<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:34:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Crawley</category><category>gardening</category><category>Dorking</category><category>ayegardening</category><category>Horsham</category><category>landscaping</category><category>surrey</category><category>artificial grass</category><category>landscape services</category><category>patio construction</category><category>redhill</category><category>reigate</category><category>West Sussex</category><category>artificial 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(Ayegardening)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>117</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-519309603035523986</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-06-27T17:54:49.387+01:00</atom:updated><title>Ayegardening #SmallBiz100 Video</title><atom:summary type="text"></atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2020/06/ayegardening-smallbiz100-video.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/c1aSWY2qAT8/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-5585521851782022433</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-08-10T17:40:18.845+01:00</atom:updated><title>Long thin side garden design</title><atom:summary type="text"></atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/08/long-thin-side-garden-design.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/-vr12RPlIag/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-8231784823622095155</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-08-05T23:13:38.982+01:00</atom:updated><title>Welcome to our family run business!</title><atom:summary type="text">
I took a look at our YouTube Channel this afternoon and was horrified to find so many videos from 2011-2014 but hardly anything from the past 4 years. Therefore as a way of refreshing our YouTube Channel I have created this small video to show who we are and some of the work that we do!



Hopefully this will inspire me to keep our channel up to date. 



Hope you like it, 



Susan x










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</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/03/the-apl-awards-2018.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TA98YxF9r8U/WrAfIBNxDxI/AAAAAAAAMIQ/3aVq9LtAZ0c6hQvWwOMMcxRn2myONHktgCLcBGAs/s72-c/1486481980240.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-6602243264866327535</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-03-15T20:57:05.949+00:00</atom:updated><title>Back garden landscaping in Crawley with new front gravel drive</title><atom:summary type="text">

In January of this year we had a client contact us who was the mother of one of our previous clients. She had a back garden which had large borders, an old patio and a lawn. 

Barbara needed a back garden which was more manageable, with less planting space, a new patio area and reduced size lawn. She also needed some new fencing and trellis to hide the garage. In the front garden Barbara wanted</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/03/back-garden-landscaping-in-crawley-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RR6SV-TKkKk/WqrXn9UMzdI/AAAAAAAAMDY/RTq_KPjh570Bk65wVExY67dLko6TMxuZwCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_3838.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-7595080595534764354</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-03-09T22:14:26.293+00:00</atom:updated><title>Garden re-design in Reigate, Surrey</title><atom:summary type="text">In July 2017 our client&#39;s approached us after having their garden designed by Renee Canter from The Girl Who Gardens. 

They had some designs drawn and they wanted to develop their garden that was around 10m by 18m. 

After some discussion over what the redesign would entail and providing a ball park figure for the work, we set about arranging a site visit to assess the garden and discuss </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/03/garden-re-design-in-reigate-surrey.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xizlbyQj9Vs/WqLpdqJz7xI/AAAAAAAAMCM/fZZ6Mcq9_X4-D0OR4oRynw3bLvnrXRD-gCPcBGAYYCw/s72-c/image3.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3247677438668150427</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-02-26T21:38:18.253+00:00</atom:updated><title>The SBS Event 2018 with Theo Paphitis </title><atom:summary type="text">On 23rd February 2018, Aye and I attended our 4th SBS event. 

To those who don&#39;t know, SBS stands for Small Business Sunday. It was started by Theo Paphitis after Sunday lunch. Theo always prepares for the week but getting things sorted on a Sunday afternoon. He thought to himself about all the small businesses doing the same and came up with a way to give them a small business boost. Just one </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/02/the-sbs-event-2018-with-theo-paphitis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BA8X078nJvY/WpHObrY7CBI/AAAAAAAAL-I/1uPN4fc8540lFWz1z1PinI4gkz8E61HxwCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_4433.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3972452779509711299</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-03-15T21:07:17.662+00:00</atom:updated><title>Slate patio, black slate walling and golden quartzite gravel drive in Storrington</title><atom:summary type="text">
In October 2017 our client contacted us with an enquiry to construct a gated side entrance with a gravel &#39;driveway&#39; for occasional use for garden machinery and some walling, steps and paving. 

