Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
Replies
So the Daily Mail is wrong to constantly say our trades are being taken over by the billions of Eastern Europeans coming over to milk the benefits system? Driving our poor brickies to the food banks, whilst we give them council houses and child benefit for their huge families?
I thought so. :-)
Where do you come up with these crazy notions....:-)
The past 6 months I've noticed a sharp upturn in Yorkshire, in all areas - Alot of smaller players have gone back to salaried work - and most of the larger proffessional outfits in both maintenance and landscaping cant keep up with the work - I've been turning work away for 4 months now, and from experience and others anecdotes, rates seem to have jumped 20% on average here. I know fact- builders are quoting 50% more on labour for smaller jobs and abour 25% larger jobs - as I need my roof re-doing and the same company that quoted last year has put their prices up - and were honest about it "sorry dave, but I dont need the work"
Will be interesting to see if this surge continues into next year -
Do you think that the recent data on the 'brick shortage' will be affecting the hourly rates of builders?
It seems that shortages are caused by a drop reduction in production and supply issues rather than increased demand.
http://brickonomics.building.co.uk/2014/02/brick-block-shortage-hou...
Acacia Groundcare Hire said:
Interesting read, thanks - seems it's almost a phantom panic for brick shortages then!
If skills shortages are becoming a big issue in building then it's logical that labour prices are rising - demand is rising as supply of builders falls. Perhaps this will catch up in the landscaping industry over time as the skills shortage becomes more apparent - although as quite a few threads have discussed, over summer all sorts of people offer mowing and garden services without having relevant qualifications and skills, making supply higher than demand!
Be interesting to know how wages of garden designers are changing too, as this is a different set of skills in the same industry.