I am tending to use Marshalls as a barometer for the UK landscaping industry. Perhaps this is a little unfair that they should get a lot of attention but when you refer to yourself as the 'UK's leading' it does tend to make one's ears prick up. I am still not convinced that Marshalls haver paid shar...

Newton Abbot based landscaper Jackson Landscape Design has won an award from Marshalls PLC for the ‘Most Creative Use of Marshalls Product’ at the inaugural Marshalls Register Awards 2008. Marshalls created the awards to recognise excellence in hard landscaping design and installation among its ...

Imagine you’re in your garden and suddenly have the eery feeling that someone is watching you. You look over to see this little creature with a single eye just glaring at you! Then you realize “oh yea, that’s just my Easy Bloom Plant Sensorâ€�. Whew! Despite the slightly odd flower-esque i...

There is a huge split building between the Landscape Institute (LI) and its members over the crisis surrounding the retention of the LI archive and library. Without such a comprehensive historical and educational resource at the centre of the organisation, many feel that the LI will become little mo...

Rosa Metz and waning roses Photo: Mary Annette Pember Everyone’s entitled to his or her secrets. But there are other parts of interiority we’re more than happy to share; it’s just that no one ever asks about them. Stop. No. Please don’t recount your dreams! Instead, we asked a bunch of very ...

Rosa Metz and waning roses Photo: Mary Annette Pember Everyone’s entitled to his or her secrets. But there are other parts of interiority we’re more than happy to share; it’s just that no one ever asks about them. Stop. No. Please don’t recount your dreams! Instead, we asked a bunch of very ...

A boat sits alone on the hard ground while it’s brethren bob up and down in the tide around Fountainstown in Co Cork. This presented me with a bit of a dilemma. I originally cropped the sky out because it was washed out but after careful work with the RAW image I restored detail to that area o...

Image Hunter.© 2009 - Ben Heine.(High resolution of this photo, forprinting purposes, available here).Eyes of the First LightBy Peter S. QuinnStrings of care for in summer's nightBeautiful days of its glowing shadesOn to early cock-crow coming brightEvery glistening start to muted fadesDays and loo...

Nearly all US flight delays can be traced to the snarl of jets over New York City. How do you squeeze more efficiency out of an archaic air traffic control system? Redesign the sky. (link) (photo by Jeffrey Milstein) Inbound JFK. The turns start while you're still in the clouds. Engines howling,...

Well, we have another storm front headed our way, should hit us later today I think.   There was a glimmer of hope we were on the tail end.  Everywhere I go it seems people are complaining about the long, hard winter this year - yearning for it to be over with.  Yet it doesn’t have [...]...