Garden Ornaments in Belfast

If you garden in Belfast, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. Belfast rarely gets a hard freeze, but it does get damp that never quite lets up. the Botanic Gardens is the local benchmark for what a garden looks like after a hard winter - and for what survives it.

What lasts in Belfast gardens

• Green film is the local nuisance. In a wet climate algae is the thing that ages an ornament, not frost. Smooth resin and glazed finishes wipe clean in seconds; deeply textured stone holds the green and needs a brush.
• You can leave almost everything out all year. Frost is occasional rather than constant, so pieces stay out and keep working through winter. The trade-off is a longer growing season for algae and moss, so an annual clean matters more than usual.

Everything we sell is picked to stay outdoors all year across Northern Ireland, in stone-effect resin, cast stone, powder-coated metal, treated timber and weatherproof solar. If a piece cannot take a British winter, it does not go in the range.