Submit your press garden or landscaping release

One of the benefits of membership here at the Landscape Juice Network is that you have me working for you.

That is not meant to sound pompous but if you are prepared to support the association by taking the time and trouble to join and participate then I am only too pleased to reciprocate.

We have about ~~263~~ ~~317~~ 550 members now and I reckon that you are all part of a very exclusive club and the feedback I am getting suggests that at some stage, most of you have benefited from help and information that all of us are sharing on the site.

I want to help our members achieve greater success so if you have a news item then please send me a few lines and a picture and I will write about it on Landscape Juice.

I am not going to make promises I cannot keep but at the moment, as long as Google continues to love the site, anything I am writing is zooming right up to the top of search results.

Only yesterday I had a press release submitted on behalf of Trees Please who had won a contract to supply 54,000 trees for the Haydon Bridge bypass in Northumberland.

For example, try landscaping Haydon Bridge.

If you have just finished a garden or won a new maintenance contract or perhaps just won an award for a design then let me know or blog about it here and I will link to it.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart Marler on November 19, 2008 at 8:57am: By being on the front page of google, and the recent newsletter from Landscape Juice Network, coupled with advertising in Sussex recently only highlights the power of the internet, a good website and joining forums and blogs like LJN.

By having your name in different mediums, it enables potential customers to find out more information about you before picking up the telephone or email. The more information customers can see about you the more it gives them a secure feeling.

With the power of LJN and the blog pages, csutomers can actually see some of your work and get a feel for what you can do for them.

I have had two telephone calls this week from people who have found information on the internet before calling me. In financial times like we are having now, the more help you can give yourself/company, the better.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Neil Bromhall on November 19, 2008 at 1:05pm: Hi Phil,
I had a very nice review by Cleve West in the Independent Newspaper a few weeks back
http://www.complete-gardens.co.uk/gardening-cdrom/cdrom-gardening-s...

Urban gardener: Computer says 'grow'

By Cleve West

Some computer software that I have started using recently. No please don't turn over, this is actually quite interesting.

As much as I resent any time spent in front of a computer, the interactive Plant Finder & Pruning Guide from Complete Gardens will actually cut down some time in front of the screen and benefit my clients too with much more informative plant lists and maintenance schedules. There are 3,500 plants and 9,000 pictures on the CD-Rom with various ways of making selections (colours, conditions, flowering times, etc) that can be printed out (with notes, pruning and propagation advice, pests and diseases to watch out for) saving lots of time cross-referencing books. I'm not saying it will stop me buying more books for my sagging shelves but as a work tool (my assistant Humaira will love it) it's brilliant and it's British so it won't throw up lists that will have you trawling through plants that will only grow in Madagascar.

I should tell you that it's not for the exclusive use of garden designers who don't know as much as they should about gladioli. Anyone, amateur or enthusiast, who can click a mouse button can use it to make lists of plants in their own garden with all the information they need to maintain it. And get this. Click on any clematis species and it will show you the correct time and method for pruning. Seeing as I know many experienced gardeners who are as rusty as I am on clematis groups and how to tackle them it's worth getting the CD just for that. Of course I couldn't resist seeing if it had Gladiolus papilio. It has. It also has another six that, I must admit, are actually quite attractive.

This British made interactive garden plant finder, garden planner and pruning guide encyclopaedia CD-ROM is both PC & MAC compatible
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I tried adding the review to L-J before but not sure if it worked so my apologies if this is a repeat.
Best wishes
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Permalink Reply by Philip Voice on November 19, 2008 at 1:18pm: Neil,

It did work - here is the original post back on the 25th October and I covered the event on Landscape Juice too.

Regards

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Permalink Reply by Colin Elliott on November 29, 2008 at 5:11pm: Here's a little bit of news for you:
Our French web site went live this week at:
www.gardendesignfrance.com
The trust and hope anyone looking for garden design in France will be clicking their way to our front door as we speak.
Of course, the English language site is still going strong at:
www.garden-design.co.uk
We have more web sites on the way, including one promoting our CAD for garden designers / landscapers training courses....but more of that later.

