Category: Announcements
Quickgrass “Green Repeat”: Pioneering Sustainability in Artificial Landscaping
Artificial grass has faced significant criticism from environmental organizations and garden design experts who argue it has no place in modern gardens due to its environmental impact. Despite this negative perception, QuickGrass has made significant strides to integrate artificial grass into eco-friendly landscaping. In collaboration with its factory partners, QuickGrass has developed a range of landscaping grasses that are not only visually stunning but also 100% recyclable. This innovation ensures that, at the end of their life cycle, these products can be processed by recycling centers rather than ending up in landfills. This case study explores how QuickGrass, through its partnership…
Continue readingPerry Launches SleeperSecure Sleeper Brackets: Setting a New Standard in Timber Sleeper Installations
In early Spring this year, hardware and trade only supplier, A. Perry, launches a groundbreaking product line into the fencing and landscaping market; SleeperSecure Sleeper Brackets. Engineered to redefine timber sleeper installations, these innovative brackets have quickly become a sensation among professionals, driving unprecedented demand for the range. Traditionally, the market has been lacking an accessible solution that seamlessly combines durability, versatility, and ease of installation for timber sleeper projects such planters and driveway edging, however, A. Perry’s SleeperSecure Sleeper Brackets have filled this void, offering unmatched strength, stability and convenience like never before. Key Features Making SleeperSecure Sleeper…
Continue readingBlooming Together: planting wildflowers with My Square Metre
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership that not only enriches our event, but also blooms with environmental significance. We have embarked on an exciting project with My Square Metre, which will mean that every ticket sold for our upcoming show not only grants access to an unforgettable experience, but also contributes to the growth of wildflowers! Imagine the impact each ticket has, as they contribute to creating a vibrant ecosystem, transforming neglected spaces into havens where nature flourishes and wildlife finds a home. For every registration, My Square Metre will plant a wildflower, fostering biodiversity and offsetting…
Continue readingFutureScape partners with Hyphae Learning for new Landscape Performance Live
FutureScape Expo, the leading event in the landscaping industry, has announced the launch of Landscape Performance Live in partnership with Hyphae Learning. This collaboration aims to provide attendees with invaluable knowledge and resources to enhance performance within their businesses, ultimately driving positive change and advancement in the landscaping industry. Founded by award-winning landscaper Jake Catling and performance coach Sam Grayson, Hyphae Learning partners with businesses to help them to attract, train and retain talent, with learning resources and innovative tips. Landscape Performance Live will be a focal point at this year’s FutureScape, offering two days of engaging seminars, dynamic demonstrations, and…
Continue readingPartner Focus: Plant Healthy
Help safeguard your business and our countryside. Just one disease like ash dieback can cause billions of pounds worth of economic and environmental damage. That’s why we need to work together to grow, buy and sell healthy plants. What can you do? By adopting the Plant Health Management Standard and becoming Plant Healthy certified, you’ll be helping to protect our plants, landscape and wildlife. Simply visit planthealthy.org.uk and create an online account and take the Plant Healthy self-assessment – it’s free, quick and easy to do. At the end, you’ll receive a score, plus a downloadable report with pointers to help you move…
Continue readingExhibitor Focus: PlantGrow
This year, it’s great to be welcoming the team from PlantGrow to FutureScape. They’ll be coming along with their fantastic fertilisers, so make your way to their stand I72 to meet the team and find out more. Proud to be the first in the UK to produce a plant-based and sustainable natural fertiliser range for Horticulture through renewable energy using 100% plant material. The PlantGrow organic-approved product range is made through the sustainable cycle of Anaerobic Digestion, a completely natural process & environmentally friendly, where microorganisms break down organic material in the absence of oxygen. PlantGrow liquids and solids are safe…
Continue readingLevelling up the landscape in the Training, Education and Employment Village
Levelling up the landscape in the Training, Education and Employment Village FutureScape’s Training, Education and Employment Village (TEEV), supported by BALI GoLandscape, is an integral part of the UK’s premier landscaping event – and with good reason. FutureScape 2023’s programme is legendary and, with new elements still to come, this week’s Briefing looks at how the TEEV is standing up for skills. New training practices, time-honoured strategies and hotwired tips and resources will help you and your business shake up, shape up and level up. Appearing in the Training Employment and Education Village, in partnership with BALI’s GoLandscape, you’ll hear about:…
Continue readingANNOUNCEMENT! Full Seminar Programme Released
At the backbone of every FutureScape (in association with Caribbean Blinds) event over the past 12 years has been the Seminar Programme. Released this week (4 September 2023), the latest series of live panel sessions, keynote speeches and engaging debates has been published. Timed and tuned for maximum access and relevance, this year the Seminar Programme will feature across five theatres. These will span the main FutureScape event and the three co-hosted expos for Public Spaces, Outdoor Living and Wellness and Equipment. VIEW SEMINAR PROGRAMME Across 5 theatre stages, zone-wide, the live panel and speaker topics will be provoking thought, challenge…
Continue readingA Sneak Peek at the FutureScape 2023 Seminar Programme
Everyone in UK landscaping expects a uniquely relevant, useful and thought-provoking programme from FutureScape. Part of its very lifeblood since 2012, this year’s Seminar Programme is almost ready to share – so here are some teasers to whet your landscaping appetites! Inspire Theatre: RHS Show Gardens Holding the RHS fort supremely, James Alexander Sinclair will spearhead the content this year. Touching on true sustainability, people and purpose, the seminars will include perspectives from sponsors, constructors, designers and medal winners. Featuring: Building more sustainable RHS show gardens: Techniques and materials; Why create an RHS show garden? A sponsors’ perspective; Green to…
Continue readingRecognising landscape excellence in scale, sustainability and future prospects
Once more live at London’s ExCeL, the UK’s industry driving force landscape show FutureScape is shaping up to be bigger, braver and more bountiful this November. And for those who have really excelled this year, there are extra rewards in store… Achieve and Succeed Everyone loves a party – and there are extra reasons to celebrate at this year’s FutureScape with new awards being announced. Giving UK landscape businesses, colleagues and professionals the recognition they deserve, FutureScape 2023 will see the culmination of the last 12 months’ hard work and the bestowing of awards across the industry. Pro Landscaper…
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