include Acacia dealbata, Agapanthus, Agave Americana, Arbutus, Astelia, Beschomeria, Butia, Chamaerops, Cordyline, Cycas, Eriobotrya, Eucalpytus, Fatsia, Mahonia, Myrtus, Nandina, Phormium, Phyllostachys, Trachycarpus and Trochendron.

Once planted, when dealing with plants of this scale, it’s important to get everything right from the outset and watering is no exception. If irrigation is to be factored in, automatic irrigation maximises the performance and health of a plant but it has to be tailored to each. Laying out pipes in advance and setting out specific nozzle intervals will www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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accommodate the different needs of various plants, so it’s definitely worth taking time to get it right – obviously an Olive Tree or a Yucca will need far less water than a grouping of Bamboo.

Indirect light is a dream for most plants of this category, but artificial lighting, placed to emphasise

A spectacular plant with needle-like foliage and a trunk formed from spent leaf bases. Happy in a container with well drained soil and requires very little water and maintenance. Perfect.

BEAUCARNEA NOLINA RECURVATA With long, curly leaves cascading from the top of its swollen trunk, there’s nothing ordinary about this plant’s appearance. Not a fast grower, but will reach more than 2m in height.

YUCCA ROSTRATA This striking Yucca has blue-green leaves and a smooth, leafless trunk. Slow growing but reaching an impressive height of 5m over 20 years. Loves the sun and well drained soil.

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features of a particular specimen, can greatly maximise visual impact. I particularly enjoy the shadows cast by the spiked foliage of the palm family, or how the light plays through the delicately unfurling fronds of a tree fern.

Traditional sculpture is always lit with great care and plants should be no different. Lighting them well emphasises their sculptural status – these are living pieces of horticultural art, ever changing and extraordinarily beautiful.

This good-looking palm is a real trouper. Not fussy about soil and will cope with dry air and low light levels better than most. Just keep it moist – water very well during summer and sparingly in winter and you will be rewarded with a gorgeous archetypal palm.

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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Jamie Butterworth opens the backstage doors to RHS Chelsea, revealing how the plants that will become the stars of Main Avenue are meticulously nurtured

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s I write this article, we have exactly eight weeks, four days, 17 hours and 33 minutes until press day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – not that anyone’s counting, obviously. Working backwards, this means the first trees will be leaving for site in five weeks, and the perennials have just seven weeks to go from dormancy to fully flowering beauties.

No pressure.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t getting a bit anxious, having woken up at 2am panicking because I’d dreamt that I’d mixed up the glyphosate and the fungicide – a recurring nightmare at the moment.

Seedlings germinating, the start of a Chelsea Garden

As we are getting so close to the big day, I thought that it would be nice to give a brief overview of what goes on behind the scenes growing the plants for Chelsea (without giving too much away).

A typical full size Main Avenue garden will require somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 plants, depending on the hard to soft landscaping ratio. In order for us to know we will have enough plants in full flower and glory, we grow approximately three times this amount, allowing us to pick the very best of the crop as we get closer to the show.

The real secret behind growing the best plants is a great team. Myself and Pedro head up the shows team, with Michael Buck as our

The show ponies – myself, Michael and Pedro

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Cleve West laying out his plants in readiness for planting

using glasshouses of grow lights. This would result in planting combinations that could not be replicated, ever. For this reason, we only try and grow a pallet of plants that would ordinarily grow in and around May. We are, then, very dependent upon the weather.

Once the plants have been potted, its then down to a lot of watering, feeding, spraying and carefully judging each plant on an individual basis. As we get closer to the show, we will begin

general manager and the infinite wisdom of Mark and Robin, our two directors. Collectively, we all live, sleep and breathe Chelsea.

Chelsea really begins with trays and trays of seedlings. We work very closely with the incredible Marina Christopher at Phoenix Perennial Plants. Marina has to be one of the country’s best horticulturists, and I think she

The Chelsea Tunnel beginning to burst into growth

genuinely has magic powers when it comes to germinating seeds. We then lovingly nurture and grow on these teeny tiny plants, eventually potting them into 3L or 5L pots depending on the plant. We have a dedicate hand potting team who pot all hours of the day. It really is the people behind the scenes that make Chelsea happen.

One of the big – incorrect – perceptions people have about growing the plants for Chelsea is that we have the ability to hold back plants using gigantic fridges. Or the opposite, and have the ability to push plants on by weeks and weeks

An artic manouvering its way through the show ground with our precious cargo

moving plants outside, but again, this is all judged on a plant by plant basis.

The end result? Well, hopefully a few Gold Medals, and perhaps a best in show? Who knows – whatever happens, I can’t wait to see the plants we’ve grown in the gardens themselves. I’m also quite looking forward to some sleep, in approximately eight weeks, four days, 17 hours and 33 minutes!

ABOUT JAMIE BUTTERWORTH Graduating from RHS Garden Wisley with a distinction in summer 2015, avid plantsman Jamie now works as joint show plant manager at Hortus Loci, growing the plants for major o er sho s such as helsea ampton ourt and atton. amie is a oun ort associate director and oun mbassador promotin horticulture to youn people across the . n addition to this, Jamie is also a gardening broadcaster or adio ondon.

