November is an excellent time to get shrub beds, flowerbeds and soft-landscaped areas looking tidy before winter. Rolawn Landscaping Bark is the perfect way to give your beds a sharp, RHS-style makeover with it’s deep, dark colour and excellent mulching properties. A byproduct of the forestry industry, this fabulous stuff is made from the bark [...]

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As the nights draw in and the evenings get chilly, there’s really no reason to abandon outdoor living if you have a fire pit. Firepits are fabulous for many reasons but the best is that you can keep yourself warm outside burning environmentally friendly logs. Great for taking camping, you can fire up the pit [...]

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Blanketweed is an absolute curse for those of us with ponds. It starves the pond of light and looks unsightly so this product promises an easy solution. Many solutions on the market involvr the use of filters and therefore an electricity supply to your pond. Some of us don’t have this luxury and so an [...]

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How about this for a great new invention – the Polanter. You know how you sometimes get a bare spot on your hanging baskets when the trailing plants don’t quite grow as you’d like? You know how miserable your hanging baskets can look in winter? You know what a pain it is keeping your hanging [...]

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I’m a real sucker for traditional garden kit and this Victorian-style garden cloche falls into exactly this category. You can just imagine a few of these kicking around the walled kitchen garden of a stately home somewhere, with a Monty Don style gardener, booted and braced, fondling his tender perennials. This is a replica of [...]

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Simply the best way to harden off tender plants, propagate seedlings and jump start your gardening year, a wooden cold frame is a vital addition to any garden. This solid timber framed cold frame gives a growing area of 100cm (3’3″) in length by 65cm (2’1″) wide – plenty of room for a good number [...]

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Channel 4′s Home Show is featuring this stainless steel ball water feature in tonight’s show. It comes from the popular Alan Titchmarsh range of water features and is called the Hardraw. Water flows over the stainless steel sphere, lit by four white LED lights to create a feature which looks amazing by day and even [...]

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Gardeners’ World Magazine is a monthly treasure trove of all things gardening. There’s nothing better than sitting in your garden with a nice cup of tea and crisp new issue each month, looking for hints, tips and new plants. Now that we’re approaching Christmas, a Gardeners World Magazine subscription makes perfect sense as a gift [...]

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This fabulous timber raised vegetable bed is ideal if you’re a bit late getting your vegetable beds dug and prepared this year. For a start, it’s guaranteed for 10 years and made from 28mm planed softwood panels which are soft to touch and have rounded edges to minimise splinters. The timber has been pressure treated [...]

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We love this granite ball water feature – it will really set off that awkward corner of your garden by reflecting any available light and creating an atmosphere of restfulness like the quiet trickling of a Scottish mountain stream. Called “The Carnoustie” and available in red, salmon or grey, these balls are hand carved and [...]

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