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LANDSCAPE SHOW TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER & WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2015 BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON

Landscape LANDSCAPE - the UK’s premier event for the industry returns to Battersea Park in central London on the 22nd & 23rd of September 2015.

This year the show is even bigger and better than before with more exhibitors and more speakers. This year’s event promises to bring even more people together at the industry’s annual meeting place.

This preview magazine has been created in order to give you a small taste of what you can see at the show. This edition features some of the amazing speakers and some of the incredible exhibitors themselves.

This year the show will feature well over 250 exhibitors from across the globe.

A feature within the 2015 event will be the Society of Garden Designers Product of the Year Award. The shortlisted entries will be there for the visitors to vote for and the winner will be announced at the show itself. The YoungHorts will be holding their annual Autumn Conference at the event on Wednesday the 23rd of September, more details of which will be sent through to you across the next issues of LANDSCAPE Preview.

Don’t forget to register for your free tickets to attend the show and have the opportunity to listen to the ever popular CPD accredited Seminar Programme during your time there.

Simply visit www.landscapeshow.co.uk.

I hope this edition is useful, I look forward to sending further issues across the coming months and of course to seeing you at the event itself in September in Battersea Park.

Jeremy

With my very best wishes,

Jeremy Storey-Walker Event Director

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Anne Curry Anne Curry’s sculptures are specifically designed for the outdoors and offer a perfect focus point whether in a garden, at the end of an avenue, in a courtyard or a large terrace.

Whatever the setting, in formal English gardens, on the slopes of an olive grove in the South of France, on the shore of an ornamental lake in the Netherlands, her work has always enhanced its surroundings.

She has lately been involved in projects on the other side of the Atlantic with designers in the United States and Canada. Her most recent commission has been a bronze version of her “Helleborus Niger Seed Pod” for the garden of a private client in Toronto, and she is at the moment working on a project for a Florida hotel with a Boston based firm of designers.

Anne is one of the exhibitors at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Anne Curry Anne Curry’s sculptures are specifically designed for the outdoors and offer a perfect focus point whether in a garden, at the end of an avenue, in a courtyard or a large terrace.

Whatever the setting, in formal English gardens, on the slopes of an olive grove in the South of France, on the shore of an ornamental lake in the Netherlands, her work has always enhanced its surroundings.

She has lately been involved in projects on the other side of the Atlantic with designers in the United States and Canada. Her most recent commission has been a bronze version of her “Helleborus Niger Seed Pod” for the garden of a private client in Toronto, and she is at the moment working on a project for a Florida hotel with a Boston based firm of designers.

Anne is one of the exhibitors at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Bathgate Silica Sand Bathgate Silica Sand Limited are launching their new Professional Grower, Landscaper and Garden range. Based at Arclid in Cheshire, for over 60 years Bathgate have been producing high quality silica sand for a variety of specialist use in industry, foundry, equestrian, agriculture, amenity and landscape. Bespoke turf dressings, bunker sand and root zone material are produced to market leading standards and are widely used throughout the sports and leisure industry.

Dedicated to quality and customer service along with the Bathgate principles, the range has been formulated to the highest standards to satisfy the needs of professional growers, landscapers and dedicated garden enthusiasts.

Using the finest quality ingredients available and with vigorous testing and monitoring procedures assures superb and consistent product quality. The Bathgate retail products are formulated with carefully selected ingredients to optimise performance, attractively packaged and offered in convenient bag sizes to maximise sales potential.

The Professional Grower products are made to exacting standards and can be custom made to be crop specific and suit individual requirements. All professional products are available in easy to handle plastic sacks, bulk bags and loose bulk loads. Nationwide deliveries are made promptly and can be accommodated on rigid and articulated vehicles and with a fork lift if requested.

Samples of the entire range will be available from their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

AVS Fencing Ever since Managing Director, Ian Faires, founded the company in 1993, AVS Fencing Supplies have continued to grow and succeed. As part of a recent evaluation of the company’s direction and continued growth, it was decided that a new brand identity is needed to deliver a defined message of who AVS are along with reflecting their values.

Sales & Marketing Director, Nick Summers, regards the rebrand as the mark of an exciting new era for AVS. ‘We are proud of where we have come from as a company and are extremely excited about the direction it is now going in’.

Commenting on the slogan, prominently placed within the new logo, Managing Director (Designate), Neil Beglin, says, ‘Our heritage allows us to recognise that our success is based on the success of our customers. Their needs shape every decision we make as a company, and it is with that sentiment at our core that we say: “We’re on your side”.’

In 2014 AVS became FSC certified suppliers and achieved ISO 9001 registration from the British Assessment Bureau. They also recently opened their 9th branch at Herriard Sawmills in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Kate Gould This is an interesting garden landscaped on three different levels. At the lowest level lies a sunken terrace immediately outside a spacious kitchen and family room.

From here, steps rise to level lawns that wrap around three sides of the garden, with a narrow side path to one side and a broad children’s’ play area to the other. On the eastern side, more steps ascend to a grassy terrace with elegant furniture designed by Patricia Urquiola of B&B Italia. Behind the chairs, there is a raised bed beneath a magnificent old Holm Oak.

The water feature provides a striking focal point, its mirrored surface casting different reflections to add a sense of depth or, when running with sheets of water, forming a continuous, mesmerising ripple effect that is very relaxing. Polished steel is set into a wide, quartzite paddlestone wall, at its base an integral planter filled with Calla lilies to flower later in the summer once the alliums have faded.

There were a few challenges in the garden, All the retaining walls were in place and deemed unattractive although necessary so had to be concealed behind instant hedging. The major issue was the ground in the area where the children play.

It was a quagmire because the existing drainage was inadequate. No matter how great a design is, if the underlying structure fails or is poorly installed there will be trouble in years to come so rectifying and adding to the drainage in conjunction with the landscaping was vital and now the garden with its artificial turf play areas is used throughout the year.

Although perhaps not everyone’s cup of tea artificial turf makes for useable play areas, is virtually maintenance free and looks good all year - something which really works for this family.

Kate Gould is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park.

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GreenBlue Urban Leyland Street in Prescot connects the High Street with the pedestrianised Eccleston Street in Prescot town centre. Along this street were nine well-established London Plane trees which Knowsley Council decided should be removed, due to the increasing risk to properties and the breaking up of the footway through extensive surface root activity. Nine new Lime trees (Tilia cordata ‘Greenspire’) were designed back into the scheme.

As part of the Prescot Townscape Heritage Initiative, Mouchel, devised the scheme, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, to repair, restore and improve the historic town centre. One of the challenges faced by the design team was to provide sufficient soil volume for the long term establishment of the trees due to the limited available space underneath the pavement, particularly with the presence of numerous statutory services. Following consultation with GreenBlue Urban, tree pits were created, providing a large enough soil volume spanning underneath the carriageway and linking two tree pits together.

Linking the pits reduced the soil requirement from 35 cubic metres to 23 cubic metres of quality uncompacted topsoil for the combined tree pit. The GreeBlue Urban StrataCell system was installed spanning underneath the total width of the road due to its exceptional structural strength, which has been independently tested and is suitable for use underneath a carriageway. The StrataCell system is filled with good quality topsoil and provides a very healthy rooting profile underneath the paved surface.

The tree health will be monitored as part of GreenBlue Urbans on-going commitment to ensuring that trees planted in urban areas reach their full potential. Come and talk to them about your project on their stand at LANDSCAPE.

Esthec® Terrace Esthec® Terrace has clearly gained ground in Florida in 2014. A growing number of architects and owners of luxury residences are won over by Esthec® Terrace’s appearance and functional properties. The opening of the Fort Lauderdale office has helped to increase exposure in this part of the country.

One of these architects is John Cooney of Stofft Cooney Architects. This successful architect has designed many high-profile projects in the south of Florida. His way of designing is best described as a refined combination of form, vision, style and structure. Cooney is including Esthec® Terrace in an increasing number of his designs for luxury residences. He has used this comfortable and sustainable terrace decking system for a magnificent waterfront villa in Naples, for instance. Esthec® Terrace was installed around the water features with a view across the open water.

