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While the working calendar can be busy year round, December can often offer a valuable opportunity to pause, reflect, and prepare your business for a more profitable 2027. Following the success of its training day and HQ tour earlier this year, EVi Pools is hosting another two individual dates this December. Inviting landscaping professionals to...
As Pro Landscaper celebrates its 15th anniversary, it takes a look back and asks the industry for its biggest takeaways from the last 15 years. Malcolm Catlin, chief executive, Plant Healthy "If we could turn the clock back fifteen years, numerous new plant pests and diseases might not have entered this...
Nigel Glogan, contracts manager at grounds maintenance company Outco, explores appropriate planting schedules and considerations amid unpredictable weather patterns. When is the best time of year for planting? This is a very hard question to answer because of the current weather systems we are now experiencing in this country, on top of client...
Irrigation winterisation gets treated as a job rather than a plan, and that is where most freeze damage starts. A system blown down in a rush on the first cold morning of October is a system where something gets missed, and what gets missed usually does not announce itself until April. The work itself is not complicated. Getting it right is...
Ask a landscaper about installer accreditation schemes run by manufacturers ten years ago and you would probably have heard the word "badge". Something for the website footer. Useful for reassuring a nervous homeowner, not much use beyond that. That has changed, and the reasons say more about how work is now won than about the schemes themselves....
Last autumn, JUB Holland’s bulb planting machine moved steadily along Eliot footpath at the University of Kent. Within just a few hours, 60,000 bulbs were planted beneath the grass along one of the busiest walking routes on the campus. Early spring, the transformation became visible. Daffodils were first to emerge, followed by tulips, camassias...
Nelson Landscapes will be raising awareness of a men’s mental health service through its show garden at this year’s FutureScape in October. The Surrey-based landscaping company will be creating The Serenity Show Garden, which managing director Harry Nelson has designed as a calm and restorative...
When you specify decking for a client, you stake your professional credibility on it. If something goes wrong, it won’t matter where the responsibility lies – and no one wants a failed product on their track record. Getting the specification right at the very start protects the project, the client relationship and your reputation. And yet,...
For most garden design and landscaping businesses, the deck is where the composite conversation ends. The boards go down, the client is delighted, and the team moves on to the next project. But a growing number of businesses in the sector are looking up as well as down, and finding that cladding can offer a natural, profitable extension to the...
David Keegan reflects on RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 calling for more recognition for landscapers and debating the presence of AI. It’s that time of year again – the pinnacle of the horticultural calendar: the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. And yet, I find myself...
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, directors Debs and Rod Winrow explore the growth, lessons and highlights of Garden House Design. After 30 years, Debs and Rod Winrow are an integral part of our industry. There aren’t many events that they don’t have a presence at; not many who don’t know their names; and...
Pro Landscaper Project Awards 2025 winner in the Build £100,000 to £250,000 and Supreme Winner Neal Harrington is next in the hot seat for a round of quick fire questions in our Little Interviews series. Neal HarringtonDirector, Formosa Landscapes What do you hope to see for the industry this year? I'd like to see more recognition for...
Amy Cobbett As I sit down to write this thought leadership piece for Pro Landscaper, the topic that I’m covering is an obvious one. With curtains drawn, shorts on, and iced latte in hand, an intense heatwave is once again upon us with little sign of letting up and I am doing my best to hide from the soaring temperatures and unrelenting sun. But...
Pro Landscaper Project Awards 2025 winner in the Design £50,000 to £100,000 category Rosemary Coldstream is next in the hot seat for a round of quick fire questions in our Little Interviews series. Rosemary ColdstreamGarden and landscape designer, Rosemary Coldstream Garden Design What do you hope to see for the industry this year? Stability and...
In conversation with John Haeffele at Renson, he discusses the ever-growing trend of clients extending and enriching their time in the garden. What's your role at Renson? I’m the sales manager for the UK and Ireland looking after our strategic network of partners. I speak on a regular basis with our partners and have the honour of meeting end...
