http://www.danscapegardens.com en-gb danscapegardens.com 2011-11-23T00:00:00Z danscapegardens.com http://www.danscapegardens.com/page10.htm#107338 Winter can be the best time for you to have your garden landscaped. As Landscape Gardeners we enjoy a lot of outdoors weather. In the spring and summer months our customers and friends often remark on their envy of us as outdoors workers soaking up the rays as they sit looking longingly out of their office windows. Then leaves begin to fall and the temperature drops days become shorter and our glamorous tans fade away along with the envy of our fellow office workers. As the number of hours spent in your garden per week plummet in direct correlation with the temperature during these months it is easy to push any thoughts of your gardens existence out of your head completely until spring. As is usually the case spring joyfully skips round the corner and presents you with a stark reminder that your garden isnt just a cold place full of leaves covered in ice it is something that needs attention once more. The plans you had last year come racing back and soon phone calls are being made to... 2011-11-22 20:42:49 http://www.danscapegardens.com/page10.htm#73547 How to avoid the need for planning permission for your Driveway project. Sustainable drainage systems. S.U.D.S. Increasingly more and more people are having their front gardens landscaped turning them into driveways to provide off street parking. This has obvious benefits such as lower insurance premiums and a guaranteed parking space when you get home with a car load of shopping but there is one negative environmental impact that you may not be aware of. By creating yet another hard impermeable surface in an urban area which already has a very low percentage of free draining land you would be adding to an existing drainage problem. For example If a front garden that consisted of a small path a lawn and a flower bed was completely paved over the rain water that used to drain slowly through the permeable surfaces of the original garden would now run off the new paving. It would then go down into the already overworked sewers some of which are up to a hundred years old and then... 2010-8-23 17:10:55