Garden Ornaments in London

If you garden in London, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. London gardens are mostly small, walled and warmer than the countryside around them, thanks to the city's heat island. Spend a wet afternoon at Kew Gardens and you get a fair idea of which materials are still standing after a few seasons.

What lasts in London gardens

• Scale to the space, not the catalogue. A piece that looks modest in a showroom can dominate a courtyard. In tight city gardens, one medium ornament with clear space around it reads as deliberate; three crowded ones read as clutter.
• 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 Greater London, 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.