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Torbay in Bloom winner 2010 - The Toorak Hotel
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Torbay in Bloom winner 2010 - The Toorak Hotel
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Torbay in Bloom winner 2010 - The Toorak Hotel
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Gaynor Witchard 11 hours ago.
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- Company name (if applicable)
- Ace Garden Services
- First Name:
- John
- Surname:
- Fielder
- Telephone:
- 01803752279
- Email:
- acegardens@hotmail.com
- Website:
- http://www.acegardenservices.co.uk
- About Me:
- I started out as tree surgeon and qualified with an OND Arb, the three year course included landscaping nursery production and of couse plant knowledge as well as many other related topics.
After leaving college I spent some time working in Germany to gain additional experience.
On returning to England during a bleak economic period, I extended my skill base by moving into garden maintenance and then into landscaping, as well as tree surgery.
It was during this period that I developed a passion for transforming large gardens, and over the next ten years I worked alone in 2 to 3 acre gardens maintaining, designing, developing.
Working with wood and stones and plants, and of course hard landscaping materials.
I am experienced at natural stone walling, after many years of practice.
I now have two employees, and I am still lucky enough to spend all my time working outside in the gardens. We try to be as organic as possible when working in these gardens, and will only resort to the use of chemicals after every possible avenue has been explored, and of course after consulting with the home owner, we would honestly prefer not to use them at all.
We are based in Kingswear in Devon
- What is your profession i.e. Landscaping, gardening, greenkeeping - other
- Garden maintenance/Landscaping/Garden design
- If you are a professional gardener, landscaper or garden designer, list the services or special skills that you have
- Designing
Maintaining large two to three acre gardens.
Natural stone walling.
New planting schemes
All types of landscaping
Tree surgery
Hedge trimming.
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Eco holidays in Devon, the Toorak Hotel in Torquay achieves the gold award from the Green Business Tourism scheme, with wildlife towers.
Apart from all of the energy saving devices that have been installed in the Toorak hotel www.tlh.co.uk in the last two years,
The hotel has a new wildlife garden, built and developed by www.acegardenservices.co.uk
This wildlife garden was created in the winter of 2008 and the following spring. The site had previously been an abandoned waste area.
A pond was put in with an adjoining small marsh area, this was… Continue
The hotel has a new wildlife garden, built and developed by www.acegardenservices.co.uk
This wildlife garden was created in the winter of 2008 and the following spring. The site had previously been an abandoned waste area.
A pond was put in with an adjoining small marsh area, this was… Continue
Posted on May 31, 2010 at 11:02am —
Honey fungus
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We started a new garden maintenance contract in a large three/four acre garden a few years ago, during the first autumn we spotted clumps of honey fungus around the base of a large grey poplar, It was growing about 4m away from a rose covered trellis on one side and a shrub bed next to this, a Lonicera nitida hedge runs down the other side, behind the trellis are more flower beds with a large fig tree as a central feat… Continue
We started a new garden maintenance contract in a large three/four acre garden a few years ago, during the first autumn we spotted clumps of honey fungus around the base of a large grey poplar, It was growing about 4m away from a rose covered trellis on one side and a shrub bed next to this, a Lonicera nitida hedge runs down the other side, behind the trellis are more flower beds with a large fig tree as a central feat… Continue
Posted on April 9, 2010 at 1:30pm —
Organic Gardens in Devon
Organic gardening,
In simple terms it means to garden without the use of man made chemicals, which means that there are no quick fix artificial feeding regimes or weed killing blitzes.
A holistic attitude is required and an acceptance of things being not quite perfect, or to rephrase it, “Perfect is not right,!” has to be believed.
In order to have an environment working in harmony there has to be a fluctuation of pest damage followed by predatory control from the beneficial insects.
On visiting… Continue
In simple terms it means to garden without the use of man made chemicals, which means that there are no quick fix artificial feeding regimes or weed killing blitzes.
A holistic attitude is required and an acceptance of things being not quite perfect, or to rephrase it, “Perfect is not right,!” has to be believed.
In order to have an environment working in harmony there has to be a fluctuation of pest damage followed by predatory control from the beneficial insects.
On visiting… Continue
Posted on April 3, 2010 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments
Find a hotel landscape gardener in Torbay - Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in Devon
Ace garden services, www.acegardenservices.co.uk , have specialised experience when it come to hotel landscape gardening in Torbay - Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in Devon. They have helped two hotels win awards from the Torbay in bloom competition as well as from the Green Business Tourism scheme.
The micro climate of Torbay*{ http://www.english-riviera.org/ } is renowned for allowing a plethora of e… Continue
The micro climate of Torbay*{ http://www.english-riviera.org/ } is renowned for allowing a plethora of e… Continue
Posted on December 10, 2009 at 9:30pm —
Ace Garden Services and all landscape gardeners in Torbay and the South Hams, grow with Landscape Juice Network.
