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Rose Propagation – Air Layering
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Green Manures - Cover Crops, Weed Control, Organic Fertiliser -
Protecting Your Status As A Consultant -
Trading On Someone Else’s Standards
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Creating Portfolios And Marketing For Garden Designers -
Propagation – Deciduous Shrubs and Semi-Ripe Cuttings
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Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
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A Single Joint Expert Witness Site Meeting Guide Notes And Template
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Becoming The Fourth Emergency Service To Your Customers -
What happens to your business in the future? Can you sell it?
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Why Purple Flowers are Best for Bees
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Uses for Weeds – Liquid Fertiliser
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Odes & Laments (just for fun!)
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New Build Gardens – Designers Protection Notes
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Designing A Concept Show Garden
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Restoration Of An Ancient Free-Standing Natural Stone Wall -
Survey & Logistics Template (A5 booklet)
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Example Of A Genuine Civil Procedure Rules (Cpr) Part 35 Report
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Artificial Grass Installations – An Expert Witnesses Perspective
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Distance Report – An Example Of A Discussion Document To Aid Dispute Resolution
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Partnerships And Domestic Landscaping
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Expanding Your Domestic Garden Maintenance Business
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Gaining Sponsorship For Show Gardens (As A Garden Designer)
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Laying Paving Over Existing Paving
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Air Brick Violations And Consequences
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Tell-Tale Signs Of Dodgy Customers
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Team Building
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Rebuilding Retaining Rubble Stone Walls
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Children’s Play Areas In Private Gardens (Some Design Considerations)
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Employing a Gardens Manager or Head Gardener
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Getting Paid For Providing Quotations
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Warranties and Reclaimed Materials
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What Does a Professional Look Like? -
Forthcoming Chapters for June and July 2020 -
Three Sisters - Growing Methods for Gardeners
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Edible Weeds
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Creating a Budget
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APL Professional Gardeners
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How NOT to Build Fence Supporting Piers
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The Landscape Library 250 – Reflections!
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Magnetic Gate Fittings
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Paving Laid on Individual Foundations
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The Train Hedge – An Inspirational Story
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Motivating Your Employees
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Growing Your Landscaping Business
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Taking Split Payments From Customers
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Getting the Best from Your Media Profile!
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Client/Contractor Breakdowns (1) Survey And Analysis
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CDM Workflow Document
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Garden Designers As Nominated Plant Suppliers
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Transactions between Customer, Designer and Contractor
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Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs
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Dividing Herbaceous Perennials
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Laying Cobbles – Guidance Notes
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Step By Step – Converting Enquiries Into Contracts
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How to Create a Living Wall
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Turning Potential Disaster Into A Success!
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Disclaimers, Waivers And Duty Of Care
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Green Roof Construction
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Controlling Customers Looking For Price Reductions
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Crimes Against Landscape Works (2)
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Timber ‘Needles’ As Supports In Walling
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Fun Feature – Granite Sett Ammonite Circle
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The Use Of Roofing Slates To Waterproof Natural Stone Walls
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Free Standing Natural Stone Walls
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Crimes Against Landscape Works (1)
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What is Organic Gardening?
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How to Make Compost
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Taking Over As A New Manager -
Asking Customers To Pay For Materials
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Customers Supplying Materials
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Allowing The Customer To Run The Project
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On Site Staff Training – Thinking Outside The Box
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Pros And Cons Of Static Advertising
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Keeping Contracts Neat and Tidy
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Wheelbarrows!
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Non-Refundable Deposits
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Deposit, Booking Fee Or Mobilisation Payment?
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From Enquiry Into Contract – Suggestions For Designers Of D & B Projects
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Terms And Conditions For Garden Maintenance Contractors
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COVID-19 – Advice from The Landscape Academy
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Terms And Conditions To Avoid!
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The UK Landscaping Industry 2020 – A SWOT Analysis
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Different Methods of Composting
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Peat Free Potting Compost
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Garden Designers - Extending Your Client Offer
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Looking To The Future - Diversifying
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The Landscape Academy
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Client Communication – The Garden Log Book
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Information on Plant Variety Rights and Brexit
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Ever Changing Specification and Advice
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Landscape Industry Pricing Guide
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Greenhouse Care and Maintenance
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Greenhouse Maintenance Checklist
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Buxus Ball Alternatives
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Plants Resistant to Rabbits
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Paving and Tiling – What’s The Difference?