Naples is not the only place where Esthec® Terrace can be seen. Esthec® has also installed its Terrace system at several luxury residences in Miami. The owners of one of these villas made a conscious choice for Esthec® Terrace because of its high-quality appeal. In this case there was no other option than to choose a decking product that perfectly matched the quality and style of the villa. And Esthec® Terrace met this aesthetic requirement. Other advantages become apparent as soon as you set foot on the decking material; it is comfortable to walk on with bare feet. It does not splinter and is slip resistant, even in wet areas around swimming pools.

The entire range of products will be available to see on the Esthec stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Cranborne Stone The Knebworth Main Gate project was completed last year by Cranborne Stone and focused on the refurbishment of all four decorative stone piers that make up the dramatic entrance to the main house.

From the start, the project involved the production of many highly detailed and intricate clay models from which moulds of the entire pier could be made and casts taken.

Two key elements in this extensive refurbishment were the reclining Beasts and Bat Beasts holding barrels, which sit on the gate piers. Both elements had to be skilfully reproduced by our restoration team, however, very little of these highly original features remained on site, so what was identifiable, had to be carefully cross referenced with archive photos in order to enable the sculptors & craftsmen to reproduce the originals successfully.

With a project such as this, Cranborne’s cast stone can be extremely economic compared to the natural stone alternative.

The process of multiple casts, where one mould can be used consistently, works perfectly in a restoration project of this scale and budget. A very good example of this would be the Reclining Beasts, which rest either side of the gates. As four casts are required to complete the project, reproducing these elements in natural stone, perfectly every time, would be prohibitive in time and budget.

Cranborne’s restoration team take great pride in their work helping to maintain and restore historic properties and have built a strong reputation for their attentive service.

Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Animal & Plant Health Agency We are facing an unprecedented threat from exotic plant and tree pests and diseases which if they were to become established have huge potential to change how our landscape looks and severely impact our biodiversity, economy and food security.

The responsibility for preventing outbreaks of exotic notifiable diseases, reporting suspicion and managing eradication or containment action when they do occur is shared between government and stakeholders. Stakeholders include those who plan, manage and maintain green spaces. Familiarity with pest and disease threats can be gained by making use of the Risk Register.

Over 700 organisms have so far been rated for the likelihood and impact of them becoming established in the UK or spreading further within the UK. The Risk Register is not intended to produce a simple list of the “top ten pests”, but to establish different priorities for regulation, research, contingency planning, publicity, surveys and detailed risk assessment, depending on the characteristics of the organism.

There are practical steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of accidental introduction of exotic pests and diseases.

Consider where you source your plants and trees, check that appropriate plant passports are present and quarantine imported material before planting out.

Contaminated wooden packaging holds the risk of Asian Longhorn Beetle, a serious threat to trees. Asian Longhorn Beetle hatches out of exit hole of approx. 10 mm diameter, if you see this beetle please capture it in a container and contact the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate immediately.

The Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate is part of the Animal and Plant Health Agency and will be exhibiting at this years LANDSCAPE show in Battersea Park in September.

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MCM MCM are a key supplier for the Embassy Garden development and have been for the past year now, supplying an array of aggregates and providing muck away services to several key contractors. The Embassy Garden project is a vital part of London’s growth as a world leading Metropolis paving the way to greener city living by developing the surrounding areas and building parks, playgrounds and sports pitches alongside affordable housing, shops and business opportunities.

Embassy Gardens is also having green roofs installed to further showcase the green side of life that is becoming so popular in London and other major cities across the country.

MCM also follows the same ethos of promoting green roofs and sustainable products through material development and the supply of compliant materials for SUDS and as a company are starting to engage with the growing market of a ‘Green London’ that the construction industry is starting to turn towards.

Other services MCM provided to the Embassy Garden project is the removal of Asbestos that was identified and removed on a 2 day turn around as it the discovery of asbestos put a hold on the digging until the contaminated material was removed and disposed with so the site could resume normal working – This was a major problem as due to the size of the site as 2 days without the removal of muck away put a major dent in the timescale a site like this needs to work to.

MCM are proud to provide materials and services on time and in the least environmentally impactful methods as possible for such a prestigious project and would like to talk to you about your current projects on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Chairworks Nick Smyth are a major distributor of attractive garden products made of a variety of materials like hazel, willow, rattan and other eco friendly materials.

As such they do not have projects, they have been a supplier to landscapers for many years and they buy their products to use in their projects.

In particular their hazel hurdles are a popular choice, they are a beautiful and natural way of fencing a garden. Also popular are their garden borders and other hazel barriers, which are very useful for finishing off areas in the garden.

Nick Smyth have other hazel products such as children’s playhouses which are very popular in the spring/summer. Come and see their range on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September at Battersea Park.

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David Austin Roses Wynyard Hall is set in the beautiful rolling countryside of County Durham. It was built in the 18th century by the Londonderry family but is now owned by Sir John Hall who restored it to its former glory and, for a number of years, had the ambition to create a wonderful new rose garden that would be open to the public. This ambition is finally coming to fruition as the garden covering just over 2 acres is being built and planted with the official opening planned for late July 2015.

The garden has been designed by Alistair W Baldwin Associates in collaboration with the world renowned rose specialist David Austin Roses. There are 3000 roses in the garden but it is very much a rose garden of the 21st century in which a wide range of English Roses, Old Roses, assorted shrub roses as well as climbers and rambler are displayed alongside a carefully composed series of companion plantings. While some spaces will radiate warmth, with deep yellow roses mingling with oranges and deep clarets, others will be cool and serene, where white and pale pink roses complement pale blues and violets.

The garden is divided into a number of distinct areas each with its own character and colour theme. The Eastern end is more formal with a number of raised beds and water features that takes its inspiration from the original productive walled garden.

The middle section takes its reference from the arts and crafts movement while the western end evokes the watery idyll of the enclosed paradise where surrounding columns are reminiscent of the cloistered wall and winding paths encourage the visitor to wander amongst the plants. David Austin Roses will be one of the exhibitors at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Wildflower Turf Wildflower Turf Ltd are pioneers within wildflower meadow creation and launch a brand new product for 2015. Successful wildflower establishment is dependent on quick and robust seedling growth providing competitive plant development. Wildflower Earth™ provides an optimum seed rate blended with premium growing medium ingredients to give exceptional levels of wildflower seed germination and establishment. This specially developed pre-seeded growing medium provides perfect growing conditions, akin to an envelope of goodness surrounding the seed, whilst also suppressing weeds that are below this layer of material. It provides a guaranteed result in terms of attractive bio-diverse wildflower displays for landscaping projects whilst requiring considerably less investment in ground preparation.

Areas to be covered with Wildflower Earth need a general spray off with glyphosate but no seed bed creation is required. The earth is spread to a depth of 25mm and is best suited to the spring and autumn growing periods, although summer installation works if irrigation is applied.

There is no instant green coverage as with the turf but due to the medium the seed is set within, you can expect quick germination and establishment.

Wildflower Earth provides a great deal of versatility with regard to seed mixes making it particularly relevant for meadow making in public spaces that may require certain colour palettes or specific annual displays.

Wildflower Earth is suitable for any wildflower project over 40m² and particularly cost effective for large areas of meadow. Providing a low maintenance, drought tolerant solution Wildflower Earth is sure to be a radical step forward for larger contractors creating wildflower areas.

Come and talk to Wildflower Turf about your next project on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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New Wood Trees From the weeping willow to the majestic oak, everyone loves the impact of a beautiful tree. The only problem is that it takes half a lifetime, if not more for these trees to acquire their aesthetic charms.

As a result, buying a tree from new can often test the patience of even the most committed designer, as it can take at least ten to fifteen years to begin to see the benefits of your investment. You can of course buy older, larger specimens however this is an expensive undertaking that is out of reach of most budgets.

Originally imported from Europe but now grown in the UK, multi-stem trees have been cultivated for those who don’t want to wait. Instead of a single and somewhat formal vertical stem, a multi-stem tree has three, five or seven stems that grow and spread to enhance the overall presence of the tree. The multiple stems also act to broaden the canopy of the tree giving it a size worthy of a much older specimen.

