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Great first day on the nature reserve loading out and zoning off work sites. 400m of tricky access was a great excuse to bring the quad out 🤠 Looking forward to getting stuck into this one. @sedroc135 Timber @eastkenttimber Dig out package @westgateplanthire Portaloo @mrwesso 👏🏽
Christmas Tree season has come around quick! We've secured a price freeze again from our award winning British grower: 5ft - £44 6ft - £53 7ft - £62 8ft - £71 10ft - £110 14ft - £300 20ft - £795 3-4ft potted - £50 Delivery dates: Sat am 30th Nov Sat am 7th Dec Sat am 14th Dec Sat am 21st Dec Book via WhatsApp BACS payment preferred 🎄
Some recent gallery fodder... Bespoke louvred pergola, revisited a driveway from last year, fencing galore and a few old bangers.
The Honda Foreman 450 is a great tool for pulling chippers through orchards, parks, woodlands, and nature reserves. It can also be utilised on farms, smallholdings, and remote areas for carting tools and materials on fencing, landscaping, and small civils works. But let's be honest - it's the closest thing to fun you can have while hard at work! Starting at £100+VAT per day, get in touch if you'd like to try it out.
Lovely feedback from a recent front garden landscape. 5 star Google reviews have been key to building trust among new prospects and clients. Lots of new business has been secured this year off the back of our great reviews, and I always appreciate the time taken to write them 🙏🏽
Huge thanks for all the support and custom we've received this year - July not quite over and the order book is now closed for 2024. We're now taking bookings for January onwards and not short on projects to survey. What a contrast from last September where I asked for your help to find work during the quietest spell since starting in 2012. Thank you all once again. Have a great summer! ☀️ Bill
A nice improvement to this property in Whitstable. Approx 90-95 ton out, and similar numbers brought back in to create this simple and stylish front garden and driveway. @bradstoneuk @jacksonsfencing @gravelmaster Thanks to everyone involved 🙌🏽
Low maintenance, high impact. Portuguese laurels, Lavenders, steel edgings, pergola, and @jacksonsfencing Venetian screening on a new development in Deal. Earned an invite to the client's primary residence inside the M25 to fit more Jacksons gates and fencing 🙏🏽 Will have to dust off the fake French plates for a little game of ULEZ chess♟️
After recently reinstating the work of tentative namesake William Masters, Canterbury born botanist and garden designer (left), it was good to bump into the real deal namesake Wilhelm Cordes in Hamburg. Like Masters, Cordes was no stranger to "Landschaftsgärtnerei" and is responsible for the Ohlsdorf Cemetery Park - highly impressive and the largest of its kind in the world. 🇩🇪 🌳 🇬🇧
32x 5🌟 reviews on Google. Can you help us get to 40? https://g.page/r/Cax2He2SRXiFEBM/review
Afters and befores of a brace of @jacksonsfencing courtyard gates restoring the grand entrance to this classy property in the countryside. Hung from Sapele-clad RSJs, and brick piers, no matter the application, we will find a solution. Thank you to my suppliers East Kent Timber Ltd and Jacksons Fencing and to @sedroc135 for bringing that touch of class to the installation.
Bucket list moment... got to work with my dad and my son on a @jacksonsfencing install down in Dargate 🙏🏽💛 Finished pics to follow tomorrow ⏰️
Metric project pack porcelain freshly Flowpointed
Privileged to be back at Walmer Castle for Phase 2 with our @the_excavator_forklift and a digger dumper package from @westgateplanthire
Taking bookings for late August onwards. For dropped kerbs, driveways, patios, fencing and tree care give us a call on 01227 287092 Don't forget we run a fleet of small plant to hire and an 18 ton grab lorry for those tight access sites!
