Are floral displays a waste of public money or an important part of community identity? John Williamson of Amberol examines the arguments for maintaining communal displays in our urban environments and looks at ways of cutting costs in these ...

 

Amberol have unveiled their latest self watering product, the ‘Ambarrel’.  It is an environmentally friendly self watering container that makes it impossible to over water bedding plants.. Two years in development and testing, the ‘Ambarrel’ is a replica barrel made from ...

 

A new self watering product designed to make it easier for people to grow their own vegetables and maximise cropping yield is available on the market for the first time this month (December). The Harvester range has been launched following ...

 

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced the finalists for the 2011 RHS Britain in Bloom campaign. This year 77 villages, towns, cities and urban communities from across the UK will be visited by a panel of national RHS Britain ...

 

A study published by the State University of New Jersey has found links between flowers and life satisfaction. Rutgers Behavioural Study shows that flowers help us promote our emotional wellbeing. They trigger happy emotions – they heighten the feeling of ...

 

Sustainable design helps gardening SME make first move into consumer marketA Derbyshire-based gardening company has launched its first product onto the consumer market by altering the design of its products to make them more sustainable. Small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) Amberol received support from Nottingham Trent University's (NTU) Future Factory ...

 

Nottingham’s neighbourhoods are brightened up each summer with 360 barrier troughs supplied by Amberol. This year, for the first time, the troughs in the Wollaton and Lenton Abbey area have been planted with spring-flowering plants and bulbs, which have been greeted enthusiastically.

 

Following two seasons of trials with both Birmingham and Nottingham city councils, the most environmentally effective high street flower planter is now being launched nationally. Amberol from Alfreton in Derbyshire pioneered the use of self-watering planters and containers for use by local authorities and now, in their 40th year, they believe ...

 

A BIN that speaks to you? Don’t talk rubbish! But that is exactly what’s happening in this playground. Mixed in with the everyday hubbub of break times are the penguin bin’s encouraging comments of ‘thanks, that was the best meal I have had today’ and ‘thanks for your rubbish, we like ...

 

Amberol know that there is a huge move to encourage schools to adopt a,” grow your own policy” towards vegetables. To this end we are now launching our HARVESTER range of self watering containers which are ideal for growing a variety of vegetables, in ideal conditions for maximum cropping.