Aye and I (Susan) attended for a site visit after receiving an idea of the brief from the client.
We discussed our client&#39;s ideas for the area. He had had some work done previously with a slate patio but </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/02/slate-patio-black-slate-walling-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5suQA0EhJDY/WnxiubTC2sI/AAAAAAAAL7c/mCDCm0V5tqc9JK7fBdPprm4VUzWAg_T7wCEwYBhgL/s72-c/HDYQz0RnTXS57wiqJg44wA.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-1150564086945050913</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-02-06T11:14:22.346+00:00</atom:updated><title>Grey Indian sandstone patio and brick retaining walls in Cranleigh</title><atom:summary type="text">Back at the start of 2017 we undertook a garden makeover for a client in Crawley. We were approached by Garden Designer Cherry Mills who designed the side garden transforming a sloping grassy area into a usable patio space with retaining walls and kandla grey paving.

Here is a reminder for those who haven&#39;t seen it:




Before front/side garden photo





The design and start of progress





</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2018/02/grey-indian-sandstone-patio-and-brick.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lzApws1SSxY/Wnl-LbySwZI/AAAAAAAAL4I/HJvNr4ls53s7LzC6UhBUGAM6lNFxeUKWgCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_9677.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-38503679014722079</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-02-08T13:03:22.881+00:00</atom:updated><title>Ayegardening is an APL Awards 2018 finalist</title><atom:summary type="text">






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</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2017/11/ayegardening-is-apl-awards-2018-finalist.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RtBsEdZ63LA/WhlWvOANERI/AAAAAAAAL0s/Rk25NmsS-pAKwiiR8pswKQQLs3bIs8f6wCK4BGAYYCw/s72-c/APL-Awards-2018-Category-Logos---Finalist.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3180867958069834992</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2017 08:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-07-22T09:13:29.849+01:00</atom:updated><title>Landscaping services in Surrey, Sussex and Greater London</title><atom:summary type="text"></atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2017/07/landscaping-services-in-surrey-sussex.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/UPd7ttPWq1o/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3064453020555226503</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-05-30T21:08:10.542+01:00</atom:updated><title>10 popular plants that you won&#39;t need to buy again.</title><atom:summary type="text">We have recently joined Houzz and I was browsing some of the articles on there and came across this article on 10 plants that are easy to propagate. I have tried it before with geraniums but I will be sure to try some of these others too!

You can find the article here:









You May Never Have to Buy These Plants Again





While we are talking about Houzz, do you know what Houzz is? Well </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2017/05/10-popular-plants-that-you-wont-need-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-1732596160325868390</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-11-09T18:15:30.034+00:00</atom:updated><title>Ayegardening is an APL Awards 2017 finalist</title><atom:summary type="text">



We are proud to announce that Ayegardening has been shortlisted for
the APL Awards 2017. 


The annual awards ceremony, sponsored by
Bradstone, takes place on Friday 17 March 2017 at The Brewery, London, to
celebrate and recognise the outstanding landscaping carried out by members of
the APL. 


Ayegardening’s project The Sunken
Patio is in the running for the Project Value under £20,000 </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/11/ayegardening-is-apl-awards-2017-finalist.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eZ9TlJEWT9A/WCMTv7OqUVI/AAAAAAAALkg/PZ0aM4QBCGIJPn3KSnGYT1fP3UUDZypRgCEw/s72-c/IMG_2559-1024x768.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-1522872101676314047</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-11-09T12:33:28.689+00:00</atom:updated><title>Two of our Autumn Brown sandstone projects featured on the London Stone blog.</title><atom:summary type="text">After hearing the story of how we landscaped two gardens next door to each other in Ashtead, London Stone asked to feature those projects on their blog.



We are also super proud that one of those projects has been shortlisted for an APL award!



You can find the blog on the link below...




