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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:
Britain in Bloom 2015 annual theme announced
Britain in Bloom has announced its theme for the 2015 competition - Greener Streets: Better Lives. The aim of this year’s theme is to turn places across the UK from grey to green.
‘Amberol products are fantastic,’ says Belfast City Council
In recent years Belfast has undergone massive regeneration, especially around the popular Victoria Square area. Although Belfast remains an industrial city, it has also become a centre for the arts.
Amberol help bring the ‘feel good’ factor to Birmingham
As the nation’s second largest city, Birmingham Parks and Nurseries DSO has a substantial task on its hands creating and maintaining attractive horticultural displays in communal areas, as well as undertaking grounds maintenance and floral enhancement within parks and other...
Flower power on the high street
Patience Atkinson-Gregory explains how local authorities use floral displays to boost the local economy.
Get your free Amberol guide to container gardening
Amberol’s free guide to container gardening is now available. Suitable for schools, Britain in Bloom groups, community gardening groups – in fact, anyone who is interested in using self-watering containers to make their surroundings look more attractive.
Container tips – preparing planters for cold weather
Containers offer flexibility, control and mobility, making it easier to grow a wide variety of plants of all sizes anywhere. As the colder weather sets in, it’s important to prepare your containers for the winter.
