Archive for January 2008

Landscape gardening for the home

Daily Telegraph - Indoor plants get a raw deal in Britain. The green-fingered Dutch understand only too well the benefits of flourishing house plants and use them as an integral part of their interior design, but we lag far behind. Go green: Fig trees work very well …

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Fellow gardeners pay tribute to “ambassador” Tim - Sommerset County Gazette


Fellow gardeners pay tribute to “ambassador” Tim
Sommerset County Gazette, UK - Jan 24, 2008
Mr Chilcott, 36, of Hillview Close, ran a landscape gardening business with his brother, and regularly entered Magna Housing Association gardening

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Alan Richardson’s long passage to India

Daily Telegraph - I did all sorts of jobs just to earn a bit of money,” Richardson said. “I did night shifts at the Wedgewood factory in Stoke and some landscape gardening. But the worst was assembling golf studs on a production line. You had to get through 2,400 …

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Price of UK life … 20p a bullet

The Sun - Puffing on a skunk joint, he says: “A dealer needs a gun — and how else would I make so much money?” THREE youths aged 16, 18 and 19 were last night being quizzed by detectives over the murder of landscape gardening boss Tim Chilcott, 36, in …

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Grand Designs: Why Kevin has designs on changing our landscape

The Independent - But if I see people socially I don’t want to talk about work, I want to talk about sport, holidays, cars, landscape, gardening… The last thing I want to talk about is that bloody house, and all they want to talk about is their bloody house.” Finding …

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Grand Designs: Why Kevin has designs on changing our landscape - Independent


Grand Designs: Why Kevin has designs on changing our landscape
Independent, UK - Jan 20, 2008
“But if I see people socially I don’t want to talk about work, I want to talk about sport, holidays, cars, landscape, gardening… The last thing I want to

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Bullington Center events announced - BlueRidgeNow.com


Bullington Center events announced
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC - Jan 20, 2008
Second Mondays, 4 to 5:30 pm, February through October — Gardening 101. A series of nine sessions about basic gardening in Western North Carolina.

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Sensible landscaping

Delaware Online - Landscape gardening, despite its many rewards, can indeed be an unfocused and disorganized experience if, as gardeners, we don’t consider the bigger role plants play in defining our outdoor spaces.

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Sensible landscaping - The News Journal


Sensible landscaping
The News Journal, DE - Jan 17, 2008
Landscape gardening, despite its many rewards, can indeed be an unfocused and disorganized experience if, as gardeners, we don’t consider the bigger role

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Inside the Progressive Policies Forum

Daily Telegraph - One idea we are definitely considering is to get a van and become the Progressive Policies Forum Landscape Gardening Company. You could hire us to come and visualise how your garden might be improved. Weather permitting, we would sit on your lawn for …

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