Autumn Brown Sandstone Creates Double The Job Prospects























</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/11/two-of-our-autumn-brown-sandstone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZVxeXdbizc/WCGuO9TTSGI/AAAAAAAALkA/LBl1sWslv7QuJIHAjOrdmdEAi8ykTi_SwCLcB/s72-c/IMG_2545.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3770803030689540174</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-09-29T20:50:14.636+01:00</atom:updated><title>Creating a more manageable garden for Harry and Lillian</title><atom:summary type="text">
With
Autumn officially here and in full swing, we look back at a fantastic summer
and a great project we got to be a part of in Ashtead



Having
contemplated several landscapers, Harry and Lillian came to us when we were
working on their neighbours&#39; garden. Impressed with the work we had done, they
asked us to work on their own.



Both
in retirement, Harry and Lillian wanted to transform their</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/09/creating-more-manageable-garden-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7_7t3-Lr6XI/V-1pTKeh3rI/AAAAAAAALic/Jg46Q28fN0Y0Mn0VxNkIkwkLzFqwAWasACLcB/s72-c/IMG_3060.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-355547560012099695</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-03-19T20:42:02.808+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artificial lawn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ashtead</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Banstead</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Epsom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fake grass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fake lawns</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Horsham</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lawn care</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lawn treatments</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">surrey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sutton</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">turfing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">turfing in Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">West Sussex</category><title>Spring time... a time of renewal.</title><atom:summary type="text">I have been meaning to write this blog for a few weeks but the past few weeks I don&#39;t even remember sitting down of an evening! It has been a really busy time with enquiries as a few weeks back we had this one sunny day and I think half of Surrey decided they needed to do something about their garden!

I have been spending every minute catching up with my quote writing, off on site visits, </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/03/spring-time-time-of-renewal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mxbr61iZgAI/Vu2rVmf1jpI/AAAAAAAALaw/z3A9cx1tAjotbb2T6wqs5mbg37YdnH8RA/s72-c/IMG_2419.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-103302731366679653</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-02-21T21:15:49.019+00:00</atom:updated><title>Paving and Patio Construction Service - Sussex, Surrey and London</title><atom:summary type="text">Just over a week ago when we were at the SBS Event put on by Theo Paphitis, one of things, amongst many, that we picked up on was using more video for our business.

So...

uh oh I have lost Aye to iMovie! lol

Another one of Aye&#39;s creations...

Just got to get him in front of the camera now!


</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/02/paving-and-patio-construction-service.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/mjb1IcaCWag/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3966276619223903516</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-02-15T21:41:45.838+00:00</atom:updated><title>Aye and Susan at the SBS Event 2016</title><atom:summary type="text">I have finally had some time to sit down and put together some thoughts on our second SBS event that happened on Friday 12th February 2016 at the ICC in Birmingham. 

(Here is our blog on the first SBS event after we won in 2014: SBS Event 2015 if you would like some background to our win)

As with any event that Aye and I attend a lot of organisation goes into actually getting us there in the </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/02/aye-and-susan-at-sbs-event-2016.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g7zHi_52hEM/VsDus1rJs1I/AAAAAAAALWY/8w8PMUY4yBA/s72-c/IMG_0001.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-35566490455522374</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-02-08T13:17:38.383+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artificial grass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artificial lawn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driveway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driveways</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fake grass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fake lawns</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grass on a drive</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Horsham</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">leatherhead</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">redhill</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reigate</category><title>Can I Use Artificial Grass On A Driveway?</title><atom:summary type="text">I just had a phone call this morning from a client who had a muddy patch in front of their house that they parked a car on. They wanted to know if they could install artificial grass on this area and still park on it. 

My first answer was no definitely not as this would not be a long term solution. Turning on the grass would cause the grass to raise up, rip fibres up and generally be unsuitable </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/02/can-i-use-artificial-grass-on-driveway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H55WKjeW9FM/VriAuu8ErEI/AAAAAAAALWA/EQW7B7G3PfQ/s72-c/grass_cell.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3446277319550174863</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-02-02T21:01:00.297+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Burma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">education</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">London Stone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Myanmar</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">no child left behind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the right to a free education</category><title>No Child Left Behind - The Right to a Good Education and to Enjoy Childhood.</title><atom:summary type="text">Recently we moved our middle two children out of a pre-school where we were travelling 10/15 minutes by car to get there. Instead we moved them to the local pre-school where our eldest boy already went to school. 

One of the reasons for this is that we wanted to walk to school and not have to keep getting in the car. 

