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Post date: 14 Feb, 2019
Last week on Friday 9th February CED Stone Group were proud to be headline sponsors of The Pro Landscaper Business Awards held at East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London. The annual competition only in it’s second year, is fast becoming one of the highlights of the horticultural and landscape year.
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Post date: 26 Sep, 2018
Over the last four decades, we’ve worked hard to stay at the forefront of the landscape industry and fulfil the needs of an ever-changing market. My father, Michael Heap, founded CED in it’s present guise back in 1978. There was no company like CED in the UK - nobody else supplied unusual or special stone materials like we did. Quite simply, CED led the way.
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Post date: 31 Aug, 2018
We all know that the UK currently imports huge amounts of stone from China and India. Interestingly though, for commercial and public realm projects, we are seeing more and more clients choose European stone over Indian or Chinese stone despite the higher associated costs. Why? More often than not this is simply because quality European stone from countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and France can be imported with quicker lead times.
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Post date: 31 Aug, 2018
This summer, a series of outdoor creations have been on display at Chester Zoo’s first-ever large-scale gardens and science festival. CEDEC Silver footpath gravel features in the pheromone garden.
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Post date: 17 Aug, 2018
As one of the leading stone companies in the UK’s landscaping industry, we consider it our duty and responsibility to conduct our business in an ethical manner, a value that we prioritise across the board at CED Stone Group. We dedicate a lot of time and resources to monitor and map our worker factories and then act to remedy and improve ethical sourcing issues.
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Post date: 19 Jul, 2018
It’s an exciting time for us at the moment, as we announce that our CED Stone Commercial division is growing and expanding into new overseas territories! Our newly established CED Stone North America Inc. will supply natural stone and hard landscaping products to public, commercial, trafficked and pedestrian landscape projects in the Canadian and North American markets.
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Post date: 04 Jul, 2018
A few months back, Alexandra and Ed Burnham from Burnham Landscaping came to visit us at our London East – West Thurrock depot to discuss the design with our Managing Director, Giles Heap. Alexandra presented her designs to Giles, which included some very narrow, tightly curved paths that would circle around different sections of the garden.
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Post date: 29 Jun, 2018
Back in May this year, we were approached by Gemma Lake, RHS Hampton Court Palace’s Show Manager. Gemma asked us if we would be interested in working collaboratively with the RHS to create ‘Evolve: Through the Roots of Time’; a large educational feature garden planned for the show.
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Post date: 28 Jun, 2018
‘We wanted to create a natural-looking plunge pool in the Viking garden’ said Stephen. ‘a natural spring would reflect the geological formations found across many Nordic countries. It was important to use worn and weathered rock, to make it look like it had been worn away over the years by water and the elements.
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Post date: 25 Jun, 2018
The much-loved BBC programme has teamed up with the RHS to create this exciting commemorative garden, paying tribute to the Countryfile’s success over the last 30 years. CED Stone Group are thrilled to be sponsoring the garden by donating our stone products.
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Post date: 01 Jun, 2018
Known as Scotland’s national gardening and outdoor living show, Gardening Scotland 2018 is in full swing this weekend. Over the last few weeks, the team from our CED Stone Landscape Scotland Depot in Castlecary have been working with the talented Lynn Hill of Lynn Hill Garden Design to create The Garden Retreat: A Place For Living.
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Post date: 27 May, 2018
The concept for ‘The Great Escape’ is to highlight some of the ways people of all ages can enjoy their outdoor spaces. CED were delighted to support our friends at the HTA by donating our Grey Sawn Sandstone paving to ‘The Great Escape’.
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Post date: 23 May, 2018
This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is now in full swing, with some of the finest designers in the industry using our natural stone products in their gardens. But we’ve also been supporting some fantastic tradestands too, who are all raising the bar and bringing some very inventive and creative outdoor products to the market:
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Post date: 22 May, 2018
A few months ago, we welcomed Ishihara Kazuyuki’s team to our CED London East Depot in West Thurrock in order to discuss their Chelsea design and material requirements. During the visit we were lucky enough to find out some prertty cool facts about the garden…
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Post date: 18 May, 2018
Feed the bees to feed us! The Honeycomb Meadow Bee Garden by charity River Of Flowers will bring a meadow into the very heart of London at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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Post date: 17 May, 2018
By immersing himself into the lives of the Syrian refugees living at the Domiz Refugee Camp in Northern Iraq, garden designer Tom Massey has been able to create a garden that authentically communicates the values that The Lemon Tree Trust works towards.
