Latest news such as awards presented to garden designers that have used Dyofix Pond Black and testimonials from satisfied customers.
Many customers have been very kind and have provided us with photographs of how Dyofix Pond Black has improved the aesthetic appearance of their ponds... please view the picture gallery.
The World Vision Garden Gold Medal Winner 2011
A West Yorkshire company is playing a key role in the creation of a garden for the World Vision charity at this year's Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Flower Show (5-10 July 2011).
Dyofix Pond Black manufactured by Pudsey-based textile dye manufacturer Town End (Leeds) plc is being used to choke any unwelcome algae in the garden's large reflective pool and to create a black mirror image of the two grass domes which together represent the world's prosperous nations and the 'have nots'. Designed to reflect the charity's work enabling children to live life to the full in more than 100 countries worldwide, the vision of a unified world in perfect balance can only be viewed in the reflection created by Dyofix.
Comments John Warland of award-winning garden designer Flemons Warland Design.
"We chose Dyofix as the number one professional option for creating a slick reflective finish. Its environmental features make it the perfect fit for any RHS show, whilst delivering a stylish appearance."
This follows Dyofix Pond Black's success at last month's Chelsea Flower Show, where the product was used to create a light reflecting surface in a number of award-winning gardens, including the RSH People's Choice Award Winner, The Irish Sky Garden by Diarmuid Gavin.
Based on European Food Safety Approved organic food dyes, Dyofix is a non toxic environmental and wildlife friendly algae prevention and inhibitor which works by reflecting light away from the base of the pond, eliminating the life source of the nutrients present beneath the surface of the water and stopping the growth of submerged weeds and algae. Algae can be harmful to plants, fish and other wildlife and creates unsightly scum.
Says Peter Watson, production director at Town End.
"We are delighted to be able to donate to this worthwhile cause and to be the catalyst that brings the whole vision together in their large reflective pool. Based on organic food-standard dyes which have been tested to the highest levels, our range of products can be used in areas of water from the smallest of ornamental garden ponds and country estate lakes to commercial fishing lakes, municipal parks, golf and leisure clubs."
Established in the 19th century, Town End diversified into environmentally and wildlife friendly algae inhibitors for lakes and ponds five years ago and the product range sits alongside its core business of dyes for the textile trade.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011
Gold and Silver Medal winners use Dyofix Pond Black.
Once again, DyoFix Pond Black has been used to great effect in quite a few of the gold medal winning gardens, including the most talked about garden ever built for The Chelsea Flower Show, The Irish Sky Garden by Diarmuid Gavin.
Diarmuid Gavin's garden design also won the prestigious RHS People's Choice Award.
Diarmuid Gavin and Dyofix
Diarmuid Gavin and his team contacted us at the beginning of May to enquire if our product would create a reflecting surface and explore the possibility of getting DyoFix Pond Black delivered on time. We despatched a quantity on May 3rd and it arrived safely the following day. Any reservations that the Gavin team had about the reflecting properties were cast aside once the first of many pools were treated.
A little piece about The Irish Sky Garden:
Inspired by Oscar winning Dublin animator Richie Baneham, who created the visual effects for the movie 'Avatar'.
Also inspired by the concept of the 'Restaurant in the Sky' where people dine around a table hanging from the arm of a crane, by the colourful artistic interpretations of Cork's Midsummer Festival of the Senses and by the landscapes of Capability Brown, Charles Jencks and the cardinals of Renaissance Italy (with water to dazzle, entertain and reflect) the garden is a flying machine, hanging Eden and reflective launch pad.
On the ground it is green and full of water, with 25 pools, flowing or reflecting the craft above. Planting is in waves of grasses, photinias and bamboos with trees to lessen the impact of the crane that helps us fly.
More medal winners at the Chelsea Flower Show 2011
The British Heart Foundation garden by Ann-Marie Powell, and others, made great use of Dyofix Pond Black's mirror-black water to enhance the overall look of their creations and took a Silver Medal.
Jackson's Fencing Show Gardens
The Centered Garden
Dream garden designer Matthew Childs has just completed a transformation of his 2010 show garden at Jacksons Fencing HQ in Ashford, Kent.
Unlike the national Flower shows that can be seen for less than a week, for those who managed to get tickets, the Jackson's Fencing show gardens are in place all year round.
DyoFix Pond Black was the preferred product of choice in Matthew's The Centred Garden.
Grand Designs Live
We have provided Dyofix Pond Black to David Robinson, owner of the Garden Design Company 'Up The Garden Path', for his work at the "Grand Designs Live" shows at the NEC in 2009 and at Earls Court in 2010.
Here's "Grand Design's" presenter Kevin McCloud sitting by the pond at the Earls Court exhibition.
Medal award winners
Waterside Nursery, use Dyofix Pond Black as part of their winning combination.
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010
We are proud to announce that Dyofix Pond Black helped win a gold medal for 'A Fable for Tomorrow' in the categories biodiversity and conceptual gardens.
