Sedum Supply setting the standards
October 11th, 2010Copycat companies have recently forced us to register our trademarks. Recently we have stumbled upon a number of companies who appear to have used our prices as a benchmark across the board, we have also found that whilst they can copy our pricing structure which is available for all to see, they cannot replicate our products. For instance one company who were discovered with our sedum photographs all over their website (and subsequently asked to remove them!) only have a limited number of sedum varieties and other companies also on the band wagon cannot supply our unlimited array of roofing products, one of our main competitors also supplied ‘dead’ sedum turf when we purchased some to check out the competition and they claimed to be the best growers in Europe, they also refused to refund us or send more when we sent them pictures of their poor product. Please be cautious who you choose to buy from, they can try to emulate our profile but could never match our 32 years of expertise, a 10 minute conversation will separate the wheat from the chaff! So, if in doubt pick up the phone. Its been hard work recently, there aren’t enough hours in the day, what with Darren away all weekend at Grand Designs Live and Karen setting up the new fields for spring, blogging has been neglected, sorry! But I will post images of recent projects as soon as I get the chance…..On a more positive note, the landscape here is stunning, the leaves are beginning to turn, the fruit has been picked and were thoroughly excited for our first Autumn in the beautiful mid Wales countryside (I saw my first polecat the other day), so i will log off now and get back outside.
Our latest green roof projects with pictures
September 27th, 2010Life has been pretty flat out at Sedum Supply recently with little time to blog. So finally here is an update on some of our recent projects.
Green Roof on Prestigious new London House
The last week has been taken up installing a sedum roof on £2.7 million new house in London. The property was 4 stories
Green Roof on Prestigious London House
Green Roof in Longridge Holiday Home
We have also just finished installing a green roof on the first of 12 holiday homes in Longridge, Lancashire. Brothers David and Richard Rainford visited us in Chorley to view our sedum and said it was the best quality sedum they had viewed. They were also impressed that we could advise on design and supply waterproofing materials so in the end we worked on all aspects of the job from design, waterproofing, flashing and trims and sedum installation.
They are so delighted with the end result that they are going to modify the roof design on the remaining houses to incorporate more even sedum.
Longridge Holiday Home
Grand Designs Update
This project is coming along well and we are going to spend much of the next 1 ½ weeks working on it. I have a to camera interview coming up on Wednesday and there is a very interesting story line has developed – so it will definitely be worthwhile watching when it is aired. We expect it to go live later on this year and as soon as we have a final date we will let you know – watch this space!
Glyndwr University, Wrexham
In the last month we have also completed a green roof on Glyndwyr University in Wrexham. This is the first project we have completed with Prelasti and we supplied, delivered and helped install 1200 m squared of high quality sedum.
Wrexham University Green Roof
Fantastic Green Roof Pictures
June 30th, 2010I had to write a blog this week just to give me an excuse to publish these amazing photographs.
Tillys summer house before green roof was installed.
These are pictures of the green roof I created last week in Tilly Carefoots Lancashire Garden. Tilly originally ordered sedum from us to line either side of a path in her garden but was so impressed with the quality and natural beauty of the sedum that she asked us to go back and create a green roof on her round summerhouse. This wasn’t a straight forward job by any stretch of the imagination, so I made sure I went to do the job myself. Each retention strip had to be individually cut to fit the round shape of the roof, to ensure the sedum remains securely in position, but the results were stunning! The sedum perfectly compliments the wonderfully natural suroundings and lets the Summer House almost disappear into the landscape.
The summer house with it's new green roof.
The green roof blends into it's surroundings.
Gardeners World are filming in Tillys garden next week so look out for Sedum Supply’s sedum path and sedum roof coming to your screens soon!
We are getting lots of reports from owners of our sedum roofs at the moment saying that the bees are really loving their sedum flowers – so this has to be good news for all of us. I think everyone should have some sedum in their gardens to help support our struggling bee populations.
We have also added a new testimonial with two great green roof pictures to our tesimonial page this week – thanks to John Kesteven for sending us the pictures of his extension roof and garage roof – all beautifully topped with sedum Johns Green Roofs.
Finally, I’ll be up to the Lake District again next week as the 2nd phase of the Grand Design roof is due to be installed.
Lots of Good News This Week
June 10th, 2010A lot has been happening this week, so I thought I had better bring the blog up to date.
Grand Designs Update
Kevin McCloud and the Grand Designs film crew have been back on the site of our wild flower roof project this week and I had an email to say Kevin was knocked out with how the roof has developed! Since April when we installed it, it has grown about a foot and is abloom with daisies and a whole host of other wild flowers.
Wild Flowers Blooming
Satisfied Customers
We recently had a new visitor at our Lancashire based sedum fields. Tilly Carefoot has a fabulous garden in Longridge, Lancashire and she came along to check out the quality of our sedum. She was so impressed she turned up with a trailer the same day and took a consignment of our sedum away with her.
Tilly's sedum - already in bloom!
I went to visit Tilly and her Longridge garden this week and was blown away by everything she has created there. She has used the sedum creatively to border either side of a garden walk and it looks amazing. She also wanted to talk to us about creating a green roof on a round summer house in her garden – which will be a super project.
After my visit, Tilly phoned me to say Gardeners World were planning to run a feature on the garden, so you may well be seeing Sedum Supply’s sedum featured as part of the article – watch this space!
Tilly is co owner of Singletons Dairy in Longridge, who have been making award winning cheese in Lancashire since 1934. They currently export to 27 countries, so they must be doing something very right! Visit their website here.
More Satisfied Customers
This week we had a visit from John Neale – director of Freewarm Flat Roofing Limited.
John explained that they have been involved in installing green roofs across the country and to date they have been buying their sedum from abroad. He came down to Lancashire to look at our sedum and was extremely impressed with its quality. He placed an order straight away for 82 square meters, for a project in Truro, Cornwall, and I am sure we will be doing more business with him in the future.
Like us Freewarm Systems are a small family based company where quality of work and customer service are paramount and they are obviously getting this right as most of their work comes through recommendation. As well as green roofs, they are able to offer long term solutions for failing or leaking flat roofs and commercial flat roofs, using tried and tested quality materials and systems from a select group of manufacturers Visit their website at Flat Roofs.
And not so Satisfied Customers – but they aren’t ours!
We have been experiencing a growth in the number of calls we are getting from people who have had green roofs installed by contractors with little or no experience, with disappointing and often very unfortunate results.
The latest this week was a sedum roof in London which was installed without retention edges, allowing the sedum to slide right off the roof! We have been asked if we can help to correct this roof – which of course we can – but please do be careful when selecting a contractor to supply and install your roof – carefully check their credentials and talk to their customers if you can!
Green Roofs Attract Bees
May 18th, 2010This week Darren has completed a Ready to Grow Green Roof on a prestigious new development in Wrexham. This has been planted with sedum sprouts which will need 6 – 12 months to mature, but the end result is going to be fantastic.
New Green Roof at Wrexham - May 2010
The client was so delighted they have now asked Darren to complete all the metal work on the site because of his depth of metal work and roofing experience.
We visit the Royal Welsh Smallholders and Gardeners show at the weekend, meeting lots of new contacts for our latest new venture and of course to see what’s new and appropriate for our good life in the country….
At home we have had an abundance of bees in the garden, it’s a shame we didn’t get the hives in situ for this year. With all the concern about the bee population at the moment people could help enormously by adding Sedum Green Roofs to their properties – our sedum fields are always abuzz as the sedum flowers seem to be particularly appealing to the bees.
Bees love our Sedum
Leeds University 
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