by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Britain's driest start to a year for almost half a century has led to country's first drought warning being issued and fears of an imminent hosepipe ban. The lack of rain across the UK in 2010 has already forced one water company to reveal that it would need three months of rainfall to restock dwindling reservoirs. Yet despite the warnings many of are only reminded of the need to conserve water when the heat gets us into the garden. Fortunately the inclement British weather allows for this and arming yourself with a Sankey Water Butt now, will ensure that you are fully prepared for a hot summer in the garden.
Sankey, leading UK manufacturer of garden and horticultural products, has a range of water saving devices that ensure that your garden will reap the benefits of your conservation efforts throughout the approaching season.
The great British summer is almost here. After a cold wet winter, gardeners across the UK will be delighted at the prospect of enjoying the sunshine. Yet with that sunshine comes the realization that summer invariably includes a water ban. Sankey, leading UK manufacturer of garden and horticultural products, has a range of water saving devices that ensure that your garden will reap the benefits of your conservation efforts throughout the approaching season.
By the peak summer months as much as 70% of household water supply is used in the garden and this is usually when water companies are least able to meet demand. Water butts are the perfect solution. Easily connected to a guttering down-pipe with a diverter, Sankey Water Butts provide gardens with on demand rainwater. With less mineral salts and deposits than mains supply, rainwater is the finest option for tender plants. In reducing water usage and ensuring a supply of pure rainwater, gardeners can protect both pockets and precious plants.
Sankey recognizes that every gardener is individual and each garden unique. That’s why they offer a range of Water Butts that accommodate individual style, space and preference. Whether your garden is a traditional or contemporary, bijou or immense, there is a water butt perfect for that space.
From the discreet slim-line 100 litre Space Saving Water Butt to the stylish 300 litre capacity Beehive Butt, the Sankey range offers a variety of options and accessories that will ensure water saving and design merge seamlessly in your garden.
Available in a range of styles and finishes with capacities ranging from 100 - 300 Litres, the Sankey Water Butts retail from £21.99 for a Slim Space Saving Water Butt to £149.99 for the largest Rotary moulded Beehive Model.
While rainwater harvesting system and already simple rain barrels and water butts are great if there is no rain they are a little difficult to fill up by Nature's hand then.
That does not mean that we should not get them and put them up; on the contrary. We should, indeed, get all house retrofitted with full-scale rainwater harvesting systems to be used in flushing the toilets and for watering the garden, washing bicycles and cars and such like.
Part of the Fiskars group, Nottingham-based Sankey, a company of 155 years standing, is committed to identifying opportunities to use less, recycle more and support environmentally aware practices.
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