UK Water Features Blog

An excellent way to attract wildlife to your garden is by adding water to your garden, this could be by using ponds, birdbaths and water features. Like humans, water is vital for wildlife to survive yet is often overlooked. Adding a pond, birdbath or water feature is a great way to significantly increase the chances of attracting new wildlife to your gar...

Have you always fancied growing your own fruit and vegetables but never really had the space of a large open garden? Urban gardens are slowly becoming more popular and enables everyone to utilise any available space and transform a neglected disused corner into a kitchen garden full of a variety of culinary delights.  Urban gardens allow people with limited time and space the opportunity to live a healthier and self-sufficient lifestyle through transforming patios, window sil...

Chatsworth HouseChatsworth House is set in the stunning village of Bakewell in the Derbyshire countryside. The stunning Emperor fountain was installed by the 1st Duke and was the highest in this country. It is on record as having reached the height of 300ft! It is powered by the pressure of water dropping 122m through a 40cm iron pipe. In 2014 2 new nozzles were made for the fountain with the idea being that the second nozzle is margina...

Water features can be brought to life at night by simply adding lights either within the water feature or externally, illuminating a water feature.Adding lights within your water feature:Many water features already come with low voltage lights built in. The majority of lights added to water features are now LED’s which are energy efficient, longer lasting and cheaper to run. Several water features in our range though still do use halogen style lights which let off a warmer glow and are more suiting to traditional garden water features.This image...

The Chelsea flower show has now been running for an amazing 102 years! The show has been held in the same location since 1913. Making an exception for the times of the wars when the show couldn’t run. The show is located in London and is run by the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society).The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 has arrived! The show has begun today and will be running until Saturday the 23rd May. The Royals visit...

We're really excited to share this great news with you all, after months of hard work we are now recognised as official Google Trusted Shop. What does this mean to you? Well as a Google Trusted Shop we are guaranteeing our excellent customer service, delivery times and general all round online shopping experience which is being backed by the...

Spring is certainly here, the sun is shinning and the weather is a tad warmer. All great signs, but what this means is that we're now all ready to get out in our gardens and get the most of it whilst it lasts. We're hoping for a long warm Summer this year so now is a perfect time to get out there and decorate your garden so that you've got something lovely and cozy to sit back in on those long Summer evenings this year. When it comes decorating your garden, the obvious Read More

We're looking for your help and your support as we aim to reach our 7,000 Facebook fans mile marker this month. We're currently just shy by roughly 50 fans and are now reaching out to you, our fellow and loyal customers and friends to help us over the line. If you could kindly head over to our page, hit that little like button and share our page with your friends, family and co workers...

We're all very excited here in Yorkshire, but we're just that little bit more excited here in Barnsley at our main offices as the Tour de Yorkshire is due to fly by our garden outlet this weekend. We some of the top professional cyclists on show, it's an event that is bound to draw in hundreds, if not thousands of locals to the Barnsley area on Sunday. As you you can probably expect, there will be several road closures during the even, including the main road to our garden...

It was just last year that the whole of Yorkshire came together as one as we welcomed people from all over the world to our lovely historic Yorkshire, it wasn't for the Yorkshire Puddings nor the Yorkshire Tea it was of course for the Grand Depart of the the Tour de France.This year on May 1-3 2015 the Tour of Yorkshire will be taking place as cyclists cycle through some of the most historic towns in Yorkshire including our very own Barnsley. We're excited to say that the tour will be passing b...