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The 'G Spot'

Michael came up with a great title for a blog and perhaps even a new TV programme to rival Gardener's World. And judging by the latest comments on that programme ,we need something to fill the gap! The 'G Spot' of course refers to The Garden Spot in case anyone was worried. I do have a… Continue

Added by claudia de yong on November 6, 2009 at 11:17pm — 77 Comments

Ultrascape's Mortar Paving System: A magnificent performance in Covent Garden

In the heart of London, Covent Garden is one of the city’s best known tourist attractions, drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world each year. Once a lively marketplace, Covent Garden has now become an essential tourist destination with a vast array of gift shops, boutiques and restaurants and housing its infamous street entertainers. After two years of planning for the redevelopment of Covent Garden plans were passed to renovate and restore the area, to recreate its former beauty… Continue

Added by Instarmac Group on November 4, 2009 at 11:10am — No Comments

Halloween with Fereday....

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Added by Cat Fereday on November 1, 2009 at 3:44pm — 1 Comment

One bed flat in Reading....

Greetings all from the Fereday Haunted House - we're getting ready from Halloween..... as an American, I'm ever so pleased to have brought a wonderful tradition to our local neighbourhood... competing to have the best Halloween house... no contest, really - the title is ours.... we've got fake spider webbing, really BIG furry spiders crawling up the wall - and because lighting is fundamental to establishing the mood - we have blue bulbs in the hall chandelier, a red bulb in the hall table lamp,… Continue

Added by Cat Fereday on October 30, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Ride-on lawnmower

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Added by robert lewis on October 25, 2009 at 7:30pm — 7 Comments

Butterfly Jap. Maple and Blackhaw Viburnum in fall Color

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Added by Ohio Plantsman on October 25, 2009 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Surrey Nursery Stock - important update

Hi All We have been fairly quite on the network for the last few months as we have been sorting out an awful lot of stuff. Sadly, things were taken out of our hands earlier this month when our mortgage provider called in the loan, giving us 7 days to find another provider, or move out. Due to the current financial crisis, there is not another commercial mortgage provider to replace our existing one. For the last 2 years we have been paying 18% interest only, per month for our mortgage, or £30… Continue

Added by Surrey Nursery Stock Limited on October 23, 2009 at 2:40am — 12 Comments

Brown

Everything is brown now, leaves are falling everywhere and the rake is a permanent fixture in the toolkit. Take the chance to keep some in a compost heap as it will do wonders for your soil when mixed in next year. Spent a few hours leafleting today too, it's amazing how friendly people are if you get chatting, offering you advice and luck in the business. Old chaps that do gardening themselves especially. Continue

Added by Dan Frazer Gardening on October 22, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

exhaustion?

just about made it through today, 1 day off in the last 3weeks and only another 4 days before a full weekend of doing bugger all apart from seeing little un. way too much digging seems to be coming my way at the minute! not sure where all the hedge trimming has gone? Continue

Added by colin on October 19, 2009 at 7:47pm — 1 Comment

October Offers

Through out October, Buy 6 Bulk Bags of either Landscape Bark or Ornamental Bark and Get One Free! Landscape Bark £38+vat Ornamental Bark £44+vat Continue

Added by Tim West on October 19, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Brogues and antler hats for dogs....

It's been a good weekend. The weather has turned sufficiently cold to warrant camouflage clothing - gloves, scarves, jumpers, and shoes which don't require a wanton display of toe clevage or luridly painted toenails - perfect bliss....from here on in, it's roast chickens, hot soup, and happy days. Still, the impending move to the South plays on my mind. Fereday, bless him, is bearing up, but I know it's tough. He's leaving behind a successful little business for the great unknown. Being practic… Continue

Added by Cat Fereday on October 18, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

How do I become a gardener?