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Post date: 11 May, 2018
By our guest blogger Emily Cowan, who is based from our CED Stone Landscape - Scotland Depot…
This year, we were contacted by London-based designer Jonathan Snow to aid him in sourcing rock for his ambitious RHS Chelsea garden entry – Trailfinders South African Wine Estate…
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Post date: 24 Apr, 2018
The very first Ascot Spring Flower Show went down a treat last week, with positive reviews and plant enthusiasts flocking to see the specialist nurseries, tradestands and show gardens on display. Award-winning designer Kate Gould created ‘A Garden For All Seasons’ for the show, an enticing and attractive garden that was a firm favourite with visitors…
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Post date: 15 Apr, 2018
Millie’s main focus for this design was to create an urban garden that would see low cost, easily accessible materials take centre stage. ‘I wanted to think about how a space can be used in a different way’, explained Millie. ‘For me, urban regeneration is about being inventive in order to improve an area, and I wanted this garden to help encourage that’.
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Post date: 01 Feb, 2018
We’re marking our 40th year anniversary with the unveiling of a completely new branding, website and brochure! The changes will be phased in over the next few months, so customers can expect to see all the updates in place ready for the 2018 peak season.
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Post date: 31 Jan, 2018
To coincide with the SGD Awards 2017, we have a very special surprise to reveal to our customers, friends and colleagues - something we have been working on and developing for the last two years.
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Post date: 07 Dec, 2017
On 15 December, CED Head Office and Depots will be donning their daftest, most wonderful woollies to raise money for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day.
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Post date: 23 Oct, 2017
Thanks to a newly built communal space, the Inverness Campus is now a modern space for learning, leisure and commerce, the two campus spaces’ opened in May 2015 and consist of a multitude of different granites and paving patterns mainly supplied by the CED Stone Group Commercial Department.
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Post date: 28 Sep, 2017
A Northern Irish construction company has won a top industry award for their £2million redevelopment of the Silverbirch Hotel in Omagh, which used a brilliant range of different natural stone materials from CED Stone Group’s Ireland Depot.
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Post date: 15 Sep, 2017
In Sunderland, High Street West is a pedestrianised street lined with small shops and cafés which recently benefited from a renovation with some new natural stone benches by CED Stone Group.
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Post date: 07 Sep, 2017
Gnarled, Rustic And Completely Natural - Slatewood Stone Now Available From CED Stone Group
If you want to get that reclaimed style in your garden while still benefiting from all the qualities of natural stone then try our latest product, Slatewood – a stone that naturally looks like gnarled, rustic driftwood!
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Post date: 05 Sep, 2017
We loved hosting The SGD’s Designer Developer Day this week, with 30 budding garden designers coming to visit us at our busy West Thurrock depot.
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Post date: 19 Aug, 2017
Penguins, Black Basalt and Alan Titchmarsh – CED Donates To Love Your Garden. Episode 8 showed the amazing re-design of Johnpaul’s garden, who is Blackpool Zoo’s Assistant Head Keeper and has lived on site at the zoo for six years.
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Post date: 21 Jul, 2017
RHS Tatton Flower Show visitors are in for a treat this year, with the ultimate seaside experience in the form of the Chaos To Coastline Coastal Garden. Designed and built by two new rising talents in the horticultural industry, CED Stone Group were only too happy to support the young stars.
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Post date: 18 Jul, 2017
The RHS Young Designers have included natural stone materials as an intrinsic part of their schemes and CED are very proud to be donating our products to all three finalist gardens at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show – it’s a delight to work with such innovative budding designers and we’re keen to support any project that not only encourages but gives recognition to the next generation of horticultural stars.
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Post date: 27 Jun, 2017
With the show only a week away, the Zoflora and Caudwell Children’s Wild Garden is nearly complete – including a fantastic woodland path made from ‘shrinking’ paving slabs donated by CED which have been especially designed for children with autism.
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Post date: 22 Jun, 2017
Visitors to RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show will be treated to an urban eco-garden with a difference – one that looks like a green forest glade, that you can eat! The London Glades show garden has been designed to appear like a beautiful oasis on the edge of a peaceful forest, complete with CED-donated boulders, wild flowers, trees, shrubs and perennials.
