Children can enjoy a garden playhouse at any time of the year. It’s a safe place where their creativity and imagination can flourish.

The Playhouse Company has been specializing in designing and building children’s playhouses for 20 years.

They create playhouses, castles, tree houses and play equipment that are individually designed, built and installed to the highest standards by their skilled craftsmen.

Built and installed to a very high quality and always supplied fully treated in a choice of colours.

Why not give that special child in your life the chance to escape, play and flourish with a beautiful playhouse?

There is no safer place than your own garden and a playhouse can become your child’s home for all year-round playtime fun.

With one in four 8 to 10 year olds never having played outside without an adult, and one in three parents not even allowing older children to play outside the house or garden, it’s never been more important, to provide a safe and inspirational area for your children within your own garden.

Featured here is: The Playhouse with side balcony - 090355.
It has false dormer windows and shutters to give the playhouse a very spacious appearance.
Priced at: £3,768.

Visit the Playhouse Company’s website to view the huge choice of attractive playhouses.

Tel. 01568 709103

Interflora has designed a stunning Collection for Mother’s Day 2010 with an emphasis not only on style and elegance, but also on affordability.

Out of a Collection of over 20 new products, over 60% are priced at below £33.00:

Mother’s Day 2010 Azalea Basket.  Interflora’s team of award winning florists has worked hard to produce a Collection that has wide appeal for both the sender and the Mum. £19.99.

Mother’s Day 2010 Hat Box. Kenyan Roses & Pink Germinis. £32.99.

The Mother’s Day Perfect Gift in our picture really is the complete package.
A fantastic selection of seasonal flowers, presented in a beautiful curved glass vase, and finished with a pink sisal collar and decorative ‘Mother’s day’ bow trim.

This vase arrangement features short-stemmed roses, freesias, germinis, and spray chrysanthemums with salal and pittosporum. £29.99.

And if you’re looking for something other than flowers this year, Interflora has a selection of gifts that would thrill any Mum:

A specially boxed selection of mouth-watering cupcakes each with an iced ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ message. £24.99.

Personalised Mother’s Day chocolates £19.99; the Mother’s Day Treat Tower (gorgeous!) at £29.99; or the Biscuiteers Shoe Box (designer biscuits!) at £24.99.

The Interflora Mother’s Day 2010 Collection will be available to order from Wednesday 17th February, right up until the afternoon of Saturday 13th March for delivery on Mother’s Day, Sunday 14th.

To complement the Collection, Interflora can create individually designed floral gifts with its Designed to Order service. Simply advise on the style, colour and how much you would like to spend.

Prices start at just £19.99 plus delivery.

To place an order visit Interflora.co.uk or call 0800 434343.

Homebase has launched a new value range - a collection of budget DIY essentials to help keep the costs down.

This collection of over 300 everyday essentials, including 150 for under £5, offers exceptional prices on the products.

From decorating and DIY, to home furnishings and finishing touches, the Value Range has everything you need for a home makeover:

“For the DIY enthusiast” Affordable hand tools including a 3m tape measure (99p), a 16oz hammer (£3.99), 6in junior hacksaw (£1.99) and a slotted screwdriver (99p).

“For keen decorators” Choose from a range of decorating essentials, including plain white wall tiles (£4.49 for a pack of 44), white matt paint (£5.99 for five litres) and lining paper (£2.24, to cover 5.6sq/m).

There is a choice of accessories including, a 500-watt floodlight (£4.99) basic roller kit (£2.49), step stool (£11.99) and paintbrushes from 49p

Other finishing touches for the home include beech laminate flooring (£10.61 for 2.66sq/m), polished brass internal door pack (£8.99) and a silver spotlight – pictured here. (£6.99).

“The new homeowner” Decorate in style for less with home essentials including a paper light shade (£2.49), beech bookcase (£12.99), toilet seat (£8.99) and a coir doormat (£3.99). You can even pick up a double duvet for £7.99 for the first night in your new bed.