The art of producing a beautiful multi-stem originated from coppicing and involves cutting a tree right back and leaving it to regrow multiple stems from its base, or stool. This is followed, by skilful pruning and shaping, throughout the early years of the tree’s life. New Wood Trees can provide a complete range of trees, come and visit them on their stand at LANDSCAPE 2015.

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Provender Nurseries When baking a cake, another popular pastime in the UK alongside gardening and landscaping, the proper ingredients are listed and collated together before you start – thus resulting in making the actual combining of the ingredients easier and also the end result more pleasing.

At Provender Nurseries, although they are fond of the occasional cake, they like to think of themselves as providing the best ingredients to bring your garden design to life - from paper to planting – they have everything you could need to fulfil yours and your client’s wishes.

Quality plants, the most diverse and interesting selection of plants in the South East, soils, composts, excellent landscaping products, fertilisers, tools, fencing and turf – all major ingredients to make and create an entire garden in one nursery. Many of their soils are mixed on site and bespoke mixes can be made to suit particular situations.

With a wide range of plants held in stock all year round it is possible to select and plant a garden that will provide 12 seasons of interest from just one visit – ideal for the busy garden designer, contractor or landscaper.

Provender Nurseries can deliver all you need in one drop, resulting in saving you time, expense and logistics. Plants, soils, tree stakes / anchoring systems, fertilisers can be collated and delivered by our vehicles – with everything you require on a 17 acre site with easy access to the M25, why would you want to go anywhere else? Come and talk to them about your next project on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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A MAGAZINE ABOUT SPATIAL PRACTICE ACROSS ARCHITECTURE INTERIORS ART TRAVEL AND DESIGN WORDS: DAVID MORRIS — IMAGES: DAVID MORRIS (PORTRAIT) & MARTIN NOBOA — DRAWINGS: DI MAINSTONE

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AFTER CROSSING NEW YORK’S BROOKLYN BRIDGE, AND WONDERING HOW AN INSTALLATION CREATED ON THE LANDMARK MIGHT SOUND, LONDON ARTIST DI MAINSTONE DEVELOPED THE HUMAN HARP. THIS PROJECT IS NOW RECOGNISED

BY UNIVERSITIES, MUSICIANS, RESEARCHERS AND ARTISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE.

This page: Di Mainstone on Tower Bridge.

Right page: Sketches for the next project above and below Hollie Miller playing the Human Harp on the 130th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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inspired me and started to develop wearable musical instruments with scientists, using motion sensors to map the movement of the wearer to different sounds. I was later approached by the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, to be artist in residence at the School of Electrical Engineering, and design new sonic instruments with their students. I love my job!

Tell us about the inspiration for your project…

During a residency at Eyebeam Centre for Art and Technology, in New York City, I was often drawn to the Brooklyn Bridge in search of inspiration. I became struck by the sounds that I could hear as I sat there- the clonking of footsteps on the wooden walkway (which reminded me of a giant glockenspiel), the whirring of bicycles, the drone of the traffic from below and sound of voices of the visitors as they walked by. It was at this point that I noticed the bridge reminded me of a giant harp and that all of these ‘journey sounds’ were resonating through its steel cables.

Inspired, I began wondering if I could collaborate with scientists and musicians to develop a clip-on instrument that would enable pedestrians to play the bridge like a giant harp.

The project involves several technical instruments, have you always had an interest and background in technology and sound?

In 2004 I left my job as a fashion designer to explore the field of wearable technology. I was invited to The Banff Centre in Canada to collaborate with a team of engineers and develop a dress that could map the wearer’s gesture and emotional states to different soundscapes. This was the start of a new adventure in the world of research and a completely new way of thinking – I was addicted.Residencies followed in Montreal, Rotterdam, Boston and New York City. My projects involved wearable technologies that triggered light, movement and sound. I quickly realised that sound was the area that

How do you start making a wearable harp?

Human Harp was inspired by reoccurring sketches that I drew of a woman attached to the Brooklyn Bridge via colourful musical strings. I liked the idea of the body connecting to architectural space in a really visual way.

In my mind, these chords were an extension of the bridge’s cables, they were also a visual and sculptural representation of sound- enabling the user (or movician) to control pitch, intensity and volume of the vibrations as he or she lengthens, shortens and twangs the chords. I invented the term movician to describe the user of the harp - a hybrid artist who explores sound through expressive physical movement. We used these early sketches to develop the retractable string sound controller that was later tested on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Tell us about the first Human Harp performance.

In September 2012 I discovered that the 130th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge was imminent. I approached Mark Plumbley at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, to see if they would help me develop an instrument that would ‘play’ the Brooklyn Bridge.

They agreed and a London team was gathered, with a mission to develop eight string sound-controllers in time for the anniversary.

Because of the tight deadline we split the design questions up between researchers at Queen Mary and the students at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

The day before the anniversary, dancer Hollie Miller and I packed the sound-controllers into our suitcase and headed to NYC. There we were met by Kathleen Flood from Intel’s Creators Project, who made a documentary describing our aspirations to transform the Brooklyn Bridge into a giant harp. We then spent the 130th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge filming Hollie on the bridge demonstrating and exploring the Human Harp.

The Creators Project documentary amassed 370,000 hits on Youtube and we received media attention from around the globe.

Your next project will celebrate the 150th birthday of The Clifton Suspension Bridge, what do you plan for that?

Working with musicians, dancers and scientists in the Bristol area, we plan to transform Clifton Suspension Bridge into a giant harp to celebrate the bridge’s anniversary and the opening of a new Visitor Centre in March 2015. We will develop the technology for the instrument and also ideas for the performance and composition through workshops on the bridge throughout 2014. So far we have managed to record the different frequencies running through the bridge’s hangers, or cables. These sounds will then be played by movicians who will use the retractable string sound-controllers attached to the bridge’s cables to release the deep rumbling murmur of Brunel’s iconic landmark.

Each bridge structure is very different; does this mean the instruments used and performances will also differ?

Each bridge has its own structural personality, which means the sound will differ dramatically from bridge to bridge. In Bristol, for example, we have already started working with civil engineers who are researching the bridge’s vibrations caused by wind, traffic and pedestrians. We have discovered that the frequencies on the Clifton Suspension Bridge differ dramatically to those of Tower Bridge.

This will mean that we will need to create bespoke ways to capture the sounds of each bridge in response to their unique structures.

Our performances are also tailored to the individual story of each bridge, drawing inspiration for the composition from its history, as well as local people’s memories and connections to the structure.

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What comes next for the Human Harp, and what are your own future plans?

We have been approached by different communities both in the UK and abroad to play their bridges. Before setting off on a global tour of other suspension bridges our main focus is to make the harp sound-controllers more robust and versatile, so that the Human Harp is intuitive, enjoyable and inspiring both to play and to watch. DE

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Treebox It’s widely known the East London postcode comes with a permit to be alternate, original and creative, in fact beyond that, this behaviour is actively encouraged and is what makes the area renowned for it’s forward and exuberant flare in design. It was no surprise then when Treebox received a call last year from Director, Harvey B-Brown, at his converted trendy warehouse in Shoreditch.

Treebox consulted closely with Harvey to discuss how we could best create the smooth transition between the high-spec design features of the indoors to the adjacent courtyard. The completed design included a variety of evergreen plants to ensure the wall remained green throughout winter, in addition to a number of herb species which would not only pack a colourful punch but entice the other senses with their fragrance. The project was finished perfectly with the incorporation of a full length outdoor mirror, resulting in a Narnia of cascading green and illusively doubling the outdoor space.

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The story doesn’t end there though, in late February when Treebox revisited the wall for routine maintenance expecting some wilting from over the winter period, however, they were greeted with a thriving green wall, which looked rather enchanting coming from the somewhat barren surrounding streets.

This project demonstrates sustainability and design working effortlessly for compact city living and displays the scope living walls can offer, not only for their aesthetic characteristics but as interactive features such as edible walls, pollution control and energy efficiency to name a few.

Meet Treebox at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Lumena Lighting Lumena have been bringing an exciting project to life over the last weeks – a brand new 12v Garden Lighting Showroom at their premises in Daventry, Northamptonshire.

The aim was to present an elegant garden scene to customers and trade professionals for ideas on how 12v lighting can be used to greatly enhance gardens.