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Post date: 22 Jun, 2017
We’ll certainly be tuning in this Saturday for Episode 2, because we’re very proud to have donated flat grey and flat white pebbles for a key conceptual feature in this week’s garden. Episode 2 of The Autistic Gardener airs on Saturday 24th June on Channel 4 at 7pm.
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Post date: 14 Jun, 2017
Taking centre stage at BBC Gardeners’ World Live is Romance in the Ruins, a large show garden for Wyevale by the talented designer Claudia de Yong – and one that visitors can get up close and personal with, thanks in part to the footpath gravel donated by CED.
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Post date: 13 Jun, 2017
Garden designer and founder of the East Midlands Flower Show Andy Tudbury is the creative force behind Serenity, one of the main show gardens at the event. Apart from a little help from his son, Andy has pretty much designed and built this space on his own and CED are delighted to be donating some materials to his scheme.
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Post date: 13 Jun, 2017
Go Team Hortistone! Perennial’s #PlayThePitch Raises £8,000 at LCFC
Perennial’s #PlayThePitch fundraising football tournament at Leicester City Football Club raised just over £8,000 – with CED Stone Group and Horticultural Week joining forces as Team Horti Stone, it was a day of fun, football and teamwork.
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Post date: 07 Jun, 2017
Visitors to the first new RHS show in a decade, at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, were treated to an array of ‘revolutionary’ show gardens last week, including one with CED’s boulders playing a starring role.
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Post date: 02 Jun, 2017
Visitors to Bloom in Dublin can expect a feast for the senses this weekend when they visit the ‘Cuprinol Kaleidoscope of Colour’ garden, which features in the medium sized garden category at Bloom. The conceptual garden features a contemporary take on the traditional and centuries old rose garden.
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Post date: 01 Jun, 2017
Take a contemporary showcase garden at Gardening Scotland, add the power of TV with a sprinkling of stylish CED paving and what do you get? The answer, for Edinburgh-based designer Lynn Hill, is an award for best new show garden and potential clients already seeking her skills…
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Post date: 31 May, 2017
We take a look at the 11 gardens and trade stands that featured CED’s Natural Stone products at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show…
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Post date: 11 May, 2017
CED are proud to be donating materials for ‘Through The Microscope: The Breast Cancer Now Garden’ at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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Post date: 11 May, 2017
David Harber’s award-winning creations will once again be on display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, in a beautifully designed stand along the prominent Main Avenue. As part of the design, CED will be supplying rustic TIER stone wall cladding which will be used as the dramatic backdrop for the garden and the sculptures.
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Post date: 10 Apr, 2017
After raising sufficient funds through donations, the Herefordshire Aero Club built a memorial to all of those who lost their lives at RAF Shobdon during WW2.
CED are proud to have donated Icelandic Pebbles to the memorial, to complete the flower bed borders…
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Post date: 05 Apr, 2017
CED Stone Group Welcomes Corfe Stone to “the Family”
CED Stone Group announces today that it has acquired the Corfe Stone sales centre and distribution depot in Hooton, Cheshire. While the new site will continue trading under the respected Corfe Stone name, it will be known internally as CED North West - Corfe.
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Post date: 13 Dec, 2016
A private garden in Co Fermanagh has landed Belfast based, Cameron Landscapes, the most prestigious award in the landscaping industry for the seventh time.
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Post date: 09 Dec, 2016
The Midlands depot of natural stone specialist CED Stone Group, based in Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire, was honoured to be asked by award-winning local garden designer Jackie Setchfield, to supply materials for ‘Rosie’s Garden’ at West Bridgford Junior School. CED’s paddlestones will be a notable feature in the memorial garden for pupil Rosie Perry Jones, which is being opened with a ceremony on Friday December 9th at 4pm.
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Post date: 05 Dec, 2016
In December 2015, disastrous events at Glenridding Hotel caused by Storm Desmond would in the days to come, bring together local residents and businesses in a show of community spirit.
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Post date: 31 Aug, 2016
CED Stone Group are sponsoring this year’s 30 Under 30: The Next Generation initiative, run by Pro Landscaper Magazine. Open to all who were under the age of 30 as of 01st January 2016 and who have been working in the horticultural industry for at least one year, the initiative aims to promote accomplishments made by those under the age of 30.
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Post date: 05 Aug, 2016
Set in 2,000 acres of land, Dumfries House is an 18th Century stately home situated in Cumnock, Scotland, back in 2014 CED Stone supplied ECCOgravel to the project.
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