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19/07/2023

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Dear page followers, many of you might be following this page mistakenly thinking it to be my community project page whi...
20/09/2021

Dear page followers, many of you might be following this page mistakenly thinking it to be my community project page which is actually Yourspace.sutton

Please click over to that page and click like if that is the case.
This page is more for my off site landscaping exploits and these pictures are from a garden makeover just completed in Cheam village

How long will it take? How much will it cost? Now that I see the space developing do you think we can do it differently?...
04/11/2017

How long will it take? How much will it cost? Now that I see the space developing do you think we can do it differently?

It is a difficult balance in trying to keep everyone happy, and in keeping to any planned schedule, whether the work is tiny or too much. In most cases everyone wants you to leave a job when they are happy and in my ethos that's means just carrying on with a job until it feels that it's right. That is a difficult ethos to explain to people who want to know everything up front, but then who don't want you to finish unless they are truly happy, and making people happy is really all my work us really after. Believe me I don't work like a dog just to get paid, but that still means there are people waiting who are not going to be happy.
Most people don't see every little part of the work that is done, along the way to making them truly happy and it's only the end result when they are rewarded with the relief that they were right to trust you, in making the vision become a reality, and that comes from sticking it out as best as you can, despite the fact that there are other customers waiting, not happy that you seemingly are giving their needs any serious attention or priority, but when I get to them, the same thing all over again applies; I won't feel I can leave until they are truly happy, and that means someone else will always be waiting and feeling like you are letting them down.
What price would you put on being truly happy? What price do you put on endless hours, days and weeks of aching bones?
Well I don't do it unless it makes me happy, and that's what you pay for and why I try to convince you I'm worth the wait.

The trouble with most of the landscaping jobs I take on, is that I rarely budget the quotes enough to make the job worth...
11/10/2017

The trouble with most of the landscaping jobs I take on, is that I rarely budget the quotes enough to make the job worthwhile, and then I always continue long past what was agreed, in a bid to leave the job in a way that I am happy represents me.
Nearly always, the job finishes in fading light as I keep adding more and more finishing touches,and everything I create is no longer about just serving the customer, but about doing myself any justice.
This job went on far longer than it should have, but then I've been so busy developing the community project side of the social business, that it has been hard dedicating myself properly to the kind of work that pays, but then I am always so chuffed to be word of mouth recommended, that I don't ever want to let anyone down, and so I cram in all that I can until either it's me or the Sun that eventually falls down.

How many late evenings and endless working weekends is it reasonable to give up for what you believe in, and in trying t...
27/03/2017

How many late evenings and endless working weekends is it reasonable to give up for what you believe in, and in trying to do something new?
I haven't posted much recently about my private landscaping work because too much of my focus and energies have been ploughed into our yourspace.sutton community project and so we haven't taken on quite as much work as we once used to.
Luckily I don't miss the buzz I get from landscaping private gardens too much as I still get it a plenty from landscaping the grounds of the community project, but at the end of the day, like everyone else, I need the income and work too!
It has been a big sacrifice and one that just seems set to continue through all of this year, trying to make more of a living from my social enterprise and not rely so much on the physical toil and demands that landscaping takes on the body, but in actual fact the demands of the community project take just as much from my soul, though I don't post about that part of it on its own page.
My work partner and colleague of 13 years is about to start a sabbatical that may lead him into permanent retirement and it represents a massive change and challenge to what I manage to do and the weekly workload that goes mostly unpaid.
Up until now, the efforts have always seemed to be about building the kind of social gardening business that would allow us to practice our career skills in a way that would be less harsh on the body, and to that extent we have managed to take on a derelict nursery in the middle of nowhere and make it a place that people volunteer at. We have managed to secure teaching business from partnering colleges, we have managed to secure special needs school weekly workshops, and we have managed to create an alternative provision for school refuses and pupils with challenging behaviours.
Social services and charitable organisations such as Mencap call me asking if I can support someone frequently, in a working capacity and up until now I have always struggled to say no, because after all I am trying to establish a different kind of business, and in truth what I have created is kind of unique, just that there isn't anyone else who it seems is able to help me, because most of all that I do has been free, and you can't find people committed to creating something that takes a long term vision if they have to constantly repeatedly give their time up free!
I am forever having to reinvent the landscape of what I am trying to do, and it always demands more and more effort.
I don't want to be landscaping and maintaining people's gardens alone until I am old and my body can take it no more, and so I put everything into creating this new working environment with social elements, but it is based in the back of a park that people use mostly at weekends, and so I now am faced at opening Saturdays and Sundays as well as all that I do, and escaping from the physical demands on the body is replaced with enduring every challenge that's incoming and new!
I don't know how I am going to do it if I am really honest, but I am committed to it in a way that no one knows or understands, and that is what comes of working alone.
Now the landscape is once again changing and I am about to start plans for running a garden cafe and start work on creating a series of covered indoor garden spaces to act as tea gardens to the social enterprise and community gardens I run, but I still very much need to keep up the private gardening work to pay for all I am trying to do, and all I am trying to do, is cope with all I find myself having to do, to keep up with the demands of always wanting to landscape the ideas that keep coming to the mind, before it takes its toil on the soul and the body.
I thought private gardening was hard, but believe me, community gardening is just as draining and it goes on longer each day than there are sun hours in the sky!

