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Landscape Welcome to the July preview edition of LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Over the coming months further editions will be available showing new exhibitors, new products and new ideas that will be available for you to see at the show.

Taking place in Battersea Park in central London on Tuesday and Wednesday the 23rd & 24th of September 2014, LANDSCAPE will play host to the annual meeting place for the landscaping industry.

This year’s event continues it’s programme of uniting the industry, bringing together all of the Associations and Media under one roof.

2014 will also see lots of changes to the event.

This year will provide the opportunity to ‘Meet The Editor’; your chance to get up close and personal with the people that write about the things that affect us all.

This year sees the return of the popular free Seminar Sessions and as part of LANDSCAPE’s ongoing commitment towards uniting the industry and enhancing the professional qualifications of it’s practitioners, all of this year’s seminars qualify for CPD learning points.

With co-operation from our overseas colleagues LANDSCAPE is fast becoming the ‘go to’ show for Europe.

For more information on the exhibitors, the seminar programme, how to obtain free tickets to attend, and the show in general please visit www.landscapeshow.co.uk.

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3KS Profile 3ks profile ltd is a German based manufacturer of filigree steel elements for gardening and landscape construction. Under the brand name ARCADIA®, they develop and sell in all Western European countries a large range of high end products for private gardens and public areas.

Steel fences PERGONE® (EU patent registered) for privacy and wind protection: width 23, 16 and 13 cm - height up to 240 cm with different fillings possible. Another product is raised bed ARCADIA®: 250 x 120 cm or 120 x 120 cm – height 60 or 80 cm and wall covering ARCADIA®. Accessories like wooden slats, outdoor LED light, fixing for glass panels etc. are all available too. Come and see their entire range on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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4Memorial Bench 4MemorialBench.co.uk specialise in the engraving and installation of hardwood and softwood commemorative and memorial benches with personalised inscriptions and engraved logos / images. They also supply engraved gates and oak house signs.

They take pride in supplying excellent service and a value for money product. A wide range of benches is available to suit every location, taste and budget. Their benches have different size options from 0.8m to 2.4m in length and using their computer controlled engraving machine they can supply you faster and cheaper than the traditional hand carved option. Engraving directly into the wood is a valuable security feature.

One of their bestselling benches is the Kenilworth FSC certified teak range (from a sustainable source). The robust construction of Kenilworth benches enable them to stand the test of time making them ideal for engraving purposes. This heavy and strong teak bench is perfect for public places.

Visit them at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park and see the benches for yourself.

APL The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are delighted to announce the entries that have been selected for the ‘Your Garden, Your Budget’ category at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (813 July 2014).

The category, now in its third year, exclusively open to members of the APL and aims to showcase a practical approach to gardens that also provide a wow factor where visitors will be able to recreate the garden design, based on a fixed budget for hard landscaping, plant material and labour.

A total of four gardens have been selected to showcase what can be achieved for a £7k, £10k, £13k and £15k budget.

APL Chairman, Mark Gregory said: “2014 is an exciting year for the APL and we are delighted to be once again working with the RHS for the third year on ‘Your Garden, Your Budget’. Congratulations to the APL members for having their garden selected for RHS Hampton Court. These gardens aim inspire the nation’s 23 million gardeners and show that having a professional, landscaped garden need not cost you the earth.”

The Association of Professional Landscapers represents landscapers who meet a required standard of professionalism. Members of the Association are registered with the government endorsed TrustMark Scheme.

They are regularly inspected and agree to follow a customer charter with clients. The APL is part of the Horticultural Trades Association which is the trade Association for the UK gardening industry. It is dedicated to helping develop the industry and its member businesses, including most garden centres and other garden retailers, growers, landscapers, manufacturers and service providers.

The APL will be featuring a selection of their member Contractors at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park, why not come along and meet them face to face.

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Alloway Timber A Staffordshire garden has been transformed into an idyllic retreat following a £5,000 redesign using Timeless Timber products where a stunning 40m² raised Timeless Timber Brushwood deck forms the centrepiece of the space, which has been completely renovated with eye-catching features that will stand the test of time.

Mandy and Glenn Hulse, who won the garden makeover in Homebuilding & Renovating magazine, are now able to enjoy the outdoor haven from the comfort of their own garden and Sean and Mandy Kinsella from Mandskape Garden Design completed the fit out in under two weeks. Sean said: “We used Brushwood decking, Timeless Timber sleepers and BSW fencing products to turn this garden into the perfect outdoor retreat. The Brushwood decking was great to work with and has completely transformed the look of this garden. During the fit out, we had the idea of using Timeless Timber sleepers to edge the decking, which has given the area a unique, quality finish. We’re delighted with the end result.”

Eve Johnson, marketing manager at BSW Timber (which produces Timeless Timber), said: “Our Timeless Timber is designed to create quality and hard-working garden features that look beautiful and it’s clear that this garden makeover ticks all of those boxes.”

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

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Concept Urbain The VeloPark range from Concept Urbain consists of modules for bicycle parking, a planter and a litter bin for waste sorting.

These elements are made of galvanized steel with a paint finish colors of choice. This range has been designed by Marion Steinmetz and got the prize of the sustainable design and the label of Design Observer 2014.

Thanks to its modular design, the VeloPark range allows you to create friendly and accessible public spaces to park bikes.

APLD APLD® is an international organization established in 1989 representing the interests of landscape designers and the profession of landscape design. The mission of APLD is to advance the profession of landscape design and to promote the recognition of landscape designers as qualified and dedicated professionals. Benefits of membership include access to the only international certification program for landscape designers; a free listing in our online “Find a Designer” search as well as a free profile on the APLD website; discounts to educational opportunities; access to the monthly members-only e-newsletter as well as a quarterly copy of The Designer magazine; and much more!

Additional information about the organization is available at our website: www.apld.org. An online membership application is available to those interested, and the organization’s headquarters can be reached by calling +1-717-238-9780. We welcome anybody interested in membership and hope you will consider joining APLD. We define landscape design!

The APLD are proud to support LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September and will be actively encouraging their members to take part.

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This entire magazine has been put together with the help of the exhibitors, the associations and trade bodies as well as the various media partners that are uniting the industry in Battersea Park this September.

Contractor Zones • Being very much an annual meeting place, this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park sees the introduction of the BALI Pavilion and the APL Contractors Zone.

• BALI are wholeheartedly supporting the event and have a Pavilion of Members for you to meet. The APL have organised a Contractors Zone so that you can meet with new contractors to build your next project.

Society of Garden Designers • This year the Society of Garden Designers are holding their AGM within the show, they will also be using the event as the launch pad of their new ‘Product of The Year’ competition.

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Masterclasses • The London College of Garden Design will be featuring “Masterclasses” on Design, Planting and Construction.

Their speakers will feature a line up of the great and good from the industry and include the very best from Chelsea 2014.

CPD Accredited Seminars • As part of LANDSCAPE’s ongoing commitment towards uniting the industry and enhancing the professional qualifications of it’s practitioners, all of the ‘free to attend’ seminars at this year’s LANDSCAPE Show qualify for CPD learning points.

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is defined as ‘a commitment to structured skills enhancement and personal or professional competence’ and organisations that are granted membership by the CPD Certification Service must clearly demonstrate expertise in their field and provide a place for industry to turn to for advice and guidance.

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Students • On the 24th of September there will be special presentations to introduce all of the trade bodies to students, in order to highlight career paths and opportunities available within the industry.

Interior Influences • To reflect the strong influences that interior designers play in shaping our landscapes, the Chelsea Design Quarter and the Pimlico Road Association will be very much part of things this year with feature stands and seminar presentations highlighting some of the very top names from the world of interiors.

Royal Warrant Holders • The Royal Warrant Holders Association will be there in force again this year highlighting their scholarship scheme and showcasing the very best in artisan skills.

Industry Support • Supported by trade associations and media from across the globe, LANDSCAPE is now internationally recognised as the ‘go to’ show for the industry.

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Meet the Writers • New this year there is the chance to ‘Meet The Editor’, - your opportunity to speak direct to the journalists that cover your industry. Alongside them will be a special ‘Meet The Author’ desk. Come and talk to the authors of those publications that have always interested you.

International Pavilion • Due to high demand from overseas suppliers, we are delighted to announce an all encompassing International Pavilion. Focusing on the newest trends, innovative products and exciting opportunities, the pavilion will allow visitors to experience ideas from all over the World in one location.

LANDSCAPE is truly uniting the industry and has something for everyone.

Make sure you are part of it this year and visit our website for more details. www.landscapeshow.co.uk.

Cranborne Stone As one of the UK’s leading cast stone companies, Cranborne Stone Ltd can offer you a wide range of products and services, from architectural and landscape cast stone to garden ornamentation.

They can supply walls, peirs & finials, pier caps and wall copings. These high quality yet simple stone features impart a sense of protection, whilst setting the tone for the garden and architectural delights that lie beyond.

Cranborne also have a range of stone balustrades and steps which create a statement and add style and form to  any garden or stately terrace. Their balustrades, used in some of the UK’s finest developments and historic homes, are exquisitely finished and compliment their handmade cast stone steps, to provide a graceful elevation to any hard or soft landscaping scheme.

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Garden pools, large fountains and drifting garden borders can all be enhanced and maintained with classic Cranborne Stone pool surrounds and bed edgings. Using fine quality stone surrounds and edging will make any garden or landscape feature a deserving focal point for years to come.

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ASLA The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) was founded in 1899. It now represents more than 15,000 landscape architecture professionals and students in the United States, it’s territories and 42 other countries around the world. With 80% of it’s members working in private practice and 12% in the public sector, ASLA members work on projects of every type, scale and budget.

Black Knight Barbeques If you are looking for built in brick barbecue kit to give a patio area a touch of luxury then the Excalibur from Black Knight could be the answer. Every component of the Excalibur is manufactured from stainless steel to make it very long lasting and low maintenance.

There is also an Extra Large version of the Excalibur which has been specially reinforced to take the weight of all the food that can be cooked on its generous 112 x 40cm cooking grill – ideal for larger gardens, Pubs, Clubs and hotels.

The ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world.

This year the event will be held in Denver, Colorado and LANDSCAPE will be hosting the UK Pavilion. One of the most frequent requests ASLA receive is to see more exhibitors from the UK and Europe. Attendees want access to products that are well designed and feature the highest quality workmanship.

If you would like to be part of things please do get in touch directly with LANDSCAPE at info@landscapeshow.co.uk for more details.

ASLA will be featured at this years show and will be hosting some American Themed Seminar Sessions. Please do visit them for more information about their event and membership.

To visit ASLA direct please visit them online at www.asla.org

To see these in the flesh please come and see them at the LANDSCAPE show in Battersea Park this September.

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The largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world! > Nearly 500 EXPO Exhibitors > More than 130 Education Sessions > Earn up to 21 Professional Development Hours

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Practicality Brown Practicality Brown has announced that their Elveden Instant Hedge™ was used in six gardens at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Sales and Business Manager, Graeme Jenkins, told The LANDSCAPE Show that ‘We have been working with a number of designers for this year’s show and are pleased that the gardens have done so well’.

Mature and flat sided the Elveden Instant Hedge™ is grown up to 1.8 metres high across a range of species including yew, common laurel, holly, green beech, hornbeam, portuguese laurel, photinia, purple beech, native mix, privet, berberis and thuja.

Practicality Brown has over 40,000 metres of certified UK provenance stock that is now offered to the trade at a discounted rate.

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

BALI BALI Pavilion line-up showcases this year’s top landscape products Following the success of many BALI Affiliate (supplier) members’ products on the show gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, LANDSCAPE is providing the perfect opportunity for visitors to see some of those products for themselves in the BALI Pavilion.

More than a dozen BALI Affiliate members will be exhibiting at LANDSCAPE, giving industry professionals from the UK and overseas the opportunity to discuss their own landscape projects and obtain first-hand advice and technical input. Everything from garden lighting, timber products and nursery stock to natural stone, green roof turf and contemporary paving will be on show.

Chelsea 2014 was hugely successful for BALI members across the board and their final medal tally was six Gold, eight Silver-Gilt, six Silver and a Silver Flora medal. The medal winning designers rely on the contractors’ skills and professionalism to turn their designs into reality, which is why so many show gardens are constructed by BALI contractors. BALI members are always keen to broaden their knowledge and gain competitive advantage so this year’s seminar programme at LANDSCAPE will be hugely popular.

BALI will have its own membership information area in the BALI Pavilion and will welcome enquiries from designers, contractors, product suppliers, training providers and students. With over 750 members, BALI is the largest trade body for the landscape industry and represents the UK in Europe through its membership of the European Landscape Contractors Association (ELCA). To find out more about BALI membership, or the products available from BALI Affiliates, visit the BALI Pavilion.

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CPD Certification

As part of LANDSCAPE’s ongoing commitment towards uniting the industry and enhancing the professional qualifications of it’s practitioners, all of the seminars at this year’s LANDSCAPE Show will qualify for CPD learning points.

This accreditation means that attending any of the Seminar Sessions hosted in all theatres now counts towards delegates’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.

CPD is defined as ‘a commitment to structured skills enhancement and personal or professional competence’ and organisations that are granted membership by the CPD Certification Service must clearly demonstrate expertise in their field and provide a place for industry to turn to for advice and guidance.

LANDSCAPE which opens in Battersea Park, London on the 23rd of September 2014, will be running an extensive free two-day seminar programme. The full programme will be available to view online in August at www.landscpeshow.co.uk.

On achieving CPD certification for the programmes, Event Director Jeremy Storey-Walker says: “We are delighted to offer visitors to LANDSCAPE the broadest range of free and relevant content delivered by some of the highest-level experts in the industry. We believe this exciting offer is enhanced further through the ability of delegates at these presentations to credit their attendance towards their CPD.” “Being accepted as a member of the CPD Certification Scheme also reinforces the quality of LANDSCAPE’s seminar programme and the real value that delegates can gain from attending these sessions.”

Attendees will receive their Certificates of Attendance at the end of each session they attend.

Register for your FREE tickets to attend by visiting www.landscapeshow.co.uk

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Gardening Leave Gardening Leave is a charity that tends to the invisible wounds of conflict using horticultural therapy. Gardening Leave helps troubled Armed Forces veterans at projects in London, Glasgow and Ayr – a new site will open in Dundee later this year.

It helps veterans find peace, strength and recovery in the garden with professionally conducted, individual, goal-orientated treatment sessions within a safe horticultural environment. £50 pays for a half-day horticultural therapy session for a veteran.

At the LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September, Gardening Leave’s horticultural therapists will be on hand to talk about the charity’s work. They will also be selling plants, grown at the charity’s Royal Hospital Chelsea project in London, and raising awareness of its Honesty campaign aimed at tackling stigma around veterans’ mental health.

Chartered Institute of Horticulture The Institute of Horticulture (IoH) is delighted to announce that Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to grant a Royal Charter to the Institute of Horticulture. The Institute’s Royal Charter will come into legal effect when it is sealed by the Crown Office at the House of Lords..

The granting of a Royal Charter has been an aspiration of the Institute since its inception in 1984 in view of the major benefits it will bring to the Institute and its members. A Royal Charter will enhance the Institute’s ability to present our profession through increasing the profile, recognition and standing of professional horticulture. As a Chartered body the Institute’s ability to raise standards will be strengthened and the Institute will be better placed to represent and support horticulture as a profession and assist members in the practice of the profession.

Leigh Morris FI Hort, Institute of Horticulture President commented: “The IoH is THE body representing professional horticulture and being granted a Royal Charter will reflect that to a much wider audience. Such status will undoubtedly give our members a higher status, stimulate more to join us, give the IoH much greater gravitas in our advocacy for the industry and it is something the horticulture profession deserves. The work done to date by IoH Council on taking this forward on behalf of horticulture is tremendous and all of us should recognise their vision and application in achieving this. The Institute has raised the bar for professional horticulture in the UK and Ireland. This is a landmark moment and exciting times ahead!”

