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As the colder months approach, safeguarding your outdoor water feature becomes paramount. Discover how frost-free solutions and weather-resistant covers from OutdoorLivingUK protect your feature during winter, ensuring longevity and functionality.

Understanding Frost Damage

Winter's freezing temperatures pose risks to your water feature, potentially causing costly damage to pumps and components. Learn how proactive measures can prevent these issues.

Frost-Free Solution: Essential Protection

OutdoorLivingUK's anti-freeze solutions are tailored for water features, offering:

• Winter/Ice Damage Prevention: Shield your feature or pump from freezing, ensuring optimal performance.
• Safe for Features, Caution for Consumption: Designed for water features but not safe for consumption, take care to prevent ingestion by humans or animals.

As winter sets in, many might assume that garden landscaping takes a back seat until spring blooms arrive. However, your garden can still radiate beauty and charm during the colder months with thoughtful planning and strategic landscaping choices. Discover how to elevate your outdoor space into a winter wonderland with these expert tips and ideas.

Embrace Evergreen Elegance:

Incorporating evergreen trees, shrubs, and plants into your garden provides a constant burst of color and structure even when other plants go dormant. Opt for varieties like junipers, spruces, and boxwoods for year-round greenery.

Winter-Blooming Marvels:

Infuse vibrant hues into your garden by planting winter-blooming stars like camellias, hellebores, or winter

Every one of us has dreamt of that idyllic getaway, and while daily life doesn't always feel like a vacation, those with a garden have a unique advantage. We can bring a piece of that dream to our own backyard.

Given the UK's unpredictable weather, we've mastered the art of making the most of our sunlit moments. And what complements a sun-soaked day? A cozy garden setup, complete with furniture and, if you ask me, a barbecue. But to elevate that experience and introduce a calming ambience, I believe there's nothing quite like the sight and sound of flowing water. This is why water features top my list of garden essentials.

In today's post, I'll guide you through the world of water features, highlighting their benefits and where you can witness them in their full glory at renowned garden shows.

Understanding Self-contained Water Features

First and foremost, I advocate for self-contained water features.

So many shows been and gone, yet we are still busy preparing for more shows!

This weekend we are at Stansted Park Garden Show and next weekend we will be at Gardeners World! So many places for you to come and visit us on our stands and witness our wonderful selection of water features, from contemporary to traditional, there is a water feature to suit any garden!

We’re delighted to announce that the National Flower Show is returning to Hylands House & Estate for a three day event on Friday 20th, Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May 2022.

Check out the link below to find out more information

The National Flower Show - The National Flower Show

We hope to see you there!

Every year we pack up our favourite water features and head all around the country to visit shows.  From our experience, this is the best way that we interact with our customers as you can see our fantastic range of water features in action.

I am pleased to say that we have already seen great success at Harrogate this year with more shows coming up in rapid succession.

May 2022

RHS Malvern

5th - 8th May

Location : Malvern, Worcestershire

Website : https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/malvern-spring-festival 

National Flower Show

20th - 22nd May

Location : Chelmsford, Essex

Website : https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/malvern-spring-festival 

As you can see from our previous blog, our team has been working hard, taking pictures and videos of our brand new Stone Water features.

The world of suburban landscaping is continuously evolving and expanding. When it comes to designing a water feature, for example, there is a near-endless catalogue of designs to choose from. Similarly, there is a wonderful variety of materials from which modern water features can be built. However, it is important to ensure that your chosen material is completely compatible with its application and that it will produce a durable and aesthetically-pleasing end product. 

After looking at what was trending in gardens around the UK, we noticed that more natural was the way to go! With Stone Water Features every one will be unique due to the natural effect of the stone itself. 

Natural stone refers to a wide range of mined and collected stones, from granite to fieldstone. As a result, natural stone varies widely in its texture,

Behind The Scenes..

With spring and summer fast approaching and most of our deliveries having now landed; it’s time to start taking some amazing photography work so you can see the great new range of features for 2022

As always with this time of year, we have to set up a new garden area so that we can create the perfect environment so you can see the beautiful detail and stunning effects of all of our new features..Here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes of what we have to do so that you can enjoy an amazing browsing experience.

With a great new range of stone water features, this year has been more challenging than ever having to lift and lumber heavy stone so that we can share with you the beautiful detail of handcrafted sandstone.

We are in the process of setting up our NEW VIDEO SUPPORT PAGE FOR STONE FEATURES!!

Vegepods have just arrived and just in time for planting season.  Let us tell you a little bit about Vegepod.

Vegepod Raised Garden Bed Kits give you the best of both worlds and more. You get the size of a raised garden bed with all the benefits of container gardening. Not only that, you also get the benefit of a Raised Garden Bed Cover that extends growing seasons and accelerates plant growth.  Garden maintenance is minimal and watering is only required during the early stages of plant growth. Vegepod Raised Garden Bed Kits are simply the easiest way to grow your own vegetables.

It comes with a commercial-grade canopy that stops all pests, weather, and seeds, mist spray irrigator is inbuilt and made from a permeable mesh with allows in light, air and rain.

The trays themselves are self-watering using wicking reservoirs to keep your plants alive, one-foot soil depth, and an overflow hole to prevent overwatering.

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Very exciting a new range of furniture is coming out in Jan, watch this space