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High quality garden summerhouses and garden office buildings – Chelsea Flower Show 2010 garden product review

Humphry — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:45:49 +0000

High quality garden buildings

. As often before, we found ourselves admiring the range of Summerhouses made by Scotts. They are inventive, useful and very well built. In fact the larger ’summerhouses’ make very good garden offices. You can settle down on a hot afternoon to catch up on your emails with a sweeter-than-usual temper.

Recycled bottle garden shed – Chelsea Flower Show 2010 garden product review

Humphry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:16:01 +0000

recycled bottle garden shed

Many gardeners are talking about recycling and sustainability. Not so many are doing anything about it. So were were very pleased to see this shed made out of plastic bottles. Think of all the advantages (1) sustainability (2) insulation (3) permeable to rain (4) gentle ventilation (5) super!

Oak Garden Glasshouse

Humphry — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:53:49 +0000

Oak glass house garden room

If you want a shed which is oh-so-much-more than a shed, we recommend an Oak Glasshouse. Both materials are of the highest quality and, with additional protection from a slate roof, will last for every while growing more beautiful year-by-year. Who cold ask for more? So much nicer than buying a trashy shed from your local garden centre to watch it rotting year-by-year, unless of course you risk your lungs by spraying it with poisonous chemicals year-by-year – and they will certainly kill any plants they touch.

Trellis conservatory with charming cherub

Humphry — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:35:26 +0000

I have just bought a new cherub for my conservatory. He is a charming little thing and serves as an eyecatcher. The soaring vaults were pretty good as they were but my eye kept zooming round and round. It was dizzying. Now, it is peaceful. I walk in, sit on my cushioned rattan chair and focus my gaze on the little angel. It is a good preparation for a future life in the clouds, assuming St Peter lets me in.

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Lacquered Chinese screen window

Humphry — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:34:41 +0000

With surprisingly little daylight, the effect is not unlike the suntubes which are becoming popular in the west, but the colour of the light is that of a restful dawn or sunset. A lacquered Chinese screen window, looking onto a small courtyard with an orange-gold wall and bamboo tracery.