Which gravel for your garden or driveway?

Which gravel for your garden or driveway?

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…

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RAF Community Garden

RAF Community Garden

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…

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Our Black Basalt on TV!

Our Black Basalt on TV!

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…

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Easter Rock Painting Competition!

Easter Rock Painting Competition!

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…

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A checklist for welcoming wildlife into your garden

A checklist for welcoming wildlife into your garden

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!

Welcome to the Stone Warehouse blog!

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…

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