The Institute of Horticulture are delighted to be back at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September and look forward to welcoming new and existing members to their stand. www.horticulture.org.uk

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Room 1 A1 10:30 - 11:15 Liz Ackerley Poppyhead Consultancy & Angela Lambert Q Lawns Unravelling the Mysteries of Social Networking B1 11:45 - 12:30 Alex Johnson Alex Johnson Landscape Design & Juliet Sargeant SGD Don’t Leave Home Without it.

The New Designer’s Contract and Why You Need It C1 01:00 - 04:00 SGD Annual General Meeting

D1 01:00 - 04:00 SGD Annual General Meeting

E1 01:00 - 04:00 SGD Annual General Meeting

F1 04:45 - 05:30 Patricia Fox Aralia Finishing Touches for Stylish Gardens

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Seminars Room 2

A2 10:30 - 11:15

Nicola Gammon - Shoot, Helen Elks-Smith - Elks-Smith Garden Design, Julia Fogg - Julia Fogg Associates & Matt Nichol - Matt Nichol Garden Design Using Plant Care Services to Build Your Garden Design Business

B2 11:45 - 12:30 John Taylor Malmo Malmo Garden Show at Slottstradgarden

C2 01:00 - 01:45 Andrew Gill Chartered Institute of Horticulture Why You Should be a Chartered Horticulturist D2 02:15 - 03:00 Adolfo Harrison & Darryl Moore Cityscapes Creative Approaches to the Urban Environment E2 03:30 - 04:15 Tom Petherick & Adam Hunt Petherick, Urquhart & Hunt Designing with Nature

F2 04:45 - 05:30 Fernando Gonzalez Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design Advanced Garden Design for the New Emergent Times

Tuesday September 23rd Room 3

A3 10:30 - 11:15 Caitlin Lesczynski UK Trade & Investment

Room 4

A4 10:30 - 11:15 Kingdom of the Netherlands

An Introduction to the US Market, Legal, Tax, Visas etc

How to Build a Green City in Ten Years

B3 11:45 - 12:30 Peter Murray NLA

B4 11:30 - 12:30 Chaired by Andrew Fisher Tomlin. With Jeni Cairns, Sarah Eberle & Tom Harfleet

New Public Space in London

C3 01:00 - 01:45 ASLA

D3 02:15 - 03:00 Neil Porter Gustafson Porter LLP

E3 03:30 - 04:10 Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz Partners What Brought Me Here

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LCGD Masterclass DESIGN C4 01:00 - 01:45 John Wyer Bowles & Wyer Gardens in the Sky - A Look at Some of the Technical and Design Issues Involved in Roof Gardens D4 02:15 - 03:00 Judith Blacklock The Judith Blacklock Flower School The Changing World of the Flower Business E4 03:15 - 04:15 Chaired by Andrew Fisher Tomlin. With Jamie Dunstan & Jo Thompson LCGD Masterclass PLANTING

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Room 1 G1 10:30 - 11:15 Chelsea Design Quarter Taking Indoor Design Outside

H1 11:45 - 12:30 Matthew Childs Matthew Childs Design How To Build a Show Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show: Matthew Child’s First Experience J1 01:00 - 01:45 Matthew Keightley Farr & Roberts A Garden Relocation - Making it Work for Everyone (The Practicalities and the Pitfalls)

Room 2

G2 10:30 - 11:15 David Lewis Kensington Roof Gardens Designing Difficult or Small Spaces Using the Roof Garden in Kensington as Inspiration

H2 11:45 - 12:30 Angus Cunningham Scotscape Living Walls - Where Have We Got To?

J2 01:00 - 01:45 Saul Walker RHS Chelseea Flower Show How to Apply for a Show Garden

K1 02:15 - 03:00 Tim Gosling Gosling

K2 02:15 - 03:00 Andy McIndoe Hillier Nurseries

The Garden Informing the Interior

Essential Plants for Creative Landscapes

L1 03:30 - 04:15 Mark Sutton Vane Mark Sutton Vane Associates

L2 03:30 - 04:15 Wayne Grills BALI

Lighting for the Spirit

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Seminars

Building For a Better Skilled Industry

Wednesday September 24th Room 3

G3 10:30 - 11:15 Richard Miers Richard Miers Garden Design How to Use Technology to Speed Things Up, A Designer’s Perspective H3 11:45 - 12:30 Anthony Bastic Australian Garden Show Establishing the Most Progressive Gardening and Lifestyle Show in South East Asia

J3 01:00 - 01:45 Lucy Summers Lucy Summers Living

Room 4

G4 10:30 - 11:15 Mark Gregory Landform Consultants The Commonwealth Park in Gibraltar - The Creation of a Modern Park for the 21st Century H4 11:30 - 12:30 Chaired by Andrew Fisher Tomlin. With Kate Gould, Ann-Marie Powell & Alex Frazier LCGD Masterclass DESIGN J4 01:00 - 01:45 Tim O’Hare Tim O’Hare Associates

Sensual Gardens

Opportunities for Topsoil Manufacture - Case Study: Commonwealth Park, Gibraltar

K3 02:15 - 03:00 Nigel Dunnett University of Sheffield

K4 02:15 - 03:00 David Johnson Barcham

Rain Gardens, and WaterSensitive Design

The New Working Standard for Trees, Including New Threats

L3 03:30 - 04:15 Berkeley Homes

L4 03:15 - 04:15 Chaired by Andrew Fisher Tomlin. With David Dodd & Guy Watts

The Importance of Hard and Soft Landscaping to New Developments

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LCGD Masterclass CONSTRUCTION

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Cityscapes Following last year’s ‘container garden’ as part of Cityscapes Remix Garden project at Oxo Tower Wharf, Daniel Lobb is creating another eye catching and intellectually engaging installation. Cityscapes have teamed up with investigative arts organisation Siobhan Davies Dance to facilitate garden designer Lobb’s latest work, which is an horticultural response to the interior architecture and daily activities within the Siobhan Davies Studio building in Elephant & Castle.

The installation entitled ‘As above, so below’ features a suspended landscape, utilising a water cycle to sustain plant life, exploring the novel creative possibilities of growing plants indoors. Drawing moisture from the air, the work transforms the environment’s atmosphere into water, to establish and feed a self dependent ecosystem.

The design utilises a series of planters interconnected by rills suspended within the airspace of the building’s atrium. The planters, filled with soil and planted with various forms of ferns, mosses, lichen and toadflax, are inspired by the multifaceted and asymmetric forms of pomegranates. The water collected by a dehumidifier on the first floor is fed to the plants via the rills, with the excess travelling down to a collection bowl at ground level, from which the water evaporates, to create a sustaining feedback cycle.

“I am delighted to be working with Cityscapes and Siobhan Davies Dance, two organisations which are at the forefront of breaking down the barriers between artistic disciplines. ‘As above, so below’ is a site-specific response to the building’s architecture, mimicking the greater planetary cycle that constantly sustains all life, reflecting the interconnectedness of humans and plant life”.

Daniel Lobb, Garden Designer.

“Once again Daniel Lobb has created a garden installation which is horticulturally astute, intellectually inspiring and aesthetically engaging, exploring the novel and unexpected ways in which people and plants interact”.

Darryl Moore, Cityscapes Director.

The Gardeners Guild There is often hot debate about whether or not qualifications are necessary to be a professional gardener. Whatever your view, gardening courses are currently very popular and membership applications for The Gardeners Guild are continuing to rise.

During the first 6 months of 2014 they received 55 successful applications for membership. The vast majority of these are RHS qualified, have multiple qualifications or have studied at degree level. Some of their members are part time trainers themselves. A happy consequence of this is that the member forum is well supported by knowledgeable people.

30% of these applications were made by professional female gardeners. This is something they are very proud of and demonstrates that horticulture is gender neutral. Success is based on good plant knowledge and business sense.

Despite the increasing number of members, they have still maintained a 90% renewal rate (This is pro rata based on the first 6 months of the year. Actual renewal rates for the first half of 2014 is 95%).

The addition of new member benefits such as their maintenance contract / Terms of Business template has given a boost to membership interest. Many more member benefits are planned.

Autumn is a busy time for The Gardeners Guild and they expect applications to increase in the second half of the year. If you would like to learn more about TGG please come and meet them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Esthec® Terrace is a high quality decking that can be used for outdoor applications including, but never limited to: terraces at hotels and resorts, beach club patios, high end residential balconies, spa areas at luxury villas, pool decks, roof top gardens, docks and jetties.

In addition to the obvious aesthetic advantages, the thrilling design options and the ease of application, Esthec® also leads the way in the effort to limit the use of scarce natural resources in design and building materials. Esthec® is a composite material (no PVC), ecological, recyclable and sustainable (no wood). Esthec® is easy to maintain, has minimal bacterial (algae/ fungus/mold) growth. Is splinter free and feels comfortable on bare feet. Even when it’s wet, Esthec® provides excellent slip resistance.

Esthec® is easy to mount and dismount.

Esthec® Terrace offers unprecedented freedom in colour which allows the terrace to be integrated into an overall design scheme.

In addition to the five standard colours it is also possible to order a custom made colour, come and talk to them about your requirements at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Q Lawns from Norfolk is one of the country’s top lawn turf growers and is using its grassland knowledge to help reverse the catastrophic decline in Britain’s wildflower meadows.

Gary Foran, Chairman of the Garden & Landscape Designs Association, records the historical evolution of Irish design and the pivotal role played by the association in raising it to international standards.

Specialists at the company have grown a specially developed turf that is studded with almost thirty natural British meadowland wildflowers. In the past 60 years more than 90% of the country’s natural wildflower meadows have been lost, a staggering 7 million acres.

Prior to the formation of the Garden and Landscape Design Association (GLDA) in the mid-1990s, garden design had gone largely unrecognised as an independent profession by the Irish public.

The first meeting of the GLDA took place in Dublin, at home of founder member Angela Jupe. Angela had an earnest desire to establish a society in Ireland en par with the well-established Society of Garden Designers in the UK. It was Angela’s passion and perseverance which brought together the founding members in the summer of 95’.

“This is a national catastrophe for the Britain’s fragile eco-system and for butterflies, honey and bumble bees and seed eating birds in particular,” says Q Lawns Chris Carr. “Meadow Mat is a simple to install turf suitable for domestic gardeners and those wanting to grow meadow flowers on a larger scale. We have developed two ranges of wild flowers and grasses that have been deliberately selected because of the benefits they provide to the species most at risk from the dramatic decline in wildflower meadows.”

One of the biggest success stories of the GLDA to date, has been its hosting of an annual design seminar, which continues to be a well-respected and popular event, drawing in a diverse audience of industry academics, professionals and students alike. Early seminars saw high-profile designers such as James Van Sweden and Piet Oudolf offer inspirational garden design insights .

To reinforce the message to visitors to The LANDSCAPE Show, Q Lawns will have on their stand approximately 40 native species of butterflies, plus the migratory Painted Lady, in a special viewing dome with Meadow Mat growing on the floor to keep them supplied with nectar.

Our membership prides itself on being open and inclusive, and since its establishment over 18 years ago, membership numbers have grown steadily.

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Q Lawns will also be showing its Environmat Sedum Matting designed to provide green roofs. All the products are grown on the company’s own 1065 hectare farm at Hockwold near Thetford in Norfolk.

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As a full member and chairman of the association, I appreciate first-hand the value of having a network of garden design colleagues to engage with and share ideas, expertise, experience and industry information. Added to that, the GLDA’s active social calendar, which includes a number of visits each year, its ongoing programme of in-house professional development workshops and other events, have all contributed greatly to the sense of ownership and responsibility members share for the continued welfare of their association.

We are proud supporters of LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September and look forward to catching up with members and potential new members there.

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Architectural Heritage Missing the world cup boat completely, Architectural Heritage will be presenting a stained glass panel of the “Three Lions” and a rare 17th century fireback with the coat of arms of Bristol, with extension panels - a very interesting fact to a very small number of people!

Also on show at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park will be various garden ornaments - to sit on they will have a fine well stamped Coalbrookdale “Lily of the Valley” cast iron seat, a curved 19th and a straight slat back games seat, a fine carved marble bench with as much carving as is possible and a couple of modern seats for a more contemporary look.

For planters they will have a French stone planter, a pair of fine early 20th century large lead urns and a set of four smaller versions, and continuing in the lead vein a cistern from the 1930’s pretending to be from the 1780s.

They will have some weathered marble lions and Portland stone lion fragment remounted on a marble column, a single 19th century urn from Sweden made by the company that eventually coalesced into Volvo (did you know that Volvo gave away the rights to their safety belt to the world).

All these and more intriguing facts available from Architectural Heritage at LANDSCAPE this September.

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Quercus

Quercus’ British hand-made and designed solid oak hardwood fencing is made in Somerset. It requires no preservative or treatments and will weather naturally & outlast other fences. Due to Quercus’ patented open weave design, its fence panels are wind proof, allowing the wind to pass through without damage.

They also allow light through and so avoid creating dense shade for the plants. This is demonstrated in a recent testimonial from Jacquetta Menzies MSGD MBALI of Jacquetta Menzies Landscape and Garden Design about a recent project in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire. Right on the edge of the Peak District, at 200 m the site is very exposed to westerly gales and rain. “The Quercus fence was erected in January 2012. The oak has weathered to a beautiful grey, toning in perfectly with the gritstone walls. Gales last winter took away a fruit cage in a more sheltered part of the garden, but the Quercus Fence withstood the storms with no damage. My clients are extremely pleased” Come and see the Quercus range for yourself at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park

Guild of Master Craftsmen Membership of The Guild of Master Craftsmen brings many benefits including promotion of your business via our updated online search engine. Guild members get enquiries from prospective clients looking to redesign or update their garden, as well as associated trades looking to collaborate with garden / landscape designers.

As a member, your association with The Guild of Master Craftsmen assures clients that skill and integrity are the cornerstones of your business. Members can use the Guild emblem on their website, vehicles, stationery and advertising. Other benefits include marketing and business support, a free legal helpline and discounts on a variety of services including website design / optimisation, insurance, vehicle purchase and maintenance, equipment hire and much more.

As well as garden designers and landscape contractors, The Guild of Master Craftsmen represents fencing contractors, dry stone wall specialists, tree surgeons, paving contractors, turf suppliers, stone masons, blacksmiths and many more garden/landscape related trades.

For more information visit www.guildmc.com

Fencing above by: Jaquetta Menzies Landscape Fencing below by: Garden Design

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Smart Fire UK mainly work with architects, interior designers and landscapers to achieve their vision for the perfect outdoor fire feature. This can either come from their beautiful outdoor range of fireboxes and burners which can create a fantastic focal point for your garden. An example of this was used by Christine Wilkie garden design and entered into the modern garden designs category of a recent competition where it won first place. Our BK5 burner was also used

by Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer for their garden entered at the RHS show at Hampton Court contributing to the silver – gilt medal won by the garden. The Burners are very flexible and all our outdoor range can be brought inside in the winter to provide year round use.

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Smartfire

Therefore a bioethanol fire offers the opportunity to make a real design impact and focal point to any garden and the team at Smart Fire will be happy to help you in all aspects of design to achieve your perfect garden feature. Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Cirencester Civil Engineering With over 17 years’ experience in installing resin bound and resin bonded surfacing, Cirencester Civil Engineering Limited are now one of the leading resin surfacing companies in the UK.

Their “Resinset™” bound and “Resinset™” bonded surfaces are a perfect and attractive alternative to standard paving surfaces such as tarmac, block paving or concrete.

CCE have installed resin surfacing at many prestigious locations, such as Buckingham Palace, London 2012 Olympics and QEOP, Lady Diana Memorial, Royal Hospital Chelsea, Media City in Manchester. They offer a highly professional service, taking you through the entire installation process, giving a clear picture of both our services and products.

