Consider a Gazebo in your Garden

What is a Gazebo? The original purpose was to make a place from which to ‘gaze’ at your garden. Nothing much has changed - daytimes spent in your own retreat; time to read, paint, work or just relax and enjoy your garden. Evenings spent in the comfort of your outside room; romantic meals, drinks with friends – all in elegant surroundings.

A Garden Gazeboreally brings an extra dimension to you garden changing it from not just a place to enjoy the natural beauty of the plants and the garden itself but now also a place to enjoy sitting, relaxing and entertaining, a real extension to your home.

What type of Gazebo do I choose for my Garden?

There are some great gazebos on the market with a wealth of variety, both in size and style including the Regis octagonal gazebo, the Budleigh hexagonal gazebo and the Seaton, a neat three sided corner gazebo.

Any Gazebo you choose should come with flooring and be made from FSC certified timber. Your gazebos can be ‘dressed’ in various ways using balustrade, glass, lattice or mirror panels. The choice is yours and its all down to taste and budget! 

To make your garden an even more relaxing and social place to be why not add some evening atmosphere and include some LED walkover lights or even gazebo lights as well as add a little warmth by adding some patio heaters. If you visit www.click4garden.co.ukyou will find everything you need from ideas and products to suit your taste. 

Recycling is important to us all and particularly so since some of us now only have fortnightly bin collections.  HOME COMPOSTING is the most environmentally friendly way of dealing with our garden waste plant material.  Composting can be fun and easy and you don’t need a huge garden to accommodate a click4garden composter.  So how do you get started?

Choose the location for your  click4garden composter bearing in mind that an earth base under the composter allows drainage and access to soil organisms.  Composters come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes but the wooden click4garden composters are perhaps the best to use.  The wood provides insulation and allows the compost to breath.   Build your click4garden composter, place it on the bare soil and then get recycling.

Composters, like us, benefit from a balanced diet.  You can feed it with garden refuse as well as kitchen waste and below you will find a list of some ‘dos and don’ts’. 

• Uncooked vegetable & fruit scraps
• Tea bags and coffee grounds
• Old flowers
• Gerbil, hamster & rabbit bedding
• Soft prunings
• Perennial weeds
• Vegetable plant remains

Don’t compost:

• Meat & fish
• Dairy products
• Cooked food
• Coal ash
• Cat/dog litter

The composting process requires air and in an ideal world we should add all our compost at once and then turn periodically to let the air through.  However, most of us accumulate waste gradually and therefore add it to the composter in layers.  This build up of layers can cause compaction and the decomposition of the waste becomes less efficient and therefore slower.   Turning your compost is time consuming but speeds up the process.  

Finally if your heap is predominantly green material then add straw, paper or shredded woodchip which will help break it down.

Have a look at our click4garden composters and become greener today!