Even if you only have limited outdoor space, you can still turn your hand to a bit of gardening. You can transform the look of your house or flat with window boxes and there is nothing more uplifting nor enjoyable than being greeted by a vibrant window box after a long day in the office.

Exploiting any outside space, whether it’s a window sill, a small balcony or a roof terrace, makes good sense in these days of smaller homes and rising property prices. Using your garden as an outdoor room means you are extending your living space. Plus, a stunning garden, whatever its size, can only enhance the value of your property

Planters are perfect for brightening up spaces by a door, or alleviating dull flat roofs or blank walls. Why not experiment growing your own kitchen garden by planting up herbs in small containers. What could be better than using your home grown herbs when cooking. You can even make an ‘urban allotment' by growing vegetables and fruit such as potatoes, strawberries and tomatoes in containers.

Pots of flowering plants provide decoration; just place them where they can be seen from inside. If you want to use your garden as an outdoor room, plant easy-to-grow flowers so you can concentrate on lazing about.

The Urban Garden stocks an extensive range of planters and window boxes, in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. From galvanized zinc window boxes to geometrically pleasing sculptural planters there is something for every taste. For people whose fingers are as green as their environmental credentials, The Urban Garden even sells a planter made out of recycled car tyres. Some of our planters have been specifically designed for use on balconies. So however small your patch of the outdoors, The Urban Garden has something that will enable you to turn it into an outdoor eden.

Many of our planters can be used inside the home too; the rubber weeding bucket can double up as a log bucket or a place to store shoes.

All you need to do is decide what kind of ‘look’ you want your garden to have and choose the planters accordingly.