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…these gorgeous bird houses from Luis Porem. These are much cooler than your standard wooden house tacked on to the side of your shed. In fact, you’ll want to put them at the very centre of attention in your garden

…this gorgeous garden office from Decorated Shed. Just imagine working from one of these super-stylish, fabulously pretty offices, surrounded by all your homegrown veg. I had a little snoop around the Decorated Shed website the other day, and found plenty of wonderfully-designed garden buildings which sent me into a flurry of dreams about tapping away [...]

…this fabulous little wall-mounted herb rack from the Period Garden Store. It’s perfect if you’ve got culinary ambitions bigger than your teeny-tiny garden, and it’s elegant and neat into the deal. Just the sort of super-duper stylish product that F&F adores. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get 10% off on flower, vegetable and fruit [...]

…these Woolly Pocket planters from Garden Beet. Why do we love them so? Well, they are a simple and very realistic way of creating a vertical garden. Vertical gardens may be all the rage, but a lot of the equipment requires specialist knowledge. Not so with Woolly Pockets. Plant them up with herbs in your [...]

…this very chic way of collecting rain for thirsty container plants from Swedish designers Fulgro. The reLEAF is a stylish aluminium sheet which increases the surface area for rain to fall on your plants, which means they won’t dry out so quickly. You can also use it to turn your watering can into a mini [...]

…this marvellous vintage French bench from The Best Dressed Garden. I feel a little bad for introducing this one-off piece to readers, as there’s only one on offer. So if you’re as smitten as I am, run all the way to this lovely website to snap it up. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get [...]

…this very generous offer from the very stylish Balcony Boutique. This month, F&F readers can get 15% off on all Balcony Boutique products if they enter the discount code ‘FennelandFern’ when ordering online. If you’ve never visited this marvellous online boutique before, run over there right away. Founder Amy has created a marvellous line of [...]

…these fabulous seed grenades from Suck UK. Filled with wildflower seeds and soil, these grenades will help any would-be guerilla gardeners jazz up dull and neglected spots of land. And they look fabulous. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get 10% off on flower, vegetable and fruit seeds and plants at Victoriana Nurseries. Just click here to [...]

…Robin Williams & Associates. These super-cool, super-clever garden designers are the subject of today’s Design Showcase, and we’re a little bit in love. But it turns out that the feeling is reciprocated. Robin Williams & Associates love F&F readers too. Because they love you all so much, this award-winning design practice have given us an [...]

…the lovely range of seeds that heritage vegetable supplier Thomas Etty sells at Oxfam. This really is the apex of ethical shopping: you buy veg seeds which knock back your carbon footprint by giving you food with no miles attached, and the money goes to Oxfam’s development and disaster relief work. Oh, and the seeds [...]

…these delicious deckchairs from Balcony Boutique. If you’re looking forward to sunny days loafing in your garden, you’ll love the fun designs on the chairs. I’ve always loved the fabulous modernist tube map, and seeing it on a deckchair is a welcome break from red-and-white stripes. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Fennel & Fern readers can get 10% off [...]