A WORCESTERSHIRE brick manufacturer has helped a garden designer win gold at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.
Baggeridge Brick has manufacturing sites at Sedgley, near Dudley, and at Hartlebury and Waresley, near Kidderminster.
The company's bricks were used in a gold-medal-winning design by garden designer Ian Shooter, of The Garden Design Centre, Great Shelford, Cambridge.
The garden is based on a contemporary Gothic design, incorporating tall Gothic arches, tumbling white roses and a colourful array of perennial flowering plants.
It is Mr Shooter's third gold medal.
The dramatic design features a range of products supplied by Baggeridge Brick, including oriel yellow multi-gilt stock bricks, smooth blue and buff dragfaced clay cobbles from the Origins range, and barn pavers, also in oriel yellow.
A focal point was provided by a centrally paved circle, featuring a sun dial, built from specially-designed Baggeridge bricks and surrounded by box hedging.
Blue cobbles were laid in a gothic arch design to provide a unique finishing touch.
Finally, a brick to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee was commissioned by Mr Shooter and incorporated into the design.
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