News & Events
16 May 2016
National Vegetarian Week
Take the lead from National Vegetarian Week and start your own vegetable patch. Whether you’re vegetarian or not, we can all reap the rewards of growing our own vegetables.
Read Article13 April 2016
National Trust Pub Walks
Learn about over 35 wonderful British public houses owned by the National Trust.
Read Article18 October 2015
National Trust Flagstones BBC Favourites
Our Petworth Flagstones have been commissioned by the BBC for their new four part drama ‘One of Us’ which is being filmed in Scotland.
Read Article11 October 2015
Paving and Flooring at Chirk Castle
Explore the paving and flooring at Chirk Castle, imagining the stories of thousands of past footsteps. Beautiful natural stone worn flagstones.
Read Article12 August 2015
Westminster Stone celebrates 30 years in business!
The vision for Westminster Stone was to produce high quality reproduction paving products which look as authentic as real stone, but at a fraction of the cost.
Read Article29 June 2015
Hidcote Flagstones win Award at RHS Hampton Court
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show present Westminster Stone with an award for their Hidcote Flagstones.
Read Article18 May 2015
Gold Award at Chelsea Flower Show
The prestigious National Trust Paving collection has helped Alitex win the Best Trade Stand award at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, complimenting their wonderful conservatories with beautiful traditional flagstones.
Read Article2 February 2015
Wolf Hall is major success for BBC and the National Trust!
The BBC’s successful drama Wolf Hall, based on Hillary Mantel’s award winning books, has brought some of the National Trust’s most beautiful buildings to life.
Read Article8 June 2012
We're Winners Again!
The National Trust Garden Collection has been awarded a certificate of merit for the outstanding presentation of its stand at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Celebrating the British design and craftsmanship of the licensed products in the National Trust Garden Collection which includes our own paving and landscaping products.
Read Article20 September 2011
We Won a top award at Glee 2011!
The National Trust Landscape Collection wins top award at Glee 2011. The 18 metre stand which was designed and built by The Ability Garden Company especially for the Show at the NEC Birmingham, was the overall ‘Garden Design’ winner. The stand which featured landscape concepts for two of the four […]
Read Article6 September 2011
We Are At Glee!
We are very excited to be launching The National Trust Landscape Collection at Glee this September 19-21 at the NEC Birmingham. Our amazing new stand will showcase all the ranges available and visitors will be the first to view this outstanding collection. Don’t miss out – join us at Stand […]
Read Article20 August 2011
Sunday Times Article
‘Restoring Gardens is all the rage at stately homes’ says the Sunday Times this week. Period styles are being re-created with the help of modern materials and not just at Britain’s finest houses. One example used in the article was Hidcote Manor, the inspiration for part of our National Trust […]
Read Article26 July 2011
Chelsea Flower Show 2011
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the ultimate event in the gardening calendar – it’s the place to see and the place to be seen at, so it was the natural choice to launch the National Trust Garden Collection and preview 2 of our Landscape Collection ranges. The stand was […]
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