A good number of you have been sending us pictures of your new garden furniture in-situ this season, but the batch we received form Matt Davis this week raises the bar a little...!

Just kidding... Matt is a professional photographer, and a quick look at his website will justify the title.

Fantastic to see such great shots of the Antibes garden dining furniture from another happy Bau Outdoors customer! Click here for more photos...

Send in your shots to receive a 20% off discount across our entire furniture range.

The fantastic weather of late prompted us to have a look around for a wooden bat & ball set - you know the kind we all used on the beach when growing up?

Well we found something a little special...

FB Frescobol is the ultimate beach bat set - not only in terms of playability (we have spent a couple of long nights in the park already!), but also in their beautiful construction.

Hand crafted, each Frescobol bat is manufactured from wood left over from production of furniture from marceneiro wood factories. The wood used is not only a waste product, but is sourced from officially registered sources, so ticks every box in terms of sustainability and the bats feel like they will last a lifetime.

Our bats arrived in 48 hours and came beautifully packaged in a bespoke sack with 2 FB Frescobol balls.

The FB Collection Bat & Ball sets make an absolutely superb gift if you cane bare to give them away...

And speaking of giving them away, FB Collection has donated a set to Bau Outdoors to give to a very lucky winner.

To be in with a chance of winning yourself what must be one of the most beautifully crafted items we've come across, simply email us with the answer to this question;

Where was FB Collection originally founded?

For a clue, visit the fantastic FB Collection website...!

Email us your answers by 16th of July.

Garden lighting is brilliant... Yes, outdoor lights can help light the way along a path or prevent guests from ending up in your pond. But the best thing about garden lighting is the way it can be used to pick out detail and create atmosphere.

We are spending much more time in UK gardens these days, so we thought we would post a garden lighting guide with a few tips on getting it right...

Award winning garden designer Kerrie John, sent us some fantastic shots of a recent transformation. The brief from Kerrie's clients stated the garden had to be a good space for entertaining, while catering for their dog and also allowing them to grow veg without the dog peeing on it!

Sounds like a complicated brief to us, but as you'll see from the images Kerrie sent in, the garden looks brilliant. A fantastic result from a relatively small garden!

Click here to view the garden transformation and more photos.

A few more of you have been sending us images of your new furniture in-situ' and we thought we'd post a couple of the best..!

We're always chuffed to receive customer's images, as they can help future customers get an idea of how the furniture might work in different garden settings.

From now, any Bau Outdoors customer sending us images of their new furniture - don't worry if you're not David Bailey! - will receive a voucher code which can be used against future purchases! (yes your friends & family can use the code!).

Below are two fantastic shots, showing firstly our Antibes Dining Table and the new Menton Dining Chairs, looking particularly fantastic in this North London garden.

Next up, we have a fantastic shot of a pair of Valentine Sofas in black rattan. Looks like a fantastic place to spend an afternoon!

Keep the shots coming!

Seeing our furniture in-situ in our customer's shots is great, and having recently packed up a selection to send to a customer in Italy, we thought we'd better post a couple of shots of the amazing setting our furniture has found itself in..!

And Relax have recently opened up the beautiful Trullo Fico in Puglia, Southern Italy for bookings and their new website make us wish this wasn't busy season!

Sleeping up to 8 people, the historic house has been brought up to date beautifully and looks like the perfect venue for a week's escape.

Have a look at the fantastic And Relax site (unless you have no holiday time spare - in which case, don't torture yourself!) and consider taking yourself for a rather special break..!

Trullo Fico

Our new furniture range has landed just in time for the Spring sunshine!

As well as the recent addition of cast Victorian furniture to the Bau range, we have a number of new contemporary pieces.

The Menton garden dining chairs are sure to go down well this summer. Shown here alongside the Antibes dining table, the solid teak chairs can be left outdoors throughout the seasons where the teak will silver beautifully over time... Perfect for the urban garden where storage is a problem!

The new furniture will be live over the next couple of days, so keep an eye out and give us a call with any queries...

We're really pleased to have taken our fantastic new cast furniture range live in time for spring 2010.

If you have a period property (and you're more than likely to in the UK!), highly contemporary garden furniture may not be ideal when it comes to complementing the history of your home.Our new range of classic cast garden furniture will complement Victorian and Edwardian properties beautifully.

Manufactured in Ironbridge, the home of original cast iron furniture, the new range of aluminium furniture consists of cast dining tables, dining chairs and some stunning cast garden benches.

The range is available in three high quality finishes - gloss white/green/satin black - and is built to be happy in the UK weather for many years without need for storage or maintenance.

The cast furniture can also be ordered in special colours if required, so call us for details if you fancy something a little different... Shocking pink Victorian dining set anyone?!