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Please select a category in this tree only if your site sells garden products for delivery throughout the UK.
International sites which will sell to the UK among other countries should submit to Shopping: Home and Garden instead.
The Open Directory only lists unique sites. If the content of your site is already listed under another name, your site will not be listed.

Sites for nurseries, garden centres and shops which require the customer to visit the location, are not eligible for this category tree, and should be submitted to their nearest locality category.

This category tree lists sites that offer mail order or on-line sales with delivery anywhere in the UK.  Nurseries with prime focus on selling plants can be found in the Plants category tree.

Those sites that do not sell plants, are generally listed in the Garden Accessories category tree, unless the site can be seen to specialize in one of the other categories.

The Garden Centres category is reserved for sites that sell both plants and other gardening equipment and supplies.  If the site only sells plants in bulb or seed form, then this does not qualify for a listing in Garden Centres.


Garden Accessories

For UK sites selling items that enhance the garden, including trellises, swings, bird baths, sculpture, etc.

For sites selling tools and machinery used to work in the garden, see Gardening Tools .

Garden Centres

Please submit your site to this category only if it is based in the United Kingdom, and it possible to order gardening goods including plants for delivery anywhere in the UK.  If plants are only available as seeds or bulbs, then the site does not qualify for this category.
In order to qualify for inclusion in this category, the website must include all of the following:
  • List(s) of products for sale,
  • prices in £ stirling and
  • information required for delivery to any address in mainland UK.
In cases where sites represent a chain of retail outlets in more than one region of Britain, then only the parent site may qualify here.
This does not prevent the site also being listed in the appropriate locality category, provided that customers may also visit the retail outlet to view goods before purchase, and the postal address is included on the site.
High street shops selling these items do not qualify for this category, without showing the ability to deliver throughout the UK.  Then the submitter should be content with a listing at the nearest locality only.

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Traditionally, Garden Centres are retail outlets offering for sale plants, their seeds, tools and equipment for their cultivation, garden features, and outdoor furniture. These are generally out of town establishments that provide their own parking and other facilities.  For the purpose of this category, the sites listed only need to offer UK-wide delivery in £ sterling, so includes online only retailers provided they sell plants amongst other gardening items.
Specialist nurseries offering information may be found by following links in United_Kingdom: Recreation and Sports: Home and Garden: Gardening: Garden Centres and Nurseries. However, Garden Centres that do not show the ability to deliver throughout the UK, are more likely to be found by following links at the nearest locality.

Hydroponics

Please only submit sites of shops that sell hydroponic supplies and are based in the United Kingdom. Sites based elsewhere should be listed in a relevant regional category, sites offering general information but not selling products should be listed in Home: Gardening: Specialized Techniques: Hydroponics

Hydroponics is a method of gardening without soil now commonly used by both hobby growers and farmers of lettuce, tomatoes, capsicum and other herbs, fruits and flowers.

Landscaping

This category is only for sites which offer UK-wide delivery of landscaping materials for domestic garden use.  Where UK-wide delivery is not offered please submit to the nearest locality instead.  If the site targets larger projects for government or businesses, please consider the Agriculture section instead such as United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Agriculture and Forestry: Horticulture: Turfcare

For your convenience links are includes to designers, which do not fit in this category. 

 

Patio

Please submit to this category only those sites that meet the criteria for a listing in Topical UK Shopping.
The site must contain sufficient detail for UK consumers to select, and have the product delivered to their own home.

These should be designed to withstand the British weather, manufactured from metal, hardwood, plastic, concrete, slate or stone.  Furnishings that are not resistant to British weather, may be considered for United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Shopping: Home and Garden: Furniture: Conservatory Furniture instead.

If the consumer is required to visit the premises, or the site does not contain information such as prices, then please submit the site to the nearest Locality.

Those sites describing manufacturers, not offering direct consumer sales may be considered for a category under United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Industries: Manufacturing: Consumer_Products.

This category is for sites specialising in online sales of outdoor products, including delivery to any part of the United Kingdom. These products are primarily intended for hard standings, such as the patio. Those primarily selling outdoor furniture, or barbeques and outdoor cooking facilities have their own sub-category. Those sites combining these, or primarily selling other products, such as outdoor furnishings, hammocks, canvas awnings and gazebos are listed here.

Plants

Sites that sell other garden products as well as plants should go into Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Shopping: Home and Garden: Gardens

Sites that sell internationally should submit to the main Shopping category, but may request an additional listing under UK.

For sites which sell plants on-line or by mail order in the UK.

Structures

Submit sites to this category tree if they enable consumers to buy garden structures for delivery throughout the UK, whether by shopping on-line, by phone, by fax or by post.

Informative sites, not promoting sales of these garden structures may be listed under Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Recreation and Sports: Landscaping: Structures.

 

Water Gardens

Please note All sites listed here must meet the criteria detailed in http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/desc.html :
"The key is that the site contains three elements: (1) lists of products for sale, (2) prices and (3) information on how the consumer can obtain the product from his or her own home.
Sites without all these elements should be sent to the Locality where the business is physically located.
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Wildlife

For sites that sell mostly wildlife gardening products - for finding out more about wildlife in the garden, or encouraging it.

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