Email: jb@hortusloci.co.uk www.hortusloci.co.uk

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Show gardens are stunning in their own right, but how far do they really relate to the average house garden? Andy McIndoe tackles whether show garden designers are creating unattainable goals

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show garden is created for a moment in time – it never goes on to grow and mature. Plants never fail and materials never weather. In a real garden it is very different. I often look at that immaculate planting and wonder what happens when the cow parsley and alliums fade. Will I just be left with a few box balls and a patch of perfect grass?

One of my major considerations when designing a real garden is always ongoing maintenance. Pleached, trained and trimmed shrubs and trees worry me for exactly that reason. I see designers specifying pleached trees for screening without much thought as to how they will be pruned in the future. Shaped trees can look stunning rising out of loose, exuberant planting – but how do you get in to maintain them without wiping out everything else? Show garden designers love them, but for them ongoing maintenance isn’t a problem.

A show garden does not have to relate to anything. We see it in isolation and attempt to block out the surroundings, rather than seeing it attached to a house or the surrounding fences, buildings and landscape. I would always consider appropriateness to be one of the key factors in successful garden design, but it cannot be a consideration in the case of a show garden, unless it is part of the brief. Many

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find it very difficult to choose a style of garden, materials and plants that are appropriate to their situation – bewitched by the vision, all thoughts of association with existing factors disappear.

Perhaps the most difficult gardens to see in context are the recreations of natural landscapes or nostalgic takes on a situation like a farmyard or olive grove. These are always crowd pleasers, but not widely applicable in terms of garden design.

They showcase the designer’s skill in interpretation and the staging crew’s skills in execution – give the plans to a real garden contractor and the finished result could be very different.

The elephant in the room is of course budget.

How much does a show garden cost? For a main avenue RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden you would struggle on a budget of £250k. £400k is fairly realistic, as long as you are not too extravagant and ambitious. £1m and above is

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not unusual. When you see the scale of machinery, structures and materials employed to create the necessary wow factor, it’s not surprising. How many real gardens of that size have that sort of money spent on them? Not many, I would suggest.

So are they misleading and showcasing something that is really unattainable? For the experienced they are not – they can inspire without misleading. For the host of novice designers out there, with little experience of real gardens and with limited plant knowledge, they can be a minefield.

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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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A good plant display should be a performance of the whole cast – not just one or two highlights, says Lee Heykoop

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want to talk about my aspirations when designing planting.

In a parks context, I aspire to ratchet up from plant highlights to a whole-cast plant performance. This is more about planting communities – less about obedient plants, and more about mingling the planted matrix. You have to really know what your plants want to do, and how they compete – to get the full effect of this kind of performance, plants should have their way. Mostly. The matrix should be allowed to change and shift, as control would mute it and look too premeditated. I want people to delight in the performance of plants. As a designer, I aim to realise this as a (nearly) self-maintaining plant community and release the need for continual interventions.

In a park border with a south facing aspect, my matrix starts off under a Metasequoia. The whole stretch of planting in this particular park is around 35m, starting and ending near shrub planted borders. My border picks up this shrub motif by occasional placement of Stachyurus praecox and Lomatia ferruginea. Aside from these few shrubs and a group of olive trees, the planting is entirely herbaceous plants and ornamental grasses.

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I wanted thistles, Eryngiums and Echinops species, grasses with captivating hues, Carex testacea and Anamanthele lessoniana for its amber colours, all supported by the flowering and subtle autumn stages of Calamagrostis brachytricha, Stipa calamagrostis and Stipa tenuissima. I also wanted arresting colours to protrude above the gently rolling heights of the planting mass, with strikingly bright, tall Salvias (half hardy but fine in London), Alstroemerias, Eremurus and Kniphofias.

Among the medium to low height of plants that knit and weave in the central section, are some silvers and lots of blues. Tones change with

AS A DESIGNER I AIM TO REALISE THIS AS A SELFMAINTAINING PLANT COMMUNITY AND RELEASE THE NEED FOR CONTINUAL INTERVENTIONS Two paths intersect to arrive at the café, which the central planting fronts. Apart from an irresistible opportunity to run 31 Stipa calamagrostis across the entire front of the café decking, I’ve given the full stretch a gradually modulating palette through its matrix planting. To do this, the planting area has been drawn in ‘blocks’. Most of the blocks fronting the café are between 7-12m2 each, while those in the Metasequoia area average around 25m2. Each block shares around half of its plants by genus if not species with its neighbouring blocks. This gives an experience of a gorgeously massed plant community, without being too predictable.

Areas demarcate semi-random planting: 6-10 species each: each neighbouring area sharing min. 20% same species

different varieties of Salvia nemorosa and Salvia x sylvestris ‘Mainacht’ whose taller, somewhat gangly, habit can be useful, as well as Hyssopus officinalis and Lotus hirsutus.

