New online service allows you to order custom-built containers at the click of a button.

Finding planters for an awkwardly-shaped outside space can be a real headache. Many suppliers only stock a standard size - and you can guarantee it’s not the one you want. If you’ve ever tried finding L-shaped containers, or planters which wrap around drainpipes, you’ll know that off-the-shelf simply isn’t an option. But tracking down someone who’ll make you a bespoke container can be equally tricky.

Until now. Cedar Nursery, based in Surrey, have launched a new online instant quote service which allows you to specify exactly the size and style of steel and powder-coated container you need. It’s even simpler if you just want troughs, window-boxes or cubes, when an online calculator gives you an instant quote at the click of a button. Complex designs can be modelled in 3-D before production so you can check you’ve got it right, and it‘s delivered right to your site.

With an ever-increasing range of specifications to choose from, this is a development which makes bespoke manufacturing available on a far greater scale than ever before. It means, at last, you have the chance to get really, really fussy about what you want. Here are a few of the things you can specify:

Shapes: rectangular or square; tapered or straight-sided; troughs or cylinders; bowed fronts or cut-outs for steps and drainpipes… the choice is limitless.

Finishes: Galvanised Steel, Powder-coated Steel in over 250 colours, Stainless Steel and new for this season English Lead.