We are excited to be exhibiting at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year for the very first time as we've teamed up with the talented sculptor, Tom Hiscocks to exhibit our clay landscaping and garden products on Stand SR151. This project was a collaboration with a number of brilliant parties including Tania Brookes Garden Design and Chris Lawrence Landscapes.
Key features of the garden include:
See our new Tenger Pavers in Staffordshire red, laid in a running bond. At 200mm x 50mm x 65mm, these pavers are similar in format to dutch pavers but they are made in our factory in the UK using Etruria marl clay from our own local quarry. They have a lovely natural, contemporary feel about them, and are offered in a range of rich Staffordshire clay colours. Their face is a rustic dragfaced texture so they won't become slippery in wet conditions.
We are also showing our new ultra slim Linium bricks in the same Staffordshire red. These are made using the same Etruria marl clay and have the same characteristics of all the Ketley range, including extremely low water absorption and excellent durability. At 265mm x 11mm they are the thinnest brick on the market and have become popular to add detail to landscaping projects and are also often used in wall cladding. At Chelsea they provide decorative detail around the circular plinth of Tom's centre piece Snow Drops sculpture.
The shelter on our stand is clad in beautiful handmade ornamental arrowhead clay tiles, made by our sister company Dreadnought Tiles. The handmade arrowhead tile shape used exclusively like this creates a contemporary geometric pattern of textured hexegons and the mixed blend of Staffordshire clay colours is earthy and rustic.
The stand is bordered on one side by a Staffordshire Blue brick wall, made using Ketley extruded brick slips and corner slips. These slips are extruded at 18mm thickness, not cut down from full bricks and therefore use only 30% of the embodied carbon of a traditional cut brick making them highly sustainable
Randomly placed within the wall are some interesting new Vision bricks. We love breaking new ground at Ketley, and we want to help you create your vision in brick. Using the latest in mould and die technologies, we can manufacture clay brick units in a huge variety of shapes and textures, to allow you to create really different, eyecatching schemes.
On top of the wall, are our new planter bricks, which are machinemade in our factory, with a small weep hole along the bottom edge for drainage. These attractive, practical units are ideal for bringing greenery to urban spaces.