Decking stretches across the main area of the showroom, along with 3 large raised flowerbeds which contain various plants and trees, illuminated with uplights, spreadlights, spike lights and more. The installation of Bricklights show how they can be incorporated into decking, not just walls, as well as a variety of decklights and step lights from the 30+ designs available. Step lights and in ground lights are often used as markers along edges of steps for safety purposes, but can look fantastic in their own right and installed to create soft or dramatic lighting effects dependent upon the design and positioning.

After encouragingly positive feedback about our stands at the LANDSCAPE Show from trade professionals, the brand new showroom extends this experience throughout the year with the same high level of expertise on all aspects of 12v Garden Lighting. Come and talk to us this year on our stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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A E Evans A E Evans is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of machine round, half round and traditionally peeled fencing as well as high quality landscape timbers. They are also a market leader in the design and supply of timber based playground equipment, leisure and amenity products providing bespoke custom made playground timbers and components to any specification.

All timber used, whether mixed softwood in their fencing production, or UK grown Pine or Radiata Pine in their play and landscape timbers, is only purchased from those suppliers that are committed to the responsible management of sustainable forests. As an FSC certified company they take their environmental and social responsibilities very seriously and are committed to developing our business towards ecological, social and economical sustainability. All their timber, fencing and playground equipment is designed predominately for resale through the trade or wholesale stockists. Their extensive production facility set on the North Wales/English border houses some of the most advanced automated equipment used in comparable production process. With over 40 full time staff they offer a customer focused yet friendly sales team backed up by a modern professional production process yet still retain and hold on to the values of a family run business that the AE Evans foundations were built on more than 50 years ago. Come and talk to them about your project on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Bailey Artform The Facilities Management team at Loughborough University approached Bailey Artform to assist on external building works as part of their ongoing campus master plan. After sharing initial ideas, they were subsequently invited to work alongside the designated Landscape Architects, BCA Landscape of Liverpool responsible for the overall design of a large open space at the heart of the campus.

The scheme consisted of two distinct areas; an open plaza plus a more formal, secluded seating garden. The landscape architect was looking for a simple yet considered design made from quality materials. In addition to providing an aesthetic appeal that complimented the inspirational nature of campus life, it was also important that the products chosen were tough and durable.

After a relatively short process of discussions, the final products and layout were selected, with similarities echoed between the two different bench designs used in the separate seating areas. The overall weight of the Giada Benches was an additional feature that influenced product choice, as it would help to deter any unwanted movement once installed.

Finally Salgueiro Granite Blocks were chosen for their simplicity, exceptional value and effortless functionality. This flexibility of use was aptly demonstrated by their application on site, acting both as a plinth for the Campus signage and also as a part retaining wall. Come and talk to Bailey Artform on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Perennial A new trade initiative has been launched by London Stone, a leading supplier of natural stone paving and bespoke stone products to the trade. The Trade Club, which is free to join, offers its members unique benefits including exclusive discounts and early offers, access to the new ‘24/7 Stone’ online sales platform, online company profiles and much more, and for every new member, London Stone will donate £10 to charity.

Perennial, the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping all horticulturalists in need, will benefit from donations, along with Greenfingers, the charity that creates gardens at children’s hospices.

Steven Walley, Managing Director of London Stone says, “The landscape industry’s greatest strength is the people it attracts. They make our industry so special and unique. Coming from landscape backgrounds, my fellow directors and I are always looking for ways to help strengthen and support the industry and London Stone Trade club does this, in many ways.”

Perennial is the UK’s only charity dedicated to supporting all horticulturalists, working in or retired from horticulture. The charity offers free and confidential advice and support to people affected by disability, illness, poverty, financial hardship, old age or any number of life’s challenges. Trade support for the charity has significantly grown in recent years and there are now many ways in which companies can support the work of the charity. Anita Bates continues, “It’s absolutely fantastic that so many companies are seeing the benefits of supporting the charity that looks after horticulturalists. Some see us a little like an insurance policy – you never know when you might need to turn to us for advice, support or financial assistance. But with so many projects on the go, we have opportunities for all companies, large or small, to make a real difference to our work.”

Come and talk to Perennial on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park to see how you can help.

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Guillot-Bourne 145 years of passion for plants has meant that for Guillot-Bourne delivering the right tree at the right place is a permanent target and 2014 has been a successful year with some magnificent private and public European projects.

On one hand Guillot-Bourne has provided specimen trees planted in modern pots or specimen coniferous or standard trees for outstanding city projects.

On the other hand they have completed some conscientious planting in some of the nicest private gardens in France and Switzerland.

In our nurseries specimen-trees are always selected by the customer themselves.

The hand-digging guarantees a perfect root-ball and best growing opportunities for the biggest specimen trees. They also carefully load the trees onto special trucks which is very important for an optimal delivery to the construction site.

Guillot-Bourne know how much quality matters to their customers, and take extra care to ensure the best quality every time.

To assist the planting further and the final lifting, they can offer their customers the opportunity to work with some of their best technicians, which are sent to the construction site to assist with the actual planting itself.

Their technicians will help with all aspects of the planting with one common goal, the satisfaction of the customer. Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Streetlife Streetlife’s coherent Rough&Ready benches, tree planters, bicycle parking, bridges are available in FSCŽ-100% hardwood or recycled synthetic material: All Black. This material is black throughout and 100% flood resistant. All Black is made out of old bags and agricultural plastic. It requires no maintenance and has a coarse texture. Use these durable and sustainable elements in your urban plans.

In Newport various All Black elements were installed in the shopping street. The Rough&Ready patterns blend in nicely to the surroundings.

The Rough&Ready program is the most popular product line within the Streetlife Collection. This program was designed over the years and expanded with various elements for the public space, including the Rough&Ready Curve and Circular benches.

These robust benches have timber seating made out of hardwood beams with a metal support. They look great in combination with other Rough&Ready elements.

The Dutch design company Streetlife designs, manufactures and delivers elements for public spaces. Sustainability and longevity are keywords in the design vision. Streetlife experiments with new sustainable solutions and new materials to achieve the best quality and most feasible products.

Come along to the Streetlife stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park and see the range for yourself.

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Addscape AddScape exhibited at the LANDSCAPE show in 2014 and this year they are back with a bigger stand to showcase further products from their portfolio.

Last year the focus was on European granite imported through their partner Ignea, but as a business AddScape can supply everything you need to make your hard landscaping project come to life.

This year the focus will be products from their concrete, sandstone, granite, clay and accessory ranges so you can see how AddScape can support your project, from conception with detailing and design advice, to on site project management helping to deliver your project to the highest standard.

Over the coming months Addscape will provide case studies on some of their major projects over the last year. At AddScape they pride themselves on being able to source a product to match your ideas & vision and they have the capability to enhance your project through specialist artwork or feature pieces in any material, from inlaid or etched patterns to lettering in various mediums or inbuilt lighting.

Addscape look forward to seeing you in September on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park.

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Q Lawns While plants and gardens were hibernating this winter, the folks at Q Lawns were busy re-inventing their online image. Early in March 2015, the new Q Lawns website went live. This is first of the three websites to be revamped.

The super new website is mobile responsive and has some great features. First and foremost is the automated turf selector to help visitors decide which of the 11 grades of turfgrass featured on the website is the best choice for their project and budget. All the visitor needs to do is answer 5 simple questions about the lawn they’re planning, how it will be used, its immediate environment and the amount of ongoing maintenance desired. The website will then flag up the turf grades that best meet the requirements.

Another unique feature is the turfgrass information centre. This is a central hub for the website and helps the visitor to find help with any aspect of turf, turfing and lawn care. From finding the best prices, to learning how to lay turf and working out the best lawncare regime for the season, this website has it all.

Turf may not be the newest or most glamorous landscaping material out there but because the lawn is the backbone to so many garden designs, knowing where to buy good quality grass is absolutely essential. With their new website, Q Lawns aim to help designers and contractors source and buy turf with ease. Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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The Garden Trellis Company The Garden Trellis Company were approached by Andrew Wenham, a North London based Garden Designer, to look at a major re-development project he was working on. He had been commissioned to design a garden for a site which was in the process of being excavated. His design included living walls and required some very bespoke contemporary panels to compliment and add interest to what was going to become a very high garden wall.

