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The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) will be celebrating its 30th anniversary at Pro Landscaper’s Summer Showcase and Party in July. It’s partnering with the two events which form part of Pro Landscaper’s Summer Spectacular, taking place at the De Vere Horsley Estate in Surrey on 11 July. “After a quick chat with Jamie [Wilkinson]...
This year the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) celebrates its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of recognition and accreditation. Since being founded in 1995 by independent gardens consultant Alan Sargent, the APL has become the only landscaping scheme operator of TrustMark, a government endorsed initiative that promotes...
The APL Awards 30th anniversary ceremony will be hosted by prolific garden designer Peter Donegan and the general manager of the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL), Phil Tremayne. “The APL Awards are a highlight of the landscaping year and the highlight of mine; co-hosting this year with my old friend Peter Donegan should make for an...
Two students from the College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) have taken home joint Gold at the 2024 WorldSkills UK National Finals in Manchester. Alan Myers and Harry Fitzsimmons took the top prize at the event, which took place last week from 18 to 22 November. Eight finalists competed for the title of WSUK Landscaping...
Award-winning garden designer Pip Probert will take to stage at the Association of Professional Landscapers’ (APL) annual awards ceremony next year. The assessor for both BBC Gardeners’ World and BBC Two’s Your Garden Made Perfect has designed and worked on more than 40 show gardens including various RHS events as well as international...
Oliver Gregson, of Gregson Homes and Hardwood Landscapes, has been appointed to the Association of Professional Landscapers’ committee. The official appointment came at this year’s FutureScape and comes at a time of change for the committee, with David Strows appointed chair, taking over from Holly Youde. Gregson featured at FutureScape, taking...
The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) has revealed David Strows and Chris Stone as its chair and vice chair respectively. Strows moves up to chair from the vice chair role, succeeding Holly Youde. He leads Artform Landscapes, a home and garden design company and recently featured at the FutureScape Business Theatre. He spoke on a...
The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) unveiled the finalists for the APL Awards next year, during its annual meeting, which took place today at FutureScape. This year saw a record-breaking number of entries and the judging took place over three intensive days, led by industry professionals chaired by Richard Barnard from Kings Oak...
The winners of this year’s APL (Association of Professional Landscapers) Awards have been unveiled at a sold-out ceremony in London, sponsored by Bradstone. This year’s host and APL general manager, Phil Treymayne, comments on the quality of entrants this year, saying “the standard is so high now.” Ellicar took home the top award of the night...
The results of a new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey show that just 12% of the industry is aged between 25-34, with 16-24-year-olds making up a staggeringly low 3%. Members of the group behind the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Charter for the horticulture, arboriculture, landscaping and garden media profession put together the...
The finalists for the APL (Association of Professional Landscapers) Award 2024 have been announced at the APL Annual Meeting, which took place at FutureScape today. Judging took place over two days and was undertaken by Rod Winrow of Garden House Design, TASK’s Rupert Keys, Bob Sweet from BBC GWL, Kind Oak Landscapes’ Richard Barnard, and Phil...
Simply Green Landscapes Ltd & Andrea Newill Garden Design took home the top award for their Project: Hermitage. The original outdoor space comprised of dated gardens as the house had originally been separate dwellings. Now one home, the new garden reflects this with obsolete walls, parking areas and enclosed spaces replaced with a unified...
As we sat down last Friday evening waiting for this year’s APL awards to kick off, we were disappointed not to be in London as it is a day that the team really enjoys. In fact it was the last live event we attended in 2020, (not then realising quite such a momentous occasion it would become) and we’re now looking forward to when we will all...
The annual APL awards ceremony, sponsored by Bradstone, took place virtually for the first time in the awards history on Friday 12 March. The platform was specially created by Events Engineering to capture the APL Awards spirit of celebration and recognise the outstanding landscaping carried out by members of the APL. Landform Consultants...
