Services for Garden
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Areas covered under this Category are as follows:
- Awnings
- Buildings
- Clearance
- Climbing Frame
- Decking
- Design
- Doors/Gates
- Fencing
- Furniture
- Garage Doors
- Gazebos
- Golf Course
- Historic Gardens
- Hydroseeding
- Land draining
- Landscaping
- Lawn Turfing
- Maintenance
- Patio
- Playground
- Ponds/Features
- Roof Gardens
- Security Fencing
- Sprinkler
- Sports Grounds
- Tree House
- Tree work
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NHIC membership comprises many of the most important companies and organisations operating in the home improvement sector - www.nhic.org.uk
Lead Contractors Association (LCA) - www.leadcontractorsassociation.com LCA comprises of specialist contractors committed to providing quality craftsmanship for their clients, supported by associate members supplying materials and ancillary services.
British Association of Landscape Industries - www.bali.org.uk
Door & Hardware Federation - www.dhfonline.org.uk
Fencing Contractors Association - www.fencingcontractors.org
Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) - www.the-hta.org.uk
The Arboricultural Association - www.trees.org.uk
The Society of Garden Designers (SGD) - www.sgd.org.uk
UK Rainwater Harvesting Association - www.ukrha.org
- B&Q
- Wickes
- Homebase
A to B
- Abreuvoir: a drinking place for animals sometimes treated as a garden ornament.
- Aeration: putting air into the soil profile either manually with a garden fork or with a purpose built machine.
- Arboriculture: the professional care and management of trees.
- Arcade: is a set of arches supported by columns.
- Arch: is a structure of wedge-shaped bricks, stones or other materials, which lock together and can be supported from the sides.
- Arm stopper: is a kind of shock absorber that prevents the folding arms from hitting the carrier bar and causing damage when the awning is retracted.
- Aspect: the direction in which a garden faces.
- Attached: awning attaches to house/structure either at the wall, eaves/fascia or roof top.
- Blower: a device which circulates air through the water of a pool or spa.
- Bower: is a garden seat protected by foliage.
- Bracing: a method used to support a weak area of a tree using rods, cables or straps without having to significantly reduce or remove the weaker area of the tree.
- Brackets: are used for attaching the awning to the wall, ceiling or rafter (wall bracket, ceiling bracket or rafter bracket).
C to D
- Cabana: a small cabin, simple enclosure, or tent like structure erected at beaches or swimming pools as bathhouses.
- Carrier bar: is connected to the wall, ceiling or rafters by the awning brackets. The individual elements of the awning mechanism (the arm brackets) are attached to the carrier bar.
- Chain link fencing: with its distinctive wire diamond pattern, chain link fencing is a popular and cheap garden fence.
- Clear span: the distance from the house to the beam supporting the posts.
- Compost: decayed plant matter usually used as a plant conditioner or fertilizer
- Coppicing: a traditional method carried out on a rotation basis, whereby tree stems are cut down to the stump to stimulate new growth.
- Coronary garden: is used to grow flowers which could be used for wreaths and garlands.
- Crank drive: transfers the power for rolling up or unrolling the fabric on the fabric roller.
- Crown clean: the removal of dead, dying, damaged or diseased wood. It also includes removal of crossing branches and dangerous branches.
- Crown lift/raise: pruning the lower branches of the tree to a specified height above ground level to provide an increased head clearance.
- Crown thinning: is a selective pruning method which involves removing branches from a dense tree canopy. This reduces stress on branches. It allows an increased amount of light and wind to pass through the crown.
- Crown: the collective area of the tree formed by the branches and foliage above the stem (the trunk up to the first branch).
- Deadheading: removing spent flowers that have already bloomed. This is done for the benefit of the plant to prevent disease.
- Deciduous: these are plants that lose their leaves at the end of the growing season e.g. Maple trees.
- Decking: raised wooden flooring used as a feature of a garden.
- Decline: describes the appearance of a tree showing signs of stress or is dying.
- Domestic irrigation: irrigation systems installed at residential premises.
E to F
- Electric fencing: a barrier that uses low-voltage electricity to deter animals from crossing a boundary.
- Everblooming: flowers that will bloom all season.
- Evergreen: a plant that will bear foliage throughout the year.
- Fabric roller: the awning fabric is rolled round the fabric roller. When the awning is opened or retracted the fabric is wound off or onto the roller.
