Garden Ornaments in Durham

If you garden in Durham, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. Durham's winters are among the colder ones in England, especially away from the coast. Wharton Park is the local benchmark for what a garden looks like after a hard winter - and for what survives it.

What lasts in Durham gardens

• Freeze-thaw is what breaks ornaments. It is not the cold that cracks a piece, it is water expanding inside it overnight and thawing by lunchtime, over and over. Solid resin and cast stone have nowhere for that water to sit.

We only stock pieces we would leave out ourselves through a North East England winter: stone-effect resin, cast stone, coated metal, treated timber and solar that keeps working when the days are short.