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Thu 26th May 2011
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FIND TIME TO REFLECT WITH BURLINGTON STONE AT HOLKER GARDEN FESTIVAL
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Story Summary:
Visitors to this year’s Holker Garden Festival (June 3rd – 5th) will get the chance to savour the delights of ‘Reflections’, the inspired show garden of local natural stone engineers and Holker Group company, Burlington Stone.
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Full Story:
FIND TIME TO REFLECT WITH BURLINGTON STONE AT HOLKER GARDEN FESTIVAL
Visitors to this year’s Holker Garden Festival (June 3rd – 5th) will get the chance to savour the delights of ‘Reflections’, the inspired show garden of local natural stone engineers and Holker Group company, Burlington Stone.
Using one of the finest and most durable sources of stone in the world quarried from the heart of the English Lake District, the Burlington garden concept is being used to showcase a number of new landscaping products. Equally at home in an urban or rural setting, the garden’s creators – Damson Design of Kendal – are majoring on the fusion of Burlington’s light and dark hard landscaping materials to create a reflection of each other. In doing so, they also aim to create a space of tranquillity where people can take time to ‘reflect’.
As the architect behind ‘Reflections’, Nicola Hills, Director of Damson Design comments: “In addition to using the garden design to illustrate the contrast between the dark and light Burlington stone, this year we are once again featuring both new and existing landscaping products, all of which will hopefully add to its authenticity and deliver a ‘wow’ factor in the process.”
Visitors to the three day festival – now established as the North’s premier garden event – will enter the Burlington garden on a pathway created out of tumbled cobbles in blue/grey Kirkby natural stone, the first new addition to the company’s landscaping product range for 2011. Once on the pathway, visitors will be surrounded by beautiful planting of mixed perennials and grasses in colours that compliment the stone and limestone used to create two radial terraces that lay before them: soft pinks and deep plums will mix with lime greens and smokey blues.
The first terrace - enveloped in part by the pathway - will be constructed from Burlington’s Baycliff Caulfeild limestone and will feature an anti-slip flame textured finish. Here, paving modules that are 600mm x 600mm x 30mm will be used to create the overall look. Echoing the radial appearance of the terrace, five cylindrical ‘log-shaped’ seats of decreasing size and made from discs of olive green Bursting Stone, will provide an ideal spot from which to relax.
Meandering down the path through the planting leads to a second terrace that will be finished in 450mm x 450mm x 20mm modules of Brandy Crag Silver natural stone, again with a flame textured finish. Surrounded by a continuation of the tumbled cobbles, this terrace is flanked on part of its radius by a curved seat that is to be constructed from Baycliff limestone walling and capped by a Baycliff Lord honed top. Adding to the shaded tranquillity of this part of the garden will an arc of Acer Globosum trees.
Measuring 10m x 12m, the garden will be enclosed on two sides by a boundary wall constructed from another new landscaping product, blue/grey cropped walling stone. Capped with 50mm honed Bursting Stone copings, the wall will be planted with lavender at either end to soften the appearance of the hard landscaping whilst filling the garden with scent. Helping contain the garden on its two open sides will be Burlington’s path edgings supplied in the same Kirkby material as the tumbled cobbles.
Commenting on behalf of Burlington, Sales & Marketing Director, Nick Williams said: “Having successfully worked with Damson Design last year when the Burlington Garden was successful in winning a Large Gold award, we are obviously hoping to go one better this time around. We have great expectations for our new landscaping products, such as the tumbled cobbles and blue/grey and limestone cropped walling, so what better place to showcase them than at one of the UK’s premier garden events? We are confident that the new products will be well received and that Reflections will prove to be a real talking point over the three days.”
Established seven years ago, Damson Design – situated in Levens Hall, Kendal – is becoming increasingly recognised for delivering award winning landscape designs of distinction. Having received a Silver Gilt award at Hampton Court last year, director and founder, Nicola Hills, has inspirations to build on this success, not only at this year’s Holker Garden Festival but also at many other internationally recognised future events.
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