There are low growers used in places where I want the trunks of trees to feature, around the olives and Metasequoia. Here, the mainstays are Festuca glauca, F. amethystina, Uncinia uncinata, Thymus x citriodorus ‘Silver Queen’ and Veronica incana spicata. The other low grower that I would like to cover up soil spaces and which will happily live alongside its taller neighbours, is Anthyllus vulneraria ‘Darkest Red’.

Maintenance will be a February cut to around 10cm, while leaving the brown and blue foliaged grasses uncut, and a pruning of shrubs. Autumn tidying will be necessary for the Kniphofias, whilst the central border is reinforced with only summer bulbs, Allium schubertii and Agapanthus.

ABOUT LEE HEYKOOP Lee Heykoop has a PhD in Landscape Architecture and has worked with Groundwork Trust, a national multi-disciplinary design company, spent time tutorin at heffield niversity and is currently horticulture officer at the oyal ar s. er particular focus on how people interact with their landscape has moved her ocus bac to plantin .

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focus on permeability and porosity levels.

Understanding the variations that occur when dealing with natural materials is the key, but topsoil suppliers are now having to comply with much tighter parameters and higher levels of product scrutiny than ever before. Suppliers like us are required to test more regularly and across a wider range of parameters. BS3882 covers the basic areas of soil performance, but we are increasingly asked to meet performance criteria on drainage, compaction and bulk density, along with the standard horticultural requirements covered by BS3882.

The increased scrutiny has without doubt benefitted the industry as a whole, and we as suppliers are now seeing more obscure and bespoke specifications attached to almost every new tender. It is a very positive move for the industry, however it is important for architects and consultants to understand the possible variations and inconsistencies that can occur when dealing with naturally occurring and blended materials.

Two samples of the same blended soil will inevitably return different sets of data and these have to be put into context and understood in terms of whether this minor fail will affect the long term performance of a particular scheme. As suppliers, we spend a lot of time discussing minor failures with customers, who in turn have to be accountable when the organic matter deviates from the specification by 0.1%.

Involving suppliers from the outset of a project might be a solution, as we have found a definite gap in knowledge when talking to architects about topsoil specifications and what they mean for different planting schemes. Now that soils and

growing media are becoming an integral part of the design, there needs to be increased dialogue between the creatives and those on the ground who are charged with sourcing the materials.

The industry is changing for the better and as suppliers we need to embrace the challenge of working in a more regulated environment, no matter how much hair we continue to tear out.

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WATER TIGHT INGRESS PROTECTION UNWRAPPED When it comes to external light fittings, the IP rating is a crucial factor that designers ignore at their peril, says Robert Webber The number of environmental factors affecting exterior lighting is vast and these often get overlooked when specifying a certain type of light fitting in a certain position. Sunlight, sea air and rain are the main factors to consider, along with positioning in shade, where fittings don’t have the same chance to dry out.

Some light fittings by well known manufacturers are designed for use in specific environments. It’s not as easy as a one size fits all solution. Invariably when we design our lighting schemes we specify the correct light for the correct environment. The Ingress Protection rating is a good place to start with the specification.

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thing; the light fittings had a low IP rating, despite costing twice as much as most that we fit.

At the end of the garden was a woodland area, where discreet bollards had been specified to wash light across the path as it wound its way through to the garden room at the end. It looked great when we finished, and then the rain came, and my phone rang.

The issue was the IP rating of the specified fittings. They were IP44, which is quite low for

SUNLIGHT, SEA AIR AND RAIN ARE THE MAIN FACTORS TO CONSIDER, ALONG WITH POSITIONING IN SHADE, WHERE FITTINGS DON’T HAVE THE SAME CHANCE TO DRY OUT any external fitting. When you factor this into the position they were placed in, a shady wooded area that never really dried out, it was a recipe for constant tripping of the circuit and fast degradation of the fitting itself.

Lucky for us, we had flagged the issue at tender stage but were told that this was the specified fitting and it wouldn’t be changed.

Sometimes you just have to let others learn from their mistakes. Ultimately it’ll be the client who pays and the installer who looks bad when the designer specifies the wrong type of light.

Understanding IP ratings isn’t voodoo. It’s simple. Never specify or fit any light lower than IP55 externally. Then take particular note of its position in the garden. It’s always best to look at the IP rating and then specify a light much higher than you think you’ll need. For

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Sometimes you have an X instead of a number. This normally relates to items that need fitting indoors or with other IP rated housings. So, always think about the position of the light as well as its exposure to sunlight and other specific environmental influences. Sea air is one we come across often.

As the designer, your name will be on the certificate so if in doubt, consult a specialist exterior lighting company.

instance, we always specify IP68 submersible lighting within paving or in wooded areas. That way, whatever the weather throws, the lights will continue to be enjoyed. That’s another benefit of using a professional installer.

Experience always trumps price.

ABOUT ROBERT WEBBER Robert Webber is the founder of Scenic Lighting, a specialist exterior lighting company based in Berkshire.