- Fake grass: another term for artificial grass.
- Fernery: is a collection of ferns, either indoors or outdoors.
- Folding arm: folding arms are a key component of an awning and work like human arms.
- Freestanding: awnings use no structure to help support it and relies solely on the posts.
- Front rail: is the outermost part of the awning. Both the fabric and the folding arms are attached to it.
G to H
- Garden design: the process of planning out the architecture of a garden prior to landscaping.
- Gardenhouse: an ornamental, usually open, garden structure used for dining, viewing, or relaxing.
- Gazebo: a small structure, usually roofed and open-sided, from which one may gaze out over the surrounding grounds.
- Greenhouse: a structure enclosed by glass and devoted to the cultivation and protection of plants.
- Header: load carrying beam with post connected under.
I to J
K to L
- Landscaping: the planning and building of a garden with an emphasis on improving its aesthetic look and feel.
M to N
- Meadow: area where wild plants and flowers are allowed to grow together.
- Micro sprinklers: are smaller than traditional pop-up sprinklers and are designed for watering flower beds, without damaging plants.
- Misters: are micro sprinklers fitted with mist heads so that the sprinkler sprays a mist of water.
- Mixed border: is a flower bed with a mix of different plants (eg herbaceous plants and shrubs).
- Natural fencing: is made from sustainable natural fibres such as bamboo, willow and reed.
O to P
- Orangery: is a conservatory made for the cultivation of oranges.
- Orchard: is a place for growing fruit trees.
- Patio: hard surfaced area usually immediately beside a house.
- Pavilion: a part of a building that projects outward from the rest, or the detached or semidetached units into which a building is sometimes divided.
- Pergola: a structure with open wood-framed roofs, often latticed and supported by regularly spaced posts or columns, and covered by climbing plants.
- Ph: the scale where the acidity and alkalinity of soil is measured. It starts at "1" for acid and goes to "14" for alkali. Most gardens will fall between 5.5 - 8.6.
- Pinery: is conservatory for growing pineapples.
- Pinetum: is a collection of coniferous trees.
- Planting plan: the designs and drawings of how the garden will look after landscaping is complete, made by the landscaper, usually in consultation with the customer.
- Playhouse: a small house-like structure designed for children to play in.
- Pollarding : the complete or partial removal of the crown back to the main stem, this is carried out to encourage new healthy growth and can be carried out on a rotational basis.
- Pop-up sprinklers: gear driven pop up sprinklers that are ideal for lawn irrigatio.
- Projection: the distance out from a house to the end of the cover.
- Pruning; the cutting off leaves or branches within limits in order to remove dead or diseased foliage or branches.
Q to R
- Rill: a shallow drain used to channel water to or from a water feature.
- Rose garden: sometimes called a rosarium is a rose garden, often circular.
S to T
- Scalping: an incorrect mowing practice where the grass is shaved too short.
- Scarify: a process used to remove thatch or moss in lawns..
- Shed: a small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.
- Spent: bulbs and flowers of a plant that have finished blooming.
- Stump grinding: removal of a tree stump.
- Succulents: plants which have thick, waxy leaves which allow them to retain water well.
- Summerhouse: a structure of varying forms in gardens or parks designed to provide cool shady places of relaxation or retreats from summer heat.
- Sundial: is a device which uses the Sun to tell the time, much-used as a garden ornament.
- Sunhouse: a building or room designed to receive maximum sunlight.
- Tired soil: a term referring to a piece of land that has been exhausted of its nutrient value.
- Topsoil: soil that is on the very top.
- Treillage: is elaborate trellis-work, used to support plants in gardens.
- Trellis fencing: a wooden or metal lattice which encourages climbing plants and vines to form a natural fence.
U to V
W to X
- Wall mounting: when mounted on a wall, extruded aluminium awning brackets are attached firmly to the wall. The awning is hung on these brackets and screwed on.
- Water feature: piece of garden architecture which uses running water to create an effect, e.g. a fountain or waterfall.
- Water pumps: used in some irrigation systems to generate water pressure.
- Wilderness: is a wood, kept for pleasure, with walks.
- Wilt: a plant disease. This can be caused by bacteria or fungi.
- Wind break: a purposeful planting of hedges and trees to protect a field, home, or garden against forceful winds.
Y to Z