Useful links

A number of useful links are listed below.

The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) was founded in 1995 as a specialist national group within the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) and now represents the UK’s best individual landscape professionals and their companies. The APL provides advice, education, research, public relations, benchmarking indexes and representation services to its members and is the only landscaping scheme operator of TrustMark, a Government endorsed initiative promoting professional trades people to consumers. The APL is made up of around 180 companies who design, construct and maintain gardens and open spaces for domestic and commercial customers. The Association is passionate about supporting members and helping them to provide the highest quality designed and constructed gardens to their customers.

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) is the trade association for the UK garden industry. It is dedicated to helping develop the industry and its member businesses, including most garden centres and other garden retailers, growers, landscapers, manufacturers and suppliers.

TrustMark helps you find reliable, trustworthy tradesmen to make improvements and repairs inside and outside your home.

TrustMark is a not for profit organisation supported by Government, the building industry, retailers and consumer protection groups.

Starting from its origins in Colchester, The Landscape Centre has expanded across Essex and now supplies a huge range of garden materials both locally from its retail centres and nationally through its website landscapesuppliesdirect.com.

Shoot is an award-winning website for gardeners. We were awarded Gardening Which's prestigious best buy for our garden design software (Dec 09 issue page 32) and just won a Smart100 award