“The kitchen connoisseur” With a great range of cookshop products on offer, there’s no excuse to keep out of the kitchen. Pick up a a 16-piece cutlery set (£2.99 and a 12-piece white porcelain dinner set (£5.99).

“The gardening guru” Get into your garden this summer with a range of gardening products including seeds (from 39p), terracotta pots (from 49p) and plants (from 99p).

Homebase is the UK’s second largest home improvement retailer and is recognised for choice, style and customer service.

Visit the Homebase website to view the whole Value range.

The new ‘Grow’ range of vegetable growing kits from Greenhouse Sensation, promises to help gardeners develop greener fingers, produce bigger harvests and enjoy stress-free holidays.

These clever vegetable plots and pots automatically feed and water plants to prevent over and under-watering, the chief causes of many common gardening problems.

Simply top-up the growing kit’s integral reservoir and plants are automatically provided with the water they need, when it’s needed.

Plants automatically get the perfect balance of water, nutrients and lots of oxygen, so the gardener gets bumper harvests.

Gardeners can see how much water has been taken from the reservoir, and quickly learn about the amount of water plants need, according to soil dampness, plant size, light levels and weather conditions.

The Grow kits even improve harvest sizes, as the automated watering is more responsive to a plant’s needs than manual watering.

Experienced gardeners will also be relieved to learn that the Grow kits keep plants perfectly watered over extended periods – like summer holidays - no more having to rely on friends and neighbours.

The range of four styles of veg plots and pots, can be used in any indoor or outdoor sunny spot to grow almost anything; they are watered by a SmartMat mechanism, and the Solargrow is watered by a solar panel powered pump.

About Grow Products – no power supply required, all can be used indoors or outdoors:

• Windowgrow– self-watering windowsill plot with seed raising lid. Price: £26.99.
• Size: L70cm x W15cm x H15cm.

• Vitogrow – Self-watering veg plot with optional mini greenhouse. (In our Picture) Price: £34.90 to £109.90.
• Size: Square 55cm x 55cm or Long 105cm x 55cm

• Quadgrow – 4x self-watering pots for tall plants such as tomatoes, chillies and beans. Price: £52.95.
• Size: 55cm x 55cm.

• Solargrow – solar-powered large planter with solar panel and solar-powered pump to water plants 2 x every hour. Price: £64.90.
• Size: Planter 55cm x 44cm. Solar panel: 23cm x 23cm.

Every customer has access to the Gardening Angel advice service offered by the company, to call or email their experienced team of horticulturalists.

Greenhouse Sensation products are available direct from the Greenhouse Sensation website, and from a range of stockists.

Tel: (0845) 602 3774

Haddonstone, the UK’s leading manufacturer of fine garden and landscape ornaments, has completed a full costing review of its current ornament prices, which has led to over 70 price reductions.
The company has also absorbed the recent VAT price increase for both garden ornaments and fireplaces.

As a consequence there is now an increased range of planters that cost less than £100 including, the Plaited Basket, Belton Box, Etruscan Vase, House of Dun Urn and the Vine Urn; and the Small Key Planter is now only £15!

Significant savings include the popular Bayeux Fountain, which has been reduced from £1200 to £995 – saving more than £200!

Pictured here is the Bayeux Fountain HC130: Inspired by Romanesque architecture; this robust self-circulating fountain features stylish leaf moulding around the fountain bowls; this design was created by Haddonstone to act as a focal point in a sheltered garden or conservatory.
Includes Pump.

Height: 1525mm./60”; Weight 222kg./ 489lb.
Diameter of main bowl: 950mm. / 37.38”.
Diameter of base: 572mm. / 22.1/2”.

Please note: The fountain will require mechanical lifting on site in all instances.

Other designs which have been reduced in price include, the Victorian Jardinière, Florentine Urn, Tudor Jardinière, Bust of Pan, statues of Andromeda and Venus, Large Dolphin Fountain, Seasons Plaques, Haddonstone Table Supports and the Elizabethan Smokers’ Stand.