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There is more than just your client’s home to consider during a build – neighbours can be a real issue if they’re not fairly considered, says Janine Pattison Being a good neighbour, and having good neighbours, is quite high on the wish list for most of us. We usually try to avoid being antisocial by keeping the noise down and being considerate. However, once a landscaping project starts these cordial relationships can come under great strain. There will be a great deal of activity on site involving machinery, deliveries, noise and dust. Large projects often take months of work on site and the constant flow of workmen, deliveries and muck away lorries can wear the patience very thin.

This is where the designer and the site manager/contractor need to work together to understand the best ways to mitigate the potential problems. Keeping the neighbours happy is a difficult task but will pay dividends when it comes to asking for a favour. For example, access may be required across their land in order to get that hot tub into your client’s garden. It’s much cheaper to get permission to do that than having to crane it in over the house.

It’s a good idea to introduce yourself to the neighbours and discuss their concerns. If they have an idea of the schedule they may be more relaxed.

Our contract documentation will include site working hours with a curfew on starting machinery too early or working too late into the evening. Usually 8am is a reasonable time to start making significant noise and most sites are quiet by 5pm. Excavators and cement mixers are very loud and should be switched off when not in use, not left to idle as is often seen on sites – the noise and air pollution are not fair to neighbours.

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COPING WITH DIFFICULT SITES

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Cutting slabs is horrendously noisy and can generate unbelievable amounts of dust – this is the stage when neighbours often complain as their windows, cars and washing get covered in a thick layer of dust. Water-cooled cutting kit can help reduce this. Or, as we did at one project, give all the neighbours vouchers from the local car wash for a free wash. Simple, cheap and considerate.

KEEPING THE NEIGHBOURS HAPPY IS A DIFFICULT TASK BUT WILL PAY DIVIDENDS WHEN IT COMES TO ASKING FOR A FAVOUR Deliveries are another major source of frustration as they block roads and cause inconvenience. Scheduling deliveries to avoid the school run is wise. Avoid having several deliveries arrive at the same time as waiting lorries can be very disruptive. Be careful of letting lorries mount kerbs, chew up grass verges or damage pavements and avoid getting mud on the road.

Avoiding these simple issues will go a long way towards making the project less problematic.

The handling and storage of materials on site can be a real challenge, especially if there is limited space available. The site manager/ contractor needs to work on a ‘just in time’ basis to get deliveries in when required and no earlier. Any work on or near the boundary should be discussed with the neighbour before starting and their privacy and security considered – they might have children or pets to prevent from escaping.

The people on site all need to play their part in being considerate. Loud radios, bare chests, shouting, swearing, leaving litter to blow around or parking cars thoughtlessly will add to an overall feeling of an unprofessional site and will definitely be a cause for concern for the neighbours.

ABOUT JANINE PATTISON Janine Pattison MSGD is a multi award-winning

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THE SNOWBALL EFFECT The work you choose to take on can have a direct effect on the direction you wish to take your company in, says Mike Long

Since Genesis Landscapes started in 2010, we have seen the work we do generate further similar work, much like rolling a snowball – the more it’s rolled in snow, the bigger it gets. Being aware of this has helped us focus our business in the direction we want to take it, and the jobs we take on have intentionally been marketed with this in mind. Not being aware of this snowball effect can send your business into areas you never intended it to go.

As with many small businesses, we started out with minor jobs lasting only a few days at a time and now we are privileged to have projects

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that last an average of two to three months. I’m not knocking smaller jobs. They can be great money earners if you can get in and out quickly while working to excellent standards. But we wanted to build gardens for clients who place a value on well-designed outdoor spaces and are prepared to spend good money to achieve their visions. In the past few years, we have often turned down work fixing wobbly fences, mowing lawns, cleaning drives etc. We realised that the more of these jobs we did, the more people were recommending us to their friends who also had wobbly fences.

In 2013 we had our first big break, quoting for a garden worth £80k. This was our opportunity to market ourselves to the type of clientele we had set out to service. It’s not all about value, however. We have two sets of criteria for judging a great project: What’s the bottom line – what are we earning from it?

Is it based on good design?

If those two boxes can be ticked we shout about it to potential clients through social media and ensure that all completed pictures go straight onto the website. The more we shout about these projects, the more clients we will attract who are looking for a similar thing. Our values will align, and a good client will also appreciate that quality contractors do cost money.

At the start of 2015 I went to see a friend’s garden – they were looking to pressure wash their concrete slabs. After 10 minutes I had sold them a vision, shown them our £80k project from the previous year and sold them a design. Six months later we had completed a project worth well over

I SHOWED THEM THE KIND OF WORK I WANTED TO BE KNOWN FOR, IT SNOWBALLED AND THE STORY CONTINUES the £80k one they had seen. I didn’t show them a fence I had installed, or an artificial lawn I had laid, I showed them how their garden could also look this good. I showed them the kind of work I wanted to be known for, it snowballed and the story continues.

Take a look through your website. What is on there that you don’t want to be known for and more importantly, what’s not on there that you do? Take good pictures of the projects you want to represent the type of work you do – spending £300 on a good photographer is well worth it if it lands you your next project. Personally, I use social media to help give our business personality. You will find the in-progress pictures, the birthday pub lunches and bad tan lines, but keep your website, your shop window if you will, looking professional, showcasing the best of the best – let your work snowball itself.

