Boggy Blogging from Nicky and the Team @ GardenImprovements.com
The winter months are in fact the best time to arrange to have a landscaping project scheduled for your garden; ensuring everything is in place for the new season to start and getting a real head start on enjoying your home outdoors!
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Originally posted 2008-12-24 10:18:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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As landscapers and gardeners up and down the country shake off their festive hangovers and head back out – we find that country is frozen solid – but surely we aren’t ALL down in the dumps about 2009?
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Originally posted 2009-01-06 21:10:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Much of Glasgow has been bought, pulled down, built upon or developed in these past ten years and there have been tens of thousands of new properties built around the city. New properties with gardens of course are where my interests are focused since they instantly require some form of landscaping and we have designed and landscaped more than a few in these past 4 years, but there seems to be a trend in the condition of the garden left to the new owners by the developers: If you have recently purchased a new-build property or are thinking of buying one; how much thought or relevance do you, or does the developer attribute to the garden at the point of sale?
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Originally posted 2009-03-01 12:39:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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We are offering to design and build a kitchen garden for your garden in January or February 2009 for a credit CRUNCHILY friendly 20% off both drawings and labour!!
As we all look to our balance books and see what can be done to reduce outgoings and with constant pressure to be green and healthy at the same time, why not invest in your very own kitchen garden? Feed your whole family for years to come from produce grown in your own back yard!!
We are offering as our winter (and credit crunch) special 20% off plans drawn to site your kitchen garden in the best possible place and tailor it with the most practical and fitting design for your lifestyle and your gardens surroundings.
We are also offering 20% off of labour costs for kitchen garden projects booked in January and February !!
Of course this is to try and fill our books during the enquiry barren winter months but it is also an opportunity for you guys to get a head of the pack, have fun, be lean and green and SAVE MONEY to boot!!
Book a survey with us quoting “KITCHEN GARDEN” in the further comments box and we will arrange to visit your property and discuss your requirements.
Originally posted 2008-12-16 20:38:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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The monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) is like Fugu; when handled the wrong way it can be lethal! Today I had to learn how to trans-plant one without cutting myself to ribbons!
These leaves (or blades I'm calling them) are RAZOR-sharp!
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Originally posted 2009-02-06 21:06:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Welcome to another project article in our Garden Design Portfolio Series. This garden has been designed by Nicky Patterson and will be built by the team of garden designers and landscapers at GardenImprovements.com.
The design was commissioned by Mr and Mrs R from Greenhills in East Kilbride near Glasgow in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Originally posted 2009-10-12 11:57:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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You may have been fortunate enough to catch our superstar Designer and Landscaper Nicky Patterson on a live TV makeover last week. Here’s how it all happened!
Margaret Traynor is a hard-working nurse in Glasgow’s Yorkhill Sick Children’s Hospital. She is due to retire soon and her daughters Linda and Karen decided to write to ITV’s flagship daytime magazine show “This Morning” to see if they might help out with a special surprise.
Margaret's garden lacked any function or usability
Originally posted 2009-01-20 16:50:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Modern businesses need to provide transparency and good accessible information. At GardenImprovements.com we are no different and have worked hard over the festive season to get our web presence invigorated so that we can present our new garden design and landscaping exploits to a fast-growing online market.
Social networking is fantastic for business-to-business networking and also allows clients to get more insight into our activities! So why not get some more info on what we’re up to through our social networking:
See us at Landscape Juice Network
Phew, quite a list but you should get involved! Look forward to hearing from you!
Nicky Patterson, GardenImprovements.com
Originally posted 2009-03-05 11:09:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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As a designer I am frequently invited to people’s homes to discuss their requirements in the garden. Many, who have contacted me with landscaping projects in mind, simply want A patio, or A deck or A driveway and it must be THIS shape and must go HERE, THERE and THERE: but if we look at the garden in it’s entirety as part of our property; then it becomes another room – albeit an outdoor room. I wonder; would people upgrade their old and worn out bathroom by simply replacing the bath alone? It might be a whopping great shiny bath but would it not outshine the rest of the bathroom fittings and therefore actually make the room far LESS attractive – surely the opposite from the desired effect?
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Originally posted 2009-01-27 22:20:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Having read some of the many articles on the effects of the credit crunch on small businesses, I wonder how it will affect my small business and how other garden designers and landscapers around Glasgow, and indeed around the UK, will cope with the coming year.
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Originally posted 2008-12-31 13:02:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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