Vintage Rock T - Show Garden For BBC Gardeners World Live - Forum

Hi,

Vintage Rock T is a Show Garden which has been designed and accepted for BBC Gardeners World Live 2011. It has been designed by myself and two other students as part of the assesed work for a Bsc in Landscape Design which we are currently studying at Bridgwater College - Cannington Center For Land Based Studies, previously Cannington College.

The Show Garden measures 24m x 8m. A copy of the design is attached. The garden tell the story of sustainable quarrying and shows why quarried materials are so important to the landscape industry. The garden depicts the story of the quarrying process showing an agricultural field being turned into a working quarry, then the quarry after the stone has been extracted and finaly the quarry once it has been reclaimed. Inset into the story line is a "Designed Garden" to illustrate why quarying is so important to the landscape industry. The "Designed Garden" Includes a waterfeature designed to look like lava, to link to the process of the formation of rock within the earths crust. It also includes a shade sail made from recycled Rock T-Shirts.

We are currently searching for sponsors and contributors towards the garden so if anybody out there can help us out or knows of anybody who may beinterested in helping us out by way of sponsorship or contrbution or have any questions please get in touch. My mobile number is 07970893967. We believe the garden will generate a high media interst due to the fact that it is educational and due to the scale of the garden. Sposors and contributors will have there details entered into the gardens leaflet and benefit from high levels of exposure to potential customers both through the leaflet, media exposure and product placement.

Below is an indication of what we currently require:

Trees

Tree stakes and gaurds

Meadow turf

Turf

Plants

Landscape fabric

Timber for fencing and stiles

Timber for constructing walls and ply to clad walls

Pond liner

Pond oxygenators - for the lava feature

Paint

Paving and associated materials

Large Mirrors

Stone for quarry rock faces - Aprox 40 ton

Transport of materials

Loan of digger and telehandler

Hi everyone here are more details on the items we still require to beg and borrow, any help would be much appreciated.

Stone & Hard Landscaping

Large Quarry Stone For replicating Quarry Faces - 40 Tonnes
Quarry Blast Rubble - 5 Tonnes
Scree - 5 Tonnes
Type 1 - 1 Tonne
Deccorative Aggregate To Match Quarry Stone - 1 Dumpy Bag
Sand - 1 Tonne
Cement - 6 Bags
Paving - Slate or Blue Lias or Black Sandstone or Black Limestone - 15m2
Paving Sealer - 15m2

Studwork and Internal Walls
Carcassing Timber - 152m -50mmx100mm
10mm Ply - 22 sheets
Screws 100mm - 600
Screws 30mm - 1000
Plasterboard Screws 50mm - 1000
Poly Filler - 20Kg
Sand Paper -1 Roll
Paint - Primer - 10L
Exterior Emulsion - Grey - 30L

Ponds
Pond Liner - 4m x 3m
Old Metal Rusty Pipe - 3m - 100mm
Pond Oxygenators
Gellie Baff

Post and Rail Fencing
Posts - 94 - 100mmx100mmx1600m
Rails - 168m - 38mmx100mm
H Blocks - 94
Nails 80mm - 1000

Foot Path Signs - 2

Trees
Mature Native British Trees - 4
Heavy Standard Native British Trees - 8
Standard Native British Trees - 20
Tree Gaurds - 28
Tree Stakes - 28
Tree Ties - 28

Soft Landscaping
Wild meadow Turf - 80m2
Buddleia 3L - 20

Replies

PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction February 1, 2011 at 10:37pm

You did indeed forget, will try and call you tomorow to have a catch and pick your brains.

John Cavill said:
Hey Will,

I forgot to call you back!! Pleased to see you are still producing stunning show gardens this year, I will of course help in any way I can and I need to keep in the swim of things so will be helping at some point with the build! :)

REgards,

John.
Kieran Ray February 1, 2011 at 10:59pm

Regarding the digger and tele handler, do you have a ticketed driver? They are a little hot on this at the RHS even more at then NEC. Are you in contact with Tim, Sarah or Sara? Im not sure who runs GWL any more, they may have the prices per lift for the fork lift they supply.

