Grand Design - Chelsea Flower Show
22/03/2007
The first glimpse of Brett’s inspirational Chelsea garden
A rural idyll in the heart of bustling central London – this is what Brett Landscaping and Building Products is aiming to create this summer with its spectacular showpiece garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2007.
“This is the first time Brett has exhibited at Chelsea and it’s a tremendously exciting opportunity” says Marketing Director, Shirley Mansfield. “It’s a fantastic platform to show Brett’s commitment to our stockists and to demonstrate the creative possibilities of our product ranges to installers and homeowners.”
The Brett Landscaping Relationships Garden has been designed by Geoff Whiten, the Chelsea Flower Show’s longest serving exhibitor with over 30 years experience and six Gold Medals to his name. Using a wide range of Brett products, all of which are available from Brett’s merchant stockists, the garden will re-create a beautiful tumbledown farm-worker’s cottage from rural England complete with pond and jetty. The aim is to inspire visitors and to show how, with the right products, you can achieve spectacular results.
Climbing roses will trail the walls of the cottage and its outbuildings while the garden and its pond will be planted with hostas, grasses, iris, lobelia and waterlilies. The beautiful planting will, of course, be matched by the stunning hard-landscaping products all of which will be drawn from Brett’s range. Geoff is proposing a mixture of natural and concrete paving and walling products to show how natural and man made products can be used alongside each other to great effect. The Bronte range in Weathered Stone will be used for the cottage walls along with tumbled sandstone in Twilight while Old English Brick, tumbled natural Sandstone pieces, and tumbled sets in Forest Glen colour will be used for the central paving. Lydd and Scottish Beach cobbles will form the beach area for the pond.
Consumer interest in hard landscaping projects and products is still strong with a significant growth in demand for more natural or natural effect paving. Brett believes its garden will show how dreams of creating the ultimate outdoor living space can be turned into real-life realities through the creative use of the great products available through their nationwide network of stockists. To view Brett’s garden visit