Using their extensive knowledge and experience they designed panels and used materials to ensure exceptional levels of accuracy and stability. In a scheme of this nature The Grden Trellis Company understand that their customers and their clients will accept nothing less, to achieve this they used a specially modified timber species to provide the required stability and worked to very small tolerances in the manufacture process.

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This scheme also required precise installation by their team of skilled and dedicated fitters. The Garden Trellis Company ensured they carried out the necessary ‘eye for detail’ demanded throughout all stages of this project. The final results speak for themselves and needless to say the designer and his client were thrilled with the overall effect. Come and taljk to The Garden Trellis Company about your next project on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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SmartFire Outside space can be kept warm even during the winter, thanks to revolutionary new bio-fuel technology. EcoSmart outdoor fireplaces use bio-ethanol, a renewable and clean burning liquid fuel that produces heat without the smoke, soot, ash or embers of a traditional fire and results in a clean emission.

The stylish fireplaces do not need a power connection so can be moved to different locations and cast an ambient glow around the venue. The eco-friendly fireplaces are available from Smart Fire UK, the only distributor for EcoSmart Fire in Britain.

The fires can transform a garden area, courtyard, terrace, patio, pool area or deck and create an inviting focal point for guests.

Unlike traditional outdoor fires, they do not require daily cleaning and are made from weather resistant materials, meaning they will last for years.

Among the stylish designs is the award winning Stix, which offers a contemporary twist on the traditional campfire. Created by acclaimed international designer Hiroshi Tsunoda, Stix consists of tubular stainless steel sticks secured around an EcoSmart burner.

Come and see their entire range at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Paul Hervey-Brookes

London Stone

Outside of the usual worlds of designing gardens for private clients and at shows Paul is passionate about community projects and skills training. This year he became a Trustee of Walworth Garden Farm, a charity community garden in south London who offer a range of education and outreach programmes along side engagement and learning.

London Stone are excited to introduce Trade Club, completely free of charge to join and offering a wealth of exclusive benefits. 24/7 Stone, available exclusively to Trade Club members, allows you to check stocks, place orders, obtain quotes, review order history and pay bills online at any time, saving valuable time and helping you to work efficiently.

Paul is Mentor for the RHS Young Designer of the Year competition which has run now for a few years. Paul has mentored the designers in 2014 and has returned to mentor again this year to continue that role. The Young Designer competition is a show case for emerging talent and Paul holds monthly sessions with the young designers on everything from evolving their designs and planing for show site conditions to touring nurseries and specialist growers to give the young designers an opportunity to see what is available. This year the young designers have been set an additional challenge of creating in collaboration, a garden for one of the Royal Horticultural Societies London shows in spring 2015.

Spec Uploader is an innovative function, aimed at streamlining the tendering process. Designers can upload their project specifications and invite their chosen contractors to quote for the work. London Stone will then send quotes for the stone materials to both the designer and the specified contractors.

For part of this year Paul spent time with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society working on a variety of pop-up gardens throughout the city and business district along with some outreach programmes rejuvenating neighbourhood parks. Paul is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park in September.

Trade Club members will each receive their own professional Connect profile on the London Stone website. Connect profiles include company contact details and a biography, plus an image gallery of completed work. These profiles can be searched by others in the garden design and landscaping trade, or by homeowners embarking on a garden project.

On top of all this, Trade Club members can enjoy an additional Club Discount, a free London Stone Sample Box and can also take advantage of free, on-site training in the GftK pointing and Dry Treat sealant product ranges. For every new sign up in 2015, London Stone will donate £10 to be split between their horticultural charity partners, Perennial and Greenfingers.

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Gary Scott St Ives in Cornwall has long been a mecca for artists and its standing as such has been crystallised with the success of Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Museum. For a sculptor then, it doesn’t get more exciting and challenging than to be commissioned to create a new sculpture at the heart of the town.

The work entitled ‘Free Spirit’ commemorates the life of Kenneth Lindon-Travers who developed St Nicholas Court where the sculpture now resides. The brief was for a contemporary work which would reflect Kenneth’s love of the sea, art and St Ives.

As well as being commissioned for work Gary has been in prestigious exhibitions such as ING Discerning Eye, the Cork Street Open and the Affordable Art Fair and shown at venues from KPMG’s Canary Wharf to Waterperry House, Oxford. He has recently won the Art Academy London’s Mixed Media Sculpture Prize and was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Sculpture Prize. ‘I aim to produce work which feels dynamic and conveys life and energy. For me it is these qualities that make sculpture feel powerful and ultimately mesmerising.’

Come and talk to Gary on his stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

‘To be commissioned to undertake a sculpture for St Ives is a huge honour and I hope that the work reflects the free spirit that Kenneth was,’ says Gary Scott. ‘In working up my proposal, I drew upon my own love of the sea and of the human form; characteristics I also observed in the paintings undertaken by Kenneth himself’.

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Adbruf Adbruf was recently involved in the refurbishment of the pathways at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire. The zoo’s walk ways were in need of resurfacing where the crushed stone surface had become uneven over the years from the 500,000 annual visitor footfall which could create problems for disabled access, pushchairs and elderly visitors. The area had also become prone to ponding in wet weather which had both practical and aesthetic issues.

The total area in need of resurfacing was 3,000/m² and work was split into two phases on a tight schedule to minimise disruption to visitors, staff and animals.

The brief was to design pathways that would be aesthetically pleasing, practical, low maintenance and free draining to a set budget. An Adbruf Resin Bound surface was applied to a depth of 18mm over the entire surface of the sub base. This created an excellent hard wearing surface that blends in with the surroundings. The newly surfaced areas are now accessible to all and will help to enhance the overall experience for visitors Come and talk to Adbruf about your next project on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Jardinieres The first orange planters were invented in the 17th century by André Le Nôtre, the gardener of King Louis XIV for the château, the Palace of Versailles, near Paris.

Exotic fruits were “fashionable” at the royal table in Versailles, but delivering them from their countries of origin was not successful. So it was decided that the trees would be growing directly in Versailles. Since the plants were sensitive to the harsh winters in Versailles, an orangery was built to accommodate the fragile exotic trees, citrus trees and palm trees, where they will be moved to spend the winter months, from November to April.

Rather than planting and replanting these trees two times a year, André Le Nôtre conceived the idea of the portable planter where the trees could remain permanently all year long, instead of stressing the plants and trees by transplanting several times a year from the gardens to the orangery.

Because of the severity of the harsh climate in France and the heavy weight of the trees, the orange planters were manufactured with an exceptional solidity.

Today, the garden planter boxes from Jardinierres are still fabricated in this traditional way to sustain those rough conditions.

A true orange planter must have four removable sides, so that over time, as the plant develops its root system by searching for nutrients, to allow the growth of the tree, it is necessary to prune the roots and add new soil at times. Removing the plant from the box is often very difficult, almost impossible for the large boxes. The four removable sides make this work easier.

Come and see more in the range from Jardinierre at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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H Crowther Limited For over a century H. Crowther Ltd has been able to reproduce true copies of 18th to 20th century lead statues that have been lost over the years. Within the last year alone they have had the pleasure of being involved in one restoration project and the creation of two new gardens.

For one of which they were able to replace a complete set of the “Bromsgrove Seasons”. Working alongside the clients they were able to produce the “Ellermans Water Cistern” when once in place complimented the large seasons perfectly.

“The Walker Farm Cistern”, an impressive 9ft cistern with Kalides “Swan Boy” as its centre piece is another client’s vision which they were able to bring to life. In addition to that they have had the honour of restoring many antique pieces, ranging from an immense fountain by Gilbert Bayes to a pair of just as important early 20th century Vases.

H. Crowther has possibly one of the largest collection of lead garden ornaments, ranging from bird baths and figures to fountains, planters and cisterns. Come and see for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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To the rear of the house, swathes of long grasses and meadow flowers are animated by the breeze giving the terrace a wharflike feel.

Meadowview is situated on the edge of a rural village in Bedfordshire and was designed as a family home for a retired couple. The plot, enclosed by hedgerows and mature trees, borders onto an expanse of arable fields. The site has been divided into different areas by the house and hard landscaping, setting up an interplay between the building, gardens and distant landscape.