Colin Elliott
colin@garden-design.co.uk
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Permalink Reply by Kerry Jackson on January 25, 2009 at 10:47am: Hi Phil

Within the last 4 weeks my practice has scoped 3 out of 4 regional awards at the Marshalls Awards 2008, from 3500 applications we have been selected (along with 6 others to attend the National Award ceremony on the 4th Feb 2009, i have photos and some PR sent from Dave Jessop, Marshalls.

Not sure if this fits the bill

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Permalink Reply by claudia de yong on February 6, 2009 at 9:56pm: Despite the doom and gloom I have won two contracts lately which both went to tender.A good understanding of all the aspects of not only design but landscaping helps and the knowledge that everything I do is project managed by me and a team I have worked with and who know my way of working.Winning Gold medals at shows is of course beneficial but so is an honest well presented clear brief and schedule especially important when working on domestic projects.We all know what it is like to have builders all over the place and how disrupting to our lives it can be so confidence in your company is paramount.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Philip Voice on February 7, 2009 at 8:44am: Hi Kerry

I don't know how I missed your post - I am so sorry (I only noticed it because of Claudia's latest post). How did the awards ceremony go?

Please send me the info and photos.

Kind regards

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Permalink Reply by Philip Voice on February 7, 2009 at 8:46am: If you do have a press release, pop it on an email with all the info and pictures and send it to me.
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Permalink Reply by Kerry Jackson on February 7, 2009 at 11:20am: Phil
Fully understand you cant be every where on your site.

Due to snow, the ceremony has been rescheduled for the 3rd March 2009, at their main HQ, Halifax.

Thanks for your interest Phil.

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Permalink Reply by Jo Thompson on March 22, 2009 at 12:09pm

Hi there
What a warm welcome!
Thought you might be interested in the following - I am currently preparing to build the RHS Chelsea 2009 courtyard garden I have designed for Demelza House Children's Hospice

Sight, smell, even taste are the normal senses associated with gardens but it is hearing that is accentuated in this garden, designed for the children's hospice charity Demelza.

Gentle, musical sounds infiltrate the garden, reflecting the importance of music in bringing happiness into the lives of terminally ill children. A water harp plays quietly
in one corner: this metal structure set in a low pool is strung with stainless steel
wires, which create soothing sounds as water plays down them. A Japanese
sui-kin-kutsu, an underground water chamber, introduces an invisible, mysterious
echoing sound, while aluminium chimes give children the opportunity to make their
own music.
Silver Betula pendula, inspired by a grove at Merriments Gardens in East Sussex, is
underplanted with a colour scheme of cool blues and greens. This gradually
develops in intensity until it finally explodes in a riot of bright oranges, yellows and
reds using plants such as new red Iris 'County Town Red' and Geum 'Princess Juliana'.

The entire garden will be relocated at the Demelza House Children's Hospice in Kent after the show.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Hipkins on April 16, 2009 at 9:37pm: Hipkins Horticulture Company in Petersburg, VA USA has added a website offering floral arrangements, garden supplies and gifts. We also have a forum and free classified posting. We welcome visitors from overseas to view our site and share different gardening ideas and topics. Visitors who leave messages in our forum with their location will be given a return visit to their sites by us and we will be glad to endorse you. This will help improve all of our images and help get the word out about our companies. Make sure to leave your web address on our forum in our home and garden shop page. www.hipkinshorticulture.com; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richard Clegg on June 11, 2009 at 10:47am

Hi Philip
Members may be interested to know that I can supply some very select and beautiful limestone dry stone walling stone and boulders. This stone is perfect for the discerning garden designer and builder. I have recently built a “Lake District" garden in Berkshire using this product and it is gorgeous. Incidentally, the contact for this project came from the client finding Landscape Juice Network. Many thanks for this.

Best wishes Richard Clegg

www.richardclegg.co.uk

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