Overcoming a challenge in a garden is what I love best, and creating new exciting spaces.
06/03/2017

Overcoming a challenge in a garden is what I love best, and creating new exciting spaces.

There is nothing like a new lawn to make your garden like an alfresco room in your home, just with a lush growing carpet...
05/07/2016

There is nothing like a new lawn to make your garden like an alfresco room in your home, just with a lush growing carpet underfoot.
Why don't you invest some passion into your outdoor garden and let the space pay you back endlessly over the years as the best room in the house, well kind of!

From never having been asked, we've now built two in succession, and it seems that designer chicken runs and coups are a...
15/06/2016

From never having been asked, we've now built two in succession, and it seems that designer chicken runs and coups are all the rage.
On the back of glowing feedback from one set of happy chicken owners, we were invited to makeover another poultry parlour, commissioned to make something that would add to the garden instead of take away.
It's so rewarding working to your own design with the only objective being make sure that you please, but when people engage your services on reputation alone, there is no way you're not aiming to please.
Most of the work that my colleague and I do always takes twice as long as we planned for and so is only half as profitable as we hoped, but we always come away with something we're proud of. Something we want to add to our portfolio of previous work.
So if you want something to spruce up your garden but haven't really got a clue what it might be, put your trust in people who just want to make it happen.
There is a reason that those who trade under the motto of 'job and out' never get any recommendations or repeat work, they keep falling fowl of their reputations, and in the garden and landscaping world, a reputation is all that you've got!

It's quite something to be entrusted to create something visually pleasing in someone's garden and then to be left to ge...
08/06/2016

It's quite something to be entrusted to create something visually pleasing in someone's garden and then to be left to get on and do it. I am always chuffed when the customer trusts us enough in the hope that we will deliver.
It is that kind of trust that makes us want to go the extra mile, and everyone of our garden creations gets the same love and attention as if it were a garden of our own.
Every new project becomes our little baby and it's hard to finish up and have to walk away, from something our hands had a role in creating. It's work I know, but it differs from working a nine til five as a garden creation has no exact stop time except when you're feeling happy.
That is the end of the job I guess, knowing we're walking away happy with what we've done, and that the customer has had their expectations met, and if we are lucky, hopefully surpassed too.
We don't advertise what we do, or actively go looking for work, we rely on word of mouth and that means making a good impression is what we simply must strive to do, in the hope that someone will recommend our service to you.

A beautiful garden is something we all wish for, but what is it that makes up the beauty in the first place? Is it a pla...
22/05/2016

A beautiful garden is something we all wish for, but what is it that makes up the beauty in the first place? Is it a place to sit and escape, or a place to wander and dream, or just a room to share with the fairies?
A garden if you have one, can be the most special place in your home and the only part of it that grows with you!
Our children will grow and eventually fledge but our garden babies will never leave us, instead it is the place that is always giving, always receiving and always forgiving. A garden finds a way to pay you back for all the sole time and effort you gave it over the years and as it does so, it connects with the soul, a place where nothing, not even lost lonely time ever grows old.

Fed up of floppy messy electric wire fencing spoiling the look of your garden? Bespoke Chicken run and coop to complimen...
22/02/2016

Fed up of floppy messy electric wire fencing spoiling the look of your garden? Bespoke Chicken run and coop to compliment any garden.

The before and after for a patio entrance way to a future summerhouse building.
06/02/2016

The before and after for a patio entrance way to a future summerhouse building.

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