Great British Summertime Window Boxes and Planters
As the sporting highlight of British Summertime, Wimbledon for us marks the heralding of the summer season. Strawberries, cream, Pimms… anyone? An essential occasion, as familiar to us Brits as ice cream on the beach or barbecues in the rain. As we will all be making...
Spring into life..
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...
New Year – New Resolutions – New trellis?!
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...
Spring Steel Planters
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...
Refreshing Summer Gardens with Planters
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...
Galvanized planter care
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...
The Ivy Planters
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...
Terrace Planters for The Ivy’s Brasseries
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,...
Planters Galore!
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...
Planters and Screening in Garden Spaces
Portable floral and foliage screening is such a neat solution for portioning various areas in gardens, on patios, in large conservatories or even on pavements. Reassuringly solid metal troughs and planters with built-in trellis have been a popular addition to the...