Garden furniture

I must say that garden furniture certainly isn’t a necessity to make your plants grow, but it makes it much easier to sit and enjoy them

A well-placed bench can be a visual focal point as well as an invitation to rest. Chaise lounges and dining tables can turn a deck or patio within a garden into an outdoor room and add living space to your home.

Teak is considered to be the premier wood used for garden furniture because it is heavy, durable, rot-resistant, maintenance-free, and does not splinter. It does not have to be sealed, stained, or finished. It can be left outdoors untreated and withstand the elements for years. After a couple of seasons in the sun, teak weathers from a warm honey brown to an attractive silvery gray.

Tectona Grandis is an extremely dense hardwood of the family Verbenaceae. It is indigenous to India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Java. The harvest of teak does not destroy rain forests -- it cannot even grow in rain forests. It is a deciduous tree that grows well in the dry, hilly terrain typical of plantation forests in Southeast Asia.