Garden Ornaments in Oxford

If you garden in Oxford, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. Oxford's river valley setting means mist, damp mornings and frost that settles low. Anyone who has walked round the Oxford Botanic Garden in February knows what the season does to anything left standing outside.

What lasts in Oxford gardens

• Watch where the cold air settles. Frost pools at the lowest point of a garden and against north-facing walls. If you have a hollow that stays white until midday, put the resin and stone pieces there and keep ceramic elsewhere.

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