The abstract nature of the surrounding agricultural landscape and vernacular buildings has informed the design, resulting in a house with a simple linear form with a horizontal emphasis. Small differences in height make a big difference to what you can see in a flat landscape so three datums were struck across the site expressed in bands of slate, white render and timber cladding to mark the viewing platforms.

On the ground floor, areas of glazing set up close, sensual relationships with the garden whilst the first floor offers a more detached experience of the landscape with long views framed like pictures on the wall.

The sweet chestnut clad box overhangs the ground floor so that from across the fields it looks like it is floating over the hedgerows.

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Tamata During the last year Tamata (UK) Ltd have been involved in some glorious projects dealing with all walks of life.

Hillier Nurseries used some of their trees in their gold medal winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show in 2014 (amazingly, their 69th consecutive Gold) and Tamata are thrilled to say that they will be incorporating their trees again in their 2015 garden.

Emerald Lace is a beautiful dissectum variety with bright, lime green leaves that turn red in autumn. It requires shelter from the wind but it is generally quite sun and heat tolerant. Four of these plants have been ordered by Hilliers and will be included in what we all hope will be their 70th consecutive gold medal winning garden.

The Tamata trees will only be a small feature in what will undoubtedly be a spectacular garden, but Tamata are very proud to have been given this exciting opportunity.

Emerald Lace is just one of many varieties that Tamata supply. Come along to their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park and see them for yourself.

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PRO Landscape Drafix Software, Inc. has announced PRO Landscape Version 21 as the latest release of its industry-leading landscape design software.

With the release of Version 21, PRO Landscape enters its third decade of providing the best professional landscape and garden design software for landscape designers, contractors, architects, and garden centres. “With the new features and enhancements available in Version 21, our position is reinforced as one of the most comprehensive, easiest-to-learn and easiest-to-use pieces of landscape design software available on the market today,” says Pete Lord, President of Drafix Software. “Simply put, Version 21 contains even more tools to help our customers design more efficiently and close more sales.”

PRO Landscape Version 21 gives the user the power to easily and effectively design and bid a project; and most importantly communicate those design ideas to the customer with a visual presentation they understand.

PRO Landscape will help any designer quickly create stunning visual designs for your customers, accurate plans for your crews, and professional proposals that effectively communicate every aspect of the proposed project. PRO Landscape contains all the elements a designer needs including photorealistic imaging, night and holiday lighting, CAD, estimating, 3D renderings, and mobile tablet applications in one easy-to-learn and easy-to-use program.

Come and see it in action on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Gordon Low Products Gordon Low will be demonstrating the Firestone 1.02mm EPDM PondGard which is a high quality flexible rubber pond and lake liner designed to withstand the test of time in all climates. It has excellent resistance to UV exposure and extreme low temperatures and allows it to remain constant for decades.

Panels are available in a variety of sizes and lengths from 1.8m x 2.4m up to 15.2m x 30.5m all available from stock for immediate despatch direct to site. The Firestone PondGard can be easily joined using Firestone’s dependable Quick Seam™ Tape system for multiple panels to be joined on site for larger projects.

Once trained on the Firestone Lining Installers Course you will be able to join liners and complete intricate detailing such as seaming around fountains, internal and external corners, up stands and pipe sleeves and no longer need the services of costly subcontractors. Throughout the year Firestone host installer courses at their Cheshire based training centre.

The PondGard Official Installer Program is an important part of Firestone’s plans to support Gordon Low, their UK distributor, and they are actively working to build up an already extensive network of installers throughout the UK. Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Tobermore Almost 60 years after Her Majesty the Queen opened the original Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in 1955, HM and The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened the new Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal at a prestigious ceremony attended by over 1, 000 people. The new terminal, which is complete with an incredible expanse of world class paving products from Tobermore, is a £2.5 billion project and marks the latest phase of an £11 billion private sector investment that has transformed Heathrow.

Heathrow’s Terminal 2 is steeped in airport history, and so, it was inevitable that the exciting development of the new Terminal 2 would earn a wealth of media attention.

The spectacular redevelopment plan at Terminal 2 has taken place over a period of four hectic years. The amazing new terminal has been designed by Grontmij, the leading European Consulting & Engineering practice and the landscape masterpiece was devised by global architecture and design practice, Aedas. The incredibly renowned Zaha Hadid Architects also designed the breath-taking glass roof incorporated on the building.

The project was then constructed by Laing O’Rourke, the privately owned international construction and civil engineering enterprise.

An extensive expanse of Tobermore’s fabulous Sienna and Sienna Duo block paving in sparkling Silver has been installed on the grounds at Terminal 2. Sienna complements the new Terminal 2 building perfectly and has achieved a sharp, contemporary look. Sienna encompasses a coarse textured surface, exposing glittering granite aggregates which produce a sophisticated, distinctive appearance, similar to natural granite.

The aesthetic qualities of Sienna permit incorporation on any type of application.

Come and see samples on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Paul Hensey Paul Hensey drifted into Garden Design around 1999. Originally an Industrial Designer, he now has an approach to landscapes and gardens that builds on his disciplined use of materials and engineering skills.

Heading the practice, Green Zone Design, he has won several RHS medals, including Gold, Best in Show and Most Innovative Garden at Chelsea. The constraints of smaller gardens are a challenge for a designer and Paul has a fondness for designing intimate spaces, alongside the occasional wildflower meadow.

In addition to designing gardens Paul is a Member and Director of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD), having responsibility for the Adjudication and Assessment of new members. Paul is also a very active lecturer, presenting in excess of 20 talks a year, tutoring at The London College of Garden Design and University of Portsmouth at Sparsholt. Paul’s appreciation and passion of technology and materials appears monthly in the Garden Design Journal; with a monthly column since early 2010 and over 50 articles to date. Paul runs regular courses on CAD across the UK and further afield. His approach and skills are also used to support the work of several companies as they develop CAD versions of their product ranges as well supporting other designers as they make the transition into a CAD based design workflow.

Paul Hensey is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park in September.

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Alloway Timber Timeless Timber, a new brand of garden buildings and sheds, is now available from Alloway Timber. Designed to take centre stage in gardens, Timeless Timber sheds create additional living space without the hassle or expense of traditional home extensions.

New homeowner research shows that one in five people in the UK can’t find space to be alone in their own home and have considered constructing garden buildings to create much-needed “me space”.

With half of Brits admitting all of their storage space is full of clutter, and one in three (32%) finding their current home too small, high-quality garden sheds are now being seen as a solution for homeowners craving extra living space.

Neil Horton, sales director, said: “We carried out this research to highlight some of the challenges facing homeowners across the UK. We found that more space is longed for and that most people would rather extend their existing home than move house, but all too often an extension is unaffordable.

The traditional cluttered garden shed at the bottom of the garden is a thing of the past.

A Timeless Timber garden building creates stylish living space at a fraction of the cost of a traditional extension, but with all the same benefits. The needs of the homeowner are changing, and this product range responds to that by offering durable, secure and stunning looking designs that transform outdoor space into an extension of your home.”

Come and see the entire range on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Stone Globe Lights Stone effect spheres by day and globe lights by night, Stone Globe Lights provide garden designers and landscapers with stylish and immensely practical garden features.

It’s not surprising that this British product was a finalist in the SGD Product of the Year 2014, attracting large numbers to their stand at the LANDSCAPE Show last year.

Paul Hervey -Brookes also featured eight of the Stone Globe Lights in his winning Best of Show Garden at the Gardening World Cup in Japan recently.

Offering huge potential in a whole range of landscapes, whether in the formal gardens of a manor house, a contemporary urban garden, informal cottage garden, or in the grounds of a country hotel, Stone Globe Lights look stunning by day and by night.

With their unique rough surface and carefully blended colour finishes to match natural stone products, they are virtually indistinguishable from stone with no ugly light fitting to shatter the illusion.

Stone Globe Lights provide ornamentation, ambient and task lighting all rolled into one, see them for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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London College Of Garden Design As part of their one-year Garden Design Diploma students at the London College of Garden Design have helped plant a new garden at Warren House in Kingston upon Thames. The garden is the brainchild of author VKL Good who was inspired by the gardeners that have worked there for over 150 years and the famous Victorian plant hunters who worked for the Veitch Coombe Wood Nursery upon which the gardens partly stood.