Resin Surfacing can be used on most projects, to any scale, to suit any budget. Possible uses for resin bound and “Resin Bonded Surfacing” bonded surfacing includes: driveways, paths and patios, footpaths, cycle paths, bus lanes, road junctions, commercial properties, car parks... the list is endless!

CCE pride themselves on the highest quality professional work, client satisfaction, completing works on time, and in budget.

Their work force is highly trained in all aspects of the work they undertake, and they are CSCS certified. Come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

IFLA 2014 IFLA Europe Silver Jubilee Twenty-five years ago, ten European professional landscape architects met in Vilvoorde (Belgium) to create the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA) inspired from the international experience they had witnessed, in 1948 with the creation of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), and who believed that our way of perceiving and understanding the world –derived from our profession- could contribute to its development.

The European Foundation for Landscape Architecture has since then grown up and changed in many different ways. One of the changes being its name which from “European Foundation for Landscape Architecture” (EFLA) moved to “European Federation for Landscape Architecture” and finally to “IFLA Europe” further to a “Coming Together” agreement between IFLA and EFLA turning the organisation into the European region of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.

Today, we celebrate IFLA Europe Silver Jubilee as a recognition of landscape architects unceasing work. A rich complexity of the landscape mosaic characterising their work, which deals with nature and culture, and considers man and society the focus of their beliefs.

IFLA strive to establish the importance of all matters relating to landscape and landscape architecture as the physical, socio-economic, cultural, visual, conceptual and spatial context of our European communities and their holistic vision demands we establish, support, and promote the landscape architectural profession across Europe, contributing to international discourse, shaping and disseminating European initiatives, facilitating the exchange of information, whilst promoting excellence in professional practice, education and research culminating in a culturally rich, diverse and sustainable Europe.

IFLA are proud to support LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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FIRST STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL GARDEN DESIGN CAREER

One of the first things that many potential garden design students will ask themselves is what’s the potential for a career in garden design? It’s an important question to ask because, like with any new career, you need to be absolutely sure that you’re heading in the right direction. But whilst you may get the support of your family and friends when you start a garden design course by the time you’ve graduated they might be so used to your new direction that you’re faced with a lot of choices on your own. So what are these garden design career choices?

First and foremost the majority of students aim to be setting up there own businesses if not straightaway then within a year or two of graduating. For many this can be a daunting task but a good design course will already be setting you up with both the tools and the contacts to hit the ground running.

If you’re setting up your business as soon as you graduate then look around to see if there are any people who might help mentor you.

The Society of Garden Designers runs a mentoring service for student members so this might help but you might find that you have a person within your social network with great business skills. They may not be involved in gardens but it’s the objective business expertise you’re looking for and someone outside of the industry might give you a new angle to market yourself.

Andrew Fisher Tomlin checks out the first hurdles on the garden design career ladder.

A real bonus is to get a work placement with an established designer. Sometimes this might be possible through your garden design course but remember that most design companies are small businesses and taking on a work placement designer is a big deal for them. You need to offer something that compliments their busy day to day schedule. Offering a one day a week helping hand is more trouble than its worth. A two week stint helping them out in a busy period will be much more useful as they can put you on to one project and whether is drawing up a design or setting out plants on site you’ll get a nugget of first hand practical information that will reveal some great ways to do business.

What you can offer an established designer is of primary importance when applying for a job. And despite being a profession of small businesses there are jobs to be had. Larger design firms often have a regular turnover of your newly qualified staff and landscape companies are increasingly looking to add a design function to their services.

Top of the list for skills these days is an ability to produce great 3D models. So you should start thinking about embracing and using those skills as soon as you get them on your design course. If you are still to decide on a course check that the studio tutorials will include CAD specialists both as lecturers and in your studio time so that you develop skills quickly. Depending where you are and your role you could be paid anything from £9 to £25 an hour so you need to think if the experience on lower pay is worth it. With a great designer with real skills to pass on then it just might be. But don’t ever work for nothing, you’ll have no enthusiasm on a dark winter morning to go to work and that’s not going to get you a great reference.

The most important skill you can have is perseverance. Like any new career these days you need to be prepared to put the time and hard work in to make it work. Launch your career with good, targeted networking. Get on LinkedIn, use your own social networks and business contacts. Help out a designer at a show when they need that extra help (and you might just do this for free), make yourself useful. The most successful young designers use every opportunity whether its entering every competition that comes their way or going to evening landscape events where they may meet a new contractor or a supplier that just happens to know someone that needs a garden designing. Always get paid for a job, you’re a professional now, but be prepared to balance that with great contacts, good development and with an eye to the future.

Andrew Fisher Tomlin is a Director of the London College of Garden Design and will be hosting four Masterclasses at the LANDSCAPE Show in September.

To ensure the range of species, the quality and variation in size that users of Barcham Trees have come to expect it is necessary and will continue to be necessary to import trees from across the world. This is part of their service. However, bio- security is a real and ever present issue that all users of trees must face and take action on. At Barcham they believe it cannot be left to the authorities to take a lead but requires all individuals and companies to be responsible for their own actions.

Barcham Trees will NOT import trees and sell to customers for immediate planting into the UK landscape. All imported trees are held on the nursery for one full growing season during which time they are subjected to rigorous inspection for pest and disease. This includes systematic and regular DEFRA visits to the nursery.

In addition to the routine pest and disease control programme implemented on the nursery over 15,000 trees across the entire species range are annually, randomly and independently examined for physiological health using leaf fluorescence, chlorophyll content and cell electrolyte leakage. This report is published and available for public inspection.

Barcham Trees

At Barcham Trees they focus on the production of high quality young trees. Many of them are grown from seeds or cuttings collected by their team from veteran UK specimens.

Come and talk to Barchams at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Perennial The Landscaper The Landscaper has been published every month since 1999. From a modest 32 page magazine it has developed into a 68 page perfect bound title. It is the only monthly trade magazine with an ABC audited circulation and a readership in excess of 14,000. Our readers include all members of the APL and BALI and landscaping companies throughout the UK. The secret of the magazines success is succinct, all- round reporting closely linked to the seasons and the weather - plus the fact that the readers know it is independent of all trade associations manufacturers or suppliers. They investigate everything that can interest today’s landscaper from horticulture, statues, garden furniture and artificial grass to compact tractors, excavators, fertilizer and aggregates.

The magazine is now published by Curtis Media Ltd – a small independent publishing house with specialist knowledge of the landscaping industry. “Because the Landscaper is our only concern, the title will benefit from increased inward investment which will translate into improved editorial, more editorial pages and an increased promotional budget,” says Curtis.

David Curtis will be available to speak to as part of the ‘Meet The Media’ opportunity at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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The collaboration between garden designer, occupational charity and the horticulture industry has been richly rewarded today as Perennial celebrated winning a Silver-Gilt Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show after welcoming Her Majesty The Queen at the evening Gala. Her Majesty was very interested in the work of the charity and that of its landscaping partners for the event, Streetscape (a social enterprise that encourages long-term unemployed to train as horticulturists).

Granted royal status in 1851 by Queen Victoria, Perennial (formerly known as The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society) is the only UK charity dedicated to helping all horticulturists in times of crisis. It has marked its 175th anniversary at the show with a wonderful exhibit in the Great Pavilion.

Perennial’s Patron HRH Princess Alexandra also visited, as did Princess Beatrice.

Designed by Jo Thompson the garden at Chelsea this year was been made possible with help, advice and donated plants and materials from some industry stalwarts.

Speaking at the show, Alan Titchmarsh, President of Perennial, said: “It is fitting that the exhibit designed to mark this unique charity’s 175th anniversary has been possible thanks to partnership, friendship and goodwill from across the horticulture industry.

Richard Capewell, Chief Executive at Perennial, says: “We have so many people to thank for their help. The visit by The Queen really was the icing on the cake – we are all very proud to be associated with this great charity that offers a lifeline to those working in and retired from horticulture.”

Please come along and meet Perennial at the LANDSCAPE Show this September in Battersea Park and find out more about their work.

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Adam Hunt

Adam Hunt is a highly skilled landscape designer, experienced in developing commercial schemes and large estate projects. Originally pioneering the creation of farmers markets from within the Dorset council, he has a background in botany and community-led market gardening. He is a longstanding, co-ordinating member of the Walled Kitchen Garden Network and has played a key role in the sustainability sub-committee of the Society of Garden Designers. He is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community.

Adam has a passion for sacred geometry in design and for establishing natural habitats and wild flora. Adam is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE show in Battersea Park in September.

Alex Johnson

Career in a nutshell: 9 schools in 4 countries, undergardener, forestry worker, degree in Botany and Ecology, gardener in botanic gardens, garden designer, ecologist, landscape architect. Important to her professionally is getting great landscape designs implemented correctly and to a high standard; seeing people in landscape professions, including herself, raising their game. Important to her privately: family, friends, my own garden, and the time to enjoy them.

Alex is one of our speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park

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Anthony Bastic

As one of Australia’s leading event designers and producers, Anthony Bastic’s career in major event production has been characterised by a succession of high profile achievements in conceptualising and presenting events for Australian and international audiences. For over 25 years Anthony has curated and managed events held at some of Australia’s most iconic locations, showcasing the nation’s history and diverse culture.

Anthony served as Public Programs Manager for the Sydney Opera House from 1997 – 2000, and was the Creative Director of Sydney’s Live Sites during the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Anthony also served as Creative Director of Festivities for the 2003 Rugby World Cup and Head of Events and International Visits for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

As Cultural Programs Manager for Centennial Park, Anthony was instrumental in introducing night events to the Park’s calendar and paving the way for the popular Moonlight Cinema. Further, Anthony served as a member of the creative team for the cultural component of APEC Australia, 2007. Anthony now runs the Autralian Garden Show in Sydney and will be one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE show in Battersea Park.

Angus Cunningham

Angus started in the landscaping business at Royal Hospital Chelsea, the now infamous site of the Chelsea Flower show in 1986.

By 1987 the beginnings of Scotscape were formulating as Angus worked as a self-employed horticulturalist. 1996 saw the naming of the business as we know it now and Scotscape has gone from strength to strength as a multidisciplinary landscape construction company with distinct divisions offering Commercial Landscaping, Domestic Landscaping, Living wall and Green roof specialist construction and maintenance, irrigation and landscape maintenance. The emergence of living walls into the market in 2006 has spurred the company onto further exceptional growth positioning Scotscape as the expert in the design installation and maintenance of living wall systems in the UK. Scotscape employs 150 staff and runs a fleet of 30 vehicles.

Our client list is impressive including Berkeley Group, Barrett Homes, The Olympic Venue, TFL, M&S, Westfield and the Rubens Hotel – many years of hard work and a continued passion for good horticulture have led Scotscape to be a multi-million pound business with Angus Cunningham still at the helm of this inspiring company. Angus is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Boot & Co. As part of Boot & Co.’s commitment to provide a wide pallet of low maintenance, environmentally enhancing plants to their customers, they have trailed and selected their ‘Fleur Robuste’ range of perennials, plus a range of landscape roses, shrubs and trees.

Perennial varieties have been selected for their dense weed supressing evergreen or semi evergreen foliage; long period of colour and in many cases valuable nectar for flying insects.

Boot & Co.’s major market sector is supplying Local Authorities in The Netherlands where great emphasis is placed on enhancing densely populated city areas, by careful planting of colourful low maintenance plants, to the benefit of residents and wildlife. Boot & Co.’s Fleur Robuste concept has been used successfully too in the UK, Germany, Poland, and elsewhere in Europe.

Most plants above are planted at 12 x 9cm pot plants per square meter, a relatively inexpensive option. Within one year of planting expect a continuous ground covering foliage. Once established the only maintenance required is an annual clipping to remove dead flower heads and foliage.

Visit Boot & Co. at the LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September and ask for their ‘A New Generation of Colourful Perennials’ booklet.

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Feature Creatures Based near Ipswich in Suffolk, Feature Creatures create unique steel sculptures, for either exterior or interior use, of almost any animal or design you care to imagine. With designs ranging from menacing dinosaurs to cute butterflies, their custom sculptures are available in any size you would like.

Their larger sculptures are ideal to be used as garden art. These unique talking points are the perfect addition to any conservatory or inside your home. You can , order from any of our existing designs, or commission your own, as a miniature piece of art to display within your home, or even impress your work colleagues with a miniature dinosaur on your desk at work?

They are not solely for domestic use? How about having a sculpture commissioned for your business? Farmers have commissioned pigs and cows from them, and land owners have placed life size stags in their fields. If you have an animal in your company’s logo, or an element that you think could be re-created in our unique style, impress your clients with a reproduction of it in your reception area?

Produced from steel or stainless steel, their sculptures can be powder coated to a colour of your choice, or steel sculptures can be left to rust for a time weathered finish. Why not come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

QEST The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) is the charitable arm of the Royal Warrant Holders Association. Established in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Association and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, QEST provides awards to craftsmen and women of all ages to help them further their careers.

QEST scholars are excellent ambassadors and are in demand throughout the world, some have led the way in using traditional skills to forge a career in contemporary arts whilst others have become crucial in conservation.

With a skill base ranging from stone carvers and blacksmiths, through to illustrators and basket makers, carpenters, gilders, enamellers, mosaic artists, pargeters and thatchers, QEST grants scholarships to hundreds of scholars each year.

LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September will feature a QEST Pavilion of just some of the artisan scholars who will demonstrate the range of skills and talents available.

QEST are grateful to the on-going generous support given by LANDSCAPE to the Trust and it’s scholars and looks forward to meeting visitors in September. www.qest.org.uk

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Khora Spaces The Khôra Dome is the excitingly original contemporary steel and curved glass garden room which made its international debut earlier this year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, winning 5 gold stars and the RHS Director General’s Award for the Best Trade Stand.

The creation of British engineer and designer Louis Calmels, whose family metalwork business has been making high quality, custom-built architectural, garden and other metalwork structures for more than 50 years, the Dome’s inspiration comes from the iconic Palm House at Kew Gardens. While the Khôra Dome captures the essence of the pioneering Victorian original, it is totally adapted for modern day living, employing the latest in glass technology and engineering skills.

Louis Calmels explains; “Glass structures are as much to do with what’s outside as they are the space within, hence the name Khōra which comes from ancient Greek. I feel the Dome reflects this ethereal imagery as it encapsulates both exterior and interior. It makes the most stunning garden room as it is light and airy in the day and then at night transforms into a spectacular magical bubble!”

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

Furnitubes

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Furnitubes International, one of the UK’s most trusted suppliers of street and amenity furniture, has been strengthening the in-house team with hot young designers from all over Europe. Under the leadership of Landscape Architect, Nigel Abbott, the team is addressing challenges brought to them by Furnitubes clients – clients who come back again and again.

‘Furnitubes designers were able to transform our idea to design and manufacture contemporary benches that complemented the historical context of the area.’ Said Cheshire West and Chester Council.

The latest range to be launched and extended with innovative features that reflect the needs of Furnitubes clients, and their end-users, is the Elements seating range. The range is based around a series of interchangeable components, or ‘Elements’, offering the maximum choice of styles, sizes, materials and features. New additions to the range include the ‘Tablet’. A clever twist on the armrest, the Tablet is wide enough to work at, eat at, or just lean against, and watch the world go by.

SGD The Society of Garden Designers (SGD) exists to promote excellence in garden design and their members are committed to providing you with the best service.

Each registered member of the SGD has undertaken a rigorous adjudication process, adheres to a professional code of conduct and is experienced in delivering gardens of the highest quality.

This year the SGD are wholeheartedly supporting LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park.

They will be welcoming existing and new members to talk to them on their stand and are also holding their Annual General Meeting at the show.

In addition this year features the launch of their new Product Of The Year competition.

The finalists of which will be displayed actually at the show alongside their stand. The winner will be chosen at the show itself.