OK. Before you start reading, if you have nothing better to do, please be aware that yours truly has never blogged, has never wanted to blog and has no knowledge of blog etiquette. But for some reason I have felt the need to put finger to keyboard, letters to screen and thoughts to eternity. Disclaimer: This rambles by the way. Well, we started Jan's Gardening as I was unemployed and we were nearly skint as two years redundancy pay does not go on forever. Best thing we ever did! Wish we did it… Continue

Added by Paul Rogers on October 18, 2009 at 1:08am — 5 Comments

My new career path - puppy couture

Yawn - it's been another busy week in the life of the commuting tortoise (AKA me with backpack carapace nicknamed Mildred traversing the west coast line)... Tuesday night saw me somewhere south of Birmingham eating my evening meal in a bunker with work colleagues before hastening off into the night to hit London's Marylebone train station just before Wednesday morning.... having never been into Marylebone before, I found it a truly pleasant surprise. Everything was still open - and there is the… Continue

Added by Cat Fereday on October 17, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Top Marks for Ultrascape Mortar Paving System at Westminster Kingsway College

Ultrascape, a renowned brand of the Instarmac Group plc, has scored top marks at Westminster Kingsway College following the completion of a 150m² area of hard landscaping. Ultrascape have been formulating and manufacturing a specialist range of concretes, mortars and grouts that meet and exceed the ever-increasing demands of pavement and carriageway construction using concrete and natural stone setts and flagstones, based on their group expertise… Continue

Added by Instarmac Group on October 16, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Do you know your “position in the market place"?

Let’s face it, one of the most difficult and yet important, issue is how much to charge for you service. Without meaning to sound rude, I don’t want to know or care if you are £7 per hour or £250 per day labour rate – It is doesn’t really matter. It is more important for each of us to have our own pricing strategy. In fact I am a big fan of fixed price work rather than hourly rate but that is going off topic!! Whilst I am certainly not an expert on this subject and there are many factors that… Continue

Added by Graeme @ The BGS Group on October 13, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Fence and Post Fixing Made Easy with Ultracrete PostFix

...a rapid set concrete that combines strength and durability, significantly reducing the likelihood of damage due to movement, for the fixing of fence posts. Ultracrete is the sister brand of Ultrascape, and for over 30 years, it has been developing, manufacturing and distributing a large range of highway maintenance, repair & refurbishment, and pothole repair products - the original home of Ultrascape's mortar paving system. Visit www.ultr… Continue

Added by Instarmac Group on October 13, 2009 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Growing rural enterprises.

http://www.growingruralenterprise.co.uk/news.html here is a link to a business-link free seminar i attended last week (photo of me page), but you can look at the 'homepage' i think from this. its for staffordshire/shropshire but there may be a local similar think business-link are doing in your area. it was an informative day and good to meet people in the same sector. i hope this helps others in reviewing their business for 2010. Robin Ainsworth… Continue

Added by Robin Ainsworth on October 11, 2009 at 11:27am — 1 Comment

Contaminated Soils. Bunding and Landscaping for Sustainable Development

Further to an earlier blog and the subsequent comments by John Honeyman. This blog is to highlight a compromise in the dealing with contaminated soils, which is already well established across the EU and US and has been approved for several schemes in the UK. It is a simple but very cost effective method of dealing with soils, which would normally have to be removed at high cost. T… Continue

Added by Cornwall Landscaping on October 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

On a peaceful Saturday morning....

Fereday got a new toy delivered on Saturday morning.... a BlackBerry Bold. This is his second BlackBerry, so you might think the whole BlackBerry ownership thing would be a bit old hat by now, but you'd be wrong. My sister calls them 'CrackBerries' because they're so addictive. And I think I can follow the argument that there will eventually evolve a race of pointy-thumbed, squinty people which has its genetic source in the current group of BlackBerry owners. Anyway, it was a very quiet Saturda… Continue

Added by Cat Fereday on October 10, 2009 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Spent the summer clearing weeds from paving joints?

Prepare for next year with Ultrascape's JOINT FIX. Joint fix is a resin-based liquid used to bond and waterproof the unbound sand joints of flexibly constructed pavements in order to protect the sand base and prevent loss of jointing sand through aggressive cleaning. Joint fix also protects rigid and flexible pavement surfaces from staining. It can be applied to esiting or new paving schemes to reduce the ongoing maintenance costs associated with flexibel construction. Joint Fix benefits: • S… Continue

Added by Instarmac Group on October 9, 2009 at 4:22pm — No Comments

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