by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog |
August is a tricky month to keep your garden plants looking good, but there’s no excuse for neglecting your flowering displays in your garden planters. The key to keeping them looking worthy of a Gold award from the Chelsea Flower Show is to ensure that the planter is...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog |
Planning for Spring Planters and Window Boxes March is the month when we officially cast away the doom and gloom of Winter by celebrating the promise of things to come with the Spring Equinox on the 20th of March. This marks the date when day and night are the same...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | News |
Sunny days are on their way so why not start planning for your Summer garden? Trellis panels and arches are essential structures for any garden. March is the ideal month to update or totally redesign your garden as most plants haven’t stirred from their winter...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog |
Christmas is over and the New Year has begun and sure enough, we can’t open the papers or go online without being bombarded with tips and hints how to de-toxify our bodies or de-clutter our homes to enhance and simplify our lives. So as a distraction, here’s a...
by Admin | Jan 9, 2019 | News |
If like us you’re looking forward to seeing the first snowdrops and signs of Spring then plan ahead with your planting and take a look at our solid steel galvanized planters. There are plenty of winter flowering bulbs to fill the gaps left by fading perennials. Along...
by Admin | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog |
How to celebrate Christmas? Well, ‘tis the season to be jolly so we can begin by rejoicing the fact that we’ve all made it through yet another successful year and are now looking forward to a relaxing, joyful festive season with family and friends. The tree’s been...
by Admin | Sep 12, 2018 | News |
The team had an important deadline for shipping 38 planters and troughs to Hotel Excelsior in Venice for the 75th Venice International Film Festival (Biennale Cinema 2018). They arrived in time for the opening night of the annual festival, which is a highlight of the...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog |
Refresh and revive How are this year’s garden schemes taking shape? At time of writing (the start of the summer school holidays) the usually lush, green gardens of England are limping a little in the midst of a lengthy summer heatwave. We don’t yet have a hosepipe ban...
by Admin | May 13, 2018 | News |
We only make products from steel which are hot dip zinc galvanized to BS EN ISO1461 to form a corrosion resistant finish that won’t need treating every two years like timber. Timber trellis, porches or garden planters need constant maintenance to prevent rotting and...
by Admin | May 10, 2018 | Blog |
Release the flower shows! RHS flower show season is here! At time of writing, the RHS Malvern Spring Festival is just a day away and the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is opening on 22nd May in a couple of weeks’ time – buzzing honeypots for those seeking ideas and...
by Admin | Feb 20, 2018 | News |
Our planters can now be seen outside many new Ivy Brasseries springing up around the country, just like these at Tower Bridge in London. When we were asked to design and make the first batch of café planters for Tower Bridge last year, we were delighted that The Ivy...
by Admin | Jan 28, 2018 | Blog |
The Ivy, Tower Bridge Table for four? On our outdoor terrace? Yes, of course this way… The Ivy Brasserie, currently sweeping the land as its iconic, in-crowd honeypots pop up in hot property spots, is synonymous with classic British/European all-day dining,...
by Admin | Jan 12, 2018 | News |
Our highly skilled craftsmen were temporarily stuck in these very large, bespoke steel planters commissioned in December. You can see two, from a set of four, bespoke troughs designed to sit on a newly designed south facing terrace. As they’re pre-zinc galvanized, the...
