Hedge cutting rates
Just what is a proper rate per square metre for hedge cutting and pruning? One member is wondering after being quoted prices by a potential client.

Giving free advice
Are you more than willing to pass on tips and your experience, or are you more inclined to keep things close to your chest?

A new kind of business overdraft
Gone are the expensive recurring management fees. You pay just one set-up fee and - depending on what risk band you come into - pay a competitive interest rate on the amount you borrow.

Looking for staff? See your job offer here

Landscaper/ground worker: Hampshire

Skilled gardener/landscaper required: West Sussex

Garden/landscape designer: Wollaston

Gardener: Shipston on Stour

Award-winning Hedgehog Street garden by Cormac Conway

QuickBooks Online: Syncing Approved Timesheets
With an update to our integration with QuickBooks Online, you can now sync approved timesheet hours for your employees. Jobber will upload NEW approved hours to QuickBooks Online.

We are no longer using commercial weed killers
With fears about the impact of weed killers on the environment, one member of the site has decided to stop using them. Could you?

Buddleia - friend or foe?
Popular with bees and insects, but is Buddleia a friend to the landscaper when having to deal with it in the garden?

Health and safety advice for working outside in hot weather
With the heat of summer kicking in, some advice and tips on staying safe and cool as the temperature rises.

Nightmare fence job - help please!
A client drops in on the network to ask whether the fencing job he has paid for is progressing properly.

Mixed messages on landscape industry economy
After the garden shows many businesses have said times are good, but a number of firms have recently closed. How are things for you?

Mulch. Can you make money from it?
Members of the network put forward ideas on how to make a little extra cash from composted woodchip mulch.

Weeds in block paving
What tips and advice do you have on clearing weeds from between paving?

Cost of compliance for small firms priced at £164 per employee
Tthe average micro, small and medium-sized employer in 2014 has seen an above inflationary rise of £713 in their annual compliance bill.

The Garden Centre Group will return to Wyevale Garden Centres name
The Garden Centre Group has announced it will rebrand as Wyevale Garden Centres.

Tottenham Hotspur choose SISIS for versatility and flexibility
Tottenham Hotspur FC grounds manager Darren Baldwin has chosen a SISIS tractor mounted brush combination of a Zig Zag brush and Flexibcomb which have been fitted to a Twinplay frame for use on both the synthetic and natural surfaces at the club’s new training ground in Enfield.

Green-tree topsoil and Yorkshire Water celebrate 10 year anniversary of soil manufacturing
July 2014 marks the 10 year anniversary of a joint partnership for soil manufacturing between Green-tree, the soil division of Green-tech and Yorkshire Water.