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TheForestGardener
@leighscotford
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Landscape gardener, Autograss racer and car enthusiasts. Blogging about my personal activities and achievements.
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2019-04-21 11:39
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leighscotford
HiveGarden
2024-01-30 17:45
English oak pergola sat on staddle stones.
A quick walk through how we constructed this feature.
$ 3.758
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leighscotford
blog
2024-01-28 14:38
The Volancia maiden season
First season in the volancia, on the whole, a positive and enjoyable experience.
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-09-21 20:40
A hard day at the office, as a soil relocation engineer.
Moving large amounts of topsoil by hand.
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leighscotford
homesteading
2022-09-18 22:28
My small DIY solar panel set up.
A basic Installation guide and results from a cheap solar setup.
$ 5.263
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-09-17 12:45
Complementary contrasting materials. Composite decking and rustic oak sleepers
This job is finally coming to a close.
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-09-15 20:41
Woodwork in the wet, again!
Finishing the sleeper steps and fitting the deck boards.
$ 6.278
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leighscotford
hivegarden
2022-09-14 19:32
More sleeper work today.
Another day working with oak sleepers. Building a set of steps this time.
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-09-13 21:14
A few oak raised beds built in a day.
Quick simple raised beds built in a few hours.
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leighscotford
hivegarden
2022-09-12 22:41
Another composite deck started.
Updates on our current landscaping jobs. Professional builder, Uk based.
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-08-22 21:21
Quick easy deck built in less than 6 hours.
Fast and simple transformation using sustainable materials.
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leighscotford
hivegarden
2022-08-18 11:29
Slightly unusual iroko decking
So this decking was all part of the same garden as the last blog on my profile where I wrote about the green oak pergola we also built. This design was unusual as the decking was to be sat onto a rendered
$ 12.770
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leighscotford
gardening
2022-08-15 21:50
A quick simple green oak pergola.
First thing to think about when building a pergola like this, is to consider some of the properties of green oak. Number 1, it’s never massively uniform. This does depend on the supplier a lot, but even
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leighscotford
garden
2022-08-14 19:05
Landscaping. Large pond in 1 week.
A quick guide in installing a large pond
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leighscotford
gardening
2021-12-27 01:04
Decembers patio makeover.
Makeover using natural stone all sourced locally.
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leighscotford
motorsport
2021-01-30 23:27
Quick catch up on the Volancia
First of all apologies for the lack of posts but both myself and my girlfriend are going to try to blog a lot more frequently from now on. As for the Autograss project, it has very much taken the back
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leighscotford
gardening
2020-08-16 22:15
UK barn building step by step. Part 1.
As we are landscape gardeners which usually involves paving, walling, groundwork’s, etc, this was quite an unusual project for us. We originally arrived at this job without this project on our contract,
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leighscotford
gardening
2020-08-02 07:58
Unusual fence building yesterday.
We don’t usually do a huge amount of work on Saturdays, but with the way things are at the minute with Covid and it’s restrictions, and with many predictions of how tough things to come could be, we are
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leighscotford
gardening
2020-07-24 23:19
Revisiting a garden build of ours, a few years later.
Nothing is better than revisiting a garden that we have built, to find it well maintained, and also has had a lot of use and enjoyment. This is exactly what we found when we were called back to a job last
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leighscotford
OCD
2020-07-16 21:41
Quick pond refurbishment, including deck and boardwalk.
Another job nestled in the Monmouthshire side of the river wye, all overlooking the Forest of Dean. This time it was to refurbish and older pond that wasn’t installed brilliantly, and to add a few other
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leighscotford
Faces of Hive
2020-06-24 08:01
The importance of a permeable driveway, and timber clad steps construction.
This job was from a few years back, located in Monmouth Wales. We have built gardens in this part of town before and all of them have not been easy. The housing estate is situated on an incredibly steep
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