Simon Scott, Haddonstone’s Marketing Director, comments: “We have undertaken a full review of our production costs and are delighted to be able to pass on savings, wherever we can, to our clients.
By also absorbing the recent VAT increase, we are pleased that customers can continue to buy quality products at reasonable prices.”

For more information visit the Haddonstone website.

Tel:   (01604) 770711 to request a copy of their inspirational 208 page catalogue.

Delicious, fresh vegetables from your own garden on your dinner table every day – what a luxury!

It needn’t be a worry if you think your garden is too small, or if you only have a few hours to spare.

Complete kits for instant edible gardens have arrived!:

Small Vegetable Garden Plant Pack - The plant pack contains all the plants and seeds you’ll need for ONE GROWING YEAR. It doesn’t matter when you buy the pack, as you will receive deliveries through the post for a whole 12 months.

• The young plants are only sent out when they are ready for planting, so there’s no need to ‘harden’ them off or pot them up.

• With each plant pack you will be sent a Planting Plan.

• How many plants you’ll need to fill your beds, has been carefully worked out; how far apart each plant should be and depending on the weather, the best time to plant. It’s a bit like ‘planting by numbers’.

• Great for one to two people - It will fill two raised beds 1.2m x 2.4m, or a plot 4m x 4.5m. Price: £92.50 Including delivery.

The Mini Kitchen Garden Plant Pack – New from The Travelling Souk.

• Its small size means that it will fit into all gardens, raised beds or pots.

• There is something very satisfying about growing your own and with the instant edible garden kits you are helped every step of the way.

• Ready-to-plant organic young plants are delivered to you by post and a planting by numbers plan means that you get it right – an excellent way of engaging your children too.

• The mini-kitchen-garden pack is packed with veggies, salad, herbs and strawberries – just dig in!

• The kit contains 40 young organic plants and retails at £45.

Also available from The Travelling Souk are Raised Beds and Mini Green Houses.

Visit the Travelling Souk website to view more gardening delights.

Following months of extensive research, Crown Pavilions has developed the ultimate long-life timber preservation treatment for their 2009 flagship range: pure, unadulterated Cedar.

Up to now, garden pavilions have mainly been made from pine and treated with chemical preservatives, which need to be re-applied yearly.

Rain, sun, snow, ice, storms… customers want their investment to last for many years without the timber rotting, splitting, warping or being eaten away by insects.

“Pavilion manufacturers have been using cedar for their roof tiles for years,” explains Damion Merry, Sales Director of Crown Pavilions. “It’s well known for its naturally occurring preservatives, which make it highly resistant to moisture, decay and insect damage - so it’s much less likely to crack, warp or rot over time.”

And because cedar doesn’t need chemicals, it’s more environmentally friendly. So we decided to use it for the main structure as well and this is exactly what we’ve done with our new 2009 range.”

“So for the very first time we have produced a British-manufactured cedar pavilion to the same exacting spec as our pine pavilions.

So customers get the best of both worlds: chunky, robust components such as, thick 6 inch by 6 inch posts and 4 inch by 3 inch hand rails - but in a more durable, aesthetically pleasing and more environmentally friendly timber than pine.”

But what about the high price tag associated with cedar?
“Because we’re well aware of the pressure on customers’ purse strings, we’ve made the decision to minimise our margins, without compromising on quality or moving our manufacturing abroad.

This means that some of our cedar pavilions actually cost less than many competitor’s pine pavilions– and ours are hand-crafted in the UK.”
Another great thing about cedar is that because it doesn’t need treating it smells divine. “Something you definitely don’t get with chemicals!”

Featured here is an example of the Crown Seymour within a garden landscaped by the company.

• The new cedar Seymour has been specifically designed to fit snugly into corner spots or compact rectangular plots.

• Yet it manages to accommodate 9-12 people very comfortably, without dominating your outdoor space or looking out of proportion.

• Priced at £9140 for 8-10 people.

• Prices include Crown Table and benches.

Web: www.crownpavilions.com

Tel: (0149) 1612820 / 07828986035

Following in the footsteps of the Obamas, the Queen and the Prime Minister, planting a kitchen garden is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to start the New Year.