Before and after, like for like entrance gate from @jacksonsfencing in #Canterbury
A @millboard_live_life_outside deck in Brushed Basalt. Large treads and shallow risers for wonderful clients with limited mobility. Sturdy @jacksonsfencing subframe and faultless decking supply from the team at @compositecds
☀️JAKSUN☀️ Great feasibility meeting this morning with Chris at @jacksonsfencing HQ, and with Jonathan from @sgsenergy Working on a collaboration to supply, install, commission, and monitor Solar Fence Panels for clients across Kent and further afield 🇬🇧
In old money, that's nearly 5'7" of rain in the last 18 months. Will it ever end? 🌧
Path works phase one complete at Walmer Castle. With thanks to all our suppliers @darylgannonlandscapes @middleton_tipper_services @allgreengb @westgateplanthire @phs_skip_and_grab_hire @mitchambuildingsuppliesltd @jacksonsfencing @john.quinney @parkersdesignandprint @spyder_creative @postpullers_uk_ltd
Thinking back to some of the pivotal moments in my journey, from learning the ropes to starting a business, a lot of the best opportunities came directly from these two exceptional plantsmen. Thank you for the years of support and mentoring Kevin Tooher and Philip Oostenbrink 🍻
A queen and two princes came to visit us at the Castle today 🏰
Deck built in Sturry using all @jacksonsfencing timber with a counter joisted subframe for extra rigidity. 25 year guarantee against wood rot and insect attack
Our Timberwolf TW230DHB out on hire to repeat client, and long-term supplier @barneyandthepizza Enjoy the power, my friend 👊🏽
Little @jacksonsfencing install this morning on Pean Hill. Non stop rain but a nice bit of one-man mesh tensioning inspired by Mick Gould Commercials Ltd and how they use any fixed object as an anchor when recovering HGVs!
Man, machine, grab, and shingle supplied for Pete and Stu at @chaucerpropertyservices Trench dug for new drainage run and a clean load of hardcore away on a rainy Wednesday in Canterbury. For kitchens and bathrooms, give these guys a call 📞
A little job from 7 years ago with Chaz at @crccoastal Concrete pads for a 2 post lift at @kent_tuning I was so paranoid they would fail we dug 6 or 7 times deeper than the recommended spec and flared the bottom of the holes. Dug and knocked up by hand over an evening; the proof was in the pudding as thousands of cars have been safely worked on since 👊🏽 I loved that old Passat estate 🥲
APL inspection passed 🤙 Landscaping is an industry with little to no regulation, so choosing an APL member to build your garden is a sensible move. As part of our membership, we have site inspections to assess workmanship, health and safety, staff welfare, etc. Behind the scenes, we are vetted for quoting transparency, company accounts, and a wealth of policies and procedures to ensure we provide a professional, sustainable, and compliant service. If you require a professional landscaping company for your garden, driveway, or fence, look no further than your local @apl_news member ⭐️
Happy Valentines Day garden lovers! 🩷 This is Lamprocapnos spectabilis or Asian Bleeding Heart in all its glory. Back when I was at Hadlow College, this plant had a different botanical name. Bonus point if you can remember it!
Four of us got together after a day's work to pull the chipper apart and get it running again. Nothing beats the camaraderie between men when there's machinery and problem solving involved. This is the example of what a man was when I was growing up, and what I hope to be for my sons too. Hands on, and gets shit done. We're heading into a world where machines are untameable and boys are becoming lazy. Today was like being back in simpler times when men were still practical and knew no other way than to work hard. Thanks for a great day lads. Long live the past!
William Masters was a nurseryman, garden designer and botanist born in Canterbury in 1796. Very excited to be restoring some of his work from the 1860s next month at a very well known English Heritage location in Kent 🏰🌿 #hortusduroverni
Nice review for a little patch up job done on my lunch break 😃
A herbivore's breakfast, followed by some more homework. We're currently one Curtis deep at the front and one Daddy deep at invert level 🌿⛏️🧡
#throwbackthursday I loved running these two stunners back in 2017 🌿
Happy New Year all! Our Timberwolf Chipper has just returned from a bank holiday hire ready for a new set of belts and a full service with parts from @spectrum_plant May the next 12 months bring good health, fortune, and prosperity to grafters everywhere ✨️
Merry Christmas to all our clients, colleagues, subbies, suppliers, friends and family. It's been another good year and we wish you all the best for 2024!
