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Post date: 06 Jul, 2016
CED Stone Group have been sponsoring show gardens at the RHS Flower Shows for over 27 years, including RHS Chelsea, RHS Hampton Court, RHS Tatton Park, RHS Malvern and RHS Cardiff. We had the privilege of supporting 12 show gardens at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and the APL Trade Stand, which saw a collaboration of the association’s members.
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Post date: 05 Jul, 2016
Leading horticulture charity Perennial are teaming up with designer Cherry Carmen from Cherry Blossom Garden and contractors Living Landscapes for their ‘Immerse’ garden at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
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Post date: 05 Jul, 2016
Witan Investment Trust PLC's most recent project, which is due to open in Spring 2017, is the ‘Global Growth Vegetable Garden’ project at RHS Hyde Hall, Essex. This innovative garden will showcase fruit and vegetables from around the world (which can be grown in most parts of the UK), challenging the image of a conventional kitchen garden.
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Post date: 01 Jul, 2016
Hoping to raise awareness and help raise funds is the Bowel Disease UK Garden for Crohn’s Disease at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Crohn’s Disease usually targets young people and this garden aims to tell the story of how vibrant a sufferer’s life can be, despite living with this debilitating disease.
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Post date: 01 Jul, 2016
Sponsors Zoflora were established in Yorkshire over 90 years ago, so using the county as inspiration for their garden at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show seemed like an obvious choice.
Bringing on board award-winning designer Helen Elks-Smith MSGD and award-winning contractors Wycliffe Landscapes Ltd, there is an experienced and knowledgeable team to bring show garden, “Zoflora: Outstanding Natural Beauty” to life.
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Post date: 30 Jun, 2016
With the help of garden designer Antonia Young and contractor Jeff Rosenblatt, Cancer Research UK are bringing the first ever virtual reality tribute garden to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
The garden is a tribute to all those who have left a gift to the charity in their Will, a celebration and a thank you for their generosity.
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Post date: 29 Jun, 2016
Designed to capture the spirit, charm and elegance of Charleston, the ‘Great Gardens of the USA: The Charleston Garden’ is designed by Sadie May Stowell, on behalf of Brand USA and completes her three gardens submitted to this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
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Post date: 29 Jun, 2016
‘Great Gardens of the USA: The Austin Garden’ is the second garden of three from Sadie May Stowell to be featured at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show that CED Stone Group are proud to be supplying.
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Post date: 28 Jun, 2016
Last year, garden designer, Sadie May Stowell designed two gardens for Brand USA at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, where she won a bronze and a silver medal. This year sees her returning with three gardens on behalf of Brand USA, all three of which CED Stone Group are excited to be supplying.
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Post date: 28 Jun, 2016
The ‘All The World’s a Stage’ garden, designed by Dawn Parke of Lunaria Landscapes, Cho hee Song, Jasper Kaessmann and Manuel Wehrle, is inspired by one of Shakespeare’s most frequently quoted passages.
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Post date: 27 Jun, 2016
CED Stone Group have been sponsoring and supplying RHS show gardens for over 27 years. We are proud to once again be involved with numerous show gardens at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, where a vast range of our materials, stone and services can be seen.
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Post date: 27 Jun, 2016
Located within the World Gardens exhibition area at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show is ‘Journey Latin America’s Inca Garden’, designed by Jennifer Jones, who is making her début at the show.
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Post date: 01 Jun, 2016
On 5th May 2016, Historic Royal Palaces unveiled a new play garden for children: the Magic Garden, at Hampton Court Palace. The Magic Garden is a children’s play area designed to capture the magic, history and legends of the famous Tudor palace.
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Post date: 20 May, 2016
First timer at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Hay Joung Hwang, is designing ‘The LG Smart Garden’, situated at the top of Main Avenue. Originally from Korea, Hay moved to the UK in 2006 where she completed various courses including interior design and floristry before training as a landscape architect at Sheffield University.
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Post date: 19 May, 2016
Olicana Mosaics is a local company based in Ilkey, West Yorkshire and is run by David James. David designs and creates intricate mosaics for use in landscaping and despite being such a small company, is no stranger to Flower Shows.
