Gardeners are starting to prepare window boxes and hanging baskets ready to put out when the final threat of frosts has passed. 

Window box planters, hanging basket coco liners and sphagnum moss all show sales increases week on week in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Chart.

• The Burgon & Ball Window Box planter in natural willow is the highest new entry

• Large packs of Sphagnum moss from Gardman are a re-entry at No 44

• Gardman Solar Mini Ice Orb lights leapfrog Scotts Tomorite back to No 1 – perhaps they are being added to baskets and window boxes for night time illumination.

These will all have helped this week’s modest 2.9% week-on-week improvement – but the year-to-date figure lags almost 12% behind the same point in 2014, taking us back to where it stood in 2013.