Being based in Welney deep in the Fens, wildlife conservation has always been important to us and we feel that the best chance our native flora and fauna has for survival lies in teaching the next generations how to care and preserve our native wonders!

For this competition, we thought we would share a show reel of our wildlife show garden that we exhibited at  the Chelsea Flower Show in 2005. The garden was sponsored by the Essex wildlife trust and Lush cosmetics and demostrates that wildlife gardens don’t have to be wild jungles!

The show reel shows Jane Owen introducing the show from our garden and includes Jenny Bond presenting the wildlife aspects of the garden to some school children plus Julia Carling and Chris Baines, the well known broadcaster and wildlife expert discussing the fact that our garden had such a high ratio of native herbs and flowers.

Chris Packham also highlights in a chat with Andy Sturgeon the fact that there are 15 million small gardens in the British Isles with every one of them having the potential to be a small nature reserve.

Why not take a look at it: 

Giles Landscapes Wildlife Garden

This was brought home to me the other day when I was walking along Ely High Street and my eyes were drawn to two young ladies that were extremely well dressed and wouldn’t have looked out of place n in Kings Road Chelsea – anyway these two turned out to be the Editor and Camera Journalist from the Ely Standard! As I recognised them, I stopped to thank them for some media coverage they gave us on a recent academy project. Their reply shocked me a bit as they told me they were starting a local page to promote local businesses but had not expected us to be interested because they envisaged that we were only interested in large, grand projects.

This bothered me as we have a project manager who has a life time of experience in the 5K to 20k basic domestic project market. However this was clearly not the message we were giving out so I went out to get feedback from our 5k to 20k customers .

A customer from Peterborough loved their basic design service and had immediate confidence in our project manager who designed them a paving area with their input ensuring in came within their budget – our designer then dealt with their planting requirements and the job was completed with minimal fuss… no design fees – just a quick plan a bit of a discussion and a new patio area was theirs with no loss of quality in this pared down service.

They were completely satisfied with the quality of work and the attitude of our staff saying that it was a pleasure to have the lads on site. This worked both ways as our operatives made it clear that the customer was a pleasure to work for too!

I think we are a bit like actors – terrified of being type cast – at one stage we were known as mainly doing wild and wonderful creations so we made a point of blasting away that stereotype with a contemporary show garden at Sandringham to change people’s opinions of our work.

Its very easy in any business to become pigeon holed - and with one website showcasing two sides of a business – it is easy for one area to overtake the other – but we are just as commited to our smaller projects as we are to our large projects – our main aim is that the client gets the result they want within their budget – whether that is 5K or 250k!

-Roger

The project was a regeneration project in Arbury, Cambridge and consisted of 3 sculptural seats designed by Lubna Chowdhary and built by us out of glazed Ibstock bricks. The result was very unusual yet striking seats and earned us our finalist position in the Best Outdoor Space award.

The annual Brick Development Association Brick Awards recognises excellence in design, aesthetics and construction using brick and is one of the most respected design awards in the UK.

Enviro Mat is a quick and simple way of installing green roofs – we used this product on the roof of our pergola for our Gold winning 2010 Sandringham Flower Show garden. We got great comments on it from HRH Prince Charles as well as the general public – plus the show judges commented that it was the best garden in the 25 years history of the Royal Marquee Garden.

Here’s the link to the video

And here’s a couple of pictures of our Sandringham garden:

Richard Millen showcasing their company, Cambridge Film Works to the landscaping world at Capel Manor Enfield this week at the Creating Landscapes Show.

They already have had several commissions within the landscape sector for promotional film work.

-Roger

 My Daughter- in- law has just has just come back from spending one week in Moscow representing her company Hypro EU at the AgriTech 2011 show. Being Russian herself and fluent in both Russian and English and with a degree in business and transport logistics, she was ideally suited to represent and promote her employer.

Hypro EU based in Longstanton supply the horticultural industry with chemical weeding equipment and was the only UK based company joining companies from over 80 different countries at this massive agricultural show.

-Roger

 - Roger

When I read about the Olympics using wild flower turf, I had a bright idea of sending these videos to one of my clients – Kier Marriott who then showed them to their client. A couple of days later we were rolling out an instant wildflower meadow at the University student village, Luton!

This streaming of videos over the internet definately works!

Watch the Creating Landscapes video here

Watch the Q Lawns meadow mat video here

 -Roger Giles

We are delighted that he is show casing his film business by exhibiting at the innovative end of the landscape market having a stand at the Landscape Juice Creating Landscapes show which will be held at Capel Manor College on the 25th and 26th of October this year.

Cambridge Filmworks have also produced a video for the show where Philip Voice the founder of Landscape Juice talks about the long term principals of this show at Capel Manor and how communication and networking will continue to the advantage of all the participants.

-Roger

Check out the video here: http://youtu.be/yuaemcOu7ZQ

http://www.creatinglandscapes.org.uk/landscape-and-gardening/2011/08/cambridge-filmworks.html#tp

-Roger