Home Bargains slashes the price of a garden essential ahead of summer – it's now half off
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SHOPPERS are racing to their local Home Bargains to buy half-priced garden essentials as the weather warms up.
The retailer is now selling garden parasols in various neutral colours that were originally priced at £49.99 but now cost just £24.99.
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Home Bargains is selling its garden parasols at half price
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The product called Crank & Tilt Garden Parasol promises to be convenient with a crank mechanism that does eliminates the need for manually adjusting the parasol.
Its canopy has a diameter of 2.7 metres, while the stand is over 2.3 metres tall.
One shopper shared their cheap find on the Facebook group Bargain Lovers, posting a picture of the items stocked and writing: "Garden parasols at Home Bargains".
In response, another person wrote: "I brought one of these last Friday for £49.99 and yes it does come with a stand."
One user commented: "I've got the cream one I love it! Yet to find a stand for it though, they're four separate bits for about £13 each in home bargains."
Another user replied to the comment about the stand, saying: "Put it through a hole in your table. That's what I've done!"
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The Outdoor Living Collection Crank & Tilt Parasol is on offer for half price
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It is available in navy, light grey, dark grey and ecru
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The canopy spans 2.7 metres
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It comes as a former royal gardener, Jack Stooks, revealed to The Sun four garden trends that he does not endorse.
Jack, who worked at the Highgrove Estate for over 20 years, said his first pet peeve is grass chairs or sofas.
"You had these turf-like seats in the garden, which might sound like a great idea," he said.
"I think you even used to be able to buy the innards made out of cardboard that you'd fill with soil and then you'd plant grass seed over - they're a bit cringey.
"They don't ever really do that well. You can never really sit in them and people don't tend to anyway because the grass is always either wet or it's too dry and then it just becomes sort of like a muddy patch."
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The second that he mentions is pampas grass - a huge trend back in the '70s.
The third cringe-worthy trend is, in Jack's view, a garden filled with gnomes.
"Maybe just stick to having one or two gnomes," he said.
Finally, Jack is not a fan of themed gardens.
He said: "For example, when people go off to Disney, and then come back and think that their garden should be Disneyland-themed and try to re-create this in their garden.
"Or they go to see a movie, like Titanic, and they might try and create this in their garden.
"It just reminds me of a crazy golf course - but in a garden!
"Just stick to a classic garden, as nothing beats those in my opinion."
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