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You can order preformed ponds here or on our niche site www.gardenpondshop.co.uk . They are a present that will last for more than just Christmas time, and will give the gift receiver years of pleasure. Perfect for anyone you know who likes wildlife and gardening. Even the small 85 litre preformed pond can attract frogs, and also, ponds are great for garden birds. The most popular size is the medium preformed pond (200 litres). 

Delivery is included and they are sent by courier, so should only take a few days to arrive, after ordering.

https://www.gardenis.co.uk/collections/pond-water-features/products/preformed-pond-3-sizes

After a very busy late summer due to the drought conditions, the water butts are available again. The 200 litre double kit (400 litres in total) is the bestseller, and had to be put off sale for a while, to clear a backlog of outstanding orders. Everything is almost back to normal, so it is back on sale now, along with the 227 litre size, which had been out of stock.

If you are thinking of getting a water butt sometime in the coming year, please, if you can afford to, buy it over the autumn and winter. This is a quieter period, so deliveries are generally faster, and you can get it all set up for spring. Every year, everyone waits until it is summer, then orders, and this creates longer delivery times, as too many people order all at once. As you can imagine, a drought being declared in August, with hosepipe bans, made this a much bigger problem than normal.

Water butts can be ordered here;

https://www.gardenis.co.uk/collections/grow-your-own

Unfortunately this year the 350 litre magnum water butt has not been available due to a manufacturing issue. Normally a good % of customers would opt for this size. As a result the 200 litre double kit is the size everyone has been ordering instead, which has made the reserves of them deplete much faster over the summer, as these sales have added to the usual ones for this size (the 200 litre double kit is always the bestseller overall). This has speeded up dramatically with the declaration of drought last week. A big surge of orders occurred, and it is likely delivery slots will now take 4 to 6 weeks from the date of order. Smaller sizes should be able to be sent out faster, ie. 7 to 14 days. So that is the 114 litres, 100 slimline, and 100 slimline double kit (200 litres) and the 168 litres kit.

The same wait will apply to the larger sized kits that use the 200 litre barrel, so the 600 litre and 800 litre kit will also take 4 to 6 weeks.

Hopefully this will remain the case, but they might have to go off sale for a while, if demand remains too high to deal with, within that timeframe.