Ms Good and Warren House have commissioned garden designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin to redesign the walled garden that will feature many of the plants that were brought back from around the world.

Ms Good said “We wanted to acknowledge the skills of the Warren House gardeners over many decades who have maintained this garden for future generations to enjoy.”

The Veitch Nurseries and family were famed for sending out legendary plant hunters such as EH Wilson and William Lobb and introducing iconic plants, trees and conifers to Britain. Many are now instantly recognizable in European gardens and all started out being propagated in Coombe Wood when they were sent back by the plant hunters from distant countries.

Designer Fisher Tomlin said “This is a rare opportunity to celebrate the plant hunters who risked their lives to bring back exotic plants to Britain for a public that was hungry for new and unusual specimens for their gardens and parks. So this is very much a celebration of plants and gardening and it has been great that students have been able to be involved and get practical planting design experience for a real heritage project.”

Come and listen to Andrew Fisher Tomlin who is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE show in Battersea Park this September.

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Easy Connect At EasyConnectuk.com they work hard to ensure they are supplying customers with only the finest quality decorative garden lighting solutions. They provide the Easy Connect system; one of the highest quality, most affordable garden lighting solution on the market today.

The Easy Connect system is quite simply child’s play to install in your garden or outdoor area. Once installed it has a very impressive, professional look and feel.

The Easy Connect system allows you to power an entire garden lighting display from one outdoor plug. You don’t need to spend time learning about different power ratings for additional light units or work out how many transformers you require for your display. Its simplicity is genius.

The three part process of putting together your garden lighting system with Easy Connect is to choose which lights you want for your garden or outdoor area from the Easy Connect Range. Get the correct length cables to link them up and then simply install and plug in.

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Graduate Landscapes Lazing in the garden with friends and family is an important ritual not to be missed out on during the long, and hopefully hot, days of summer. Designing and building your garden during the cold seasons gives you the opportunity to enjoy yourself during the summer.

When considering your garden design, it is important to take the needs of the users of your space – you, your family and friends – in to account to make the experience a comfortable and inviting one, which will have them wanting to come back for more.

It is important to locate your terrace, deck or patio in a warm, sunny position. Often afternoon gatherings soon lead on to evening ones, so it is best to have a position which receives the last of the evening sun and if possible much of the afternoon.

To provide ultimate comfort for your guests it is important to furnish the area correctly.

Similarly to inside your home, terraces should be well sized to allow an appropriate table and seating to be incorporated.

Engage the senses if you can. Planting should be attractive and inspirational, as well as in keeping with the rest of the garden. Summer scent and colour are always on people’s wish list but it is important to consider all year round structure and form of the planting. In design terms Graduate Landscapes sometimes consider planting as the walls of the outside room we are creating and often in such a space, overhead planes or your ‘ceiling’ is created from either trees or arbours. Providing this sense of enclosure to your space will keep your guests content, as they will have a similar feeling to being in a living or dining room.

Come and talk to Christopher James, General Manager and Landscape Designer of Graduate Landscapes Ltd on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Quick Hedge Not without pride Quick Hedge are pleased to announce that their brand new website is online.

Quick Hedge took the premium brand approach. QuickHedge is not exactly a product for the masses, not evidently mainstream, so they challenged their web agency to develop a prestigious, seducing and inspirational design, look & feel.

Having searched for inspiration with prestigious brands like Breitling, Riva, Weber and others, they believe they have successfully created what they set out to do.

You will notice that they are single mindedly focusing on getting their core message across: “Privacy within one day”.

Of course they sell instant hedges, but in terms of ‘benefits’ they have a strong and appealing promise to the customer offering ultimate privacy within one day. As differentiating values we highlight the ultimate quality, the mature age upon delivery, the beauty of the hedges, the shape, health and durability Why not see some hedges in action on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Griffin Nurseries Griffin Nurseries have just celebrated their 25 year anniversary. During all of that time Griffin Nurseries have worked closely for and with designers & architects to produce uncompromised plants in unusual specifications & in many cases they have grown unique plants to order.

Multi-stemmed plants are always popular & the nursery has an ever increasing range of sizes & species that can be useful for almost any project.

Designers, architects & landscapers can be confident they are dealing with nurserymen that are real growers – with the skills to make their ideas happen. They are of course a nursery that is only wholesale, structured to give the best possible service to trade professionals.

Come and talk to them about your needs on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Nustone Nustone specialise in supplying the highest quality indoor & outdoor natural stone to thousands of happy customers every year - both public and trade. They source their stone from all over the world - from Brazilian Slate and Chinese Granite to Indian Sandstone and Turkish Travertine.

They also supply expertly handcrafted Italian Porcelain and East Asian Terracotta.

They offer a personal approach to each project, outstanding customer service and years of expertise to ensure each customer’s dream becomes a reality.

For the last two years Nustone were lucky enough to be involved in The Southport Flower Show, supplying high quality, natural stone products. Last year a Brazil inspired show garden attracted all sorts of visitors to the show and the stand out feature was the use of our incredibly popular Sawn Mint Sandstone and Yellow Quartzite Split-Face wall cladding. These stunning examples of their natural stone really shone in a space that personified the cool South American vibe.

Nustone love working with all sorts of projects from garden redesigns like the one at the show to home renovations, and pride themselves on the quality of their stone.

The judges certainly seemed to agree, awarding the Brazil themed garden a prestigious gold medal award.

Come and talk to Nustone on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Streetscape Streetscape is an award winning social enterprise. They provide apprenticeships in landscape gardening to 18-25 year olds who are long-term unemployed, helping them to build the skills, experience and attributes they need to fulfill their dreams and move into and retain work: growing lives, transforming landscapes.

In so doing they design, landscape and maintain gardens across South London for residential, commercial and communitybased clients.

Streetscape was founded by James Gubb and Guy Watts and are driven by one, simple, overarching goal: that each and every long-term unemployed young person they provide an apprenticeship to then moves into, and retains work, following their time with Streetscape.

Recently, Streetscape were contracted to relocate and build the Gold medal winning RBC Waterscape Garden, designed by Hugo Bugg for the 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This garden is open to the public, so if you would like to see Streetscape’s work first hand, please visit the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

If you are interested in employing the Streetscape team, please come along and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Urman Joop Bardoel, runs a company called Urman, an independent international supplier of baked paving bricks from the Netherlands. Just like their parent company, de brabander, they are specialists in characteristic bricks for landscapes and the public space. The warm, natural colours of bricks create a special atmosphere of very high quality. The natural look of baked bricks in the urban environment gives plazas and parks a friendly effect.

Streets made out of bricks last decades.

Bricks are a very environmentally friendly product, they are made out of a variety of clays. A product created by nature itself.

During the process of baking, the bricks get their pure colours trough the combination of heat and oxygen. Over the years a special patina coating envelops the bricks. This process causes the bricks to get a worn out look, which creates a very pretty and timeless character.

Joop Bardoel has passion for bricks in every fibre of his being. Joop knows all of the varieties and how each and every one of them can be implemented in public space.

This love and passion has developed itself since his 14th birthday, when he started working during vacations in one of the oldest brick baking factories in the Netherlands. The scents, the baking process, the variety of colours, Joop knows them all. This knowledge allows him to be able to determine what variety of brick is best suited and the prettiest for the job.

All according to the wishes of the landscaping architects and developers of the urban environment of course!

If you want to be able to make your project shine and get that unique atmosphere that you have been looking for then come and talk to Joop Bardoel on the Urman stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park and see for yourself what possibilities lie ahead to make your project in the city or landscape stand out.

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Online Playgrounds It’s been a busy few years for Online Playgrounds and sales have profited from a regular return in trade from existing clients.

This coupled with new customer referrals, has provided the opportunity to pass on the success of the company to its consumers by offering a new and improved website service. Collating comments and feedback; Online Playgrounds have used existing customer’s observations to help build a new vision to bring Version 1.2 to life.

The aim has always been to make playground refurbishment and new play area projects as easy as pie – the new website will offer clients an easy, fresh, modern and dynamic procurement service.