For more information about the benefits of membership please speak to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Flexible, attractive and designed for today’s needs, the range can be seen at the LANDSCAPE Show this September in Battersea Park.

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Finalists Announced in the

This year, the Society of Garden Designers has been searching for a product to crown The SGD Product of the Year 2014. With a vast range of new products offered onto the market place every year, the Society want to find and celebrate the very best products available to garden-makers.

As SGD Chair Juliet Sargeant MSGD said “We know that great gardens are achieved when professional garden designers use the finest products to implement their visions, be it a spectacular new plant or tree specimen, a hand-crafted greenhouse or an innovative new lighting product. We launched The SGD Product of the Year to find and celebrate the very best of them.”

Over 300 votes were cast by SGD Members to establish a shortlist from the products entered. Congratulations to the following ten manufacturers whose products have been named as finalists:

Brickworks Vande Moortel for the 70mm SeptimA Nuance clay paver that has been reduced to 70mm thickness, but is capable of carrying all but the heaviest traffic loads.

CED Natural Stone for the Super CEDEC natural organic footpath gravel for urban tree pits and pedestrian areas where a firm natural surface is required.

Gaze Burvill for the environmentally sound oak Jubilee Spiral bench whose sculptural form is designed to be functional, durable and visually distinctive

Groundscare Products for the compact and light ZipLevel Pro-2000 surveying tool which can work around obstacles and is and easy to use alone.

Joanna Wallis for the striking Stone Globe Light which illuminates at night from it natural stone ball appearance by day.

e SG Product of the Year 2014 Lateral Design Studio for the Designer Landscape Drain Cover – a drain covers available in stainless steel, cast iron or natural stone composite with optional LED light bars.

Q Lawns for the Meadowmat for Birds and Bees - a wildflower matting containing a unique mixture of some of the UK’s most attractive wildflowers and grasses.

Stonemarket for the Cordara sandstone range – an exceptional hard Quartzitic sandstone from Rajasthan that has the appearance of wood cut against the grain.

Urbis Design for the Poppy Bowl - a feature planter and a stunning water bowl abstracted from the natural form of a poppy seed head.

Wildflower Turf Ltd for the soil-less, weed suppressing Wild Flower Landscape Turf with 34 British wildflower and grass varieties.

All the shortlisted products will be displayed at The LANDCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September where practicing garden designers visiting the show will be asked to vote for their favourite product to help determine the overall winning product.

To register for your free ticket to attend please visit www.landscapeshow.co.uk.

The winner will be announced at The LANDSCAPE Show on 24 September 2014.

To find out more visit www.sgdproductoftheyear.com

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Neil Porter

Founding partner of Gustafson Porter, Neil takes an active involvement in the practice’s diverse range of projects as well as running the London practice. Neil’s interests include architecture, design, landscape and urban planning. Neil is passionate about visiting sites to understand the unique historical, cultural, socio-economic, geographical and botanical influences, as well as specific requirements of clients and users. It is this depth of engagement which inspires Gustafson Porter’s work.

Together with Mary Bowman, Kathryn Gustafson and the team, Neil has led the practice’s defining projects, including: Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial; Swiss Cottage Open Space; the Garden of Forgiveness and Shoreline Walk, Beirut; Bay East, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore and the CityLife Park, Milan. Neil’s designs for the Treasury West Courtyard, London, and Old Market Square, Nottingham, received many prestigious awards. He met Kathryn whilst working on Paris’ Parc de la Villette in 1984.

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

Juliet Sargeant

Juliet has worked for twenty years as a garden designer and lecturer.

She is also Chair of the Society of Garden Designers. Her own experiences and those of her students and design colleagues have led her to believe that it is time for Garden Design to ‘tighten up its act’ – to professionalise.

Juliet is one of our featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September. Her session will explain why a contract is not only good for your client, but also protects you, the designer; it establishes the professional working relationships that are essential to clear communication and the avoidance of misunderstandings.

Come and listen to Juliet at LANDSCAPE this Septmber.

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Wayne Grills

Wayne has over 20 years at Director level including HR roles in the training and education industry serving a range of sectors such as hospitality, clothing and textiles, waste management, extractives and mineral processing and land based sector with his last five years as MD of Lantra Awards (A membership based organisation in the Land based Sector) before taking up his current post at the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) one of the largest Trade Association for landscapers, gardeners, garden designers and suppliers to the Industry as the current Director and Chief Operations Officer.

Wayne is one of this years featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Tim O’Hare

Tim O’Hare is the principal consultant of Tim O’Hare Associates, the UK’s leading independent soil and landscape science practice. He has been a soil scientist for 20 years, working predominantly in the commercial landscape, construction and sports agronomy sectors.

Tim’s particular areas of expertise include: topsoil quality assessment, topsoil manufacture, soil specification, sports pitch agronomy, Brownfield site restoration, urban tree soils, living roofs, tree pit design, organic recycling, and CPD training.

He has undertaken a wide variety of consulting and project management assignments throughout the UK and internationally.

Tim and his team were the appointed Soil Scientists for pre-and post- games at the Olympic Park, London, and were responsible for specifying, sourcing, testing, and inspecting all landscape soils (200,000m3) throughout the park.

Other projects have included: Athletes’ Village (London), Terminal 5 (Heathrow), British Sugar Topsoil, Jubilee Gardens (London), Ascot Racecourse (Ascot), Education City (Qatar), Westergasfabriek (Netherlands), Gardens by the Bay (Singapore).

Tim is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Wildflower Turf

If you are thinking about creating a wildflower garden, understanding the difference between annual or perennial wildflowers is essential.

An annual wildflower, such as a poppy, cosmos or cornflower is a one hit wonder, a total show off. It has to put all of its energy into being the very best signpost for pollination and its chance to produce seed as it does not have a parent plant. It only gets one chance, at the end of flowering, its life is over.

Key characteristics are often bold colour and a prolonged flowering season. The seed produced then sits dormant and if the area is reworked to produce a tilth you may then get another similar display the following year but there is no guarantee.

Perennial wild flowers, such as vetches and scabious, are alive throughout the year and to a certain extent have to save up energy to survive through the winter. The flowering season can be shorter and colours are generally subtle. Probably more important for larger areas, the perennials will provide a green base for the whole of the year. Their root bed tends to be thicker and deeper in the soil and if untouched it is harder for weeds to penetrate once established.

At Wildflower Turf they can create bespoke annual mixes for high impact public displays such as the Olympics and many beautiful WW1 commemorative landscape projects. They also produce a variety of outstanding perennial turf products that are suitable for many different applications from roofs, embankments, shaded areas and large scale landscape projects. To talk in more depth about establishing a wonderful wildflower area to suit your needs, come and visit them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Thrive Ketley Brick Ketley Brick is excited to be launching their new range of quarry tiles at the LANDSCAPE Show in September. The stunning range of natural clay colours is available in both square and rectangular tiles, all with incredibly low water absorption and excellent frost resistance. The Ketley Brick Company was founded over 100 years ago and specialises in the manufacture of Staffordshire Clay bricks, slips and pavers. Ketley’s products have always been known for their quality and durability. This new range of quarry tiles offers excellent slip resistance and gives architects and landscape designers the opportunity to incorporate the natural beauty and surface quality of true clay fired colour into a variety of both interior and exterior spaces. The company also offer a range of matching fittings such as bullnose and ribbed nosings.

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

Thrive is the leading charity in the UK using gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.

The process is called social and therapeutic horticulture – put simply it is working with plants to improve physical and psychological health, along with communication and thinking skills. The charity uses the garden as a safe and secure environment in which to develop an individual’s ability to socialise, make friends, and gain practical skills that make them more independent and self-reliant.

According to Thrive’s Alyson Chorley, gardening can benefit everyone, regardless of age or ability. “We help older people, and people who have had strokes to improve their mobility by getting their muscles moving.

Gardening also improves mental health by providing a sense of purpose and achievement. It’s a very social activity and can reduce feelings of isolation and low mood – making friends is easy for some, but for others it is really difficult and having a shared interest can really help.”

Thrive is looking for support – both financial and practical – at each of its four centres in London, Reading, Birmingham and Gateshead.

If you can help, please take time to visit them at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park. www.thrive.org.uk

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Meet The Poppyhead Consultancy Liz Ackerly

Australian Garden Show Anthony Bastic

The Judith Blacklock Flower School Judith Blacklock

The Sun Newspaper Steve Bradley

The Outdoor Room David Dodd

Sheffield University Nigel Dunnett

Jamie Dunstan Garden Design Jamie Dunstan

Sarah Eberle Garden Design Sarah Eberle

Elks-Smith Garden Design Helen Elks-Smith

Garden Design Journal Sarah Giles

Chartered Institute of Horticulture Andrew Gill

Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design Fernando Gonzalez

Gosling Tim Gosling

Kate Gould Gardens Kate Gould

Petherick Urquhart & Hunt Adam Hunt

JCLI Alex Johnson

Farr & Roberts Matthew Keightley

Q Lawns Angela Lambert

Kensington Roof Gardens David Lewis

Matt Nichol Garden Design Matt Nichol

Tim O’Hare Associates Tim O’Hare

Petherick Urquhart & Hunt Tom Petherick

Gustafson Porter LLP Neil Porter

Anne-Marie Powell Gardens Anne-Marie Powell

Landscape Update Lea Tarrant

Malmo John Taylor

Jo Thompson Garden Design Jo Thompson

Landscape Update Hilary Tucker

RHS - The Royal Horticultural Society Saul Walker

The Sun Newspaper Val Bradley

Speakers Young Hort Jamie Butterworth

Juniper House Garden Design Jeni Cairns

Matthew Childs Design Matthew Childs

Scotscape Angus Cunningham

The Landscaper David Curtis

Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer Andrew Fisher Tomlin

Julia Fogg Associates Julia Fogg

Aralia Patricia Fox

LDC Gardens Alex Frazier

Shoot Nicola Gammon

Landform Consultants Mark Gregory

BALI Wayne Grills

Landscape Update Nicky Harding

Harfleet & Harfleet Tom Harfleet

Cityscapes Adolfo Harrison

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Hillier Nurseries Andy McIndoe

Richard Miers Garden Design Richard Miers

Cityscapes Darryl Moore

NLA Peter Murray

SGD Juliet Sargeant

Martha Schwartz Partners Martha Schwartz

Randle Siddeley Associates Randle Siddeley

Lucy Summers Living Lucy Summers

Sutton Vane Associates Mark Sutton-Vane

Just a few of the faces of LANDSCAPE 2014!

Streetscape Guy Watts

Amphibian Designs James Wong

Bowles & Wyer John Wyer

Check the website for regular updates on the fantastic seminar programme we have in place - tickets are FREE! Simply register online at www.landscapeshow.co.uk

Hilliers

The LANDSCAPE Show spoke to Andy McIndoe from Hilliers about his lecture at the show in Battersea Park this September.

Come and listen to Andy at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park, copies of his book will also be available during his ‘Meet The Author’ opportunity too.

Andy said, “I’ve called the session ‘Essential plants for creative landscapes’. Don’t expect the rare, the unusual or the trendy. Expect plants that succeed and deliver a striking effect throughout the year. No fussy, fragile subjects here. I want to talk about performers, and most of the plants I feature will be shrubs.

Shrubs are much more than just hard-working structure plants. By choosing the right combination of shape, colour and texture, a group of shrubs can be mellow, uplifting, calming or indulgent. You can create any style from country garden to contemporary urban courtyard, from seaside cottage to tropical paradise.

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If you choose the right ones, shrubs are hard working garden plants that can give enduring pleasure throughout the seasons, and with little maintenance. Most perennials need lifting and dividing, annuals need replacing every year, trees can get too big, but the right shrubs delight for decades.

Most designers and gardeners choose plants for their individual merits, often for their colour, texture and form. That is only part of the story: performance and subsequent maintenance requirements are even more important. In my new book, The Creative Shrub Garden, I show you how to create stunning, long lasting planting effects using shrubs, whatever the size of your garden or the situation.

In addition to a directory, which gives you a palette of three hundred high performance shrubs and everything you need to know about planting, pruning, feeding and watering, I show you how to take three shrubs which work together to create a particular mood or style of planting. This initial combination is suitable for the smallest garden and in many cases pots in a courtyard or a balcony. I then tell you what to add to expand the scheme for a larger, and a much larger garden. Obviously in gardens these are often planted in singles, but the numbers are easily multiplied for larger areas. “

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Matthew Keightley Newcomer Matthew’s Keightley (29), of Maidenhead-based building and landscaping firm Farr and Roberts’, scooped the prestigious People’s Choice award for his debut ‘Hope on the Horizon’ garden, designed in aid of Help for Heroes at the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014.

Inspired by his brother Mike, currently serving his fifth tour of Afghanistan with the RAF, and the inspirational work of charity Help for Heroes, the garden sympathetically echoed the Helo for Heroes ethos; to inspire, enable and support those returning heroes during their recovery and beyond.

Matthew said: “It’s just incredible. I am absolutely thrilled to receive the People’s Choice award. It is such an honour, and amazing to have such fantastic public support” said Matthew. “We’ve had people coming over and telling us how much they love the garden all week, but I never anticipated we would actually win” he adds.

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

The garden, designed in the shape of the Military Cross, the medal awarded for extreme bravery. It represents the complex and progressive path of recovery experienced by our wounded, injured and sick military personnel, veterans and their families.

“To receive this award demonstrates just how much the public really understand what the garden represents and the journey that our soldiers go through on their individual paths to recovery”.

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Beemat

Britain’s bees are facing a bleak future. Over 50% of bees in the United Kingdom have been lost through disease, loss of habitat and intensive farming. Research shows that planting wild flowers is crucial to the survival of bees. But doing this on a large scale can prove problematic, with weeds often taking over.

A solution is, however, at hand. BeeMat is new from the experts at TerraSeed, and developed with the Stockbridge Technology Centre. A pre-seeded, biodegradable growing mat that controls weeds, BeeMat™ is the best way to establish the plants that provide nectar and pollen for bees, especially when other food sources have run out or are scarce in the landscape.

“We know that beneficial species of plants are easily out-competed by grass and other weeds and need some help,” explained Nigel Clarke, BeeMat Sales Manager. “So BeeMat™ is designed to help seedlings by suppressing weeds during establishment. In fact during the trials we carried out in 2012, we proved that BeeMat™ increased the number of flowers that establish by 90%, compared to direct seeded plots, plus it has been shown to increase the number of flowers per plant by 40%.

For further product and stockist more information please visit their stand at the LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

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STIHL, Skanska and the CITB have joined forces to develop a new training course for the safer use of petrol driven cut-off saws (disccutters). An important part of cutting is to use the available products to ensure cutting can be done quickly, accurately and safely and not just rely on ‘free hand’ cutting.

Brickworker has worked with STIHL in the development of their Brick Jigs, which make the cutting of block pavers quicker, more accurate and safer. After the initial set-up which takes just a few seconds, there is no need for measuring or judging angles, the blocks can simply be held in position and cut accurately and safely every time.

For the landscaper cutting paving slabs, Brickworker has launched the Slab Cutting Guide. This attaches easily to the slab in any required position and give the person cutting a guide to follow instead of a line. This makes cutting easier and safer and importantly allows the cut to be made with water for dust suppression. With the use of a Slab Cutting Guide you can consider taking the cutting out of your own time and into the hands of any competent assistant landscaper knowing the cut will be straight and exactly where you want it.

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Come and see them at the LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September and talk to them about training and how cutting is made simpler and safer.

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Adolfo Harrison

Adolfo Harrison is an award winning garden and landscape designer, Senior Partner of Moore Harrison Land Design, Director of Cityscapes and Templeman Harrison. He writes a regular blog for Horticulture Week and teaches garden design at City Lit. He has a MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins and studied garden design at the English Gardening School and horticulture at Capel Manor.

