London Stone Showrooms—designed for the way you work
Small details matter. Every landscaper and designer knows that it’s attention to detail that really makes the difference to the finished project. Which is why something so apparently insignificant as...
View ArticleNew products on show at RHS Hampton Court 2016
With only a couple of weeks before Hampton Court Flower Show opens, we’re in the final stages of the build-up. London Stone are supplying five gardens this year and the designers have not only embraced...
View ArticleOff-the-shelf copings and step treads increase your productivity
Imagine the scene. You’re buying a suit. The assistant says: “Yes, sir/madam. All jackets available immediately. Trousers? Sorry, you’ll have to wait six weeks.” Wouldn’t happen, would it? (Or if it...
View ArticleLondon Stone in Best Gardens at RHS Hampton Court
Visit Hampton Court today and, no doubt, there’s barely a ruffle on the surface. Things were very different at the beginning of the month when gardens of all shapes and sizes looked fully established...
View ArticleStock on the ground now available at London Stone’s South East London Showroom
When we opened the London Stone showroom at Knockholt, it was our chance make life easier for our customers in South East London and Kent. If you’re working over there, you obviously can’t spare the...
View ArticleOff-the-shelf step treads and copings – what you need, when you need it
A choice of twenty-five different Natural Stone and Porcelain pavings isn’t to be sniffed at, really, is it? But at London Stone we off you far more paving than that, so what are we talking about?...
View ArticleLondon Stone extends Porcelain range, and gives you the cutting edge
Every so often something comes along that feels like a game-changer. And eventually, you look back and wonder how you managed before. We think this is how people will see Porcelain in a few years’...
View ArticleLondon Stone’s Cleaning Service restores your patio’s mojo
There comes a point after a new patio is laid when it somehow doesn’t look quite as good as it did. Has it already lost its mojo, or is its new-laid charm suffocating under a layer of dirt? We’d...
View ArticleStone Sealing Service protects your investment
With so much effort going into designing, laying and enjoying an outdoor space, maintenance is often the last thing on your mind. Yet, to ensure you or your clients continue to enjoy a newly laid...
View ArticleLondon Stone’s Bespoke Porcelain in Landscape Show’s top three Best in Show...
The Landscape Show, one of the big events of the industry calendar, is a highlight of our diary. Last week’s event was a hot affair – both literally (temperatures of 30 degrees!) and figuratively, with...
View ArticleAutumn Brown Sandstone creates double the job prospects
What is the best advertisement for any landscaper? Undoubtedly it’s doing the best work with the best materials, and we have a lovely example of this in two projects completed this year by London Stone...
View ArticleLonger collection hours at South-East London Showroom
As the nights draw in every minute of daylight counts, so it seems a good moment to remind you of the new services we’ve introduced at our South-East London Showroom at Knockholt. With the full range...
View ArticleCreating a Lost Treasure with Calibrated Reclaimed Yorkstone
When a small garden gets you the prospect of, not one, but three awards, you’ve surely got something right. This is the enviable position of Anne Jennings, who set up Viridian Landscape Design with...
View ArticleLandscape Specialist Scheme offers extra benefits to Trade Club members
As the world reacts to the election of an inexperienced president to the White House, we can categorically say that, in some things at least, experience is a plus. Launching this month, our Landscape...
View ArticleAdd interest to a winter garden with Pebbles and Chippings
What a week! Heavy rain sweeping Britain, brutal winds whipping leaves from branches. This seems the ideal opportunity to appreciate materials that maintain or even enhance their decorative effect in...
View ArticleDesignClad wall cladding wows designers at SGD Conference
The Society of Garden Designers’ Conference, which took place last Saturday, rounds off our attendance at shows for this year, and proved every bit as informative as the Landscape Show and Futurescape....
View ArticleLaser Templating takes the headache out of cutting curves
Experts always make a job look easy, but of course it’s the underlying knowledge that makes that possible. Laser templating is an ideal example of something which looks simple but hides complexity, so...
View ArticleLandscaping Solutions win BALI Principal Award, no badgering involved
Ploughing, pile driving, quarry blasting—nothing you’d immediately associate with horticulture, but all activities listed by the Government as potentially harmful to badgers. And so, it turns out, is...
View ArticleJoin our Landscape Specialist Scheme to help build hospice gardens
Having over fifty gardens under your belt would make any landscaper proud. It’s something that Greenfingers, the national charity dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor spaces for children’s hospices,...
View ArticleLondon Stone Photography Competition: Matt Keightley discusses his winning image
Imposing a minimalist, Eastern-influenced courtyard garden into the middle of quintessentially English countryside could have resulted in something that looked utterly out of place. Instead, Matt...
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