Drifts of purple and white perennials bloomed right on cue to help a Kent firm’s garden win a bronze medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Ramsgate garden designer Geoff Whiten, who has 32 years experience of designing medal-winning gardens at Chelsea, worked on a theme of sustainability for the garden, sponsored by Cliffe-based Brett Landscaping and Building Products.

Zack Barrett, marketing services manager at Brett, said: "We are delighted to have won this medal. This reflects all the hard work and effort that everyone in the team has put in.

"The theme for the garden, which we named Real Life by Brett, is adaptability and sustainability, illustrated in a beautiful English garden style that everyone can recreate."

Mr Whiten said: "With the increasing desire to protect the world we live in, the Real Life by Brett garden identifies things that people can start to do today."

Mr Whiten’s gardening style aims at practicality, mixed with a strong sense of atmosphere. It has won him many medals at Chelsea over the years he has been designing gardens there.

All the hard landscaping products for the garden were supplied by Brett and staff from the firm helped Northamptonshire contractor Landscape Concepts to put it together.

The dining area of the garden uses a new type of paving which uses fibre technology to make it a third thinner than usual slabs, making it easier to transport.