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

Julia Fogg

Julia believes that understanding the special qualities of a site and maintaining a clear dialogue with the client produces good interactive gardens and landscapes. She works in a strong modernistic style, rejecting pastiche and revivalism, and take a positive approach to problem solving that ensures forward-looking design solutions. We maintain a hands on monitoring of all projects from inception through to completion thereby ensuring the character of the scheme.

Julia Fogg is a member of The Society of Garden Designers and an Associate Member of The Landscape Institute and The Institute of Horticulture. She is currently teaching at the University of Greenwich. Julia was asked to contribute a post to the blog site for My Garden School – the online learning facility – by Andy McIndoe. Andy is also connected to Hilliers and creates the amazing stands at RHS Chelsea. Julia is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park.

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a Park will feature some amazing speakers. arer the time for the full schedule of times and titles. www.landscapeshow.co.uk

Nicola Gammon

Nicola Gammon is founder and CEO of Shoot, winner of Garden Media Guild’s Website of the Year 2012, Which? Best Buy Garden Design Software and a Smart100 Award. Shoot is a unique website for amateur and professional gardeners to design, manage, care for and share their gardens online. Over 80,000 members access Shoot’s database of 17,000 plants, advice forums, and personalised plant care calendars, and they can design or map their gardens online. Shoot Marketplace, provides an exciting new online retail platform for over 90 small independent British nurseries and manufacturers.

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

Alex Frazier

Alex works as a project manager for LDC design specialising in private garden design/ construction, and professional design services for Urban Design and Landscape Architectural services. Alex is a hardworking, intuative and motivated individual with the ability to work at all levels of intervention. Having progressed from assistant to project manager, he has developed the skills to effectively plan, manage and oversee projects of varying demand from inception and construction through to completion.

This year he was part of the design team which won Chelsea Flower Show, teaming up with the charity RNIB and the sponsor Countryside Properties, proudly winning awards for Best in Show; People’s Choice and Gold for our design ‘The Mind’s Eye’.

Alex is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Trust Insurance The difference with Trust is that using by our industry knowledge and expertise we can tailor a more relevant insurance package for your business needs. They offer a rich level of insurance cover suitable for standard & non-standard landscaping and horticultural activities.

They are a regulated insurance broker with a long standing association with the arboriculture, forestry and landscaping industries and over 15+ years’ experience As well as their specially designed insurance products for the businesses of arborists, tree surgeons, forestry workers and landscape contractors they can also accommodate for personal insurances.

Their business and staff pride themselves in offering a wide range of insurance products, carefully selected from a trusted panel of world class insurers.

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With an entry level premium of only £50 (plus Insurance Premium Tax) for sole traders (Subject to claims experience) and comprehensive cover designed for the landscaping industry including Professional Indemnity cover as standard, why not come and talk to Trust on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Tobermore

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Fife Council’s impressive 24, 000 square metre Halbeath Park and Ride scheme has won the prestigious Integrated Transport Project of the Year award at the annual Scottish Transport Awards. Tobermore, top paving and walling manufacturer who supply products throughout the UK and Ireland, were proud to have provided the beautiful permeable paving products featured on this expansive scheme.

Completed in November 2013, the £10 million Halbeath Park and Ride project was funded by Transport Scotland and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Halbeath Park and Ride has enhanced transport links between Fife and Central Scotland and supports the new Queensferry Crossing, as well as facilitating an amazing 1, 000 car parking spaces, 6 stances, a heated waiting area with toilets and a staffed supervising office, bringing huge benefits to commuters in the Fife region.

Designed by Fife Regional Council, Halbeath Park and Ride features a stunning expanse of Tobermore’s Hydropave 240 permeable paving in the deep colour blend of Brindle. Hydropave permeable paving provides the opportunity to create spectacular hard landscaping designs with environmentally friendly products that essentially reduce the risk of flooding and pollution. The Hydropave range is the ideal landscaping solution for urban and industrial areas.

Tobermore will be exhibiting at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

RatedPeople.com

Founded in 2005, RatedPeople.com are one of the UK’s largest online marketplaces connecting homeowners with more than 27,000 local tradesmen, nationwide. They are disrupting the home improvement market by creating the digital ‘word-of-mouth’ recommendation, available to everyone, for free!

Every month they introduce more than 75,000 homeowners to quality, local tradesmen. They are experiencing high levels of gardening job requests - with more than 56,000 posted between April and June. So now is the perfect time to register if you are looking for work or want to grow your business.

Homeowners who are in need of a tradesman can post jobs for free on RatedPeople.com and receive quotes from up to 3 interested tradesmen. Only homeowners who have found their tradesman through the service can leave a rating and recommendation. Tradesmen can then use their ratings on Rated People.com to build their reputation and portfolio of local clients.

The ratings are based on quality, value and reliability and are designed to help homeowners make a quick, easy and informed decision when they need to hire a tradesman.

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They are delighted to be attending LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September, so please do come and see them and they can tell you more about RatedPeople.com - and how you and your business could benefit from their service.

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Handspring Design They will be bringing a full size Apple Shelter to The LANDSCAPE Show this September in Battersea Park as well as a mini version designed for children’s play areas so please visit their stand to experience a little Apple magic!

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The Apple Shelter is one of Handspring Design’s most sought after products. Its beautiful tactile curves make a stunning centerpiece for any public space providing seating and shelter for up to 20 adults – or a whole class of children. The Apple adds a striking sculptural element within a hard landscape, and provides a magical destination within a planted scheme. Handspring also makes bespoke curved benches – with infinite configuration possibilities - to compliment the Apple perfectly.

ESF

ESF design, import, source, stock and supply a huge selection of exterior street furniture products, exterior lighting (including LEDs) and highways products. These products are promoted through four distinct collections: Signature, Simplicity, Sustainable and Streetwise.

ESF sources many products locally and from overseas, with the Signature Collection being developed in conjunction with mmcité from the Czech Republic who they will be exhibiting with at The LANDSCAPE Show 2014.

One of mmcité’s more popular products in the UK would be their Portiqoa park bench.

The perfect bench for those who love smart shapes. Its softly curved sides are made of aluminium alloy which work together with diagonally constructed walls to create an exciting optical illusion. The bench touches the base with only a narrow edge and from some angles reveals some impossibly thin lines.

The continuous lamella frame arches to below the seat so as to significantly strengthen the entire structure. Individually shaped armrests placed in the middle prevent anyone from lying down, just as the pair of armrests on either side make it easy to get up.

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The sideboard is made from machined castings from aluminium alloy; the saddle and armrest of the lamella are from solid wood.

An original and solidly-fixed footing above the pavement is anchored to the ground.

Come and see them for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Interior Design Today is Britain’s oldest magazine for professional interior designers and is firmly established as the premier source of inspiration for the interiors community and discerning consumers. The Interior Design Today app is available on Apple and Android and boasts over 35,000 downloads globally.

IDT presents the best projects, products and people that directly influence and shape the industry. Our contributors are the A-list of the design community, including BIID members and influential industry gurus who are all at the top of their game. Interior Design Today bridges the gap between the professional and consumer markets, delivering a high-end magazine of uncompromising quality to a wider audience of design enthusiasts and key industry players. Interior Design Today are one of the featured Media Partners of LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Masterclasses All the seminars will be chaired by Andrew Fisher Tomlin, a Director of the London College of Garden Design and one of the UK’s leading garden designers. Andrew is Chairman of Selection for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and an Ambassador to The Australian Garden Show Sydney 2014.

11:30am - 12:30pm Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Design

In the first of two design seminars three leading designers join us to discuss where design goes next. All three are involved in ground breaking work looking at design in a different way such as through technology and different ways of working. Their unique insights are invaluable for anyone looking ahead to the future.

With Sarah Eberle, Tom Harfleet and Jeni Cairns.

3:15pm - 4:15pm Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Planting

For our Planting seminar three well known designers discuss their approach to planting design and working with clients. Both Jamie and Jo have been applauded for creating some of the best planting at Chelsea.

With Jamie Dunstan and Jo Thompson.

11:30am - 12:30pm

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In our second design seminar three designers come together with wide ranging experience. Kate is well known for her different Chelsea gardens and her design and build partnership as is Ann-Marie who has a distinct perspective on design and planting.

They are joined by Alex Frazier who having won Best in Show at Chelsea in 2014 at an early age will have his own perspective on future gardens.

With Kate Gould, Ann-Marie Powell and Alex Frazier.

11:30am - 12:30pm

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Construction

It sometimes seems that there is only one way of approaching the build of gardens but in this seminar we will discuss the very different ways in which we might build our gardens. This seminar is a must not only for landscapers but also for designers in planning the way they see their designs become reality.

With David Dodd and Guy Watts.

Thrive

Thrive is often called upon to provide expert advice on garden design for people with disabilities. The UK charity, which will be at this year’s LANDSCAPE Show, offers consultancy which can advise organisations on anything from designing a garden to training staff.

Thrive uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.

See us at LANDSCAPE The charity can also help garden designers who are looking to include elements of therapeutic planting and design into their brief.

If you are interested in finding out more about the professional training and consultancy services Thrive offers, please get in touch with them at their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Thrive’s training and education team provide advice and guidance on creating garden spaces specific to service user needs in terms of therapeutic benefit, accessibility and usability and can help with producing a full report on what can be achieved.

Over the past four years the charity has been helping organisations working in the field of social and therapeutic horticulture, and also health and social care organisations (voluntary, statutory or private), who utilise their gardens and outdoor spaces for therapeutic/rehabilitation or care purposes.

Recently Thrive worked in partnership with Andrew Fisher Tomlin to provide consultancy and advice in the creation of a new garden design to help improve the environment of care for people with dementia.

Thrive supported Reading Borough Council’s successful joint bid application to develop and create a new garden for the residents at the Willows Care Home in Reading, Berks.

The new garden will be an exemplar for best practice in enhancing the lives and well-being of the residents as well as family, carers and staff. The garden officially opened this month.

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On the 25th June 2014 HRH The Countess of Wessex officially opened the new Royal Kitchen Garden at Hampton Court Palace. The one-acre walled garden lies in the former early c16th Tiltyard - within a stone’s throw of the Tudor kitchens – and is the first productive garden at the palace for over 170 years. Designed for Historic Royal Palaces

by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and his colleague James Fox in collaboration with the Gardens and Estate Team at Hampton Court Palace, the garden evokes a part of the former six-acre kitchen garden as it would have been during the reign of George II. The primary source for the layout and the distribution of the planting has been John Rocque’s plan of 1736, and the aim has been to create a fully working kitchen garden including assorted garden ephemera and tools from the period.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect and historian, is President of the London Parks and Gardens Trust and Gardens Adviser to Historic Royal Palaces (with responsibilities at six royal palaces including Hampton Court, Kensington, and the Tower of London), and Landscape Adviser to the Crown Estate Paving Commission in Regent’s Park. He is the author of several books including The London Town Garden (Yale UP, 2001), The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace (Frances Lincoln, 2005) and The London Square: gardens in the midst of town (Yale UP, 2012). His recently redesigned the gardens at Kensington Palace to mark the Diamond Jubilee of HM The Queen.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan will be available to talk to at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park as part of our ‘Meet the Author’ programme. Come and talk to him about his projects.

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Florfit - - Garaia The City of Barcelona has just announced that it will be using the Garaia Florfit system for 2015. Since trialing the system on a principal roundabout on ‘Las Ramblas’ in Barcelona, where the beds planted in spring of 2014 are still flourishing, the City Council have decided to extend the use of the Florfit system to other parts of the city.

By creating beds of more resistant species, in this case allowing the beds to be in place for more than two years, the aim is to reduce planting times and to make maintenance easier in difficult and problematic planting areas.

Florfit facilitates easier work on complicated beds and planting areas by using a system to identify the individual parts to allow the creation of mosaics and made-to-measure forms. This simplification of the method has allowed us to create complex planting areas and beds.

It also significantly reduces the working time required for difficult-to-access planting areas.

The system has given a proven 75% reduction in labour time.

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

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Pop Up Power

Pop Up Power Supplies are there when you need it and hidden when you don’t!

Pop Up Power supply retractable service units that provide electricity, water and air supply to public spaces ranging from historic sites and market places to town squares and parks. Their retractable service units provide legacy for special-purpose stadiums and their projects include installations for markets, heritage, parks, town centres, universities and sports stadiums.

Due to their retractable nature, their units can be used in a variety of places that require subtlety and the ability to disappear when not required. They offer possibilities for more varied uses, giving stadiums new life long after their planned functions. A series of standard products are available as well as bespoke units with recessed tops that can accommodate different paving.

Take a look for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Splash through the seasons with TubMarine handmade tubs designed and built in Dorset.

Creating unique hot tubs that are inspired by nature and fuelled with wood fire, TubMarines tubs are low maintenance, graceful and designed to last.

“Our tubs are simple to use, and are a beautiful sculptural feature for a garden, spa setting or glamping site,” says Chris Galley from TubMarine. “The aroma from the woodsmoke is an integral part of the pleasure” The natural source of heating also means they can be a relaxing spot away from mains supplies. To enjoy a dip in a TubMarine, you simply light the fire, fill the tub with fresh water and let the water heat to desired temperature (usually about 1 hour).

Then just hop in and enjoy the heat and aroma of wood smoke adding more logs if more heat is required. Simply drain it after use – and water the plants!

Come and see them for yourself at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

TubMarine

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Tuesday 23rd & Battersea Park,

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The biggest and best landscaping event...

For stand bookings contact Michael Corbett on +44 (0)20 7821 8221

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and better...

More outside space More exhibitors International Pavilion FREE CPD Seminars APL Contractors Zone BALI Members Pavilion

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Meet Some More

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Jamie Dunstan

Jamie Dunstan designs stunning gardens from his studio based in Yorkshire.

Working nationwide Jamie takes inspiration from nature, architecture, fashion and interiors. Using his wealth of knowledge and experience he works closely with the client to create gardens to enhance their lifestyle and relationship with their outdoor space. Jamie has an intuitive style of planting that has come from many years of propagating, growing and experimenting with different plants and has a particular passion for herbaceous perennials.

From small, sleek contemporary courtyards to large country estates, commercial projects and collaborations, all are designed with his unique, unpretentious approach. Jamie’s love of horticulture and design has led him to create many RHS show gardens achieving 3 Gold Medals and Best Urban Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, all demonstrating his versatility in design. Along with considering the aesthetics and feel of a garden, functionality and practicality are of upmost importance and ultimately pride and satisfaction of the client.

Jamie is one of this year’s featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Jo Thompson

Jo Thompson is one of our leading garden designers: this year awarded Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and named by the Society of Garden Designers as their Future Designer.

With much of her childhood spent in Rome, Jo grew up surrounded by beautiful gardens and structural spaces. Her work is inspired by the characteristic strong lines of these Italian garden, paired with soft, relaxed planting.

For Jo Thompson Landscape & Garden Design, designing a garden is very much a partnership between designer and client. The aim being always to create inspired and inspirational spaces which sit beautifully in their location. Jo’s practice works extensively across Europe from offices in London, Dorset and East Sussex. The company has a large portfolio of projects ranging from residential gardens, private developments to public and commercial spaces. They also design show gardens for the RHS Chelsea Flower, winning Gold medals and a Best in Show, as well as gardens for international events in Japan, Russia and Dubai.

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

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Matthew Childs

Matthew decided to make his passion for plants and gardens his career in 2007. He attained professional garden design and RHS horticultural qualifications and set up his design practice, Matthew Childs Design in 2010. Matthew has been designing a diverse range of public and private landscapes since and in 2012 achieved a gold medal and ‘Best in category’ award for his conceptual garden ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ at The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. In 2013 he returned to Hampton with a show garden for Ecover, which was awarded a gold medal and ‘Best Show Garden’. Matthew had his debut at the RHS Chelsea Flower show this year with a show garden for Brewin Dolphin which was awarded a silver-gilt medal.

Matthew is speaking at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park in September.

