A 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!