Garden Season Update
Garden furniture sales continue to go through the roof. No doubt a lot of this is down to the unusually good weather for this time of year. Everyone appears to be buying barbecues and related accessories. Is this down to the credit crunch? Are people going to stay at home and enjoy the english summer instead of going away on a foreign holiday?
Who knows. The thing is that garden furniture sales are up over 60% on this time last year and if you are in the business of selling garden related items or just even a keen gardener, I am sure that the current weather is bringing you much enjoyment and a great chance to get stuck into your gardening earlier than normal.
Garden Furniture Sales
Here in the UK the weather is starting to pick up and there are garden furniture sales popping up everywhere. Last year the weather was very poor and the peak season for garden sales was May however the prediction is that the UK is set to have its best weather for a number of years.
Many garden furniture and bbq suppliers have excess stock from last year and there are some great sales around expecially if you research on the internet first. Having said that, because the pound is weaker against the dollar it will cost these companies a lot more to replenish stock when it is gone, so the sales might not last all season. Grab a bargain whilst you can!!
Planning An Outdoor Room
First consider what you want to include on your patio or terrace. Plan the size of the paved area to accommodate sofas, loungers and a dining table and chairs with space to move around them. It is a good idea to select the style and size of furniture before your patio is built.
Site an outdoor dining and kitchen area within easy reach of the house so you can bring food and drinks into the garden without fuss.
For north facing gardens, where placing a patio at the sunny end of the plot may be best, think about installing an electricity supply for a fridge and plumbing for a sink.
Barbecues that use mains gas are also a great idea, especially in small gardens since they obviate the need to store gas cylinders.
Sofas and chairs made from weatherproof wicker style fibre have helped transform gardens into outdoor sitting rooms. The furniture can be left outside all year round and thanks to lightweight aluminium frames is surprisingly light and easy to move. Although the cushions are showerproof it is best to store them under cover when they are not in use and over the winter.
Lighting Your Garden
Spotlights set into the risers or side risers of the steps make them safer for you and your visitors while creating light and shadow patterns. Similar lights set into path edges and decks are also effective. For brighter illumination use post lights or lanterns. Electric lights that run off the mains or LED’s are best for these areas.
Uplight tree stems, seating or sculpture withspots set at the base are best. For a subtle effect, dot solar powered lamps around the garden or hang candles in wind proof holders in trees.
Garden Lawn Supply
To maintain a healthy lawn garden supply of the best nutrients for the soil is most important, next to good wholesome watering on a regular basis. There will be lawn garden supply shops around that cater only for lawns, since economic conditions have dramatically changed to suite the smaller business person, instead of owning a whole nursery, a lawn garden supply spot could be just the thing to fill the niche of a variety. The capital outlay of owning a lawn garden supply store would not be as much as the whole nursery, you would only need a small storage space and a few products and a small variety of lawn to display.
Considering you wouldn’t own a nursery that sells every kind of gardening products, your knowledge of only lawns is what you would have to know. There is not extremely much to know about lawns, as the topic is very limited, in comparison with all the other plants, trees and shrubs out there. Your lawn garden supply shop should be able to supply roll on lawns by placing an order to be delivered and laid. Sound advice on maintaining a good lawn is also important. However you are going to get those customers that do come in and demand that you have everything else there is to sell in the genre of greenery, but economic conditions may not allow for that currently.
Since those customers that are requiring everything else but what you sell, they would probably need to go to the outdoor garden supply store where they can buy furniture for the garden and other accessories for their gardens too. Yes it is nice to have a stunning bench to relax on in the middle of your well kept lawn, just under the shade of the sycamore tree where you can relax and read a book if you wanted to. But then again some people are pedantic about their lawns and want nothing on the lawn; just lush, juicy, healthy green lawn is all they want to see.
What your lawn garden supply shop should have in stock also is: tools, accessories for lawn equipment and lawnmowers for maintaining the lawn, not only sods and the organic nutrient and insecticides. Lawn seed, and products that make maintaining your lawn easier and cheaper in the long run, such as a compound which helps retain more moisture in the ground so less watering is needed less frequently.
