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Nailsea Patio Supplies : the Aladdin’s cave for landscapers and serious water gardeners.

Updated: 15 Jan 2008
Nailsea Patio Supplies with the demonstration Oase Swimming Pond. Building supples stretch right to the horizon and beyond.

If there was ever an Aladdin's Cave for landscapers then Nailsea Patio
Supplies is it and John Marshall the owner is the Genie of the Lamp!

A tiny part of the vast array of hard landscaping products: The land on the horizon is another storage area mostly for natural stoneA tiny part of the vast array of hard landscaping products: The land on the horizon is another storage area mostly for natural stoneHere, between the A38 near Bristol and the M5 right next to Nailsea Railway Station, you’ll find all those impossible to find hard landscaping materials that you need in any quantity: paving, walling, both ‘recon’ and natural, brick, stone, slates, gravel to pebbles of every size from every corner of the country and mulching materials of every type and colour imaginable from shredded tyres to broken glass. And the prices? They are not design for the pick and mix hand scoop, we talk in tonnes and square metres here and the prices encourage you to buy in those sorts of quantities. There are ornament and containers, pergolas and archways. On top of that there is fencing, edging, sleepers (old and new), timber and the decking. There is proper top soil too and silver-sand for horticultural use; I haven’t seen that being sold by the ton for years. John even recycles old building products for use as hardcore or footings or fancy mulches. There is a lot of recycling going on here. Wait until you see some of the exotic mulches that seem straight out of an outré garden designers’ handbook with crushed and tumbled coloured glass,bricks, metal, rubber and most attractive of all, recycled toilet bowls!


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RETAILER OF THE MONTH: Greenacres Water Garden Centre, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire

Updated: 14 Feb 2007
Part of the tropical section at Greenacres. The fixtures and fittings show the passage of time but the stock is pristine.

THE COMPLETE WATER GARDEN SPECIALISTS

When good advice comes free with every purchase, there is not only the knowledge that you have made an informed choice, but whatever that purchase was, you know that it was appropriate. If it was a fish, you know it will survive; if it was a dry product, you know it will work and if it was a treatment, you know it will be effective. If that information were not freely available you would pay for it because you know that is the sort of knowledge that will save you money in the long run. Where can you get it? You certainly wont find it in the 'pile 'em high, flog 'em cheap' DIY sheds. You need a connoisseur of water garden products and our first retailer of the month is one such, and to get it, you will have to wend you way right down to the tip of Pembrokeshire within ten minutes drive from Tenby - Manorbier.


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