Ace Garden Services {http://www.acegardenservices.co.uk/ } like many other landscaping and gardening businesses are finding LJN - Landscape Juice Network to be an necessary aid to their business day.
There are well over 700 members from all different land based industries, and the membership rate has been rising dramatically over the last few months.
The reasons for this are clear to all those who use the site, whatever the problem, LJN will he… Continue
There are well over 700 members from all different land based industries, and the membership rate has been rising dramatically over the last few months.
The reasons for this are clear to all those who use the site, whatever the problem, LJN will he… Continue
Posted on December 8, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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aww those borders are just fab! well done to you - every reason to feel proud!
A big well done. Looks lovely.
Very impressive John, well done.
Shame they had to put those cheap and nasty plastic sun loungers on your excellent work.
I enjoyed seeing the build process earlier in the year btw.
Done an excellent job on the planting, well done
Good on you - great news.
Get it blogged with piccies and earn some nice PR/Advertising from it...
Well done, stick some pics up of the long border/ grounds.
Good news John, you must be very proud....
Thanks,
I am really pleased for the hotel, they agreed to the new work and then had to also pay for all the new plants. It was a worrying few weeks for, us as they kept telling us that they were sure that they were going to win.
We just hoped that t…
congrats
Congrats, at least the hard work has payed off. Well done
Fourth time lucky, we heard today that we had won the competition for the Toorak Hotel in the large garden category. All the winter prerparation work and the new twenty metre long flower bed paid off.
The judging can take place on any day during Jul…
Beautiful, what amazing Wysteria
Hi Steve,
Apart from the hedge window, in this particular hedge, we have sloped the top of the hedge down to a low point to allow extra light into this area, but at the same time kept the privacy by keeping the ends high.
Comment Wall (19 comments)
- At 12:26pm on February 6, 2009,
Philip Voice said… - Hi John
Thanks for joining us on the network. I hope that you find the site interesting and helpful to you and your business.
Kind regards
Phil
- At 6:03pm on August 3, 2009,
Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said… - Hi John
What do you call the fencing you used in this picture from your website? http://www.acegardenservices.co.uk/DSC00033.JPG Have typed stainless steel fencing into google but it just comes up with everything else. Can you save me the hassle of trudging through half of the internet!!
Many thanks,
Neil
- At 9:44pm on October 4, 2009,
Stuart Marler said… - Hi John,
Much better.
Now look at your code, in the
Do a search in Google for what you think people will use - i.e. "garden landscaping torbay", then see if you are on first page, if NOT, Look at your competitor's pages - by right clicking on thier page, and seeing what text is in thier
Copy this or alter to add in YOUR
Also in your pictures, name them with a description - not just "area turfed" but instead "New turf Torbay" or SIMILAR. This also helps you be found in web searches!!
Also add words to your META KEYWORDS of descriptive words.
Look at this website:http://www.bellgardensltd.co.uk/ - right click , see source as above!
Hope this helps too.
Stuart
- At 11:20am on October 5, 2009,
Stuart Marler said…
- Right click on the page, usually the home page, then look for VIEW SOURCE on the pop up, this then opens another window and then look for what the person has put into the
With regards to the picture being named, if yo ucan add words in the source code where it says ALT " "after a picture then this helps with google search.
Updating your website for the title and keywords etc. usually takes about 2 weeks to register in the search engine results! Be patient!
Stuart
- At 3:51pm on November 29, 2009,
Helen Nock said… - Got your message, thanks john!
I'm laptop hopping now and tiscali stil not brilliant. Very slow to load and move around my web mail too.
- At 4:42pm on January 3, 2010,
martin said… - Hi John
Sorry iam late accepting this, Ive only just seen the request!
Hope all is ok
Martin
- At 9:09pm on January 16, 2010,
David Kovach said… - John,
yes this site is new to me, but I see the value of all of the members that I added as my friends. It's amazing to see all of the great people in LjN who have tremendous amount of knowledge in our field of expertise.
Best wishes,
Dave
- At 2:20pm on February 7, 2010,
Nicky Patterson said… - Haha - John I look forward to meetin you for a pint one of these days...and teaching you some decent patter!! I have SketchUp 7 but I am versed in the skills of other software I've been using which, in my opinion is far more in-depth that SketchUp - although SketchUp has a few features unavailable to mine, but I can import SketchUp objects which is neat.
- At 1:23pm on February 15, 2010,
Nicky Patterson said…
- John - never made it to the park - bloody half marathon was on on Sunday morning so transport was knackered - got to see Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera and Casa Batllo though so got plenty of inspiration!! Great city - definitely going back sometime!
Hope we can rally the support for this association - I'm enjoying your comments!!
- At 11:16pm on March 13, 2010,
Pip Howard said… - Thanks John, I cannot say too much at the moment but can state that from networking on the LJN could well have improved my life beyond my best expectations. Hope all well in Torquay according to my Mother in Law you have had much better weather there than we have.
Pip
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