North Thames Natural History Museum

Giles Heap of CED Stone who sourced all the fantastic rocks that make up the geological progression through the garden will bring along his geologist Simon, and Darren, the project manager, to bring alive the story of the stones.
As we move through the contemporary Nature Garden, BALI North Thames Chair, Noel Brock and the Natural History Museum Head Gardener, Tom McCarter will show and describe how the garden showcases the biodiversity of the UK, and how that will adapt to climate change.

Optional self-led lunch in the museum café.

Schedule on the day

10:30am Arrival

10:45am Giles Heap, CED Stone Geological Progression Tour

11:45am Nature Garden BNG Tour with Head Gardener Tom McCarter and Noel Brock

12:45pm Optional lunch in the café

2:00pm Finish

CED Stone

CED Stone have supplied the stone for The Evolution Garden at The Natural History Museum of London.

The new gardens are now open after a five-year redevelopment plan that transforms the five-acre garden into an urban haven for people and wildlife. This transformation into the Nature Discovery Garden supported by The Cadogan Charity, and the Evolution Garden, provides a new green oasis in the city, enhancing biodiversity and offering a beautiful space for visitors to connect with nature as well as a world-class outdoor living laboratory for ecologists and environmentalists to help them understand better the diverse and hugely important role that Urban Nature has to play in our cities.

On the east side of the gardens, the Evolution Garden takes visitors on a geological journey from the Precambrian Period including 2.7 billion-year old rock, through the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous periods, all the way to the present with each metre of pathway from the start of the Cambrian period marking five million years of history.

Within the Evolution Timeline supported by the Evolution Education Trust, each of these geological periods is represented by one or more rocks incorporated into the garden landscape, with all but two sources from across the UK. Using rocks formed during particular moments in Earth’s history, as well as plants, sculptures and brass inlays, the Evolution Garden tells the story of life on Earth, and CED Stone is very proud to have worked with the Natural History Museum project team to source and supply almost all the stone for the newly transformed gardens.

History

As a family business with a unique heritage, CED Stone aspire to make the world a more beautiful place by drawing on the values that they have used from the very beginning. Spanning three generations of one family, CED Stone Group has certainly faced many challenges – but one thing has remained certain, their clients' trust in our passion and expertise.
Although their involvement with natural stone dates back to the middle of the 19th Century when they supplied raw flint from France to the ceramics industry, it was in 1978 that their Chairman, Michael Heap, made the decision to supply specialist natural stone aggregates. They have been developing, growing and investing in their product range ever since.