ABOUT MIKE LONG Mike has worked in the landscape industry for ten years, running his own company, Genesis Construction and Landscapes, for six of them.

He won Contractor of the Year with Marshalls in 2015 and Genesis recently won a ‘Commended’ award in the £60-£100k category at the APL Awards 2016. Mike lives in Bury St Edmunds with his wife and two young boys. www.genesislandscapes.co.uk

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PRESENTATION Adam Corrie from Synergy 3 Ltd explains the importance of tender presentation, and how it could dramatically increase your chances of success The landscaping industry generally needs to start placing more importance on the way it is perceived by clients. What better place is there to start than the way contractors present their tenders?

Many of the leading companies already do this well, but the vast majority of the industry still lags some way behind.

Many bids, particularly those on open client portals, request a quality/price submission, often

CASE STUDY Quality tender submissions are an integral part of our QA systems at Ground Control. We recognise the need to reassure potential clients that they are making the right decision.

Quality resonates with clients, and that is why we put so much effort into the design and presentation of our tender documentation.

We highlight our collaborative approach and our desire for a truly excellent customer experience.

Well designed case studies, coupled with professional site photography, broadcasts the strong message that we are a company who wants to be selected.

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TENDER CHECKLIST þ Price submission þ Programme of works þ Risk assessment and method statement þ Insurances þ Accreditations þ Case studies scoring as high as 70/30.

This seriously disadvantages companies who are not able to put together a potentially high scoring quality submission.

They may win on price, but lose the work opportunity as the quality score will automatically place them in a lower position.

This can be rectified by a fairly simple base template tender format, which allows the tenderer to effectively strengthen their bid, by ensuring the relevant documents are included in a pleasing final submission.

These can be enhanced even further by the introduction of a bespoke, well designed front cover for those really important tenders. This results in a significant feel good factor from the recipient, before the overall tender document is even assessed.

High quality tender presentations are not only important on quality requested bids, but on all tenders where you want to impress and stand out from the rest.

Many landscapers may only price for main contractors where traditionally it is a lowest price

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The confidence high quality tender presentations will give you is immense. Confidence wins tenders.

Call Adam Corrie at Synergy 3 Ltd if you would like more information on the base template format.

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As a garden designer and project manager, I spend a limited amount of time on site. Much of my day is spent in the office and the periods I am on site can range from a few hours to, occasionally, all day. The most of my skin that is exposed to the sun is my face, neck and arms.

Even at weekends, I seldom strip to the waist.

In November, I went to the doctor’s with a small lump on my ear that irritated and at times bled. I thought I must have nicked it working in the garden; ears are slow to heal, so for six months I didn’t think twice.

Being told I had a form of skin cancer was a complete shock and far from the diagnosis I

BEING TOLD I HAD A FORM OF SKIN CANCER WAS A COMPLETE SHOCK AND FAR FROM THE DIAGNOSIS I WAS EXPECTING was expecting – I couldn’t fathom how this could have happened as I don’t spend hours in the sun. Nonetheless, the diagnosis was a tumour, likely as a result of exposure to the sun.

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going to have a form of cancer, is the one you want. But he was also concerned that it could be squamous cell carcinoma, a more aggressive form.

This type can spread easily around the body so I was put on a fast track appointment for a biopsy.

The three weeks or so before the biopsy were difficult. My father died from cancer at 54 and as I was approaching 50 at the time, it made it seem very ‘real’ and frightening for me and my family.

I had the biopsy on the Wednesday before Christmas and had to wait for the results.

I tried hard not to dwell on it, but I couldn’t get the thought of my father out of my head and ultimately the pressure built to the point I broke down. Looking back, it seems slightly pathetic, as I was fearing the worst for something that was likely run of the mill.

On the Wednesday after Christmas I had the results – to much relief, it was confirmed as the non-malignant basal cell carcinoma.

My consultant wanted to ensure that it was fully removed and I am now booked in to have a procedure called Moh’s micrographic surgery. It takes all day and layer by layer, the tumour is removed, examined and removed again until you are completely clear.

I’m very lucky, but many people are not. Skin cancer can be very unpleasant and life limiting. Unprotected exposure to the sun is dangerous and can kill.

FACTS AND FIGURES • In Norfolk alone there are 3,000 cases a year of non-melanoma.

• 77% of people would not recognise the signs of melanoma.

• 100,000 cases of non-melanoma cancers are diagnosed each year.

• 13,000 cases of melanoma are diagnosed each year.

• 2,100 people die every year from skin cancer.

I used to make light of my business partner who religiously lathered up with SPF20 when surveying in the summer months. Take the sun seriously – I wish I had.

ABOUT JASON LOCK Jason Lock is co-director of Deakinlock Ltd specialising in landscape and garden design and construction. He is also an adjudicator for the National BALI Landscape Awards as well as a full registered member of the Society of Garden Designers and a registered BALI designer. Jason is a keen rower and member of the British Rowing Club, and often found on a Sunday morning training for the summer’s regattas on the River Waveney. www.deakinlock.co.uk

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With sun exposure cited as the primary cause of skin cancer, it’s imperative that businesses take precautions and educate their employees about harmful UV rays.