This garden comprises an old Cornish seed bank that has been split in half to reveal its treasures, which are held back by great rusty steel walls. The garden serves as both a cautionary tale and a celebration of the Cornish landscape, from cliff top to sand dune.
Matt James, the Lecturer, Garden Design. University College Falmouth
"Many thanks! The Dyofix Black worked a dream. Many thanks for your help."
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Dyofix Pond Black was used by one of the UK's top garden designers, Tom Holbyn in his medal winning, spectacular garden, sponsored by 'The Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust'.
Wetland gardens are rarely seen at Chelsea, but here Tom Hoblyn has taken as his inspiration the bogs of both East Anglia and North Carolina in a garden celebrating one of the world's most fragile habitats.
From a pool surrounded by trees rises a sloping bog garden featuring a mix of British and North Carolina native plants, many of which are rare and endangered. Bog oak, swamp cypress and pitcher plants are all highly specialised plants, here intermixed with successful British species such as spikerush and common rush. Collectively they highlight vulnerability versus adaptation in the plant world.
A stylised wave form undulates through the garden, reflecting the environmental and economic instability of a tumultuous world. Watching over this world is a female sculpture, representing idealised humanity poised to cope with and adapt to the waves of change. Much of the garden is made of recycled materials, with sheep's wool furniture and both the wave form and boardwalk being made from a giant redwood that fell in a storm. After the show, the entire garden will be reconstructed within a 12-acre garden in Suffolk.
Hampton Court Flower Show 2008
'The World of Water Garden' at Hampton Court Flower Show 2008, designed by Pete Sims, makes excellent use of Dyofix Black's aesthetic qualities.
The design of the garden has seating areas on two levels allowing the reflective properties of Dyofix Black to be fully appreciated.
Viewed from above, the upper level demonstrates the true depth to the garden design and, from the lower seating area, eyes are drawn to the water surface perfectly reflecting the underside of leaves and flowers 'providing the sensation of a diver surfacing through the pond's lillies and reeds', according to one BBC gardening commentator.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Strong evidence that Black Dye for use in ponds by the top garden designers remains as popular as ever at this years RHS Chelsea Flower show, where a stunning garden by Tom Stuart-Smith not only carried off a Gold medal, but was judged to be "best in Show". Using zinc water tanks designed by Andrew Ewing to look as though they were overflowing, many people thought that the tanks were topped with glass, the reflective properties of the black is so good.
Another medal winning garden, this time for Cancer Research UK using Black water dye was by Andy Sturgeon. Described as a contemporary woodland garden, Andy employed a high tech method to generate raindrop-like ripples to create movement across the surface of the 4 large, black pools.
The QVC Garden by Patrick Clarke & Sarah Price (Contractor: Wynniatt-Husey-Clarke) made full use of Dyofix Pond Black to create a calm, reflective space in the very stylish garden to secure their medal. This is the first time that the contractor has used Dyofix, and we hope to see more from them in the future.
Featured in BBC's hit programme ‘A Year at Kew’
Dyofix Pond Black was featured in the BBC's hit programme ‘A Year at Kew’ demonstrating that gardeners, whose ponds are being choked by unwelcome algae, now have a new and safer solution available after successful uses at London's Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
Peter Watson, production director of Town End (Leeds) plc, the producers of Dyofix Pond Black said "If you have ever had bloom algae or the dreaded blanket weed in your pond, you'll know that once it takes hold it can be a messy job to get rid of it".
"What we have developed is a simple, clean and cheap solution to the problem which isn't harmful to the plant life and which at the same time enhances the look of your pond."
Dyofix Pond Black assists with gold medal win.
"We are proud to announce that Dyofix Pond Black was used by Professional Gardener, Mr Paul Dyer, in his "Best of Show" and RHS Gold Medal winning Garden, "The Emperor's Water Garden" at The Three Counties Spring Show 2006 at Malvern".
The picture was taken by Linda, and edited by Pauline, both members of Real Gardeners, a very useful gardening website and forum.
Enhanced colour and reflective qualities
"My rill was designed to be a reflective pond and on completion we found ourselves looking at the joins in the liner, not good. After a quick search on the web we found www.dyofix.co.uk and Dyofix Pond Black. I ordered some and it arrived the following day, and desired results were instant.
"We recently opened the garden to the public who found the rill's colour and reflective qualities quite fascinating. More to the point is that we have had a duck, frogs, waterboatmen and grass snakes in the water without any harm."
Thanks to Mr. L Burchmore for his kind words and permission to use the photo.
Garden designs that have used Pond Black Algae and Weed Growth Inhibitor for Ponds
The Weleda Garden, designed by Anny Konnig.
Hampton Court 2006.
The Daily Telegraph Show Garden, designed by Gabriella Pape and Isabelle Van Groeningen.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2007.
"Your product has done everything that could be expected and the pond and the garden looks so much better because of it." - Craig Leach, Jersey.
If you have news of where our algae inhibitor has been used or have a testimonial you'd like to submit please email our sales department or call us on 0113 256 4251... and thank you in advance.
