WELCOME
W E LCO M E W
this year’s FutureScape event. Held on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, it promises to be the best one yet. We hope you enjoy this issue, it has so much to keep you informed and entertained. We caught up with Dave and Diana Twist of Elite Landscapes, a great company that is working on some of the most exclusive projects around London. It was also great to get involved with the parks manager at our own local council, Arun. Mewsbrook Park is just a stone’s throw from our office and we’ve enjoyed spending many hours there over the 20 years we’ve been in the area. With entries open for this year’s 30 Under 30: The Next Generation, we find out what four previous winners who are involved in this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival are doing – check this out on page 62. There is so much great content to choose from this month, so why not just take a moment, put the kettle on, sit back and lose yourself for a while.
IT’S BEEN GREAT TO HEAR JUST HOW EMBEDDED PRO LANDSCAPER HAS BECOME WITHIN THIS GREAT INDUSTRY
Have a great month,
JIM & LISA
©Tim Crocker
e’d like to start this month’s introduction by thanking everyone who took the time and effort to congratulate us on the new Pro Landscaper, we really appreciated the kind words and are really pleased that the changes have been so positively received. It was a big investment for us and we were keen to deliver what the market wanted. Even though we researched the changes and spoke to landscapers, designers and landscape architects prior to the alterations, it only really hit home when the wider audience received the new magazine. Also, it’s been great to realise just how embedded Pro Landscaper has become within this great industry. We hope to continue to inform, inspire and educate you all for a long time to come. It seems to have been a really busy month. We had our last planned Pro Landscaper LIVE for the year in Kent, which was a bustling event with excellent topics and debates. We’d like to extend our thanks to the visitors, exhibitors, panellists and speakers of this year’s series of events, as without your support we wouldn’t be able to run them. We will shortly be announcing our 2020 plans, but of course the focus is now strongly directed towards
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