Dress Your Table To Impress At Christmas

Dress Your Table To Impress At Christmas

The Christmas dinner is usually one of the main highlights of Christmas so why not go to a bit extra effort to make the table look stunning. This blog gives you some tips on how you can make it look stunning with very little effort.

turkey breast with cranberry

How To Cook A Christmas Turkey Breast With Bacon And Cranberry On The Traeger Pro 22 Wood Pellet Grill

Cooking the Christmas turkey on the BBQ frees up the kitchen oven and gives you a succulent flavoursome bird. An essential bit of kit is an instant read temperature probe, not only for the Christmas bird but also any other meat grilled on the BBQ.

Tips for decorating a flocked, frosted or snowy artificial Christmas tree

Tips for decorating a flocked, frosted or snowy artificial Christmas tree

Snowy, flocked and frosted artificial Christmas trees are bang on trend and can look stunning fully laden with Christmas decorations. This blog gives you some tips on how to give your tree the 'wow' factor.

Decorate Your Christmas tree On A Budget

Decorate Your Christmas tree On A Budget

Christmas is an expensive time of year so make savings where you can and this includes making the decorations for your Christmas tree. Use fruit, dried flower and grass heads from the garden, greenery from the countryside or start crafting. Great projects to keep kids amused on rainy days.

Tips For Choosing Your Artificial Christmas Tree

Tips For Choosing Your Artificial Christmas Tree

The range of artificial Christmas trees can be bewildering so this blog asks some questions to help you navigate the minefield and ensure you end up with a tree which suits your particular style of decorating. Delivery is free on all orders over £50 to mainland UK destinations.

decorated artificial Christmas tree

How To Put Lights On A Christmas Tree

How you put your lights on the Christmas tree can be the difference between stunning and so-so. There are a few key points but the main thing is to be patient and methodical and you too can have a show stopper. If the thought of spending hours putting on and taking off lights fills you with horror then the pre-lit artificial Christmas trees are exactly what you need.

winter snow scene

How To Save Money And Time At Christmas

Christmas can be an incredibly expensive time of year so it makes sense to save money where possible. Many money saving projects are also suitable for kids, so get them off their devices and into the world of crafts.

Best tips for Buying a Real Christmas Tree

Best tips for Buying a Real Christmas Tree

We all want the perfect Christmas tree and this blog takes you through the points to consider when you go hunting for that ideal real tree. Even if it's less than perfect when you get it home there are some decorating tricks you can adopt to cover up it's imperfections.

How To Grow Sensational Superberries

How To Grow Sensational Superberries

We can all do a little to make our lives healthier and eating superberries is a delicious and easy way to make a difference. Some of the superberries are not suitable for growing in all the regions of the UK so choose your species carefully.

Do I Need To Take In The Cushions Off My Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture In Winter?

Do I Need To Take In The Cushions Off My Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture In Winter?

The cushions on your outdoor garden furniture need to be protected over winter and this blog will give you a number of ideas for keeping them in good condition over the worst of the weather.

How To Garden For The Birds

How To Garden For The Birds

Bird watching is proven to lower stress factors and what's more they are natures way of keeping a lot of garden pests at bay. Read to blog for simple tips on how to encourage them into your garden.

How To Light Your Garden

How To Light Your Garden

Why put a lot of work into your outdoor space and not sit and admire the results? With some carefully selected garden lighting you can enjoy the garden well into the evening. Just add an outdoor fireplace, BBQ and most essentially, comfy furniture and you can see your space in a different light.

How To Store Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture

How To Store Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture

Good quality synthetic rattan garden furniture represents quite an investment so it makes sense to take good care of it so that it lasts as long as possible. This blog gives you some tips on how to store the furniture over autumn and winter.

July tasks in the garden

July tasks in the garden

July is the time of year when all our planning and hard work is paying off and we have an outdoor space to be proud of but there are still a few tasks to do, but the emphasis this month is to relax outdoors on comfy garden furniture and fire up the barbie.

Tree trivia

Tree trivia

Trees are one of the most important organisms on earth. They lock up carbon, provide a habitat for the majority of species on earth and regulate water flow. Even if you only have a small outdoor space you can still grow a tree in a pot. 

Best trees for year-round interest

Best trees for year-round interest

Even if you only have a small backyard you can still grow a tree in a container and this blog gives you a list of suitable trees to give you as long a season of interest as possible, essential if you only have a small space.