Just thought I should give you the heads up just incase.
Kieran Ray February 1, 2011 at 11:43pm

Exellent, Thats what we like to hear! lol. I thought it may be his first garden.

John Cavill said:
Hi Kieran, Will is so clued in at GWL that they pay him for every lift they do for him! :)

Kieran Ray said:

Regarding the digger and tele handler, do you have a ticketed driver? They are a little hot on this at the RHS even more at then NEC. Are you in contact with Tim, Sarah or Sara? Im not sure who runs GWL any more, they may have the prices per lift for the fork lift they supply.

Just thought I should give you the heads up just incase.
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction February 2, 2011 at 8:21am

Cheers Kieren but as john says we are quiet well known up there and in regular contact with the show team, if only they were paying us per lift up there as this year there will be one hell of a lot of lifting.

Kieran Ray said:
Exellent, Thats what we like to hear! lol. I thought it may be his first garden.

John Cavill said:
Hi Kieran, Will is so clued in at GWL that they pay him for every lift they do for him! :)

Kieran Ray said:

Regarding the digger and tele handler, do you have a ticketed driver? They are a little hot on this at the RHS even more at then NEC. Are you in contact with Tim, Sarah or Sara? Im not sure who runs GWL any more, they may have the prices per lift for the fork lift they supply.

Just thought I should give you the heads up just incase.
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction February 2, 2011 at 8:27pm

Cheers Gary will look at doing that, I sure is going to be alot of work.
PRO

Phil Voice February 2, 2011 at 8:30pm

Will

I've made an enquiry to a company your project might appeal to.

No promises but I'll be in touch if there's any news.

Will - WB Design & Construction said:

Cheers Gary will look at doing that, I sure is going to be alot of work.
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction February 2, 2011 at 9:30pm

Cheers Phill much appreciated every little helps.
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction February 3, 2011 at 5:34pm

Hi Gaynor. we are hoping to start installing the treas in the meadow area and the meadow on the 3rd of June and from then on it will be all hands on deck so any help would be much appreciated.

Gaynor Witchard said:
hey Will - good luck with this. If I can help with some of my time (albeit probably short!!) let me know and I'll see what I can do.

G x
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction March 2, 2011 at 8:37pm

Hi everyone here are more details on the items we still require to beg and borrow, any help would be much appreciated.

Stone & Hard Landscaping

Large Quarry Stone For replicating Quarry Faces - 40 Tonnes
Quarry Blast Rubble - 5 Tonnes
Scree - 5 Tonnes
Type 1 - 1 Tonne
Deccorative Aggregate To Match Quarry Stone - 1 Dumpy Bag
Sand - 1 Tonne
Cement - 6 Bags
Paving - Slate or Blue Lias or Black Sandstone or Black Limestone - 15m2
Paving Sealer - 15m2

Studwork and Internal Walls
Carcassing Timber - 152m -50mmx100mm
10mm Ply - 22 sheets
Screws 100mm - 600
Screws 30mm - 1000
Plasterboard Screws 50mm - 1000
Poly Filler - 20Kg
Sand Paper -1 Roll
Paint - Primer - 10L
Exterior Emulsion - Grey - 30L

Ponds
Pond Liner - 4m x 3m
Old Metal Rusty Pipe - 3m - 100mm
Pond Oxygenators
Gellie Baff

Post and Rail Fencing
Posts - 94 - 100mmx100mmx1600m
Rails - 168m - 38mmx100mm
H Blocks - 94
Nails 80mm - 1000

Foot Path Signs - 2

Trees
Mature Native British Trees - 4
Heavy Standard Native British Trees - 8
Standard Native British Trees - 20
Tree Gaurds - 28
Tree Stakes - 28
Tree Ties - 28

Soft Landscaping
Wild meadow Turf - 80m2
Buddleia 3L - 20
PRO

Will - WB Design & Construction March 5, 2011 at 11:28pm

That sounds great the more hands the merrier. Well on the sponsorship front it isnt going great.

John Cavill said:
Hello Will,

I have one trainee and another friend wanting to join you for two to three days at GWL, I will bring them down to you if we can give you a hand?

How you doing for sponsorship?