Where to start? For that seamless, pulled-together look, treat your garden as an extension of your living space and consider what will work best for your needs. While not everybody can install bi-fold sliding doors or an aluminium pergola, there are lower-key ways to create the natural flow between inside and out. Where there’s a will, there’s a way; be it with low-slung garden sofas and outdoor woven rugs or suspended swing seats and twinkly string lights.
Unpredictable British skies may see shoppers browsing first for both a block-print parasol to protect from the sun and a retractable gazebo for shelter from the rain. Others will prioritise a BBQ investing in a Big Green Egg or the shoe-box-sized UNA grill if space is tight. Note to self: the most inviting of gardens have a gas-powered pizza oven, fire pit and perhaps even solar-powered string lights.
Looking to spruce up your outdoor space? Shop our edit of this year’s favourite garden buys for your summer spent al fresco.
