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Top 5 Planters for Christmas Events 2025
With Christmas lights soon to sparkle across towns and cities, now is the time to prepare your festive planting. Whether you’re hosting a local celebration, a busy market, or a winter festival, Amberol’s self-watering planters are designed to create eye-catching, sustainable displays that last all season. Here are our Top 5 Planters for Christmas Events 2025:
In Bloom group receives award for pollinator efforts
Usk in Bloom, a group that has won the Wales in Bloom Large Village category consecutively for the past 36 years, is now making efforts to help pollinators.
New campaign target’s London’s ‘tidy litterers’
Every year, 300 tonnes of rubbish is cleared from the River Thames. Now, a new campaign launched in May aims to reduce litter in the Thames by encouraging tourists and residents to take action. Named For Fish’s Sake, the...
Handy guides to container gardening
We are big fans of container gardening here at Amberol – for obvious reasons. We are often amazed at the ingenuity of people using our self-watering planters in the displays that we see travelling around the country.
Amberol self-watering planters offer value for money says Halstead in Bloom
Halstead is a small town in rural Essex with a population of around 12,000 residents. The Halstead in Bloom organisation was formed as a community/volunteer group in 2000 to help clean, beautify and brighten up the town for all those...
Are you using the right litter bins?
Litter is a problem for many councils and local authorities. It’s unsightly, unsanitary and it costs local authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds to deal with each year.
Entries now open for the annual Amberol photo competition
As summer approaches, the streets around Britain (and beyond) are bursting into life with beautiful floral displays. So, it’s the perfect time to get out and about with your camera or your phone and take some photos of our self-watering...
