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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:
Have you entered the annual Amberol photo competition yet?
With most parts of the UK enjoying a warm and temperate summer, Britain’s parks, town centres and gardens are currently awash with brightly coloured flowers and plants.
UK roundabouts set for wild meadow makeover
At Amberol we believe that any space can be improved by some imaginative planting and floral displays – even roundabouts. Often considered something of an eyesore, many of our customers have used self-watering containers to great effect.
Bringing the 'Wild West' to the West End
Despite being the home of some great public parks, the West End of London isn't renowned for its green spaces. However, an ecology project entitled Wild West End aims to change that by promoting green infrastructure throughout the city.
Why banning plastic water bottles is not the answer to tackling litter
Plastic bottles are one of the most common items of litter found on Britain’s streets – but also one of the most valuable and easily recycled materials.
Visit your local park in Love Parks Week
The Love Parks campaign is running its annual Love Parks Week once again. The event is designed to promote and celebrate the parks and public spaces that we are fortunate enough to have access to across the UK.
Maintaining hanging baskets
It’s one of our favourite times of the year here at Amberol. The sun is out (some of the time) and the streets, parks and gardens are awash with colour. We love to see our containers filled with blooms, shrubs...