Our middle boy does half days and starts at 12:30 so that means we do quite a</atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/02/no-child-left-behind-right-to-good.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eVBDQAmalRk/VrEPHFFzryI/AAAAAAAAS5M/J5tjluqDViU/s72-c/P1020003.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-640718259578512183</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2016 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-30T20:25:25.759+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artificial grass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artificial lawn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bose speakers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family run business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Horsham</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">January</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">play equipment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">redhill</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reigate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">West Sussex</category><title>Enjoying the garden in January!</title><atom:summary type="text">It is January 30th and the sun was shining beautifully today. It is quite mild compared to other January&#39;s but it feels fresh and with the blue sky and sunshine our children were desperate to play outside. 

Apart from our baby, our three other children have been enjoying playing on the play equipment outside today and the best thing is there is no mud coming into the house!

Normally at this </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/01/enjoying-garden-in-january.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OJK3s-Ir2Hw/VqzoTn713eI/AAAAAAAAS4Q/zygkkrTaWF0/s72-c/IMG_0687.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-2037458297087978934</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-29T10:11:57.781+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Blog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Horsham</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">landscaping company</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">newsletters</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">redhill</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reigate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writers block</category><title>Blogging and newsletters and how I got past my writer&#39;s block. </title><atom:summary type="text">As a mum of 4 and a business owner my head is always thinking! I don&#39;t think I ever have a clear mind unless I am sleeping and even then I am probably trying to solve something in my sleep knowing me!

I have always loved to blog about our business. 

We started to blog back in 2011 I think and at the time I didn&#39;t have a clue what to write- so mainly it was one sentence with a link to our </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/01/blogging-and-newsletters-and-how-i-got.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-7750439156790909538</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-26T19:49:38.961+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">benches</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Horsham</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">landscaper</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">raised beds</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">retaining wall</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">surrey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sussex</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">woodblocx</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wooden planters</category><title>Raised garden beds and wooden planters</title><atom:summary type="text">Something caught my eye on twitter the other day.

We follow quite a few suppliers on twitter, some we have used, other that we haven&#39;t but hope to use one day.

WoodBlocX is one of them. I absolutely love the idea of their products and they always look such good quality. We construct a lot of raised beds and planters from softwood sleepers. But the look of the WoodBlocX is very neat and clean </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/01/raised-garden-beds-and-wooden-planters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HgXt5UP2dKs/VqeWpYBA-wI/AAAAAAAALTY/F5YZs3j7VzY/s72-c/raised-beds-wooden-planters.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-3295972196084871068</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-28T22:31:56.236+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">baby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">breastfeeding</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family run business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mum</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">own business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">surrey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sussex</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">working mum</category><title>Running a business and being a mum</title><atom:summary type="text">
I started something last year with our fourth child that I wish I had done with my other three. Every week or so I take a photo of our little girl while she is with me in the office.

Sometimes she is having a cuddle or I have been multitasking while breastfeeding her. 



I started doing this as for a long time I struggled with the children wanting me while I was working in the office and then </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/01/running-business-and-being-mum.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bXUcB4NttdU/VqX_b3D_9AI/AAAAAAAALQ8/N-00GYBF0Ho/s72-c/IMG_1548.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136907612920440386.post-2404701626814140184</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-01-25T11:18:10.807+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brick layer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brick wall</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brickwork</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crawley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">driveway walls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">garden walls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">landscape services</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">landscaping</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">West Sussex</category><title>Family run landscaping business- proud of the small jobs as well as the large projects. </title><atom:summary type="text">So the end of another great week for the team and it ended on a lovely project for a previous client in Crawley Down.
Lewis had time to shine and show his brick work skills.
With Ralph&#39;s supervision they completed a superb small brick wall for a client, to match ones that we had built last Summer. Along with Leo the team also tidied up some borders, added some new edging and laid down some new </atom:summary><link>http://blog.ayegardening.co.uk/2016/01/family-run-landscaping-business-proud.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ayegardening)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJMYqHeQaHE/VqJOVP_NSHI/AAAAAAAALNo/5mxg3bZ7yJw/s72-c/IMG_0600.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>