Award winning Arts & Crafts Show Garden at RHS Tatton Park 2024

Ketley brown brindle Tenger pavers and red linium bricks

Designed and created by Grant Horticulture

This scheme designed and built by Grant Horticulture is a celebration of architecture, gardening and craftmanship from the Arts and Crafts movement.   True to the principles of Arts and Crafts architecture, designer Callum Bain-Mackay's scheme uses natural local materials to create detail within his scheme.  Along with beautiful planting, the garden's main focus is a series of 4 columnal clay sculptures which watch over the planting areas like guards of the movement.  Callum constructed these using ultra thin Ketley Linium bricks carefully stacked in 4 individual sculptural forms.  

They are reminiscent of the grand decorative chimneys which adorned Arts and Crafts properties and each one is a different and unique design.

 A custom made, handcrafted pavilion provides shelter, with 2 handmade oak chairs.  Ketley Tenger pavers in brown brindle are laid outside the pavilion in a basket weave pattern, mirroring some of the detail within the sculptures.  These clay pavers can be laid either as a  200mm x 50mm x 65mm format or 200mm x 65mm x 50mm.  Here they were laid as 65mm wide by 50mm deep to allow for the basket weave laying pattern.  In this format, the pavers reveal a face with some orange "hearting" which picked out some of the orange planting really nicely!  This is unique to our brown brindle colour and is a product of the way we place the product in the kiln for firing.  The narrower face 50mm wide x 65mm deep has the purply brown tones but not the orange hearting.  

The same pavers were used to edge a breedon gravel pathway which surrounded a central water feature.