Farm quad sent out on hire this morning for some tight access timber extraction 🌳
Thanks to the @alexbirdtrees crew for calling us in to haul some big Tilia pieces near Dover 🏗🌳
Thank you for all your tree orders this year🎄 Merry Christmas everyone
The Whitstable trees are in 🎄 A contract I've been very fortunate to have for a good few years now 🙏🏽 Thank you @marsh1425 @whitsparkle @stocks_of_whitstable @owenbrooker__ @whitstableumbrellacentre @gardencafe_whitstable
A great day out to @futurescapeevent with some of my favourite landscapers, suppliers, innovators, and expert witnesses! 🤩
5 🌟 Small jobs are always treated with the same level of care as the big ones. Jacksons Fencing
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
How to pay for your Christmas tree: 1. Use the QR code to send payment 2. WhatsApp your name, tree size, address, and delivery date to 07762 555819 3. Crack open a cold one Remember, delivery dates are: 25/11 02/12 09/12 🎄🎁⛄️🍻 CT1 - CT12
A throwback from a good few years ago... Fast forward to now and I have CHRISTMAS TREE PRICES FOR YOU - frozen from last year! 🎄🎄🎄 3-4ft Potted - £50 5ft - £44 6ft - £53 7ft - £62 8ft - £71 10ft - £110 12ft - POA 15ft - POA 20ft - POA PRE-PAY ONLY THIS YEAR WhatsApp 07762 555819 for the payment details. Please send size, address, and chosen date. Three delivery dates available: Sat 25th Nov Sat 2nd Dec Sat 9th Dec 🎄🎄🎄
Can you guess what's on the horizon... 🎄
Wow what can I say. In the 17hrs since I posted a call to arms for your help I've had untold phone calls and messages of support along with a mindblowing 25 enquiries to follow up on!!! Not only that, a really interesting project I priced up a month or so back just emailed to accept and I'm on cloud nine. Sometimes you've got to stick the public vulnerability plunger down the pipeline to unclog a flurry of opportunities 🤣 I'm so grateful to you all. The boys will now get their birthday piano and ride on police car and you are all responsible for that. Blown away. This community is completely unrivalled ❤️
After 3 great years of abundance in the construction industry it seems the bubble is starting to burst as we approach what may or may not be a recession. We've had the good fortune to cherry pick great projects and enjoy the daily slog despite absorbing wild fuel costs and material price fluctuations. Some will admit and others won't, but we are heading into difficult times particularly for a luxury trade like landscaping. I've seen plenty of lads up and down the country selling up assets and looking for employed roles as the pipelines dry up. From our own perspective I'm sad to admit that we're quoting a lot less than normal and converting next to nothing from our enquiries. So in true Bill fashion I'm being transparent with my contacts that I'm actively seeking landscaping projects to pay the mortgage and feed the kids. I've been very fortunate to drive 8 wheel tippers overnight recently for a good friend who has been kind enough to share some work and I'm sure he knows I treat the lorry and contract like it's my own and hopefully I'm an asset rather than a burden to his enterprise. So to my contacts, what I'm hoping for is to be useful to you too. Concreting, tarmacing, fencing, gates, dropped kerbs, driveways, patios, tree and hedge care, you name it, small or large. I also run a small fleet of plant you might find useful too: chipper, quad, micro digger, track barrow, 18t grab, rotavators, 3.5t tipper trailer, ped roller, etc. We're based in Canterbury and typically cover Thanet and Canterbury districts but of course I'd be willing to run a bit further. We're APL, Bradstone and Jacksons Fencing Approved. I'd like to think we're a pleasant company to work with. There's a handful of small jobs on the desk left to quote early in the week so fingers crossed the November schedule fills out a bit. In my 11 years of trading I've never had to resort to a message like this but now's not the time to be proud. To all my industry colleagues: stay resolute and keep pushing on. Don't throw the towel in too early, but ultimately make the right choice for your own sanity and the wellbeing of your family. Thank you for reading, I'd love to hear from you if you think we could be of assistance. Bill Cordès WhatsApp 07762 555819 01227 287092 bill@cordeshorticultural.co.uk
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