Getting ready for the 'potting shed'....

Well the time has come to turn out attentions to our newly acquired garden, we bought our house one year ago & it has had a few surprises up its sleeve as far as the amount of work it needed goes (To say the least) however after much blood sweat & tears the house is almost complete so we are looking at the garden now....It isn't huge by any means but bigger than our previous yard which was a lovely victorian terrace house & a very lovely yard but not great for growing veggies!!

You would think having Urban Eden Landscaping  tackling our own garden would be an easy job but it isn't, we are so lucky to see so many lovely ideas & different materials that it is so hard to decide what to do! The house we have bought is a small cottage so it will be a more traditional garden with a few contemporary touches, I know I want a lovely potting shed/summer house at the end of the garden & I want the soft landscaping to have a 'potager' feel, mixing lots of veg & herbs in with the flowers & climbers so an idea is emerging I suppose!

So here is a pic of our VERY blank canvas, there isn't one plant in the garden!! Apart from an Elderflower which has self seeded & is growing out of the wall & knocking it over!!

First job for Col before the birds start to nest is to get rid of the Elderflower tree which has self seeded (though it pains me so to get rid of any tree) the wall is about to fall down!

Our garden is our weekend project (well our sunday project really as we work Saturdays) so it will be a slow process but I will keep popping updates on the blog xx

Sophie Conran Garden Tools...

Yippee! The sun is shining! Get ready for some garden action with our lovely Sophie Conran garden tools, they are beautifully made by Burgon & Ball in Sheffield, you can make a great saving when buying the full set of hand tools (7 in total), a perfect gift for Mothers Day, pop along to our boutique for all of the details.

Vintage galvanised dolly tub - plain

Just thought that I would quickly add this to the boutique, it is another fantastic vintage galvanised poss tub (or dolly tub)
It is great condition & is £80, pop along to Urban Eden Boutique for more details.

Vintage German Wooden Sledge

I have just added this great vintage sledge to our website,  it is one of our larger items which we are more than happy to pack up & send, simply contact us with your address & we will work out the best cost of sending it to you.
Now I know the obvious use for a sledge is in the snow, but when they look as good as this one there are many more uses for them too, they look just as good in the hallway used as a shoe shelf or in the lounge as a little table for magazines,  and, of course, they look great in a corner piled with presents at Christmas time.  The sledge is £50 & can be found on our website.

Pop along to www.urbanedenboutique.co.uk for more details.

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Contact us!!

Well I have had a little play around with the website (still working on it) and added some of our larger Vintage Garden items, with instructions to 'contact us'!! We haven't included our larger items on site in the past due to the different postage costs but now you can simply drop us an email with your address & we will work out the best price & get back to you, all payments can still be taken through PayPal as this is the most secure way to pay online.
We are also more than happy if you'd like to collect from us, if you live locally it makes perfect sense, we are based in Hurworth, near Darlington in the North East.
Watch this space as we add more items, I am working my way through photographing everything!

New arrivals to our vintage garden section.

I have just popped these two new 'vintage american drinks crates' onto the Urban Eden Boutique website.

I love the look of them & I have seen them used for all kinds of things, mounted onto walls as a shelving unit or grouped together as four with glass on top for a retro coffee table but I love them as they are, I have one filled with magazines and in the summer months I grow salad leaves in another outside the back door which looks lovely & works really well.

For more details on our vintage crates pop along to Urban Eden Boutique

Great Gift Ideas!

I found these great vintage 'pick your own' trugs and instantly thought that they would make great gift baskets for our hand care, plant labels & other goodies, at the moment if you buy three or more items from the boutique they will come gift wrapped in one of these lovely trugs free of charge, so pop along to Urban Eden Boutique and have a look at our great gift ideas for gardeners.