Garden Ornaments in Sunderland

If you garden in Sunderland, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. Sunderland gardens face the North Sea, so salt and wind matter more than the thermometer. Mowbray Park is the local benchmark for what a garden looks like after a hard winter - and for what survives it.

What lasts in Sunderland gardens

• Salt does more damage than frost here. Salt-laden wind pits bare metal far faster than cold ever will. Stone-effect resin, powder-coated steel and glazed finishes hold up best within a mile or two of the water; rinse exposed pieces with fresh water a couple of times over winter.
• 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.