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Evaluating The Use Of Three Early-Season Disturbance Techniques For The Management And Enrichment Of Species-Poor Grassland
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Selecting Suitable Turf
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Construction (Design Management) Regulations 2015
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The Mess Room
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The Complete Quote
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Garden Parties and Events
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Creating Raised Beds Using Metal Edging
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Thresholds and The Landscape Designer
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The Professional Gardeners Guild – A Personal View
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Pruning Wisteria
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What’s In a Name?
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Television Garden Makeover Programmes – Positive Or Negative?
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The Society of Garden Designers
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Bespoke Screen Fencing
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An Alternative Pergola Solution
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Ecologists and the Landscape Industry
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Customers Cheating The Taxman
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Coping With Cashflow Problems Caused By Interrupted Work Schedules
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Cautionary Tales – Japanese Knotweed Surveying
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Standard Terms and Conditions for Garden Designers
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Contractors Terms & Conditions
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Plant Passports
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Getting the Landscape You Deserve
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APL Showtime.
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Caution Urged By Growers And Traders On Oak Imports
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It’s time for horticulture to take centre stage…
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Double Digging
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Crop Rotation – Growing Methods for Gardeners
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An Introduction to Woodland Habitats for Gardens
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Creating Small Wildlife Habitats in Your Garden
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Types of Cultivation aka Growing Methods for Gardeners
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Spring Care For Roses
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Tree & Shrub Planting Guidance Notes
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Creating A Wildflower Meadow
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How To Grow Spring Flowering Bulbs
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Head Gardeners Survival Manual -
Landscapers Survival Manual -
Domestic Garden Landscaping Disputes
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Head Gardeners – Legal Responsibilities
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Applying For A Job As A Head Gardener
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Finance Matters Really Matter! (Surviving As A Self Employed Gardener)
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Becoming a Gardens Consultant – A Virtual Seminar
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Becoming A Gardens Consultant – A Virtual Seminar: Session Two
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Becoming A Gardens Consultant – A Virtual Seminar: Session Three
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Becoming A Gardens Consultant – A Virtual Seminar: Session Four
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Becoming A Gardens Consultant – A Virtual Seminar: Session Five
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Losing A Key Staff Member
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Taking Time To Ascertain A Client’s Wishes
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Protecting Your Design Integrity
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Seeking Employment In A Horticultural Business?
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Landscaping In A Timely Manner
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Buying An Established Gardening Business?
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Are We Becoming A Licensed Industry?
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Finding New Head Gardeners
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Designers Nightmare Of Professional Non-Payers
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Extras – Welcome Or Problematic?
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Practical Completion And Getting Paid
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How To Get Young People Interested In Gardening
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What Differentiates A Head Gardener From A Gardens Manager?
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Effective Staff Training Regimes
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Writing Method Statements To Avoid Problems
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Employed To Self Employed As A Gardener
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Self Employed To Employed Gardeners
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Gaining The Respect Of The Customer
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Rebranding Your Company?
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Making The Connection Between Design, Build And Maintenance
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Never Assume – Always Ascertain
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Trade Associations – As A Business Development
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An Exmple Of An Initial Report, Compiled At The Request Of A Prospective Employer, Engaging A New Head Gardener.
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Gardens Department Working Practice Guide
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Neglectful Customers
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Getting Paid For Design & Build Projects
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Show House Gardens - The Science of Designing and Building Gardens for Show Home
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Million Dollar Gardens
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Engaging a Garden Designer, Landscaper or Garden Contractor
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Protective Checklist
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Copyright – Some Photographic Issues
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Protecting Your Work from Vehicle Damage
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The Pros and Cons Of Outsourcing Gardens Labour
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Staff Training
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Unhelpful Co-Workers
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When A Head Gardener Is Lost...
