Adding timber decking to your garden can significantly enhance its appearance, but it’s not enough just to throw down a deck and leave it as is thereafter. It requires due care and attention throughout the year so that it doesn’t lose its visual appeal, nor is the timber’s … [Read more...]
Cordless Gardening Tools by Gtech
Gtech specialise in creating cordless products that look beautiful and work incredibly well. Nick Grey founded the company in 2001 when he set out to create "the best loved floor-care and garden products in the world." Now, in 2016, Gtech has sold more than 22 million … [Read more...]
6 Things to Remember When Building Raised Brick Flower Beds
Having brick flower beds in your garden is the perfect way to keep your flowers organised and under control. Raised flower beds or are easier to maintain since you don’t have to sit on the ground to tend to your plants. Building your own flower bed isn’t a complex DIY job. In … [Read more...]
How to Install a Water Butt
Financially, using a water butt to collect rainwater from your house, garage or garden building doesn't make a lot of sense. Tap water is fairly cheap, and it takes a lot of rain to fill the average water butt, meaning it could be many years' before you see a positive return … [Read more...]
How to Build a Shed Base
The majority of homeowners have some kind of structure in their gardens, whether it’s a shed, log cabin or form of bike storage; but many of us don’t consider the important steps that go into the planning of a new shed. We just assume that it gets delivered and set down where we … [Read more...]
How to Build a Sunken Seating Area and Fire Pit in Your Garden
There is nothing like a real fire. It brings out the primitive fascination in all of us. A garden that has comfortable seating and a good fire pit will be used in the evenings much more than one that hasn't. We are going to take a look here at how you can create your own … [Read more...]
Bases for Incredible Sheds – Everything you Need to Know
There are life changing moments in every man's life that will always be remembered. Their wedding, the birth of their first child, the day they won the lottery; all of these things pale in comparison to the day they got their new shed. Yes, we are a nation of shed lovers; … [Read more...]
How to Build a Summer House
There was an upsurge in the popularity of garden design in the 1980s thanks to the garden renovation programs on television. Also, thanks to the rise of diy stores and garden centres, materials were widely available to the general public in a way that they never were before. … [Read more...]
A Step-By-Step Guide for Erecting a Fence to Create Privacy in Your Garden
We all love our gardens and try to make them as welcoming as possible. There is nothing worse, however than sitting and relaxing only to find a nosy neighbour peering in and making unwanted conversation. Sunbathing too is a pastime that requires a degree of privacy. There is … [Read more...]
Thinking of Adding a Beautiful Pergola to Your Garden? Read This!
If you would like to add a permanent space for outdoor entertaining in your backyard, consider installing a pergola. A pergola is an outdoor structure consisting of vertical columns that support a series of horizontal beams. The ceiling of this structure usually features a … [Read more...]