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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:
Not in my backyard
As the peak holiday season draws to a close, towns and cities that are popular with visitors during the summer months could be left with a big problem – litter.
Safeguarding our public spaces for the next generation
With public sector funding of non-essential services such as the maintenance of parks and public spaces predicted to fall by at least 60% within the next decade, local authorities, ground staff and parks departments are facing a difficult task. It...
What a picture! The deadline for the Amberol photo competition is fast approaching
If you haven’t already entered the annual Amberol photo competition, now is the time to take your cameras and phones out onto the streets of Britain and get snapping.
Encouraging the next generation - Setting up a growth project in Key Stage One
Growing edible plants is not only great fun for children, it also provides plenty of opportunity for observation and measurement. For this activity, we would recommend using radishes and loose leaf lettuce which are quick and easy to grow and...
Encouraging the next generation: an introduction to plants for Key Stage One
We are surrounded by plants and flowers and so it’s easy to assume that children know all about them. However, when starting a project on plants with young children, it’s important to ensure that they are able to identify different...
Encouraging the next generation of gardeners
It’s almost back to school time. At Amberol we believe that it is important to inspire and educate the next generation in the joy of growing flowers, fruit and vegetables.
