Garden Products with a Difference

About Useful and Practical Ideas Ltd 

UPI  was created to bring customers UK-designed garden products with a difference. We search for products that help you look after your garden and enhance outdoor living. We are very committed to introducing a substantive selection of new products every year, along with leading design and innovation across the entire product range. Our products are designed in the UK and made to our specification with partner factories in Norfolk England serving Europe and Asia serving North America and the Asia Pacific region.  We have a substantial bank of intellectual property rights covering both design and functionality.

In 2010, our company introduced a vertical planting system called The Flower Tower. This free-standing tower provides an easy-to-grow, self-watering, low-maintenance column of blooming colour that is perfect for garden lovers who enjoy patio or balcony living. It was at this point that the company really began, and ever since we have built up an enviable reputation for the design and innovation of products that maximise water usage so there is no waste. As part of our commitment to the environment, we also sponsor British companies that have an eco-friendly ethos.


In 2016, we launched UPI Ltd. It has 6 distinct garden product categories. These new products are supplied under the UPI Ltd brand, with Flower Tower being retained as the brand for our wholesale products range, which we continue to expand. 


At glee in September 2017, we launched a further 4 new products, including a new range of plant watering systems called PlantPal. Just 1 month later, in October, we signed up the Texas Grill, a garden architectural BBQ company, where we have the rights to wholesale and retail their product range.


Working with Gardeners throughout the World

Currently, we have a diverse international customer base encompassing the UK, Continental Europe, and the USA. Our head office is in Brentwood, Essex, UK, and we have extensive warehousing and manufacturing in Norfolk, UK, as well as a team in Vietnam who look after our Asia customer base.

Committed to Innovation

The UPI Ltd Garden was created to bring customers UK-designed garden products with a difference. We search for products that help you look after your garden and enhance outdoor living. We are very committed to introducing a substantive selection of new products every year, along with leading design and innovation across the entire product range. Most of our products are designed in the UK and made to our specification with partner factories in Asia, and we have a substantial bank of intellectual property rights covering both design and functionality.