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Post date: 18 May, 2016
Not only a RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden, Honeysuckle Blue is part of a larger initiative to teach children and educational groups the age-old techniques of using plants to create their fabric dye. The garden is designed by Dutch artist Claudy Jongstra, whose studio raise their own sheep, keep bees, cultivate a botanical garden and grow their own plants for dyes which are then used as materials in their work.
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Post date: 16 May, 2016
Perhaps one of the most exciting features at the Chelsea Flower Show this year is the interactive acoustic garden by Papworth Trust; something which has never before been hosted at the world recognised event. Joining forces to make show history are world famous solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and leading disabled charity, Papworth Trust.
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Post date: 09 May, 2016
What do maths and Flower shows have in common?
The answer? Fibonacci.
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Post date: 18 Apr, 2016
There is no doubt that Japanese gardens are both beautiful and inspiring. Without being able to pinpoint one particular feature, they are also instantly recognisable.
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Post date: 10 Mar, 2016
Joining forces, Champagne Lanson International and CED Stone Group are sponsoring this year’s UCARE RHS Malvern Spring Festival Show Garden, designed by Emily Sharpe of Garden Stories.
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Post date: 26 Feb, 2016
Our Riven Indian Sandstones and Black Riven Limestone paving are now available and stocked across all depots as ‘Riven Indian Paving Project Packs’.
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Post date: 08 Feb, 2016
BALI Yorkshire and North East are collaborating with their members to exhibit their show garden ‘Tea for Two’ at this year’s Harrogate Spring Flower Show, which aims to celebrate two very different traditions and ceremonies surrounding tea. The garden takes inspiration from the very English tradition ‘Afternoon Tea’ and the traditional Japanese tea ceremony and brings them together in an effortless and simplistic manner.
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Post date: 01 Dec, 2015
I started working for CED Stone Group as the new Digital Marketing Assistant back at the end of August and despite having worked in environments where there was a vast amount of products to learn, more so than at CED, I was still overwhelmed by what they do.
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Post date: 18 Nov, 2015
2015 marked the 25th anniversary for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, where CED Stone Group were proud to supply hard landscaping materials to several of the show gardens.
One of these show gardens was the highly acclaimed silver medallist ‘A Growing Obsession’, designed by Jean Wardrop and Alexandra Stevenson, with the focus of recreating a Victorian lady’s flower garden.
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Post date: 01 Oct, 2015
The Rosslyn Chapel, located a few miles south of Edinburgh, has been standing strong for centuries. Due to the prestige and history behind this building, we were thrilled to have a chance to work with and supply the Chapel with products for the car park and pedestrian areas helping to create a sustainable solution that work well with the historical building and its grounds.
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Post date: 26 Aug, 2015
CED Stone Group are proud to announce that our range of Emperor Porcelain Paving has been shortlisted for the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) Product of the Year Award 2015.
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Post date: 07 Aug, 2015
The RHS Tatton Park Flower Show marks the end of the seasons flower shows and CED Stone Group are proud to have been involved with three award winning gardens and one award winning trade stand.
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Post date: 30 Jun, 2015
Expert Natural Stone Supplier CED Stone Group, supplies a selection of their products to eight show gardens at this years ‘RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show’
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Post date: 28 May, 2015
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is fast approaching and CED Stone Group are excited to be involved in a wide variety of gardens.
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Post date: 10 Apr, 2015
In celebration of World Book Day, which took place on March 5th throughout the UK and Ireland, CED Stone Group donated Flat White Pebbles to a local primary school in Barnet.
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Post date: 08 Apr, 2015
CED Stone Group recently returned from its first time attending ‘Build It Live’, the UK’s annual event which brings hundreds of the UK’s most innovative suppliers, together with thousands of the best new and traditional products for home construction.
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Post date: 30 Mar, 2015
Late last year CED Stone Group, supplied Little Havens Hospice with stone products for the design of their interactive ‘grow your own’ garden, made for the children at the hospice. The garden was designed by Eden Horticultural Ltd in collaboration with Emma Hanford from Greenfingers Charity.
