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Love Your Garden
We are so thrilled that Protek Paint continues to be the wood treatment of choice for a 7th year with ITV’s Love Your Garden.
NHS SPECIAL - MANCHESTER
The series kicked off in May with their biggest ever project, to create a garden for The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
The inspiration for Alan and his team came from letters written by the hospital’s young patients. Some of these patients were victims of the nearby Manchester Arena bombing; they requested an outdoor space for patients, families and staff to take respite.
Alan meets the brave youngsters who wrote to him, some with life-threatening conditions and others like Lily Harrison who was treated by the hospital after receiving shrapnel wounds at the Ariana Grande concert just a year ago. He listened to their suggestions and with the rest of the team sets out to create a magical retreat full of thoughtful detail that the whole community can enjoy and be proud of.
The paint used for this special episode of Love Your Garden was from the wonderful, colourful Wood Stain and Protector range. These colours are always a firm favourite for use on children’s play areas.
Also used were the sophisticated Royal Exterior China Clay and its dramatic Black.
LOVE YOUR GARDEN PAINTS
Modern And Functional Space
The small garden was unloved until Alan, Katie, David and the Love Your Garden team transformed it into a perfect modern but functional space. The LYG team used screens and clever planting to create 5 zones. These included;
- A workout space - A play area with a raised platform that not only looked great but gave a birds eye view of the garden for the children
- A storage area for gym equipment and toys.
- A dining area complete with raised beds packed full of easy to grow, pick and eat herbs, fruit and veg.
- A relaxing area with comfy chairs.
One of the brightest and most cheerful gardens ever seen
Lots and lots of our colourful paints were used in this week’s Love Your Garden.
The garden for Julie in Leicester was one of the brightest and most cheerful gardens ever seen. She was thrilled with the transformation from dreary back yard into Caribbean garden.
Alan and the team made three colourful zones;
An entertaining space, a zen area and a kitchen garden.
The entertaining area had its own bar aka The Rum Shack. Painted in Royal Exterior Flamingo Pink and Teal. And wow it really packed a punch (excuse the pun!!)
The zen area used upright sleepers to act as a modern wind break/ screen. Painted in Royal Exterior French Lilac. It felt calming on the deck.
A rose garden for 90 year old Mary
Alan wanted to create a rose garden that 90 year old Mary had always dreamed of as well as a space for her to sit and relax. What did he do?
Alan created three main zones;
- A row of arches covered in roses made a fragrant walkway to a focal point at the end.
- A dining area in front of the shed becomes a courtyard garden complete with a water feature.
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- An expanding pergola outside the house provided another seating area. Perfect for a cuppa.
Surrounding the zones were the new fences that provided instant privacy. They were painted in Royal Exterior Warm Clay. This warm neutral colour created a perfect backdrop to the colourful planting.
Katie performed a makeover on the shed. She painted the shed in Warm Clay and added a little window box to transform it into a pretty summer house. Cedar tiles on the roof gave it a lovely rustic look.
The pebble dash house wall was given a makeover with a painted trellis (also painted in Warm Clay) and planted with a camellia and interesting spreading plants. Pale walkways and raised beds made the garden easy to care for and easy to access. Needless to say Mary and her daughter were thrilled with the result. Well done team. Another triumph.
The Midland's Mediterranean ....
As seen on TV …our wood stain was featured on the Love Your Garden ITV.
The garden was one we could all identify with, a modern build in a cul de sac with a square of garden, turfed and with fences all around. An estate agent would describe it as a ‘blank canvas’ and it certainly was. But with the dream team and their amazing ideas the garden took on a positively Mediterranean feel.
With olive and cypress trees, rosemary and lavender bushes and an abundance of grasses mixed with gravel and stones the garden not only looked great but was low maintenance.
The outdoor kitchen and dining area was a perfect area for entertaining. The seating area with a water feature provided a restful spot to unwind after a long day and the table for two in the ‘sundowner area’ …well who wouldn’t want a G&T every evening!!! Even the pergola had a swing.
To create clearly defined levels the team added in a retaining wall…but no sleepers here. Instead a Gabion (a metal cage) filled with pebbles. It looked modern.
To tie in with the scheme the fences were painted with our Royal Exterior Dove Grey and our NEW D19 Nude Taupe. And the shed and window boxes were painted in Dove Grey too.
Tricks of the trade this week… kick the angles to divert the eyes and make the feet walk in different directions. It worked.
All that was missing was a gecko!!
Get the look with this week’s hero colours - Royal Exterior Nude Taupe and Royal Exterior Dove Grey
‘Love Your Garden’ splash out with Protek
The ever popular ITV primetime gardening show returned to our screens this summer with another stunning series. With viewing figures now exceeding those of BBC Gardeners World, millions of people tuned in every week to see horticultural legends Alan Titchmarsh and David Domoney team up with Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill to transform the gardens and lives of well deserving members of the public.
For the third year running the production team and designers used Protek wood stains as an integral part of their garden designs. Urban wastelands were transformed in to stunning gardens with the help of great planting, structures and landscaping features.
Protek’s coloured wood stains were used on a range of timber products including boundary fencing, an ornamental bridge, playhouse, sheds and summerhouses to add beauty and protection. Colours from Protek’s Wood Stain & Protector range and their extensive Royal Exterior Superior Wood Finish range were used to compliment planting and create attractive features throughout the garden design. The garden below has been beautifully transformed using, Woodstain & Protect Silver Fir on the fence and garden shed, Royal Exterior Midnight Blue on the lower part of boat, and royal exterior clear on the boat hand rail and the sleepers.
We are very proud to have been selected again as suppliers to such a great series and to have the continued support of such a high-profile production. Alan Titchmarsh has always been a personal hero of mine and it’s a delight to see how he and his team use Protek colours as such an important part of their garden transformations.
This series they used huge swathes of our colours from the first episode featuring our Wood Stain & Protector in Gun Metal Grey on the entire boundary fencing, to the final episode where Royal Exterior Mendip Mist was applied to the boundary fencing, summerhouse and bird table with accents of Cornish Cream on the aforementioned, and Royal Exterior Cornish Cream on the ornamental garden bridge – the whole garden was given the Protek treatment!
David Domoney has written a Complete Guide to Love Your Garden that you can download from his David Domoney site.
