We do love to see Stone Warehouse on TV and television companies do often contact us looking to feature our stone which is always very exciting (and flattering)! Due to the large range of products we supply, we normally have something to fit their requirements! ITV’s Love Your Garden We are the preferred supplier to ITV’s Love Your Garden and our most recent television appearance was on this show. We featured in FIVE different episodes in 2021 which are shown…
Laying a gravel grid under your gravel will help to keep it in place and is especially useful if your drive or garden is on a slope. You can buy the gravel grid from us as an addition to your order of decorative aggregates. Our ground reinforcement grid is Eco friendly as is made from 100% recycled plastic. It is suitable for use on drives, paths, car parks or access roads, anywhere really that will be walked or driven on….
We were thrilled to hear that a Royal Norfolk Show garden created by Lucy’s Garden Design won 3 awards! Her Relaxing Coastal Shores garden featured our stunning Duck Egg Cobbles and the garden attained The Gold Medal, The Visitors’ Vote and Best in Show! The theme for the show was ‘coastal and well being’. Therefore Lucy contacted Stone Warehouse and asked us to supply our popular Duck Egg Cobbles. This was because she felt their pastel colours perfectly represented our…
Gabion Use Gabion baskets can be used within your garden to create a unique and tailored look in the form of a gabion wall or seating area. Other common uses for them are gabion planters or plant pots. Due to their versatility, gabion baskets are becoming a popular landscaping feature. Therefore at Stone Warehouse we supply a range of gabion baskets in different sizes. This ranges from a small 27cm cube which is ideal for smaller spaces to our largest 75cm cube which…
How do you choose the best gravel for your drive or path? There are so many factors to think about including colour, texture and durability. This article should help to guide your decision to making the right choice for your landscaping project. Gravel can be a relatively low cost landscaping material for covering large areas, or for adding decorative finishing touches to outdoor spaces. It is also a useful material to prevent weeds within your garden project. There are a…
The Phoenix Garden We donated our Blue Slate Rockery and some paving to a community garden called the Phoenix Garden. Designed as a garden of reflection, it was created by The Royal Airforce Cosford Chaplaincy. Therefore all service personnel, their families and Veterans living in the Shropshire area were invited to enjoy the garden. The project The garden was funded entirely by charitable donations and created as a joint venture between trainees at the station and inmates of HMP Kirklevington…
Stone Warehouse products recently featured on an episode of George Clarke’s Old House New Home. This series follows George as he helps couples make their period homes fit for modern life. The Project Episode 2 featured Shrez and Tom who had been lovingly restoring their Victorian terraced home in South East London. However after a rogue trader took almost all their savings they enlisted George Clarke, one of the UK’s leading architects. George showed them how to make financially sound design ideas…
We recently teamed up with Love On The Rocks UK who are a nationwide group of rock-painting enthusiasts. This was to run a fun and creative competition over the Easter period. We first were made aware of the multi-purpose use of some of our pebbles and cobbles, such as the Scottish back in February. This was because a painting enthusiast told us she had been bulk-buying our cobbles soley to decorate! Well this got us thinking and after a little investigation…
The weather may be chilly but there’s still reason to pull on your gardening gloves and get landscaping this Spring! Look at this useful checklist with hints and tips from the telegraph and the RHS to encouraging wildlife into your garden. See how many you can tick off! Information from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3344407/25-ways-to-get-wildlife-into-your-garden.html https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/conservation-biodiversity/wildlife/encourage-wildlife-to-your-garden https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/wildlife-garden/wildlife/encourage-wildlife-to-your-garden
Welcome to the Stone Warehouse blog! Our blog gives us the opportunity to talk to our customers and share our top tips! It is chock full of landscaping and gardening articles, how to guides, news and customer stories and reviews. Click on our ‘How To Guides’ section at the top of the home page to see all our helpful YouTube channel videos too! We will be updating our blog on a regular basis to keep you in the loop with…
