Gardenista Discount Codes & Vouchers

Gardenista is a UK shop for outdoor soft furnishings — the cushions, pads and covers that make garden furniture comfortable enough to sit on for an afternoon.

What the range covers

The bulk of the catalogue is seat pads and cushions cut for particular kinds of furniture: rattan corner sofas, bistro chairs, bench seats, egg chairs, sun loungers and swing seats each have their own shapes. Alongside those there are scatter cushions, bench pads, pallet-furniture sets, garden bean bags and waterproof furniture covers for the winter. Filling and cover fabric vary by line, so a pad for a hard bistro chair is a different thing to a deep rattan cushion.

Water resistance, explained honestly

Outdoor cushions are usually water-resistant rather than waterproof. That means they shrug off a shower and dry quickly, not that they can be left out through a wet week without consequence. The practical routine is simple: bring them in or put a cover over them when heavy rain or a long spell of damp is forecast, and store them somewhere dry over winter. Left soaking, any filling will eventually hold moisture and start to smell musty, which is the usual reason a set fails long before the fabric wears out.

Getting the size right

Measure the seat before ordering rather than trusting the furniture's name — "standard rattan" covers several different sizes, and a pad an inch too wide will ride up at the edges. Check whether ties are included if your chairs are the kind that let a cushion slide, and look at the depth as well as the length and width, since a thin pad on a hard slatted bench feels quite different from a thick one.

Storage is the other half of getting a season or two more out of a set. A cushion put away slightly damp in September will come out of the shed smelling of mildew in April, so air everything fully on a dry day before it goes into a box or bag, and choose somewhere with a little ventilation rather than a sealed plastic crate. Zipped covers can be taken off and washed according to their label, which is easier than trying to clean a whole cushion.

Using a Gardenista discount code

Put the cushions in the basket, open it, and enter the code in the discount box ahead of payment, checking the total moves.