Have you got a garden? Why not give it a spring clean and get some new plants! Take a look at our ideas on where you can get some gorgeous garden plants for your great garden!
An excellent source of garden plants is Crocus. These guys pride themselves on being the biggest gardening website in the UK, providing a choice of over 4000 plants to their clients. Their plant search engine is pretty advanced too – click on the ‘Right Plant, Right Place’ link and you can look for your plant via colour, flowering time or soil type. If you follow the ‘Designing with Plants’ link you can access Crocus’ garden designers who will help you create the ideal garden for you!
Gardening Express is another ideal place to start your garden plant search. You are able to look through a huge variety of plants, filtering the items via category eg. bulb plants, patio plants, roses, bamboos and more; or via keyword. You then click on your preferred plant, add it to your ‘shopping bag’ and proceed to the payment screen where you can purchase your plant using your credit card. Gardening Express offer free delivery for any orders over 150GBP. They also have a video guide that provides help, advice and how-to guides for your garden.
Working in the garden is one of the nation's favoutite pastimes, however if you don't have the right tools it can quickly become a drag, luckily there are loads of places selling everything you'll need at really low prices.
With the summer coming back in and the weather picking up many people will get the opportunity to spend a lot more time in their gardens. The long, cold and windy winter will have left many gardens in a less than ideal state; however don't let this get you down as it can be the perfect chance to do the garden just as you always wanted. This doesn't have to be a massive job and with the right garden tools you'll find yourself flying through the work.
There are many places to find the perfect tools to help you trim those bushes and spray those weeds. Amazon have one of the biggest selection of garden tools and currently have great deals and price reductions on many. Among their most eye- catching deals are the Bosch Electric Lawn Mower for £58.95, the Hozelock Aqua Control Water Timer for £21.48, the Black & Decker Strimmer for £21.13 and the Draper Gardening Hose for £13.37.
Of course Amazon isn't the only supplier of garden tools and if you can't find what you're looking for here check out B & Q, Keengardener or Homebase where you're sure to find what you're looking for.
Whether you’re a fair weather gardener or have more committed green fingers, it is essential that you have the right tools for your garden; even if you only get your hands dirty from time to time, a little help can go a long way
The first thing most people are looking for is the perfect lawn. What you go for in terms of equipment will largely depend on the job you have to complete and obviously there is no need to have a top of the range lawnmower for a tiny plot of land.
If you have a small patch, look into electric mowers. These have the advantage of being lower in cost and much lighter. Larger areas might benefit from a petrol mower. For electric, Flymo rightly have a great reputation. For petrol, Honda make excellent and sturdy models.
After this you’ll need some basic equipment. Essential are your trowel, spade and shovel. Ideally, if you are looking seriously at keeping your garden, you might also look into a garden shed in which to keep all your tools.
Whatever you need, a little investment in quality tools will really bear fruit. There is no point in having to replace your tools each spring when you come around to planning for the summer. Buy hard wearing quality tools and you can be assured of using them well into your old age. Your investment will be paid many times over and you will have a lot to show for it.
For those looking to add a bit of colour to their garden for the summer, or a bit of greenery to fill some gaps, it is still not too late to plant, just be sure to give a little planning to where you want your garden plants to go so you get the most out of your investment
In terms of potted plants why not consider some magnificent aliums, They grow beautiful purple blooms which grow on a thick stalk which can reach a couple of feet. Even out of season when their magnificent flower is not out, the plant has lovely green silvery leaves. Just keep it in a two litre plant pot.
Alternatively, what about some roses? They come in a wide variety of colours and depending on the variety can be very easy to keep in a pot or even beside a wall to climb. They will also provide you with a great bit of colour in the summer.
For the culinary gardeners among you, a herb bed is a great way to make use of some leftover space. Even if you only have a small bed, or even a window box, it won’t be difficult to grow some thyme, oregano, sage and dill. The great advantage of this is that you don’t just get the visual appeal from your bed but also the extra help in the kitchen. These are easy to grow from seeds or you can easily buy small pots of herbs and plant them yourself, all of which are widely available from your gardening centre and also online.
With everyone hoping for a great hot summer this year the world's karma will surely deliver, but how are we going to enjoy all the beautiful heat without a decent set of garden chairs?
Each year the summer seems to start a little later, but they do however, seem to be a lot hotter and sunnier - so make sure your back garden is loaded with great garden furniture. If you haven't already done this then the first tick on the purchasing list is the garden chairs. This sounds like a simple task. However, with so many places selling them it can be hard to find a decent price on them. Your best bet is to purchase online. With many websites offering great prices on furniture and cheap delivery how could you go wrong? Well, you could purchase from a bad crowd who don't deliver what they promise, so we're here to help point you in the right direction.
Head over to the gardenfurniture website and start hunting for a good deal. This is easily the best website on the net when it comes to garden furniture. Simple to use and well presented, it will have you browsing in no time. Simply select the type of garden chairs that you like and a list of many varieties will appear to choose from. You're sure to find great furniture for a great price here, so have a good look before you buy!
If you're looking to fix a few problems around the garden but don't have the right tools to hand, check out this great website for all your gardening needs...
Do you look at your garden and realise a lot needs doing? When you check out your newly erected garden shed do you realise you have forgotten to stock it with the necessary tools to get some work done?
In fact, for some reason when you think garden shed do you simply assume that someone else would have stocked it at some point? If only life was that simple. Unfortunately, your grandparents' shed wasn't magically full of tools, it was a collection that had been purchased over the years to do the jobs you didn't know you needed a tool for. Today is finally the day when you too will begin the lifetime process of filling your shed with an oh so grown-up selection of seemingly useless garden tools.
One of the best websites to get you stocked is the arro website. This has every possible type of tool you could ever need to do anything whatsoever in the garden. Simply hit the gardening tool section and start rummaging through the hundreds of different tools on display. When you've found what you want click 'add to cart', then go to the checkout. That's it, you can start building your collection of tools today!
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