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Guest Blog | Introducing Banners Broker – a new way to advertise online and make money!

January 17th, 2012 No Comments

Banners Broker is an online advertising network that manages the sourcing, publishing and performance tracking of ads that make the connection between advertisers and publishers around the world.

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Garden Design | Working with Vectorworks CAD garden design software

March 10th, 2011 No Comments

Vectorworks CAD software is transforming the way garden designers can work with their clients. I have recently won a job working with a local hotel to review their existing gardens and grounds – around 15 acres in total so quite a sizeable project!

Following some initial meetings the first step is to determine what planting is already in the garden and to add them to a plan, creating a report to then use to discuss with the hotel manager how we want to go forward.

Now a few years ago this would have been a daunting task involving surveying the site and then determining the plants, back to the drawing board to carefully draw in each of the plants and log them in a spreadsheet to create a report.

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Garden | Garden Design | Is your garden costing you more than you think?

March 31st, 2010 1 Comment

In an article today appearing in Horticulture Week, research by multimedia retailer QVC shows that an untidy garden can knock £5,000 off the value of your property. That’s a lot of hard earned money going down the drain!

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Gardening | Sustainable food!

March 13th, 2010 No Comments

Wouldn’t it be great though if instead of having to sow fresh seeds each year you just waited for the plant to come up and produce food for you? You are probably getting interested now – particularly if you have limited space and time. You heard right plant once and crop for ever!

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NETWORKING! NFU MUTUAL AND THE GARDEN NETWORK JOIN FORCES

February 26th, 2010 No Comments

 Rural insurer NFU Mutual is delighted to announce a new affinity partnership with the Garden Network From 1st March 2010, NFU Mutual will become the Garden Network’s exclusive insurance provider, meaning it can promote its range of insurance, pensions and investments to the Garden Network membership.   Blanche Surman, Affinity Marketing Executive at NFU Mutual [...]

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Gardening | recycled newspaper plant pots

February 8th, 2010 1 Comment

Garden Organic are running a new campaign called One Pot Pledge where enthusiastic gardeners encourage others who perhaps haven’t tried growing their own vegetables to give it a go. With that in mind I thought I’d share a quick and easy way to make your own recycled newspaper plant pots that biodegrade directly after use.

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Gardening | The Garden Press event 2010 – first review

February 5th, 2010 1 Comment

My first visit to this event this year and was surrounded by well known journalists and media people all keen to see what was new in the world of gardening. I went with my Garden Network hat on – not really knowing what to expect! Here is my first take on the event – there [...]

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Gardening | Garden Design | Improving your soil

November 1st, 2009 2 Comments

Autumn heralds a round of free harvests bought on by nature’s abundance. The colourful leaves that once adorned the trees in our garden are falling and with it creating a fabulous opportunity to create gardener’s black gold! In a sustainable woodland culture the leaves from the trees fall to the ground where they break down [...]

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Gardening | Garden Design | The importance of testing your soil

May 7th, 2009 No Comments

A recent posting on the Garden Network was asking about the importance of testing the pH of your soil. Why is the pH of soil so important? There are a number of factors that affect what you can grow in your soil, the type of soil that you have, clay, loam or sand generally has [...]

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Gardening | Garden Design | Grow your own, progress

March 18th, 2009 No Comments

With all this lovely warm weather the seedlings that we planted a couple of weeks ago are germinating well and giving us the excitement of looking forward to our first crop. First up are the lettuce seeds Lollo Rossa which are doing well indoors. In a couple of weeks these will be ready to plant [...]

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