Creating Landscapes Trade Show

Creating Landscapes adds up for LandPRO

Sam Hassall, of LandPRO, will be bringing along to the Creating Landscapes Show his 'best in class' LiberRATE estimating system for landscape contractors.

LiberRATE provides a firm basis for estimating landscape and garden costs, managing change and landscape and external works project cost control.

Sam studied civil engineering and landscape construction management abroad, completing his studies in 1982.

Safer, quieter and greener hedging at Nymans

One of the National Trusts’ flagship properties in the south of England, Nymans near Haywards Heath in West Sussex, has switched to battery power to keep a characteristic feature looking its best, and now there’s no turning back.

Last summer, the garden department at the hugely popular attraction bought four lithium battery-powered Pellenc Helion hedgecutters from South East Groundcare, an authorised dealer for Etesia, to take over the work of electric machines powered by a noisy petrol generator.

Accountancy firm Wettone Matthews to attend show

If your cash flow is damned up, or you've had it with the VAT, then you will be pleased to know that Wettone Matthews are attending the Creating Landscapes Show.

The Hampshire-based chartered certified accountants will be able to offer advice on a range of business issues, from annual accounts to bookkeeping; payroll to company formation.

Already Tim Wettone has been offering tips and advice to Landscape Juice network members on subjects such as whether courses are tax deductible and when is it right to become a limited company.

Suggest a seminar topic for the Creating Landscapes Show

Do you have any suggestions for seminar topics that will form part of the Creating Landscapes Show this October?

We have a few ideas in the pot, but we are keen to know what people think are the key issues and subjects for landscapers and garden designers.

On the Landscape Juice Network a list has been started that includes:

Fuel Card Solutions motor on down to Creating Landscapes Show

Any landscaper or garden designer is likely to drive many miles each week meeting clients, but with the cost of fuel only heading in one direction any help is sure to come in handy.

That's why we were keen to see Fuel Card Solutions attend the Creating Landscapes Show as they have already helped members of the Landscape Juice Network cut their fuel bills.

Fuel Card Solutions offer a simple way for businesses to manage their fuel use, not only by shaving a few pennies per litre off the price, but also by offering an online management tool.

Plans just a click away with the Paving Generator

Let the web do the work when it comes to working out paving plans with Stonemarket's updated Paving Generator.

The Paving Generator is a tool for planning the hard landscaping elements of a domestic project.

Following a step by step process, it is possible to quickly and easily produce an installation plan - including layout, laying patterns and the quantity of paving required.

Trees for Cities seminar at Creating Landscapes Show

From a degree in astrophysics to being a director of the environmental team at Land Securites, the UK's largest commercial property company, Dave Farebrother has seen the importance of sustainability grow.

He will be sharing some of his experiences and advice at a seminar during the Creating Landscapes Show titled Trees for Cities which will look at biodiversity for landscapers and developers.

Some of the subjects Dave will be covering include the creation of green walls and roofs, as well as the use of trees in planters and the important role bees play.

Cactus and succulent show at Capel Manor College

If you want to find out more about cacti then drop in on the Lea Valley Cactus and Succulent Show, taking place at Capel Manor College.

The annual show runs from Saturday May 28, 2011 until Monday, May 30, the weekend of the Bank Holiday so there is plenty of opportunity to visit the show.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The tallest is Pachycereus pringlei, with a maximum recorded height of 19.2 m, and the smallest is Blossfeldia liliputiana, only about 1 cm in diameter at maturity.

Rammed earth garden structures offer natural elegance and style

A long time supporter and regular on the Landscape Juice Network is Kerry Jackson of Jackson's Landscape Design.

Kerry will be exhibiting at the show in October, but before then and just so you can get an idea of his work and knowledge here is a piece he has written about rammed earth garden structures, which he has been involved in the design and installation of:

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