Garden Landscaping

It’s time to start thinking about the types of seeds you are going to have a go at growing this year and it’s never been a better time to choose! Unwins seeds are offering a great seed promotion , when you buy any three packets of seeds, it can be flower seeds, vegetable seeds it doesn’t matter you can choose a free packet of seeds from the promotion range! They aren’t just any seeds they are from the fantastic Gro-sure range of seeds, a range of seeds guaranteed to give the best results for your garden.

The Gro sure range has been selected for their germination, vigour, ease of sowing and disease resistance. The free seeds choices are Tomato seed (Precious) a high yielding cherry tomato which produces large numbers of sweet cherry size fruits, great to eat picked straight off the plant or add them to a summer salad. There’s also carrot seed (Charlemagne), an excellent carrot, high yielding and long cropping, quick to mature to give you sweet flavoured carrots all through the season. Lettuce seed (Nobellan), a great butterhead type lettuce with a lovely soft velvety texture and great crispy flavour. Nobellan is highly disease resistant and produces great tasting lettuce over a very long period, ideal for adding to salads or perking up to that homemade sandwich. If it’s free flower seeds your after  then look no further than Wallflower (Dark purple), the first ever hybrid wallflower, a very attractive uniform dwarf bushy plant producing  lots of flowers and a delightful scent early in the season. Fantastic to grow in containers or in garden beds or borders this hardy biennial won’t let you down.

So if it’s free seeds your after don’t miss out on this great deal from Unwins seeds, remember, only available while stocks last at Shackletons Home and Garden Furniture Centre!

What are the Best Types of Multipurpose Compost?

Now is the time to get down to the garden centre and pick up some great bargains on Westland multipurpose compost. This fantastic, all-purpose compost is ideal for any type of planting. If it’s seed compost you’re after, then look no further than the John Innes seed and cutting compost. This soil based compost is guaranteed to give your seeds a great start!

If you want to really spoil your seeds go for Westland’s Surestart seed and cutting compost. What is Surestart? Well, it is a new germination and establishment boosting formulation with natural plant extract.  Its fine grade and reduced peat content, ensures closer seed contact, for swift, successful seed germination, (up to 25% more germination) and strong, healthy seedling development and growth. It has a unique formulation that releases nutrients to the plant as and when required. A first class seed and cutting compost, I would strongly recommend that if you haven’t tried it already; you give it a go, as you won’t be disappointed.

As well as Westland compost, Shackletons Home and Garden also stock Arthur Bowers multipurpose compost and Miracle Gro compost, a well-recognised, all-purpose compost that has grown in popularity due to its many TV advert appearances. A firm favourite with Shackletons customers and with some great 3 for 2 deals on currently, 2012 should be another great year for Scotts with their Miracle Gro multipurpose compost fomulation.

Spring might seem a long way off as the high winds and driving rain batter our shores, but it really will be here before you know it. And with the arrival of spring, your garden will burst into life, with stunning colours and fresh green shoots everywhere, the bustle of spring wildlife and the busy new season birds building nests and searching for that all important partner for the breeding season.

With so much going on, you’ll want to be sure that you have a front row seat for all the spring action in your garden, so that you can enjoy every minute of nature waking up from winter. Which means that now is the time to plan for your garden furniture, with a little help from Shackletons.

Shackletons have a huge range of garden furniture and outdoor furniture, including stunning cast iron styles, rattan garden furniture and lots more, with sizes and styles to suit almost any lawn, patio, deck or yard. We have an excellent selection of benches, picnic sets, tables and chairs and lots more besides at Shackletons. And if you’re quick, you can make some serious saving ahead of the new season, with Shackletons January sale. Our Gloster range is now 30% off, with 35% off our Neptune range and a massive 70% off selected items in the Westminster collection.

Your garden may be the last thing on your mind right now, but when the spring does arrive in just a few short weeks, you’ll be glad you planned ahead, and saved, at Shackletons. With beautiful, brand new garden furniture ready and waiting, you’ll be able to shake off those cobwebs and get out in the fresh air and sunshine straight away to enjoy the very best that spring has to offer in your garden.

Shackletons are acknowledged as the UK's leading garden and leisure buildings specialists and dealing exclusively with premium garden building suppliers such as Teak House and Breeze House you are sure to find the perfect garden building.

Breeze Houses are inspired by the African continent. They look stunning and are hand made by skilled craftsmen.

The Colonial is a spacious, quality and decorative outdoor dining room for your garden. It comfortably accommodates a 165cm diameter table and 6 or 8 armchairs or a rattan style table and benches seating 10 making it the ideal alfresco dining room. The Colonial comes with a timber roof with either Cape Reed Thatch tiles or Cedar Shingles.

This is just one of the ranges available at Shackletons, check out other ranges of garden buildings such as Empire, Savannah and Wentworth to name but a few.

Shackletons also stock garden sheds, potting sheds and storage buildings, check out prices online.

If you enjoy playing host to outdoor parties, a Gazebo is an absolute must for your garden.

Shackletons stock a range of Gazebos in the Alexander Rose, Bridgman, Solus and HSP range.

A popular choice, the Paris ‘fabric’ Gazebo by Alexander Rose is stylish and currently has 10% off the standard price.

The Holkham garden building/gazebo, hexagonal in shape is a great center piece for your garden space or ideal for a sheltered position in the garden creating a more private space!

The collection of Gazebos at Shackletons also has a range of accessories to complement the collections of garden furniture. There are oils, cleaners, covers, cushions, lazy susans, parasols and bases.

Check out prices and the varied selection online.