Tom Harfleet

Tom Harfleet is a British based garden designer whose debut garden at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2010 won a Gold Medal and Best Conceptual Garden award. Since then Tom has gone on to create a number of award winning exhibits including winning Gold in collaboration with Andrew Fisher Tomlin at the Ellerslie International Flower Show, New Zealand in 2013 and Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013. Tom’s interest lies in the conceptual thinking surrounding modern structural design from pavilions to sculpture. His intention is to bring contemporary and progressive design into a domestic and traditional context creating dramatic and unique landscapes and innovative garden design.

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

Kate Gould Kate Gould was delighted to be invited to work with Alan Titchmarsh earlier this year in designing the RHS Britain in Bloom 50th Anniversary garden at the 2014 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, which was called ‘From the Moors to the Sea’ was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Britain in Bloom and of Alan’s own 50 years in horticulture.

The garden itself was split into two distinct areas, a raised upper section of moorland with wild turf and flowers, native hedging and Pine and Birch trees linked by a gently meandering stream to a lower coastal section where nature has been tamed to create a private haven. Palms and large shrubs provided privacy and some shade against the rocky backdrop and a small beach hut created shelter and a place to sit and reflect.

Alan Titchmarsh, said: ‘Kate Gould is one of this country’s most accomplished young garden designers and I am delighted to be working with her on a garden at Chelsea Flower Show. Her skill, style and refreshing approach to landscaping have been of tremendous value, and our partnership in this venture has demonstrated our joint commitment to artistic flair, originality of concept and quality of finish. I can think of no-one I would rather have worked alongside.’

Kate who has recently teamed up with a local bloom group in Hertfordshire enjoyed the project “I was surprised and honoured to be asked by the RHS to work on a garden with Alan Titchmarsh who has always been an inspiration both in terms of his approach to horticulture and to people. I thoroughly enjoyed working alongside him to bring this exciting garden to life. Britain in Bloom is a fabulous organization that unites communities in beautifying their shared spaces. That’s something we’d all like to see more of”.

Kate Gould is one of the featured speakers 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

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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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Helen Elks-Smith MSGD MBALI, Matt Nichol MSGD MBALI and Julia Fogg MSGD MBALI join Nicola Gammon Founder & CEO of Shoot the award-winning website to present one of this years seminars at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park.

The seminar will be an open panel discussion about the importance of plant maintenance services from initial client consultation to postbuild.

The discussion will feature Nicola’s website Shoot and the advantages it offers to garden designers. “Shoot is a ‘no brainer’. It makes my initial pitch more complete and professional, my clients really like it and I get fewer client questions post-build now.“ Helen Elks-Smith MSGD MBALI Bsc(Hons) Dip(GD) Cert(Hort) Elks-Smith Design “Shoot’s plant database is so comprehensive that it saves me a huge amount of time. I use Shoot when I am proposing a design, and as part of the closing package. Our customers really love it. Shoot is an important selling point for the Haskett’s service.” Helen Boem BSc (Hons) Hort, Haskett Ltd, Essex

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“Time and value for money are Shoot’s huge benefits to my business. I use Shoot when I’m proposing planting schemes to customers. And at the end of the project, I either sell Shoot membership or provide it as part of the package.” Matt Nichol MSGD MBALI Matt Nichol Garden Design, Cheshire

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Design Exchange are one of the featured Media Partners for the LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September. The editor for the magazine, David Morris will be available to speak to as part of our ‘Meet The Media’ opportunity.

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Design Exchange

Design Exchange aims to bring like-minded architects, designers and artists together to discuss and develop together through long lasting relationships. Throughout the year, we will be hosting talks, installations and meet-ups to engage our readers.

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Design Exchange - A Magazine about Spatial Practice Across Architecture, Interiors, Art, Travel and Design. Focusing on the exchange of Ideas, events, projects and materials, the magazine tailors its work to both its clients and readers. The magazine is designed with the strong belief that good design needs to be shared, and through the relationships formed through print, online, social media, events, talks and a diverse and practicing editorial board, the magazine offers a real incite for designers. Each member of the Design Exchange team has a background within the design field and is able to bring their own approach to create a unique and varied magazine. The website is updated daily.

Come and listen to the discussion at LANDSCAPE this September.

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Leets-urban design are exhibiting their products at LANDSCAPE 2014. Among others services, they also manufacture street furniture like benches, seating, bins and cycle shelters. All of these products have a unique and modern design, as well as a premium finish.

Leets has established collaborations with international, well know designers and with prestigious academic institutions. The result has been products with an outstanding design, more comfortable and with high quality materials.

Their thirty years of experience helped them to create one of the most stylish, comfortable and beautiful pieces of the market. In order to deliver the best products they work with the best materials of the market, they use a smart composite in replacement of the wood in order to increase the durability and reduce the maintenance of their products.

All of their products are developed in order to create value for the clients, for the society and to enrich the environment. Come and see their ranges for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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M&M Timber has upped the stakes with its long established Unilog product range, establishing leading edge technology for use in the domestic, construction and landscape industries.

M&M’s Unilog product has long been synonymous with versatility and longevity and has set the standard by which others follow. Treated to BS 8417 for Use Class 4, the standard Unilog is now defined as ‘Unilog Pro 15’ offering a genuine 15 years’ service life in permanent ground contact conditions. M&M also offers ‘Unilog Pro 30’ with an impressive 30 year service life. This shares all the same attributes as ‘Unilog Pro 15’ however Unilog Pro 30 is manufactured using Radiata Pine. All Unilogs are pressure treated using the latest Celcure preservative technology.

The ‘Unilog Pro’ range is ideal for a wide range of applications including earth retaining walls, raised flower beds, water revetment projects, perimeter and garden fencing and also bollards. Unilog Pro is also perfect for use in creating attractive and durable landscape environments and widely used for children’s playground and amenity areas.

M&M’s Unilog Pro range has been approved for use on a wide range of landscaping projects over the years and is regularly specified as the No. 1 choice by garden designers, architects, landscape contractors, local authority landscaping professionals and facilities managers.

Managing Director, Nigel Poyner said “Unilog Pro landscaping timbers come in a range of sizes and are ideal for a wide range of applications. The combination of using redwood, a superb in-house kiln drying facility and the Celcure preservative process combine to give us unbeatable product that customers know they can trust to do the job.”

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

De Brabander Streets made out of bricks last decades, if not centuries. Bricks are a very environmentally friendly product, bricks 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.

Do you wish to be able to make your project shine and have that unique atmosphere that you have been looking for? Contact Joop at De Brabander on his 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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Joop Bardoel, runs a company called De Brabander, who 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 give plazas and parks a friendly and unwinded effect.

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Martha Schwartz

Once a vibrant and active urban plaza, the Place de la RĂŠpublique plaza has recently been crushed by the demands of modern mobility.

Each day the site hosts over 114 000 subway commuters and a complicated array of tourist buses, parked taxis, cyclists, car traffic, municipal bus routes, which have reduced it to a congested, fractured, and unsafe transitional space that has lost its local character and urban significance.

The team at Martha Schwartz proposed to restore the civic relevance to the plaza by improving its ability to sustain a moving population, while providing a reason to linger to a non-moving one. By unifying the disparate parts of the site and redirecting vehicular traffic away and around the central core, they have reclaimed a large functional surface that can support a range of activities and urban programs. Everything is designed for maximum. Embedded infrastructure and variable spatial arrangements allow the plaza to seamlessly transition from urban boulevard to weekend market to evening market to Christmas market from rock concert to film festival to summer festival to winter iceskating rink. Residents, commuters and tourists will be able to return day after day, year after year looking for new ways to experience the space and to relive old ones.

This is a sustainable city space. A space that continues to support the needs of an ever-changing urban population, that is endlessly adaptable, that integrates evolving urban transportation demands, and that continues to provide wonderful experiences to its visitors.

Martha Schwartz is one of this years featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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Sarah Eberle

After her school education Sarah trained full time in Landscape Architecture graduating in 1980. Becoming somewhat disillusioned with dealing with dysfunctional car parks Sarah immersed herself in setting up a Garden Design and Build Company. She moved to Hampshire in 1990 and soon after became a Member of the SGD and became involved in the world of show gardens. Sarah spent some 8 years as Design Director at Hilliers before once again striking out to concentrate on her own private projects. She has also exhibited internationally and is a relatively busy speaker at events both here and abroad.

The majority of Sarah’s work involves following private predominantly rural gardens associated with either major refurbishment or new build and becomes involved during the early stages of planning.

This combines her Landscape Architecture and garden design skills perfectly. Sarah’s work is of a Fusion style but majors on contemporary work with an innovative edge and she will be one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

Tom Petherick

Tom Petherick is a celebrated author, broadcaster and authority on organic and biodynamic horticulture and agriculture. His work includes the major scale garden restoration at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, business planning for the National Trust, organic renovations, estate development, consultancy and landscape design. He has worked extensively with Forest Gardening systems in southern India and is an expert on permaculture. He carries out farm inspections for the organic and biodynamic certification body Demeter and his farm in Devon is certified biodynamic under the same scheme. Tom will be one of the speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

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Nigel Dunnett

Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design at the University of Sheffield. He has pioneered the use of innovative approaches to landscape planting in the UK, and in the multi-functional use of vegetation in the built environment. His activity is strongly interdisciplinary, focusing on the interface between ecology, design and horticulture in urban green space and built development, integrating ecology, horticulture and design within a strongly creative and aesthetic framework. This work has been widely applied in the UK and abroad. He is particularly well known for his work with bold and dramatic naturalistic urban plantings; with ‘modern meadows’; with Water-Sensitive Urban Design applications; with biodiversityenhancing design; and with his work on green roofs and roof gardens. Along with his colleague, Professor James Hitchmough, he was the principal planting design consultant for the London Olympic Park, and has regularly exhibited show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Nigel is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park.

Mark Sutton Vane

Mark Sutton Vane took an Honours degree in Architecture and then moved into lighting design. He first designed laser shows and was commissioned by Kate Bush, Jean Michel Jarre and commercial clients to design and produce laser light shows. In 1995 Mark started Sutton Vane Associates. This independent lighting practice works in all fields of lighting design and consultancy and has designed lighting for a huge range of projects including all the parklands and public realm areas of the London 2012 Olympic Park, this project used energy efficient LED lighting and renewable energy sources. Sheaf Square and Howard Street in Sheffield (winner of three awards), the pedestrian retail centre of Warrington (winner of five awards), West Bromwich Town Square and many other spaces and parks.

Mark is an Associate of the Institution of Lighting Engineers and a Professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD). He regularly writes on lighting and gives lectures and Master Classes all over the world and is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park.

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Tim Gosling Tim Gosling lives to design. He is passionate about architecture, interiors, furniture and the arts and has a unique ability to combine all these disciplines in his work. Having started his career in Theatre design, Tim has a natural ability to infuse an element of drama in his creations and this, coupled with his meticulous attention to detail results in a perfect performance.

Tim was delighted when his long term client Lord Browne asked him to collaborate with world-renowned landscape and garden designer, Andy Sturgeon. Sturgeon has worked on gardens all around the world, from tiny roof terraces to larger rambling estates. Collaboration between Tim and Andy was the perfect match.

Lord Brown’s house in Cheyne Walk has a stunning London garden and Andy’s brief was to base the colour of the garden on a Vermeer painting. In the same way Tim drew inspiration from the multi disciplined Japanese contemporary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto and designed furniture based on a photograph of a waxwork museum that recreates Vermeer Paintings. These two inspirations united the interior and exterior just as the client had requested.

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See us at LANDSCAPE The photo shows how the broken curved wall creates fluidity and leads the eye to the mews house, which was designed to contain the library. The curves and movement of the walls created a wonderful opportunity for picturesque garden lighting.

For Gosling it was the opportunity to work with design elements that transverse inside and out and to be able to have this discussion at the beginning of the project enabled the perfect collaboration.

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

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Since the completion of the London 2012 Olympics work on the former Athletes Village has continued to turn the area into the East Village complex for its legacy life, this incorporates the refurbishment of the apartment blocks and adjustment of the hard landscaped areas.

Addscape became involved through the sub-contractor PJ Carey who were struggling to find someone to import the benches with all the finished details in a timescale to fit with their programme of works. The benches needed stainless steel lettering and timber slats to one side. The site required 4 benches each made up of 2 pieces of granite.

Working with their European partner Ignea, Addscape provided a budget cost and lead time for the benches, once an order had been secured they then produced manufacturing drawings for each element for approval, and once approved Addscape & Ignea supplied the benches complete with timber slats to site within 3 weeks from the date of order, with the stainless steel lettering following a few weeks later to be fitted on site.

The benches were matched against other granite material already supplied and the result was a resounding success in terms of both timescale and quality of product supplied.

Come and talk to both Addscape and Ignea on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Newbury Town Council has undertaken a project to improve and enhance Victoria Park for the benefit of the local community. The Park provides a well-used and valuable green space within easy reach of the town centre. It provides a variety of park facilities for the local community and visitors and is of great social important to Newbury.

The Council required a means of offering temporary power supply for events held in the park. In order to enhance the events space around the bandstand an unobtrusive method of supply electrical power was required. For safety reasons it was necessary that the sockets should be enclosed while in use.

There was an existing water supply which the Council wished to maintain for use in this part of the Park.

Charles Endirect, working with their supply partner GIFAS Electric, proposed that the Campetto Floor Pit would fit the specification perfectly as this product is designed for the distribution of electrical power, compressed air and water. The Campetto was specified with the required number of sockets and a water supply. The GIFAS floor pits are constructed from stainless steel and are designed to be used with the lid in the closed position once connection is made, providing a safe environmental for the general public. The use of solid rubber distribution boards, and gas pistons means that the system is completely maintenance free. The Floor Pit was ordered manufactured, delivered and successfully installed in time for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations in the Park.

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

Poppyhead Consultancy Poppyhead are a landscape design practice based in Manchester who are in the process of completing another contemporary roof terrace project, this one in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.

Liz Ackerley from Poppyhead Consultancy is one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

The scheme is a 70m2 retrofit with views of the new Birmingham Library, across the city and beyond. Adjacent to the canal, this is a funky urban pad with grey metal and orange brickwork as predominant features.

The theme for this scheme is opposites and the clients wanted to divide the space into areas for different uses. This theme of opposites is taken into the colour of the hard and soft landscaping, picking up on the orange and the blue.

One side of the terrace is bordered by imposing ivy screens that provide a third dimension and privacy. We have incorporated a polished steel water wall on the facing orange wall, providing a great focal point from the living space and an area for sitting and enjoying a glass of wine. Huge, grey-blue planters divide the areas with a bespoke seating and orange-resin and steel table area with fantastic views across the city and beyond on the other side of the terrace.

The scheme mixes two surfaces: Porcelain tiles and composite deck, with uplighters in the tiles and to light the water feature and planting.

The planting softens the overall scheme considerably bringing height, light and movement. Amelanchier, Anementhale, Nandina, Achillea, Hemerocallis and Heuchera species provide orange tones in the planting whilst Helictotrichon, Pinus, Lavandula, Geranium and Aster species provide the blues.

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Flowers@Oxford During three fun and inspiring days, stars of the floristry and flower arranging worlds will converge on Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford University, for a celebration of all things floral.

The college and its grounds along the banks of the River Cherwell will be decorated with blooms, showcasing the very best of floral design.

Produced by Judith Blacklock who runs her Flower School in London and Fleur Créatif magazine, Flowers@Oxford follows the resounding success of Flowers@Chicheley in 2011 – and is set to be even more outstanding.

Included in the £35 per day ticket will be: access to the college buildings and grounds to view the stunning floral decorations created by contemporary floral design groups from around the UK supported by many British wholesalers and designers from all over the world, such as Araik Galstyan from Russia who will be decorating the quadrangle with 5,000 Gerbera.