Through our Toolbox Talks, training sessions, email communications and newsletters, we’re continually pushing the message of sun safety. In addition, we are always looking for new ways to keep the safety messages current and visible.

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We give each team member a water bottle featuring clear safety messages about precautions they should take during hot weather – a meanin ul an cost-e ective way to engage with our people.

We also issue regular hydration and safety alerts to our operatives’ PDAs, which is a current and instantaneous way to share safety messages with our teams while they are working.

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EXPERT VIEW: NAVIGATING THE POWER TOOLS MARKET I have used many different makes of power tools and from my experience, the more money that is spent on a high end brand, the longer lasting the product is. The lower end of the market products seem to achieve a decent end result, but the tools give MANAGING DIRECTOR, up or show signs of wear a lot quicker. A good ASSURED LANDSCAPES example of this for me is that I used to have a low end driver and after a few intense decking areas, it was not performing as it first was. I have since brought a high end make and the tool performs as well today as it did when I purchased it. The low end products suit short term, but for a tool to last make sure you invest wisely.

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BESPOKE OUTDOOR SPACES Over time, I’ve learnt to look to the right tool to get the job done. I can state with confidence that quality delivers every time with the premium of a higher price tag attached.

For cordless tools, brand loyalty allows you to buy multiple tools and use a single charger unit and batteries to power all.

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At Ground Control Arb we very rarely hire in equipment. If we do, it’s normally very task-specific in a large tracked MEWP for a one off job. he reason or this is that we feel it’s better to own the equipment outright, and as long as it’s looked after well (we have maintenance contracts with our suppliers) it will hold a strong resale value.

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his is all e en ent on ee in the it busy. here is no point in having a large amount of equipment and it not getting use . his is where urchasin equipment for Ground Control is easy, in a way. As the company is large and diverse, we can move the assets around the divisions as required, so we do not have the problem of kit sat in yards.

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Title 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School Author Matthew Frederick Publisher The MIT Press RRP £11.95 I have a few books that I would kick a door down to save from a burning house, but only one that I would recommend to anyone wanting to grasp an insight into what we, as designers, should do.

This is a book you want to handle. It’s human in scale (A5 landscape), sparse and eloquent.

Don’t get the Kindle or the soft cover version; the recycled board, fabric spine hardcover is the only way to go.

But it’s architecture. Good design and the process of achieving it is universal. If this was rewritten with landscape or garden design in the title, little would change. We get bogged down in minutiae – half of my shelves are full of suggestions on how to resolve those problems so it is refreshing to be reminded of what we actually can and should be doing.

FAVOURITE PART 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School is unashamedly instructional, but not in a patronising way – more like a mentor or your

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favourite teacher. It doesn’t tell you how to do anything, but lays out some principles that remind you of what you thought you knew but have long forgotten and of what you should know but have been too preoccupied to bother learning. You’ll be a better designer for knowing these things.

The underlying lesson of the book is that of first principles. Don’t take other people’s word or their interpretation; find out, discover and research for yourself – learn. It also emphasises the need for clarity in exploring design ideas and in particular drawing. To be able to express an idea on paper with a pencil is a gift. CAD is a tool and can be a godsend, but to draw and reveal an idea is an art.

BUSINESS INFLUENCE I use many of the principles – I would use more but I’m a bloke and 101 things are 98 more than I can hold in my head at any one time.

Number 67: the 10ft test. If your drawings don’t work from 10ft away, they are not as clear as they might be. As chair of the SGD Adjudication team, I frequently pin up drawings and step back when assessing a presentation for clarity and communication.

WE GET BOGGED DOWN IN THE MINUTIAE – IT IS REFRESHING TO BE REMINDED OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY CAN AND SHOULD BE DOING The book does lack an appendix. If I can take the liberty to improve someone else’s work, I would direct anybody to the ’10 Principles of Good Design’ by Dieter Rams.

This time, substitute ‘product’ with ‘garden’. It makes a fitting unification to my own interests in gardens, architecture and product design, and I keep it as a folded sheet appendix in 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, for when I occasionally find myself in need of stepping back.

ABOUT THE BOOK This book comprises of 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process and presentation, and provides a primer in architectural literary. Each lesson has a two-page format, with a brief explanation and illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. It provides valuable guideposts for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum.

About the author Matthew Frederick is an architect and urban designer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology.

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TRADING WITH PLANTSCAPE

Plantscape is one of the biggest suppliers of floral features to public spaces in the UK. Pro Landscaper spoke to managing director, Mark Stone

How and when was Plantscape set up?

Plantscape was born from my family’s floristry business in Belper, Derbyshire. We were Mark Stone, asked to supply some managing director hanging baskets for a local bank, and they went down so well we were asked to do more. We already had excellent horticultural knowledge and an understanding of floral arrangements – we just transferred that knowledge from bouquets to planters.

How have you developed the company since then?

