Looking to introduce a dramatic sculpture, beautiful ornament, water feature or rare tree to your garden? We know just the people...
Posted: November 25, 2024 • Posted in:General News
Fantastic beasts (and where to find them)
Garden Wonders is a family run business based in Tuddenham St Mary, near Mildenhall, offering a unique range of garden ornaments and water features. They pride themselves in choosing unique and individual pieces, often hand finished and using recycled materials wherever possible.
The extensive collection includes garden statues and ornaments, rattan furniture and water features (including an elephant spouting water from his trunk.)
Visit their website at gardenwonders.co.uk or contact 01638 515375. In 2025 they will be exhibiting at both the Suffolk and the Royal Norfolk Show plus the Sandringham Flower Show.
Metal gurus
The Designs On Metal forge in Stowlangtoft crafts the most eye-catching of creations for private individuals such as bespoke gates, weather vanes, railings, and garden ornaments as well as dramatic sculptures in the public domain.
Visitors to Bury St Edmunds may well have noticed the company’s steel-laced figure of an arrow-strewn King Edmund on one of the town’s roundabouts, facsimiles of standing heads of wheat and a rippling metal fence alongside part of an ornamental pond in the Abbey Gardens. Near Rougham there is a stainless steel working of a dove, a capital A signifying the code letter of the American squadron based there, alongside a rusty box and aircraft-like rivets.
Designs On Metal pride themselves in providing a full service from start to finish; that’s design, fabrication and installation. Says Kevin Baldwin, the company’s blacksmith and designer: “People come to us with an idea in mind and we do our best to create what they are after. Often I’ll draw an idea with some chalk on a table and make suggestions. It may be we talk through some less expensive options. With stainless steel, bronze and silver soldering the cost goes up but it depends what the customer wants. If they are happy we are happy, hopefully we are making their dreams a reality.”
Originally the Barcham Tree nursery near Ely only supplied large specimens to the amenity market, however, private individuals can now buy trees direct via barcham.co.uk. One of the largest container tree nurseries in Europe covering 300 acres you can use their online tree nursery to view and buy by common species name, latin name, feature, size or colour. Looking for a particular type of tree? This is definitely the place.
Making a splash
Home and Garden Aquatics in Bury St Edmunds are an independent company covering Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk with over 40 years expertise in providing ponds big and small. They can design, supply, install and service water features and also have a large selection of tropical and coldwater fish.
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