Garden Furniture Maintenance Kit Box Essentials You don’t need a fancy jet-wash to sort out your patio stuff. And although I have been known to get the carpet shampooer out to tackle the larger garden cushions, if your kit box contains these handy items, you’ll soon have your metal garden furniture looking...
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Gardening Apps
Gardening Apps Something to keep you amused during the wintery weather – some of our favourite gardening apps … Plant Identifiers Top of gardening apps has to be PlantSnapp – this handy little beastie is like having the GQT team in your pocket. For iPhone and iPad, all you need...
Home Working
Home Working If one of your New Year’s Resolutions was about improving your Work/Life balance, the chances are you’ve considered home working. More and more of us are opting for remote working at least part time so it is not surprising that the options for garden office buildings are on...
Snowdrops
Snowdrops – An Obsession Hurrah! The Christmas decorations are just about packed away and the Christmas tree is hanging around the garden waiting to be composted or cut up for firewood. The first eager shoots of the snowdrops are peeking through – surely the most welcome of all gardening signs,...
Compost Heap Build – part 1
Compost Heap Build – part 1 At Garden Furniture Central, we’ve a bit of time on our hands for planning and dreaming about the months ahead so we decided to start a compost heap build. It’s a good time to tackle those jobs that always get put to the bottom...
January Gardening Jobs
January Gardening Jobs At metal garden furniture HQ, we’re relatively relaxed this month – getting ready for spring and the season ahead. It’s a good time to catch up on all those January gardening jobs that fall by the wayside once the growing (and, for us, selling) season is in...
Winter Scandi Christmas Tips
Winter Scandi Trends If you want to go all winter Scandi, inside and outdoors, there are lots of decorative items available now to help. When we think of a Scandinavian Christmas (and I don’t mean the horror of the checkout queues at IKEA), we tend to think of lots of...
Garden Books – here are some great suggestions for your horticultural winter reading, take our advice and get inspired!
Garden Books for Gardening Enthusiasts 2014 – chosen by the nice people here who sell our lovely metal garden furniture. Garden Books – Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden: The Making of a Garden by Vita Sackville-West, Sarah Raven (Virago £30) “What is lovely about Vita’s writing is...
Tulip Fever – It’s a good time for all of us that love our gardens to do those nagging tasks that will produce such rewards next year!
Tulip Fever! Tulip Fever – Now that November’s drawing to a close, we at Garden Furniture Towers have a bit more time on our hands. Even the last garden furniture sale is a distant memory. It’s a great time for all of us who love our gardens to do those...
Raking Leaves – Clean up the garden before Christmas!
Raking Leaves – Have you done yours? Raking Leaves – Here at Garden Furniture Towers, we’ve got a bit more time on our hands now that the rattan furniture sale is but a distant memory. Soon be time to gear up for Christmas, but in the meantime, there’s still the leaf...