More and more people are including fruit and vegetables in their gardens as they experience the superior taste and health benefits of home-grown food.

However, growing vegetables has traditionally needed more experience than picking out plants from a garden centre; many crops need to be grown from seed, spaced correctly and ‘rotated’ in groups, to prevent the build-up of pests or loss of soil nutrients.

The brilliant GrowVeg.com simplifies the planning of a vegetable garden or allotment, by making it easy to work out what to plant, where to plant it and when to do so.

The website enables the gardener to build a personalised interactive plan of their garden using the unique online Garden Planner software:

• Gardeners simply sketch out their growing space and then add vegetables to it by clicking and dropping them onto the area.

• An intuitive colour-coded circle around each plant, shows how much space it requires and which crops to keep together.

• Plants can easily be rearranged by dragging them into another location until the perfect layout is achieved.

• Once the vegetable patch is planned GrowVeg.com will send email reminders twice a month listing which vegetables need sowing or planting out. (Only if opted in for contact).

• A complete list of plants and their spacing can quickly be printed out, giving a useful summary of what to buy, when to plant and when to harvest.

• Plenty of information on the likes and dislikes of each vegetable is built in, including which plants to sow together and how much water, feeding and maintenance they require.

In addition to the interactive Garden Planning software, the site has a number of expert GrowGuide articles, on everything from keeping your plants pest-free to gardening with children.

GrowVeg.com is also offering a free 30-day trial of the Garden Planning software, including all the features of the site; new features are continually being added, such as the ability to add garden notes and vegetable varieties.

To view the smart Garden Planning software and arrange your free trial, visit

the GrowVeg website.

Haddonstone – the UK’s leading manufacturer of fine cast stone garden and landscape ornaments – is starting 2010 by launching a new planter and fountain.

The charming West Lodge Urn, was originally replicated for the prestigious West Lodge Park Hotel in Hertfordshire and has now been added to the standard range.

The West Lodge Fountain featured here was created as an addition to the planter.

West Lodge Urn: £240.
West Lodge Fountain: £295.

Haddonstone is regarded as the UK’s leading manufacturer of fine ornaments; there are over 500 designs in the standard cast stone garden and landscape collection in classical, traditional and contemporary styles.

Fireplaces and Interiors.
Haddonstone’s range of fireplaces, mantels and chimney piece surrounds, has also been dramatically expanded to offer customers a choice of seventeen standard surrounds, from the simple and stylish to the ornate and elegant.

NB prices may vary, due to alterations in VAT from 1st January 2010.

For more information please visit the Haddonstone website.
or Tel: (01604) 770711 to request a copy of the inspirational new 208 page catalogue.

If you’ve made it to Christmas Eve and suddenly realised you’re a present down then you do still have a few options.

Interflora’s Christmas Eve flower delivery might just save the day, especially if you’d rather spend your time making last minute Christmas preparations at home, than braving the streets with other panicked shoppers and post-work revellers.

Beautiful flowers and plants can be ordered right up until -

11.00am on Christmas Eve, for guaranteed delivery before Christmas Day.

Whether you need a little something to spoil a loved one or an extra present for an unexpected guest, there are plenty of options.

With everything from a classic candle arrangement in rich-reds to contemporary white hand-tieds, the Christmas flower collection offers options for every taste and pocket.
If you’re looking for an added indulgence, you can include wine, champagne or chocolates to be delivered with your flowers.

To send a stunning seasonal message the Christmas Wish Perfect Gift featured here, comprises of a single large-headed glittered Rose nestled amongst an array of rich red flowers.

Eucalyptus introduces hints of gold and the whole bouquet is already arranged in a beautiful glass vase. vase; and as an extra festive touch, this gift is delivered with a bottle of Chiaro Merlot Red Wine. Priced at £39.95.

To place an order for this year’s Interflora Christmas or Winter Collections, please visit

the Interflora website.

Tel: (0800) 434343.