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For your instant mini-garden to show off your lovely plants and pots, why not choose our British made window boxes? You don’t really need a window; why not fix our window box to a convenient wall at waist height? Perfect for watering and feeding your tomatoes, herbs or displays of butterfly friendly flowers – no garden necessary.

We have a limited number of Gothic Arches and Roman Arches ready to despatch. The 15% discount applies to all standard sized wirework arches in widths of 3′ and 4′ in the authentic plain zinc galvanized finish.

What do door canopies and ducks have in common? Okay so you know the answer, but our door canopies will last much longer in the rain than your average duck as they’re made from solid steel and hot dip zinc galvanized to BS EN 1461 . Our door canopies also require far less maintenance and don’t need daily feeding.

Happy St David’s Day to one and all. This is my sister in her Welsh lady costume just a few years ago… Spring has finally arrived and has brought with it some glorious sunshine. We’ve been out in the garden removing the rotten timber raised beds in our vegetable garden and will be replacing them with our far superior new steel edging.

If you’re fortunate enough to have a woodburning stove to keep you and your home warm you may need to protect small children and animals from touching it. Our sturdy, handmade fireguards help to prevent anyone falling onto the hot stove or open fire. We don’t make folding sides on our fireguards as these aren’t effective as guards at all.

Are you fed up with the rain streaming down your patio doors or new bi-fold doors? If they’re made of wood, you’ve experienced the results of the frames swelling and causing them to jam. A door canopy fitted over any doorway will protect the doors from any rainfall running down the wall onto the doors.

Steel planters and pots are a must at this time of year. Any other material simply isn’t going to provide the benefits of our zinc galvanized steel planters. Terracotta will crack no matter how much you’ve paid for it. It’s porous and will absorb water, which in turn freezes and expands, cracking the pot.

Fireguards are an essential addition for stoves and fires that are exposed to small children or animals. However, most fireguards for sale today fail to do the most basic job intended of them as many are folding fireguards, rendering them useless and far too flimsy to be called a guard.

Door canopies are an ideal solution for keeping the doorway dry as well as giving the front door more status. The Villa Magdala in Bath has recently undergone a major refurbishment and Amanda Willmott, the new owner, chose a door canopy, several window boxes and matching aged zinc planters from our range of products to enhance the front of the hotel.

All window boxes need to be filled with plants that thrive in each particular environment. For example, a sunny, south facing aspect is ideal for drought tolerant plants such as lavender and most herbs. North facing sills would benefit from some splashes of colour in the summer months with favourite annuals such as Pelargoniums and Busy Lizzies.

Our metal trellis panels have diamond latticework that will keep out all but the youngest rabbits and certainly any larger visitors such as deer & sheep (if you happen to live in their vicinity). It’s always good to know that your crops and tender garden plants are safe from unwanted visitors.

Now’s the time to enjoy your garden; all the planting’s been done and any weeds that were going to grow have either been destroyed in Spring or are now flourishing, just like the sea of teasels in our vegetable patch! Teasels are a great source of food for birds during the autumn and winter, so we’ll sit back and enjoy them.

Don’t get strangled by the Triffids round your doorway this summer, help is at hand! Our wirework lattice canopies are the ideal solution to lift and support the most energetic climbing plants. The ideal choice for a front door canopy would be the Roman Door Canopy shown…

Window boxes are the ideal way to create instant mini gardens. Our Georgian window boxes are the ideal choice for a long lasting, durable solution for any window display. Fill them with your favourite pots and plants such as these Busy Lizzies.

If your doorway needs a boost and protection from the elements, why not invest in a new door canopy or porch with matching wall panels? The made to measure porch shown was made for one of our customers last year to protect their new door.

Spring is almost here, and what better time to start thinking about the design, planting and structure of your garden? A garden arch together with garden trellis and wall top trellis help to provide height, structure and privacy as well as plant support.

February is not an ideal month to spend pottering in your garden or sprucing up your external paintwork. However, it’s an ideal opportunity to install a door canopy or porch canopy over your doorway to keep you dry and stop the rain running down your front door.

The New Year’s arrived with a vengeance with gale force winds and torrential rain across the UK. There’s no better time to protect you and your doorway, as well as making the most of our January 20% off Scoop canopy sale.

Following the successful launch of the Georgian Porch and door canopy range, we’ve introduced this latest porch design with classic ironwork supports. This porch is a perfect addition to a classic town or country house façade.

The cold winter months have arrived along with Garden Requisites’ new range of wirework fireguards. Inspired by the beautiful and practical designs from the past, two pared down designs are now produced to suit any style of open fireplace or woodburning stove.

It has been a hectic few months in the Garden Requisites office, as the team has been busy pulling together innovative ideas, stunning photography and updated product descriptions ready for the new catalogue.

Garden Requisites is a regular exhibitor at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a highlight of the gardening calendar. This year the company exhibited a handmade wirework octagonal gazebo and the new circular steel planters on Tendercare’s stand in the Great Pavilion.

A range of new circular steel planters launched in time for summer and immediately proved to be a hit with customers looking for a maintenance-free alternative to wooden planters.

Great Pulteney Street is one of the finest and most famous streets in the city of Bath. Commissioned by Sir William Pulteney and completed by architect Thomas Baldwin in 1789, the street is lined with elegant Georgian façades rich with original period features.

Garden Requisites, a Bath-based company, which specialises in bespoke handwoven English wirework including steel canopies, porches and arches, is warning firms to act quickly if their intellectual property is breached, after a Gloucestershire firm copied its designs and brand identity.