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Interviewing For A New Head Gardener
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Taking Over From a Head Gardener
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Acting as a Tour Guide
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Your Personal Career Development Path
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Taking Charge of a New Garden - Day One (Protecting Yourself)
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Tourist Attractions of The Old Fashioned Kind
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Employing A Head Gardener - A Working Template
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Producing Your Curriculum Vitae
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Surviving as a Self-Employed Gardener
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Selling Yourself – Part 1
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Selling Yourself – Part 2
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Selling Yourself – Part 3
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Selling Yourself – Part 4
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Internal Promotion
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From A Good To A Great Head Gardener
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'Event Ready' – Opening To The Public
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First Contact – Dealing with other Professionals
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Mirrors – Forward Planning for Replacements
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Constructing Raised Planters Using Paving Slabs
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Garden Bridges - a Simple Construction
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Tile Laid on Edge as a Paving Detail
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Site Surveying/Method Statements
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Circular Ponds made from Concrete Sewer Drains
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A Simple Bridge Made with Woven Willow
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Plants Used as Step Risers
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Integrating Manhole Covers into Paving
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Raised Brick Planters – Curved Corners Without Specials
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Making Good Use Of Reclaimed Materials
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Site Survey and Logistics Template
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Diamond Paving Patterns - Advantages
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Flint Walling - Various Tricks Of The Trade
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Flint Walling - Curved Sections
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Telescopic Underground Conduit
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Site Survey and Logistics Template
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Laying A Patio Using Concrete Products
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Laying A Patio
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Making 'Soil Concrete'
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Laying Paving To A Pattern - Using Black And White Materials
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Lawn Edging – An Alternative to Shears
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Work Platform for Sloping Sites
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Making ‘Curves’ in Timber
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Box Hedging – Fine Detailing Shadow Lines
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Foundations – Forward Planning (1)
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Foundations – Forward Planning (2)
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Stone Chips to Windows
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Creating an Island in a Butyl Lined Pond
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Hedge Cutting Contracting – Science & Methodology
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Garden Shed Makeover (1) – Internal Roofing
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Garden Shed Makeover (2)
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Topiary with Shears
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Mazes – Hedge Cutting with a difference!
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Handling Enquiries - Basic Essentials
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Products Library - Protecting Yourself
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Mini Ladder for Minimum Load Space
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Professional Non-Payers 2
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Improving Efficiency and Increasing Income
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Expanding Your Horizons
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Working With Main Contractors
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Getting Paid In A Timely Manner
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Changing Your Company Name
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Raising Your Conversion Rate From Enquiry Into Contract
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Discounting Goods or Services
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Misquoting For Work
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Employing a Manager?
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Turning Adversity to Advantage
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Client Contracts for Maintenance Works
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What Is A Job Title?
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Taking on a Business Partner
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Establishing Your Fees
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Attracting Customers To Your Nursery
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Retaining Good Labour
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Raising Your Profile With The Client
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Finding Staff
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Keeping The Customer Informed During Work Progress
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Site Etiquette for Garden Maintenance and Landscape Teams
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Method Statements and Their Relevance to Landscapers
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Defining the words 'Fully Qualified' - What is a 'qualification'?
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Employees - Handling Difficult Staff Members
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An Understanding Of Some Legal Terms Used In Contract Law
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Winter Work Campaign
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How Do You Define 'Garden Maintenance'?
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Mixing Business With Pleasure
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The Future of Domestic Landscaping and Garden Care in England
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Finding The Right Employee
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The Curse of Over-Trading
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Inital Site Survey Report
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Protective Measures – Terms & Conditions
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Protective Measures – Method Statements
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Protective Measures – Interim or Stage Payments
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Protective Measures – Final Invoices
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Self Belief, Self Confidence
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Getting Paid For Your Time
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Cautionary Tales – Disability Issues and VAT
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Cautionary Tales – The Bullying Builder
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Cautionary Tales – Change Of Use Ramifications
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Keeping The Faith
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Professional Non-Payers
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Decorative Steps
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Mentoring Partnerships
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How much should I charge my customers?
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Hedge Cutting Contracting – Science & Methodology
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Handling Enquiries
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Products Library
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Problem Customers (8 cases including problems & solutions)
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Marketing, Identifying Sources of Work
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Three Little Words...
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Giving Value For Money
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