One of the big highlights of the show will be the demonstrations by acclaimed international floral designers Per Benjamin, Tom De Houwer, Jan Deridder, Bruno Duarte, Carles Fontanillas, Robert Koene, Gregor Lersch, Johann Obendrauf, Stijn Simaeys, and Lana Bates and Joe Massie from the UK. These demonstrations will take place in the Tesco Theatre of Floral Discovery and the Viking Cruises Demonstration Marquee led by exciting up-and-coming designers and some well established favourites.

There will also be competitions, trade stands, delicious food and drink set in the beautiful architecture and gardens of LMH. A special feature will be the Wedding Marquee, which will feature wedding work by top and up-and-coming British designers using gorgeous British-grown flowers. So far, confirmed names include: Claire Cowling, Angela Coulton, Annie Blackman and Zoe Rowlinson, who both gained UK Skills Gold and Rebecca Hough, who is Interflora Florist of the Future.

Visitors cannot fail to have a fabulous floral experience.

Tickets are available at: www.flowersatoxford.com.

Judith Blacklock is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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David Dodd

David started landscaping at the age of 17 and his first job was clearing up after the storm of 1987. In 1989 he went on to train for three years at Merrist Wood, studying landscape design and construction.

In 1995 David founded The Outdoor Room. He has a hands-on approach to the business, working closely with his experienced staff, designers and clients to provide a service of unbeatable standards. It is now a multi-award winning organisation, which is regarded by many as one of the best landscaping companies in the country today.

In 2013 David became a partner in the landscape architects practice Longview Design and in 2014 he was a judge at the Dubai International Garden Competition. This has led to him now working with the organisers to develop the show over the next few years. David lives in Billingshurst, West Sussex with his wife Heidi and four children. David is a featured speaker at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Patricia Fox

Award winning exterior designer Patricia Fox MSGD / MBALI initially trained as a fashion designer, establishing a boutique design consultancy working alongside High Street retailers to source, design and develop high end cosmetic and confectionery products.

Bringing up her family in a rural landscape fuelled Patricia’s desire to hone her eye for design excellence into the horticultural arena, prompting her to study Landscape & Garden Design degree level at Writtle College.

In 2004 Patricia set up her landscape and garden design company Aralia Garden Design LLP and has been working on commissions from compact urban gardens to large country estates, in Britain and abroad.

From 2009 Patricia started designing innovative award-winning gardens and is a critically acclaimed double Silver Medallist at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and a multiple winner of the BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award.

When not designing gardens, Patricia is an active commentator and writer, fulfilling many requests to share her expertise with commercial, media and charitable organisations. Patricia is one of this years featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park.

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Jamie Butterworth

“I have had a passion for horticulture since the age of 9, since then my enthusiasm has grown and grown (Excuse the pun)! I am currently studying and working at the incredible RHS Wisley, after completing a level 3 diploma in horticulture at Askham Bryan College.

In 2012, I became a finalist on BBC 3’s Young Gardener of the year, and trying to get more young people into this incredibly diverse industry is something I feel very strongly about!”

Jamie is one of the founding members of the Young Horts and will be speaking as part of their Autumn Conference at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Jeni Cairns

Jeni Cairns is an artist and garden designer based in Cambridgeshire, She has most recently won a coveted RHS Gold medal and best summer garden at RHS Hampton court flower show 2014 for her garden “A space to connect and grow”. She always finds ways to bring art and creativity into her designs and often works with reclaimed materials, up-cycling and sustainable practices.

Jeni is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Each garden is a canvas – some enormous, some tiny – onto which he imprints a design

GA R D E N RANDLE SIDDELEY

that looks as though it must always have been there.

FROM THE FOREWORD BY DAVID LINLEY

RANDLE SIDDELEY founded his landscaping business in London in 1975. Today he has two companies: RANDLE SIDDELEY ASSOCIATES (RSA), the landscape design company; and SIDDELEY LANDSCAPE DESIGN (SLD) which is the design-and-build and project management arm of the business. Both companies are internationally landscape

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through gardens he has himself created both large and small, town and country, British and international. What unites the 26 case studies included is a desire to make gardens that suit both the landscape that surrounds them and the people who use them. Randle shows how achieving a strong core design is essential in order to then make valid and effective choices of materials, plants, trees, furniture, lighting and artworks.

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As well as showcasing many of Randle’s superb gardens, ‘Garden’ includes advice for those wishing to design their own spectacular garden and a chapter on lighting the garden by leading designer Sally Storey, who regularly works with Randle.

Randle recognises that gardens are for many people a chance to engage with nature and create an outdoors space that is both pleasing and personal. For all those who love gardens, this book is intended to be both a guide and a friend.

Randle is one of our featured ‘Meet the Authors’ at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park. Please come along and meet him and ask about his book.

Randle Siddeley

The book ‘Garden’ draws on Randle Siddeley’s 37 years in landscape design, taking the reader through gardens he has created both large and small, town and country, British and International. What unites the 26 case studies included in his book is a desire to make gardens that suit both the landscape that surrounds them and the people who use them. Randle shows how achieving a strong core design is essential in order to then make valid and effective choices of materials, plants, trees, furniture, lighting and artworks.

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Jacksons Fencing

Probst

Construction work in the downtown core is always inconvenient for the public and business owners. Therefore, fast and efficient completion of the work is in everyone’s best interests. Tools and machines on which one can rely play a key role in this regard. During restoration of the downtown core in Oberstenfeld (Germany), the paving company Bercher & Malejko used the new Probst Easygrip EXG Border Stone Handle to lay the granite kerbstones.

With their hectic schedule of summer shows entering a slightly quieter period, Jacksons new publication of the Additions to the Good Fencing Guide range is now available.

Due to heavy use of the Großbottwarer Straße in the Oberstenfeld downtown core, the porphyry stone cobbled footpaths were showing considerable signs of wear. The street was re-paved, broadened to 6 meters and bordered with granite flagstone and large granite kerb stones. The Portuguese granite is sawn and bush hammered, giving it flat surfaces which also provide good grip.

It has 24 pages of various products, new, or newish to Jacksons, that they have gathered together in one cover, so they can be sure you see them all and don’t miss anything.

The mini brochure has an interesting list of contents: Retreat garden shelters, Car Ports with various shaped roofs. Without giving too much away the new improved version of their wheelie bin store adds an extra unit with shelves to cope with the vast array of recycling boxes we seem to have these days.

The 12 kg light Probst Easygrip EXG Border Stone Handle grab performed extremely well during the construction work, thanks to its tremendous load capacity and ease of use.

In addition to granite kerb stones, the mechanical grab also transports border stones, slabs, block steps and kerb stones with a weight of up to 550 kg with ease.

Why not pick up your copy on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Come and talk to Probst about how they can help you at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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BALI

BALI members are looking forward to an autumn of national and regional events. In addition to attending the LANDSCAPE Show, BALI members across the country will be looking forward to some great networking opportunities this autumn, organised by their Association.

North Thames Region committee have organised presentations by John Wyer and Mark Gregory to inform and entertain their BALI members. On 9th September John will talk about ‘Gardens in the Sky’, and on 14th October, Mark Gregory’s chosen subject will be ‘A Park on the Rock’.

The Midlands Region likes to combine business and pleasure, and their autumn calendar begins on 11th September with the BALI Trout Fishing Competition at Eyebrook Reservoir. This event has seen some impressive fish caught over the years, and some good business done at the same time!

On 20th November plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke gives his ‘From Captivity to a Castle’ talk to BALI members and guests at Droitwich Spa.

Just some of the great events planned for BALI members in autumn 2014. Visit the BALI Stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park for more details.

The Yorkshire & North East Region Annual Networking Dinner in Harrogate is now something of an institution. On 23rd October 140 BALI members and guests will enjoy a talk by Noel Kingsbury.

From 6.30pm – 10pm on selected Wednesdays in August classical music lovers can enjoy a treat for the eyes and ears with music as beautiful as the setting. Leaving the rush of the city behind, guests can while away the summer evenings listening to live opera, soft jazz, a Celtic harpist, Spanish guitarist and string quartet.

Tickets can be purchased from www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/128081 for £29.50 and include a welcome garden cocktail. With the bar open all evening and a delicious selection of food served guests can choose the perfect accompaniment to their proms experience. Food choices include seafood, gourmet burgers, cold meats and cheese as well as a tasty sweet offering of waffles and ice cream, with prices ranging from £6.

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Kensington Roof Gardens

Throughout August The Roof Gardens is hosting a series of Proms on The Roof. Set amongst the three stunning gardens, guests are transported to a classical oasis for the evening. The first in the Roof Gardens series of Proms on The Roof is on Wednesday 6th August.

Pool & Spa Scene Magazine is simply the biggest and brightest business to business magazine for the UK water leisure sectors.

Totally independent, with a whopping 10,000 circulation, the magazine is a must-read for anyone involved in the UK pool and spa business and is seen in more than 95 countries worldwide.

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They distribute magazines to Hotels, Health clubs & Spas, Community Leisure Facility Providers, Architects & Developers, Specialist Pool Builders, Home Pool & Spa Owners, Manufacturers, Distributors, Local Authorities, Main Building Contractors, Project Consultants, Pool Shops & Hot Tub Showrooms.

Come and pick up a copy from their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Mark Gregory

Mark Gregory, is a well respected Landscaper based in Surrey. He is the Managing Director of Landform Consultants who design, build and maintain award winning gardens throughout Southern England.

He is a multi Gold Medal winning designer and builder of many iconic Chelsea Gardens. Mark is a co-director of the London College of Garden Design and regularly lectures on a wide range of topics. He is also the current Chairman of the Association of Professional Landscapers.

Mark is one of this years featured speakers at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Helen Elks-Smith

Great gardens require creativity, attention to detail and craftsmanship - skills which Helen demonstrated with flair by winning the Bali Design Excellence Award 2013. Helen believes strongly that landscapes and gardens should have a sense of place, and that a beautiful, welldesigned garden can have a huge positive impact on our well-being.

Her Fresh Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014 appealed to Helens campaigning soul and was a personal and artistic response to raise public awareness of the threat that Oak Processionary Moth presents to our native oak trees.

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

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Matt Nichol

Matt Nichol gained a BSc.(Hons) from The University of Birmingham in 1997 and later returned to Pershore Horticultural College to study Garden Design and the Management of Gardens in 2001. As well as building award winning real gardens, Matt was also part of the Gold Medal winning team at the Chelsea Flower Show 2003-2006 and also Gardeners World live in 2004 Matt has designed well over 700 projects during his career to date and his growing design practice keeps it’s competitive advantage by using a wide range of technology solutions along side more traditional techniques. Matt recently won a Northern Design Award (Garden Designer of the Year 2012) for a courtyard retreat he created and he has his sights set on promoting his practice through both the SGD and BALI of which he has full membership of both. Matt Nichol is one of the speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park this September.

Peter Murray

Peter Murray Hon FRIBA, FRSA, AoU is Chairman of New London Architecture, Chairman of The London Society, Founder Director of The London Festival of Architecture, Deputy Chairman of the Bedford Park Society, and member of the Mayor of London’s Design Advisory Group. He was formerly editor of Building Design, of the RIBA Journal and publisher of Blueprint magazine. He is Founding President of Wordsearch, a global design and marketing consultancy specialising in architecture and real estate. He is Visiting Professor at IE University in Madrid, author of numerous books including The Saga of Sydney Opera House and a keen cyclist. In 2014 Peter was recognised by Sunday Times/Debrett’s as one of Britain’s 20 Most Influential People in Architecture.

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

APL

Members of the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) group are celebrating their success once again at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, with an impressive accolade of Best in Show, Best in Category, two Gold medals, four Silver Gilt medals and three Silver Flora medals, taking their tally to a 26 medals in the past three years of the show.

Landform Consultants, headed by APL chairman Mark Gregory won Best in Show and Gold for their build of the ‘Essence of Australia’ garden which was designed by Jim Fogarty for the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Landform also scooped Gold for ‘Eruption of Unhealed Anger’which was designed by Nilufer Danis.

The Your Garden, Your Budget gardens, all built by APL members proved to be popular with the judges yet again. Landform continued their medal run by winning Gold and Best in Category with ‘Garden of Solitude’, designed by Alexandra Frogatt and built on a budget of £15,000.

Garden House Design were also highly recommended after winning a Four Star Trade Stand Award which featured a Renson Camargue Louvered Terrace Cover, a Jamie Oliver Wood Fired Oven as well as composite decking and an impressive selection of planters.

APL Chairman, Mark Gregory said: “This once again demonstrates the landscaping excellence from the APL and its members.

Every year the APL showcases the very best in garden design, landscaping and plant production and I would like to congratulate all on their success at Hampton Court. It is always an honour to receive accolades for your work, but it is particularly satisfying to receive them at this level.”

Mark Gregory will be one of the featured speakers at this years LANDSCAPE Show in Battersea Park in September. He will also be hosting the APL Contractors Zone at the show where you can meet with some of the members face to face.

In the same category, Chew Valley Trees won Silver Gilt for ‘Green is the Colour’, designed

by Elinor Scarth and Etienne Haller on a budget of £7,000. Hambrooks also won a Silver Gilt for their garden ‘Halo’which was designed by Stuart Charles Towner on a budget of £13,000. RDC Landscape Design and Construction completed the Your Garden, Your Budget medals with a Silver Flora for the ‘Bacchus Garden’ which was designed by Jean Wardrop on a budget of £10,000.

There was good news for Living Landscapes who won a Silver Gilt for the ‘Al Fresco’ garden which was designed by Peter Reader.

Scotscape won Silver Gilt for Jordans Wildlife Garden which was designed by Selina Botham, whilst Big Fish Landscapes added to the their medal tally by winning a Silver Flora for the Macmillan Legacy Garden.

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The Rubber Company have recently completed another “RubbaGrass® Rubber Safety Mat” RubbaGrass installation, at one of the worlds most spectacular theatres, The Minack Theatre in Cornwall. An open air theatre constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea.

They needed an anti-slip surface to prevent any accidents, they used “RubbaGrass® Rubber Safety Mat” RubbaGrass. This replaced a PVC which they said was “too slippery for pedestrian traffic in wet conditions”.

RubbaGrass® is a rubber safety mat manufactured from recycled rubber. The mat is mainly used on grass, hence the name RubbaGrass®, however can be used in many other environments. It is used at ice rinks, ski slopes, pathways, behind bars, usually for its high anti slip properties.

This is a safety surfacing product offering soft and safe ground protection unlike the alternate option of PVC which hardens in cold conditions. RubbaGrass’® softness does not fluctuate in a huge range of weather conditions.

Come and see the product for yourself on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

Peter Cunliffe, Director of Northumbrian Landscaping Ltd. used a selection of Lumena’s light fittings in his award winning entry in the 2013 BALI National Awards for a ‘Domestic Garden Construction under £30K’ and hopes to repeat his success this year: “The assistance & consultation really helped in our lighting scheme for this year’s entry into the BALI National Awards. Our entry “Dancing Curves and Bounteous Colour” has really benefitted from the creative use of well made lighting, illuminating key sculptural features within the design. Lumena have continued to excel in their ability to deliver the highest quality lighting schemes, & for that we are truly indebted” Lumena client David Andersen recently showcased one of his residential projects on ITV’s ‘Love Your Garden’ with Alan Titchmarsh where he specified various Stainless Steel Lumena fittings.

“We have recently become passionate about garden lighting and have found Lumena Lights a great resource. Beautiful garden lighting adds so much to a design, it further dramatises our work and clients really appreciate the effect.”

Come and talk to Lumena on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September about the discounts they offer to trade professionals.

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Lumena Lights The Rubber Company

Lumena Lights continue to supply durable, high quality garden lighting to U.K garden designers and landscapers. Quality and reliability is key with Lumena, as many of their clients use Lumena products in projects which have been nominated for awards, or will be seen by a larger audience.

