Winners of BALI's Membership Survey 2018!

With over 140 responses to our membership survey, it was a pleasure to choose an amazing 20 winners.  Our entries had the opportunity to win an Amazon voucher, two BALI National Landscape Award tickets worth £390 and either a box of luxury chocolates or a bottle of wine. The feedback we received will be immensely valuable and in turn support our members as we try to improve our member benefits and therefore support our member's businesses to prosper. Here are a few details about the winners and what their businesses:

 Langlea Garden Design & Construction are an award-winning, fully integrated garden design and construction company, run by a husband and wife team. The founders, Leandros and Francesca, are both highly qualified in horticulture, garden design and landscape architecture, and use their shared background to conceptualise and deliver striking and contemporary gardens. Photo credit goes to the scheme: SUCCESSION, A succession of terraces rising from a natural stone dining terrace, ornamental lawns and an entertaining sun terrace at the far rear of the garden. Oak screening with slate detailing borders one side of the garden and conceals a storage unit behind. Clipped beech columns make an architectural statement.

Lynn Hill Garden Design is established by Lynn Hill, who is a BALI Associate Designer. She provides Garden consultations, garden design and planting plans all in mind to create a tailored service to meet the individuals needs.

CTC Training & Assessment are a BALI & ROLO Training Provider and have worked with many colleges and training providers on a national basis since their establishment in 2003. They have a wide range of over 10,000 clients within the public and private sector - from self employed individuals, SMEs to large contractors and multinational companies.

Capel Manor College is BALI Training Provider offers a range of full and part-time land-based courses which lead to nationally recognised qualifications and potential progression into employment or on to further study. The College also offers a unique experience in that we believe there is nowhere else quite like us in Europe in terms of our facilities, activities, staff and students.

Horticultural Landscape Solutions is a training provider for the land based sector. Covering many sectors including; Horticulture, Arboriculture, Agriculture, Forestry, Conservation & Ecology. Horticultural Landscape Solutions is a training business set up in October 2011. It is a major player in the land based industry by providing a wide range of flexible training and learning opportunities to individuals and businesses throughout the UK.

PC Landscapes have dedicated over 24 years to deliver breath taking gardens and bring clients vision to life. They are BALI Principle award winners as well as Design and Build winners. They work with a range of clients from concept to completion on commercial construction, parkland, urban, or large domestic projects. Their gardens have been featured on television and at some of the most prestigious garden design shows such as Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

Tim O’Hare Associates LLP is a leading independent Soil Science and Landscape Engineering consultancy. Their services support all elements of land development, management and regeneration, from the initial planning stages, outline and detailed design, through to construction and aftercare. They ensure that soils for landscape, green infrastructure, sports amenity, agriculture and land restoration projects are correctly surveyed, specified, tested, sourced, manufactured and managed…The practice operates throughout the UK and internationally and are ….

James Coles and Sons (Nurseries) Ltd are the UK’s largest grower of trees and shrubs r the amenity and commercial markets. Based in the East Midlands, we supply stock nationwide via our own delivery vehicles to clients including landscapers, garden designers, wholesale nurseries and local authorities, for projects ranging from new housing developments and business parks, to show gardens and plants for private individuals.

Established in 2009, Millstream Estate Services are a small, dynamic landscape construction and grounds maintenance company. They carry out the highest quality construction projects and manage commercial landscape, grounds and gardens to a very high standard. From their base in Central Bedfordshire they are passionate about delivering exceptional service to all our commercial clients.

Graduate Gardeners work on projects ranging from a few thousand pounds to well over a million - with everything in-between. Their garden designers will project manage your garden construction from start to finish, and their own garden construction team of skilled workers will complete your project on-time and on-budget. They have designed and built award winning gardens throughout Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties, and their landscaping projects include front and rear gardens in local towns such as Cheltenham, Cirencester and Bristol, along with large village and country gardens throughout the Cotswolds and beyond.  

As importers and trade suppliers of artificial grass, Smart Direct (Europe) have been able to research, test and develop arguably the best value for money range of artificial grass products on the UK market today. They are now carrying larger quantities of stock and are dispatching daily throughout the UK and Europe, to meet the rapid growth in the Artificial Grass landscaping market. Their sales have increased vastly over the past 12 months as people become more aware of the benefits of having artificial grass both in domestic gardens and commercial areas such as retail parks, schools etc.

Established over the last 25 years, Skidmores of Hertford Ltd is a family run business based in Rural Hertfordshire. They carry out a variety of work including hard and soft Landscaping, groundworks and grounds maintenance in the commercial sector as well as on domestic gardens. They have worked on many prestigious projects including the Olympic Park, Blackfriars Bridge, Trinity Hospice, Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Kempton Park Race Course to name but a few.

Johnsons of Whixley is a three-generation family business based in Whixley, North Yorkshire established in 1921 and synonymous with quality, service and integrity. They grow millions of plants each year, with a wide variety of stock ranging from hedging seedlings, to extra heavy mature trees. They grow and nurture our plants at our six production sites across the Vale of York.

Established in the early 1960s, Boningale Nurseries has grown to become one of the leading suppliers to the British landscaping industry. From their 40-acre container site in Shropshire, they produce and contract-grow a huge variety of plants, shrubs and trees, which is supplemented with specialised stock from our trusted network of UK and European-based suppliers.

For over 15 years Global Stone are delighted to have built strong, long standing and mutually beneficial relationships with their colleagues, partners and customers. They source their products from Europe, Asia and South America and are always seeking the best quarries, craftsmen and suppliers, while being both respectful and acting responsibly towards the countries, communities and places within which they work. From traditional riven sandstone to large format contemporary porcelain all their products are of the best quality and ethically sourced, encompassing the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility.

British Sugar TOPSOIL is produced at four separate British Sugar sites in the UK, allowing them to provide quality TOPSOIL products quickly and very cost-effectively to anywhere in the UK. As a responsible supplier of topsoil products, they feel it is important that they support the industries they sell into. Engaging with industry associations and experts helps us to position their products in the correct way. They are proud to be active and supportive members of the industries such as BALI, SGD and Tim O’Hare Associates to name a few.

Topiarus horticulture focus on providing a professional landscape gardening and grounds maintenance service of the highest standard to our clients across Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. Established since 2004 they have ensured that numerous clients have received exceptional service in the care and maintenance of their gardens and outside spaces.

S.A. Readman Ground Care and Garden Services were established in 1994 and since then has grown from strength to strength, carrying out a variety of work for various clients including residential and commercial properties. With over 30 years’ experience with ground care and garden services, they pride ourselves on being environmentally friendly and are fully licenced waste carrier holders, with all of their green waste being recycled into compost.

M LANDSCAPE UK CONTRACTORS is a professional landscaping company based in North Wales. Specialists in Ground maintenance delivering high quality works and good value to all their commercial & domestic clients across all of North Wales, Chester and most parts of the UK. 

We will be taking your feedback on board and will try to implement changes in order to best support our members. We hope to see even more responses next year with even more feedback to help us to help you.