We realised designing and producing our own planters was the key to success. Traditional hanging baskets, with the wire mesh, are incredibly wasteful with water, which makes looking after them expensive and the cost of a large-scale display prohibitive. So we designed and manufactured polyethylene planters which would reduce this dramatically. We also ensured that we could pretty much mount displays anywhere, adding barrier baskets, multi-tier planters, wall-mounted raised planters and even an inter-locking planter system which looks like a bedding plant display, but is much quicker to 108 Pro Landscaper / May 2016

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Company name Plantscape Address The Nursery, Penfold, Hulland Village, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 3EQ Tel 01335 372 785 Email info@plantscapeuk.com Facebook Plantscape Web www.plantscapeuk.com

install and easier to maintain. As the business grew, we moved from our Belper shop into a site with 100,000ft2 of greenhouse space and 15,000ft2 of warehouse near Ashbourne.

What is your main client base?

Local authorities from metropolitan and city councils right down to parish councils, but we have an increasing number of orders from Business Improvement Districts. We also get calls from landscape designers and architects interested in our designer planters.

What does Plantscape offer for the landscaping sector?

The biggest strength of our offering is the fact that our products have an instant positive impact, and that they can be relied upon for a long-lasting display. Our products also combine practicality with aesthetics – we supply bike stands and seating with integrated planters to perform two functions at once.

What makes your planters unique?

They are unique because we are the only company in the UK to operate on the scale that we do. We handle small to large orders alike all planted up to our customers’ specifications, which are installed at the start of the season and then are kept watered and maintained throughout the season.

Are the plants grown in house?

We purchase them as plug plants from trusted suppliers and grow them on in our glasshouses.

Our clients can specify their needs and we work with them to draw up detailed planting plans.

What else can we expect to see from Plantscape in the upcoming months?

We are entering our busy phase and will deliver more than 12,000 planters across the country, many of which will be planted in red, white and blue flowers, to mark the Queen’s 90th Birthday.

Back in the office we will be gearing up for our winter business – renting out our unique solar-powered Christmas trees. We rented out 1,000 to councils and organisations all over the UK last year and are aiming for more this year.

What has been your favourite project to date?

We love doing big, prestigious displays and our favourite has to be the floral display for Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, in 2012 when it hosted the canoeing and kayaking events at the London Olympics. The Olympics had a very specific colour palate which we had to match and everything had to be spot on. The displays comprised of 106 hanging baskets, 158 barrier baskets and four of our 7ft ‘Flower Towers’. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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THE THREE PEAKERS RIDE AGAIN Preparations are underway for the most ambitious challenge proposed for Perennial’s HortAid 2016 campaign – ‘The Three Peakers Ride Again’. A group of horticulturists is taking part in the event, which includes a six-day climb and cycle, and is aiming to raise £50,000 for the charity. Pro Landscaper’s Fay Tate is following the challenge, and looked into the services Perennial offers to the horticulture industry.

Founded in 1839 as The Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, Perennial provides free and confidential advice, support and financial assistance, including advice on a range of social and housing benefits, to people working in or retired from horticulture and their families. In the last five years, the number of clients has risen by 5% each year. Over 1,300 clients used Perennial’s services in 2015 and received £1.4m in direct financial help. The charity also launched a dedicated debt advice service in 2007 which helped write off over £44,000 of debt and secured additional financial help of over £20,000 for clients in 2015.

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tackling the challenge on a mountain bike and said: “Until I heard first-hand about the range of services Perennial offers, I had no idea the charity might be able to help our team. I consider myself very fortunate, as do many of my colleagues, but there’s no telling what’s around the corner. The help Perennial offers might one day make the difference between sink or swim.”

Two riders taking part in the Three Peaks Extreme Challenge spoke to Fay about how Perennial helped a couple of their team members during a tough time. The managing director of Landform Consultants and Perennial Partner Ambassador Mark Gregory said: “Having done the Three Peaks Challenge, I started to realise how the work of the charity helps people and I invited Perennial to come in and address one of my big static maintenance sites. One of the guys in that group had a life-changing incident and called on the charity, unbeknownst to me, and Perennial did a needs assessment on him and helped him out. It was very moving and practical and if I hadn’t introduced them, he wouldn’t have received that

support. I do believe charity begins at home and I think the work of Perennial is invaluable.”

Richard Gardiner, proprietor at NAG Solutions and former managing director at Norris & Gardiner Ltd, also spoke about one of his former employees who turned to Perennial in a difficult moment. He said: Brian Herbert and Richard Gardiner “We had someone from Perennial come out and talk to everybody in the company and introduce them to the work of the charity. We raised awareness by putting up posters and leaflets for people to have easy access to the charity without having to talk to us about it. We made it accessible to them without really interfering too much. I was made aware of a couple of people who spoke to Perennial about issues with money and debt – I don’t know the specifics except that they were helped out.”

With four months to go, the Three Peakers have started training. To donate, visit: www.justgiving.com/teams/three-peakersride-again. Find out more about how Perennial helps at www.perennial.org.uk/help

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The UK’s largest lawn care company GreenThumb is looking for a lawn care operative in the South Lakeland Area. The successful candidate must be hard working, trustworthy, self motivated and have a full clean driving licence. The lawn care operative will be responsible for the delivery of lawn care services and will undertake lawn assessments, analysis of lawn health and quotes for new customers.