Scotscape

Working in partnership with designer Mathew Bell, Scotscape has completed the hard and soft landscaping work at PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ head office at 1 Embankment Place, London.

On completion, the development of these five terraces along with other energy saving systems has helped PwC achieve the highest BREEAM rating yet recorded worldwide for an office building.

With around 2,000 employees based at the firm’s prestigious offices, the overall programme of work saw five previously unused terraces being refurbished, all of which provide spectacular views over London.

The design brief called for break out areas to be created on each of the terraces, for staff hospitality, work and relaxation. With a high emphasis on the use of recycled materials and the use of fauna attracting plants, the five separate areas have enhanced the bio diversity of the area.

Come and talk to Angus Cunningham, who is one of our featured speakers at this years show, on the Scotscape stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

On level two of the building, Scotscape installed a stainless steel wire living wall, with climbing plants established in pots at the base. On level eight, the company installed two large galvanised and powder-coated frames to support pots filled with soil and pre-grown ivy. This helped to green up and screen 50 square meters of vertical wall.

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The scope of Scotscape’s work included the installation of new paving, recycled composite decking and bed construction using recycled plastic boards, as well as the erection of new living walls and all necessary planting.

Commenting on the programme, Scotscape’s Managing Director Angus Cunningham said: “We were delighted to have worked on such an exciting project, our team producing high quality work, on time and within budget under some challenging working conditions. The team’s work has been extremely well received, drawing praise from everyone who has seen it”.

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CED Stone Group CED supplied a range of materials and stone products to six gardens at RHS Hampton Court 2014 and most of the materials were supplied to the gardens by CED’s Thames Valley Depot.

‘We have worked with many of the designers and contractors before and are really proud to have been asked to supply so many different products to their show gardens again this year. The range of products and expertise that we can offer designers is second to none and we wish all involved with this years RHS Hampton Court Flower Show a very successful show’, commented Ralph Allen, Thames Valley Depot Manager.

The gardens featured in this year’s RHS Hampton Court covered a wide variety of themes and incorporate plant life from a range of locations. Examples include ‘The One Show Garden’, which is inspired by the Roman City of Bath and ‘The Essence of Australia’, which features Australian native plants never before seen at the show.

Jim Fogarty, who won Best In Show for his ‘Essence of Australia’ garden, praised CED for their dedication and attention to detail. “The team at CED has really gone the extra mile for us in sourcing the rocks, aggregate and gravel that will be the finishing touches of the Essence of Australia show garden. Great care has been taken to match these elements to those you would find in Australia, particularly in the Red Centre and Northern Territory areas which have inspired the design.”

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

Metalco Metalco, an innovative and leading manufacturer of street furniture, celebrate their 30th Anniversary this year and to commemorate the occasion are pleased to announce the launch of the Metalco ‘JOY’ collection of play equipment. This is a new direction for Metalco and by using the same passion and quality that they have for their existing products, they have created play equipment that helps children/young people enJOY their outdoor play and stretch their imagination.

They have not tried to reinvent traditional playground favourites, more a case of putting a modern and exciting spin on them, to create a “cool” place to “socialise” and enJOY with their friends and parents/carers.

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The range includes the tried and tested slides, swings, ‘monkey bars’, springer’s and see-saws all of which have been tested and approved to EN1176 standard. Along with the playground equipment, they can also offer a unique take on cycle stands, litter bins, seating, shelters etc that can help to add to an interesting and unique area for ‘family time’.

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All of their creations are manufactured/ designed in their modern carbon neutral factory in Italy where they pay great attention to their ecological responsibilities. Specifically by sourcing timber from sustainable sources, FSC certified on request; and using 100% recyclable components in their products. The companys energy demands are completely covered by their very own photovoltaic system installed on the roof of the manufacturing facility.

Come and look at their ranges on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Europlanters

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His passion for fibre glass was first discovered whilst making canoes at Uppingham School as a child. 35 years on John Wilkes, Director of Europlanters has gone back to his roots to manufacture planters for a roof top project on the top of the schools new science block ‘Destination Science’ in Uppingham historic village.

The Bursar’s aim for this new 3 storey building is to inspire new generations of young people to see Science as an exciting and attractive subject to study. The roof terrace is just a small part of the £40m project invested to redevelop and transform the school.

Specified by Landscape Architect Robert Myers Associates the project consisted of manufacturing and installing 17 planters to build several flower beds ranging from 6765/1875/530 high to 7388 /665/530 mm high. These were put together to fit neatly next to paving stones and contemporary hard wood seating with hidden storage boxes.

The colour RAL 9006 was chosen to match the sky lights which the planters fit neatly around and the metallic colour contrasts well with the anodised aluminium used to clad the building.

All of which complement the local ironstone colour.

A wonderful array of plant varieties were planted by the landscapers including lavandula angustifolia, rosmarinus officinalis, Sedum, salvia officinalis and Pelargonium crispum chosen to ignite the senses and act as a perfect haven to attract wildlife whilst on the roof terrace.

The science block is due to open in September 2014 ‘It has been an honour to be involved in this project said John Wilkes It has brought back so many wonderful childhood memories of being a pupil at the school and it is fabulous to see how it has been transformed’.

Come and talk to John about the project on his stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

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The Garden Trellis Company Gardens are now considered an extension of the home, with many people choosing to have their outside space reflect the style of their interior decor.

The Garden Trellis Company understands that every single customer is different and caters for all styles and personalities. Because of this their versatile products are handcrafted, made to your exact measurements and contribute to creating traditional, contemporary and sometimes even quirky gardens.

The classic English garden has a very distinct theme, with rose arches, arbours, trellis, gazebos and planters being very popular additions where as contemporary gardens are clean, minimalist and stylish, with products that are most commonly featured being slatted fencing, decking and contemporary planters.

Come and talk to The Garden Trellis Company about your future projects on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

As a well established buyers guide in the contract Landscape market, it is essential to keep abreast of current trends, new innovative products and topical industry news.

Over the last 20 years Landscape Update and the Landscape market have of course had to evolve (especially over the last 10-15 years) to encompass and accommodate new technology, ecological developments and the recent downturn in the economy.

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The whole Landscape Update team will be available during the show on Tuesday 23rd September, catching up with our regular advertisers and keeping a keen eye open for any new products to feature in the Winter issue.

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The Wildflower Meadow was planted as part of one of Streetscape’s apprentice recruitment days. Recruitment days are free one-day events where young people who are interested in a career in landscape gardening can come in and work with Streetscapes Head Landscaper on various landscape tasks around Myatt’s Fields Park.

At the end of the day, attendees can put themselves up for an apprenticeship. This particular recruitment day was held in March 2014 and the meadow was planted by a team of four recruitment day attendees; one of whom is now one of the four new apprentices that were hired in June! For the Wildflower Meadow, we used the Pastel and Candy annual seed mix.

Streetscape’s office is based in Myatt’s Fields Park who they have been in partnership with since 2011; the year that Streetscape was founded.

Guy Watts from Streetscape is one of our featured speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Why not come along and have a chat, pick up a copy and try our online buyers guide during their ‘Meet the Editor’ session at 1pm on Tuesday 23rd September.

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Product information for professionals in the landscape industry

At Landscape Update the aim is to provide a useful tool for readers, where they can source and search for essential products, news items and example case studies that are also available. This is done on behalf of the advertisers, primarily via our printed and First published 1993digital publication (in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) and the website, but also via social media, email and by encouraging open dialogue with past, current and future advertisers and readers.

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With over 500 popular varieties available, throughout the year they are continuously introducing new cultivars.

Due to ever-increasing popularity, they have potted a heightened number of plants in 5 and 10 litres, to accommodate the current market. Instant hedging is also becoming a favourite for customers that are looking for more established, immediate screening perfect for modern living.

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

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Tamar Nurseries grow over one million plants per year. During the last few months, they have been heavily potting new stock and this is now drawing to a close.

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Holiday Park Scene magazine is an essential read for anyone involved in Holiday Park & Campsite management. At least 5,000 copies of Holiday Park Scene are distributed six times annually to key personnel in all aspects of the holiday park industry across the UK and Eire.

Offering the inside track on the latest market news and reports covering all aspects of holiday park management including, Facilities Management, Entertainment Options, Catering Matters, Accommodation Updates, Amusements and Gaming, Water Leisure and Wellness, Play Matters, Insurance, Security Landscaping and much more.

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Streetlife recently delivered 4 large circular Rough & Ready seating elements: the Circular bench and Tree Isles, for the new square in front of the new shopping mall in Hornstull, Sweden.

This is the first project where the R&R Royal Back is performed. In cooperation with NivĂĽ Landskapsarkitektur AB and the city of Stockholm Streetlife designed a new 360 degrees backrest. The backrest in combination with armrests gives the elements an optimal comfort and allure.

Streetlife designs and supplies street furniture, tree products, bridges and deckings.

The company, founded by Peter Krouwel in 1997 has an in-house design and engineering team that delivers sustainable building elements for landscape or urban layout plans. Please come and talk to them on their stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

The circular shaped R&R Benches and Tree Isles have a natural and playful appearance.

The combination of seating and green solutions create a lively and attractive square.

By combining the R&R Circular Benches and the round R&R Tree Isles the result is a unique configuration with diversity and unity. The landscape architects and urban planners can play with these circular elements in a development plan.

Within the Streetlife Collection Rough & Ready is a wide range of products with a rough and robust appearance. The unknown consistency of this program is unique and includes various functionalities: Curved and straight benches, benches combined with green solutions, bicycle parking, bridges and tree isles. All Rough & Ready products are bound into a separate brochure to communicate the quality and options for the urban planner.

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Redfields English Leadwork Many times the garden designer will look to feature a lead trough or planter into a roof scheme but are forced to consider faux lead because of weight.

Redfields now use stainless steel strengthening which reduces the weight by 60%, this allows them to create features for roof and window reveals that give the client real lead as they have never before been able to have. This method also allows them to make very large planters that are also very strong.

Redfields are top of the class in the production of lead planters/cisterns and water features for the past 20 years.

Designers can talk to Redfields to discuss present or future schemes on their stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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Redfields English Leadwork, produce a range of reinforced lead troughs/planters that are 60% lighter than their traditional lead products.

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Eurobollard The principles behind a garden city are quite simple: the key is to incorporate green spaces and infrastructure that is capable of providing a wide range of environment and quality of life benefits for the local community. It is a place where we spend time with friends and family.

The community is at the centre of planning decisions. The benefits of green spaces are well documented and we know that living in places so well designed makes a huge difference to people’s lives. So people feel good, attracting talents into the city.

The Lapa Company & Fire Magic We are pleased to announce that The Lapa Company and Fire Magic will be displaying their premium gazebos and barbecues at this year’s LANDSCAPE Show. They have one of the widest ranges of gazebos on the market and are also the UK’s only supplier of Fire Magic BBQs. They work with leading landscaper gardeners and garden designers.

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

Their furniture has high corrosion resistance and it is not necessary to apply any type of coating. The stainless steel used is a tough, durable and robust product with minimum maintenance cost and needs only periodic cleaning with soap and water to keep the original finish. It is of course strong, and the mechanical properties of stainless steel allow the use of more slender sections than other materials, reducing weight and cost without compromising strength. It’s also fire resistant and durable. Stainless steel is attractive and also has the advantages of a cost-benefit, considering their long life cycle.

The Eurobollard range from Amandio Silva is a modern product, but at the same time promotes environmental values, being ecological and environmental friendly, always ensuring complete customer satisfaction.

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Perennial More and more people working in the horticulture industry are turning to charity for help when times get tough. In 2013, UK horticulture’s trade charity Perennial helped 15% more people than the previous year, assisting its clients in accessing over £1.5 million in direct financial help. This year, as Perennial celebrates its 175th anniversary, it pledges to raise extra funds to help even more horticulturists and their families during times of crisis.

During 2013, Perennial helped a total of 1,221 people. The charity reports that the number of debt clients has been rising steadily year on year, reflecting ongoing economic pressures, with a 17% increase in 2013, following a 25% increase the previous year.

Perennial has a dedicated debt advice service, which is currently dealing with over £3 million worth of debt.

Among the horticulture professions helped

by Perennial during 2013, 68% were directly working in gardening and of these 15% were self-employed. Landscapers accounted for 21% of clients, while the fastest growing category was groundsmen and greenkeepers, who accounted for 23% of new clients and 16% of the total during last year.

Nursery people are another growing category and are anticipated to need even more help this year, particularly as a result of recent floods. The remainder was a mix of designers, arboriculturists, market gardeners and garden centre workers.

As well as an increase in numbers of people being helped, the increase in complexity of individual cases was also marked during 2013, due to continuing changes to the benefits system and cuts to what people are entitled to. Despite the tightening of benefit criteria, Perennial caseworkers helped their clients to claim £728,000 worth of statutory benefits, compared to £636,000 in 2012.

There has been a shift in recent years toward younger people seeking help from Perennial and during 2013, 86% of new clients were under retirement age, while of the total number of clients, 65% were under retirement age.

Perennial provides help and support during traumatic events such as major illness, debt, redundancy, homelessness and bereavement, as well as disability, severe financial difficulty and old age. Originally established as the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Fund in 1839, it was re-branded as Perennial in 2003 and now reaches out to people working in all professions within horticulture and their families for life.

The help Perennial offers includes financial support, debt advice, help with housing problems, care for the ill or elderly and support for children of horticulturists. Each individual’s circumstances are different, but their contact with Perennial usually begins with a visit from a professionally trained caseworker to help find a solution and offer support for their particular situation. There is no time limit on the help given - Perennial will carry on working with that individual for as long as it takes.

All of Perennial’s work depends entirely on voluntary donations from the horticulture industry and the garden-loving public. During its anniversary year, Perennial is encouraging everyone to get involved and raise awareness and funds in order to contribute an additional £175,000 towards its frontline services.

To find out more about the work of Perennial and ways to get involved with fundraising, please visit the charity’s stand at LANDSCAPE in Battersea Park this September.

Aralia

Aralia recently went back to photograph Church Mill Grange, a garden that was completed five years and found that it’s still looking great and still giving the owners a lot of pleasure.

Water was a major inspiration for the owners of this Essex garden along with their preference for formal design and clean, contemporary design and structure, so Aralia created two bespoke water features – a raised fish pond and a long narrow rill. This involved removing the lawn to reduce maintenance which the owners readily agreed to. This resulted in a striking contemporary design.

The raised fish pond also doubles up as casual seating, and the rill offers a stunningly dramatic feature that stretches the full length of this modern garden. Lines were drawn at 45 degree angles to the house to exaggerate the overall dimensions and give the impression of a much larger looking garden space. The rill was further enhanced by narrow strips of beach pebbles which give a textural border to the granite paving and a nod to a coastal influence.

A simple galvanised steel sculpture was included to provide an impactful focal point.

The garden also includes a U-shaped raised bed for edible crops and a pleached Hornbeam hedge which provide instant height, screening and drama.

Patricia Fox from Aralia is one of the featured speakers at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park.

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QEST

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) is the Royal Warrant Holders Association’s charity, created to fund the education of talented craftsmen and women through traditional college courses, apprenticeships or one-to-one with master craftsmen. Today, QEST has awarded more than £2.4 million to 335 gifted individuals aged between 17 and 50+. It is recognised as having made a major contribution to ensuring the continuation of the pool of talent in the UK and reflects the excellence of British craftsmanship as symbolised by the Royal Warrant of Appointment. Scholarships from £1,000 up to £18,000 are awarded twice a year.

Without QEST none of these skilled artisans would have been able to achieve their potential, the scholarships were awarded at a crucial time in their lives and have enabled them to join the talented ranks of British craftsmen providing bespoke products. Many have become ambassadors for their crafts and are in demand internationally.

Please come along to the QEST stand at LANDSCAPE this September in Battersea Park and talk to them about possibly commissioning a piece.

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