Garden Ornaments in York

If you garden in York, the weather decides what survives outside long before taste does. York's walled gardens and courtyards hold cold air, so frost pockets are common. Anyone who has walked round the Museum Gardens in February knows what the season does to anything left standing outside.

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