An exciting opportunity for an experienced estimator has opened up at Ground Control. Duties include completing tender projects, client management, lead time and management and time critical e-tendering. The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years’ practical work experience as an estimator or quantity surveyor, experience in the landscaping sector and a willingness to travel.

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GENERAL MAINTENANCE FOREMAN

A position has opened up at Ground Control in Essex for an experienced fencing contract manager. Duties will include seeking tender opportunities, pricing, procuring and delivering multiple fencing projects on time, and ensuring all works adhere to the required health and safety standards. The successful candidate must have a CSCS card, SMSTS, NEBOSH/IOSH, a full UK driving licence and practical experience within the fencing industry.

An exciting opportunity has opened up for an experienced general maintenance foreman. The role will include managing a soft landscaping team, overseeing and carrying out general garden maintenance and working with clients on a day to day basis. The successful candidate will have a good horticultural knowledge, knowledge of irrigation systems and water features, knowledge of seasonal variations, and experience in managing an assistant.

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PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

ESTIMATOR: FENCING

Key responsibilities of the private sector development manager will include identifying bid strategy in line with client expectation, developing and maintaining professional key relationships internally, maintaining accurate CRM records in line with ISS requirements and ensuring legal compliance in line with ISS policies and procedures.The successful candidate will have eight years’ experience in the commercial grounds maintenance and landscape industry, proven track record in sales within the industry and working knowledge of operational practices and procedures within a commercial landscaping environment.

A fencing estimator is required in Essex who will be responsible for tender preparation, time critical e-tendering, client management and purchase order, invoices and budget management. The successful candidate will have knowledge of fencing systems, practical experience of fencing installation, practical work experience as an assistant estimator/estimator/quantity surveyor and be willing to travel.

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GREENTHUMB Location: Cumbria

GREENFIELDS COUNTRYSIDE LTD Location: Leicestershire

GROUND CONTROL Location: Billericay, Essex

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HULTONS LANDSCAPES LTD Location: Lymm

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GROUND CONTROL Location: Billericay, Essex

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INTERIOR LANDSCAPE TECHNICIANS

ANDERSPLUS LTD Location: London Andersplus Ltd is looking for four interior landscaping technicians who will work remotely, with the main emphasis being London. Candidates will be expected to travel to the head office in Leicester at least once a month Successful candidates will have a minimum of two years’ interior plant maintenance experience, have a pro-active and positive mindset, be prepared to work from home remotely and have a full and clean UK driving license.

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LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER TAYLOR2RECRUITMENT LTD Location: Southern UK

The client is a national company with an excellent reputation and requires an experienced landscape construction manager. The ideal candidate will have experience in large scale hard and soft landscaping, including sports centres and facilities. The successful candidate will have relevant industry experience.

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SKILLED LANDSCAPE GARDENER ANDRES GARCIA LANDSCAPING Location: Notting Hill

An experienced landscape gardener is needed to join a busy and expanding team in and around Milton Keynes, Bedford and Northampton. The successful candidate will need to be well presented and self-motivated. A full UK driving license is essential along with your own transport to get to sites. The right candidate should have at least four to five years’ experience as a landscaper and be proficient in paving and slab laying, timber framework and decking, block paving, groundwork, fencing and soft landscaping and garden maintenance.

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HARD LANDSCAPE FOREMAN

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LANDESIGNS LTD Location: Hemel Hempstead

A hard landscape foreman is needed to work in the surrounding areas of St Albans, Berkhamsted and Harpenden. Duties will include running a team, speaking with clients and suppliers on a daily basis, organising workload and materials and working to strict deadlines and within budget. The successful candidate will be a committed team player, has excellent communication skills and a full and clean UK driving license.

NEW DEPOT NOW OPEN IN WAKEFIELD

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Favourite tipple Champers, of course.

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Your most used saying “Live for today.”

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Biggest life influence My father’s saying: ‘Live for today,’ which encouraged me to quit my career in the city and follow my dream and passion, to set up my own garden design business.

Your prediction for gardening trends in 2016 Not so much of a trend, but we will see a surge in people prioritising their outside space. This will include the seamless inside-outside transition seen more in small urban gardens, and investing in the skills and talents of people in our industry to help achieve this, whether that be horticulturists, garden designers, landscapers, outdoor lighting designers and so on. Also, black fences and beautiful grasses.

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Top plant Gunnera manicata – always has been, always will be.

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Biggest life influence My wife Heidi. Always in the background, but always there for me.

Top plant Liquidambar styraciflua (if I’m allowed trees).

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Chateau d’Yquem 1959 – £1,300 per bottle. I tend to drink more Dark Star...

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installed one in my own garden, I can see how people get mesmerised by the flames.

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Top plant Pinus sylvestris, Scots pine.

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Your prediction for gardening trends in 2016 SureSet resin bound gravel, in all its forms.

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