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Post date: 07 Jan, 2015
CED Stone Group announces its sponsorship of the Party for Perennial, a fund raising dinner to support the Perennial charity in its efforts to assist horticulturists in the United Kingdom. This is going to be the first time that the fund raising event will be held for 100 years.
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Post date: 30 Dec, 2014
Leading natural stone supplier, CED Stone Group, announces its sponsorship of the International Awards category at the 2014 BALI National Landscape Awards.
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Post date: 30 Dec, 2014
Generally over the years, rather than sending Christmas cards within the workplace, CED Stone Group have collected donations for a charity chosen by the staff. This year was a little different as the chosen charity – suggested by Kerry-Anne Austin, our Logistics Administrator – was to donate advent calendars to local foodbanks.
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Post date: 12 Nov, 2014
Olicana Mosaics is successfully run by David James, who designs and creates detailed mosaics for use in landscape design. David specifically creates the pieces with flat surfaces so that they are easy to walk and drive on and can therefore be used in place of a pathway or a paving slab. He also makes them in multiple pieces that fit together, so that they can be conveniently transported and installed later on.
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Post date: 28 Oct, 2014
At the end of September CED Stone Group were invited to attend the official opening of The First Touch Garden at St. George’s hospital in West London. We were delighted to accept.
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Post date: 28 Aug, 2014
Ced Stone Group supplied stone products to six gardens at this years RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the world’s largest annual flower show and CED are delighted to have bee represented so well at the prestigious event. Most of the materials were supplied to the gardens by CED’s Thames Valley Depot.
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Post date: 28 Jul, 2014
Natural stone supplier, CED Stone Group, was proud to have products featured in a range of award-winning gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
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Post date: 28 Mar, 2014
This year's Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) award ceremony was held on 12th March at the Gibson Hall. First established in 1995 to recognise and reward the high quality of work carried out by landscape contractors belonging to the organisation. CED are very proud to have supplied four of the shortlisted projects.
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Post date: 28 Feb, 2014
CED Natural Stone were the proud sponsors of the Judges Award for this years Society of Garden Designers Awards. The ceremony which is referred to as the Horticultural Oscars was held on Friday 24th January at the Millennium Gloucester House Hotel, London.
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Post date: 28 Dec, 2013
It has been a very busy and productive year for all of us at CED and we would like to welcome you to our 2013 end of year Newsletter. As you can imagine, there are just too many things to mention in one round up, but we hope you enjoy the following selection.
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Post date: 28 Dec, 2013
CED Ltd have just had the pleasure of hosting it’s first APL Cluster Group at our Head Office in West Thurrock on Tuesday 10th December 2013.
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Post date: 28 Nov, 2013
CED Ltd are pleased to have recently become members of the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA).
The HTA is the trade association for the UK garden industry and is dedicated to helping develop the industry and its member businesses, including landscapers, manufacturers, suppliers, growers, garden centres and other garden retailers.
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Post date: 28 Nov, 2013
Back in May we experienced huge success, supplying to numerous Chelsea Flower Show gardens, and it was with great pleasure to hear the news of Cityscapes’ “Remix Gardens” project. This project was created so that the materials from the Cloudy Bay Discovery Garden could be recycled in such a creative way that they went on to build 5 new garden designs across London.
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Post date: 28 Oct, 2013
From July 2013 all natural stone setts, paving and kerbs supplied within the EU must have a CE Mark attached to the packaging with the relevant European Nomenclature (EN) clearly stated. The requisite information may also be communicated on delivery notes, Commercial documents or electronically.
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Post date: 28 Sep, 2013
CED Ltd, one of the UK’s leading natural stone specialists, is pleased to confirm the appointment of Giles Heap as its new Managing Director. After over 18 years at CED, Giles takes over from his father, Michael Heap, who has held the role since founding the company in 1975.
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Post date: 28 Jul, 2013
With the sun beaming all week and temperatures over 30°C the weekend, the weather was perfect for those adventurous people exhibiting or attending this years’ RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
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Post date: 28 Jul, 2013
CED Stone are delighted to be supplying products to a number of gardens at Hampton Court Flower Show 2013.
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