Garden Ornaments in Swindon

What works in a Swindon garden is not quite what works two counties away. Swindon sits high on the downs, which makes for a colder, windier winter than the West Country average. Spend a wet afternoon at the Town Gardens and you get a fair idea of which materials are still standing after a few seasons.

What lasts in Swindon 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 South West England winter: stone-effect resin, cast stone, coated metal, treated timber and solar that keeps working when the days are short.