DyoFix Pond Black: News and Testimonials

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 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.