The new site boasts new styling and creative application to deliver a more structured user experience.

Key issues that buyers identified for upgrade: - Ordering of large quantities Navigation or ‘window hopping’ - Images and technical information The new site will see a vast improvement in these identified areas with exciting new additions to the product range for good measure. Online Playgrounds already has a very good name for its Customer Service but the next 12 months will see telephone enquiry response rates improve and regular promotions and special offers made available to all customers. The new site is set to be launched in late Spring 2015. Come and see them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Nursery Vivai Sandro Bruschi The Nursery Vivai Sandro Bruschi is a company of international standing that for more than thirty years has invested in the quality of the plants they produce and in customer service, which are both essential to ensure timeliness and efficiency. The San Soil is a new project which the Nursery is heavily involved with. They are one of the designers, developers and supporters as well as being the main funder of this “project of excellence” in the garden industry. The goal is to develop a low cost and environmentally friendly fertilizer, San Soil, which will be achieved by recovering waste from olive oil processing in mills, a mixture of pomace (about 80%) and green waste from the washing of olives (leaves & twigs), chopped straw and dry waste wool.

Come along and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Practicality Brown Practicality Brown were delighted to have been able to help Patrick Collins recreate his 2014 Chelsea Flower Show Garden at St George’s Hospital. Patrick has been working with First Touch which is a Charity that is supporting sick and premature babies at St Georges Hospital. Elveden Instant Beech hedge at 1 - 1.2m high were provided for the project which helps the garden fit seamlessly within the existing mature landscaping.

Come and talk to Practicality Brown about your next project on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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South West Play South West Play’s bespoke rope and net making services are favoured by many landscapes architects for their ability to create highly interactive rope and net play equipment, manufactured to the latest European Playground Standards.

South West Play working from Erect Architectures designs and with Frost Landscapes were thrilled to manufacture and install a range of commercial grade equipment at the former site of the 2012 Olympics.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is now home to Tumbling Bay and Scots Pine Playgrounds and has been regenerated.

Designed to encourage more young people into sport through play, rope and net obstacles feature heavily throughout the park. The Scots Pine play area is Intermingled with the pine, felled oaks were installed supporting an undulating net structure that spans a valley and allows easy access to canopy height. As the valley sides steepen the net gives way to tree houses, tunnels and bridges. The highest point, a giant ‘hollow’ tree allows a clambering route up within the thickness of the trunk to the loftiest perch. The scale, range and challenge of the structures leave plenty of scope for children to test limits of courage and ability.

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SGD Product Of The Year 2015 The SGD are once again calling on manufacturers and product suppliers to submit entries for the products they believe should take the coveted 2015 Product of the Year. If you produce or supply a garden product that can help to create beautiful gardens we want to know about it.

There is no limit to type, size or number of different product entries that can be made in the competition.

Examples include: plants, planters, garden furniture, garden lighting, greenhouse, summer houses, garden maintenance products, hard landscaping materials and garden accessories. Run in association with The LANDSCAPE Show, the SGD Product of the Year is the perfect opportunity to promote you product to over 1,200 SGD professional garden designers.

While winning the SGD Product of the Year Award could be a huge boost for your business as John Harte, Managing Director at Lateral Design Studio explains: “Winning SGD Product Of The Year 2014 meant a huge amount to Lateral Design Studio. We have experienced a considerable surge in demand for our designed drain channel covers since, and are very grateful to the SGD for giving a family run company the chance to highlight its innovative products. The time and money invested in these awards have more than paid for themselves in the exposure we have gained as a result�

All the shortlisted products will be displayed at The LANDSCAPE Show (22-23 September 2015) in London, where visitors to the show will be asked to vote for their favourite product. Their votes will be added to the votes of the SGD designer members to determine the winner. The announcement of the winner will be made at the Show on 23 September 2015.

Entry forms and fees must be submitted by 30 April 2015 and the votes by SGD designer members to determine the shortlist can be cast from 8-29 May 2015.

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Furnitubes Furnitubes International has been committed to sharing expertise, driving innovation and delivering knowledgeable customer service in the street furniture business since it opened its doors in 1946.

Now, nearly 70 years later, what was then a small family business has grown, but excellence in design, development and manufacture, is still of paramount importance to them. These days, they are able to provide the right combination of products for every customer’s needs from their extensive range.

They provide street and landscape products: bollards, seats and benches, litter bins, railings, cycle stands, racks and shelters, signage, tree grilles, guards and planters, along with co-ordinated families of street furniture and security products. Their in-house design team challenge themselves to develop new product lines and bespoke furniture as seen in the work they carried out for Brown Hart Gardens in London.

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‘We have enjoyed working with the Furnitubes design team, who have been able to realise our proposals and create an overall effect which looks very impressive.

The bespoke furniture suite of fixed and movable seats and planters not only looks excellent but are also easy to operate. The renovations were well received by locals and visitors when the site was officially opened, and we feel the project has been a great success’ - Martin Savage, Landscape Architect, BDP. The Seven Range, launched at last year’s LANDSCAPE Show, with its flexible design, and contemporary styling, has been a huge success. Furnitubes set exacting standards for themselves to ensure that they are competitive on price; that their staff are well-trained; and that they have the most up to date technology so they can look after our clients. Please come to see them on their stand at the LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Soft Mulch Soft Mulch (UK) Ltd has recently been awarded a ÂŁ66,000.00 contract with Fleet Town Council to supply and install a network of new pathways through the sometimes in-accessible woods.

Long Rake Spar Technology continues to play an increasingly important role within landscaping and a successful website can make the process of sourcing materials simpler and stress-free.

At the beginning of 2015, Long Rake Spar launched a new website, building upon its experience as a decorative aggregate supplier to landscapers and garden designers. The new site has been developed to give landscapers the opportunity to access information about individual products and the process of supply at Long Rake Spar. Each product can be viewed in high resolution representative images; both wet and dry, to give a realistic impression of how materials, in numerous sizes appear in different weather. In addition to this, the website includes a unique quoting tool allowing the in-house team to provide immediate feedback to landscapers, with tailored information depending on their individual decorative aggregate requirements. Users can also follow developments within the company through the News tab and find inspiration in the Case Studies section, alongside exploring the import and export resources which make Long Rake Spar such a distinguished supplier. The new website has been developed to aid specifiers by being easily navigable and accessible on a range of devices, allowing to it be viewed on the move on a day to day basis, whilst with clients, in the office or on projects.

Following a successful playground surface installation in 2014 the council worked closely with Soft Mulch (UK) Ltd to create a long term solution to a constant issue with the pathways there.

The chosen surface for the pathways was PathBond, a specially formulated recycled rubber bonded surface designed to withstand the elements, traffic, wildlife and irregular flooding of the Fleet Forest, whilst giving a very natural look.

PathBond is a completely porous product which is extremely robust and durable and will not freeze making it a perfect choice for pathways. PathBond is available in a range of natural colours. The almost one mile of PathBond in Fleet will be Earth Brown.

Come and see the range of Soft Mulch products on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Houzz With more than 25 million global users visiting the site each month, Houzz is a world leading platform for home and garden renovation and design. The platform brings together homeowners and design professionals in one powerful online and mobile community. Houzz launched its UK platform last July and is already having an impact on the UK home and garden market. Homeowners can manage a garden project from start to finish, from gathering inspiration to hiring the right professional for the job. UK homeowners on Houzz have big plans for their renovation and design projects. In fact, the 2014 Houzz and Home survey revealed that a sizable 29% planned to hire a landscape architect, designer or contractor for a project in the next two years. It also uncovered some intriguing facts about the garden features that homeowners have invested in over the past 5 years. For example, 61% splashed out on a new lawn, plants or trees, whilst 59% fitted new decking or updated their patio.

An impressive 43% added a shed, pergola, or other structure to their garden. There are more than 20,000 UK home renovation and design professionals already using Houzz to build their brands via a free professional profile. Their profile works like an online portfolio and showcases their projects alongside customer reviews, connecting them with new clients, both globally and locally. Houzz is already proving its value to landscaping and gardening professionals across the UK. Houzz will be part of the Seminar Programme at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

Come along and listen to how you can become involved.

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