Everything here stays outside — the choice comes down to length, bulb size, and whether the run is powered from a socket or from its own small solar panel.
Around 60 metres of matte cable with evenly spaced retro bulbs in a warm white of roughly 2700 K — enough for a full eaves line or a fence without adding a second set.
Roughly 30 metres with a hundred lighting modes, an infrared remote and a timer that switches the set off by itself. The seals are rated IP67, so it can stay up through the winter.
Dazzle Bright
Three hundred LEDs over roughly thirty metres, with eight modes. Up to three sets can be linked end to end and run from a single plug.
Dazzle Bright
Two battery boxes and about twelve metres of fine copper wire in total. The wire is thin enough to wind around a railing or drop into a jar without the cable showing.
Sixty triple-LED nodes spread over thirty metres. The white runs from a very warm 1500 K up to full brightness, and the whole run is sealed to IP65.
Dazzle Bright
Three hundred LEDs over a hundred feet, in purple and orange, with eight modes. Up to three sets can be run from one plug.
MGVIH
Shatterproof ST38 bulbs over thirty metres, dimmable from a remote with a timer. The IP65 seals are what allow it to be left out over winter.
Joomer
Two runs of fine copper wire, about 24 metres together, each with its own small solar panel. The wire bends into whatever shape is needed and stays there.
Brightown
Fifty-two feet of string with a solar panel and a linkable tail socket, so a second set can be daisy-chained on. The bulbs are shatterproof and the remote sets a timer.
TW SHINE
A hundred small warm-white bulbs on a six-metre run — the soft, slightly yellow look of an incandescent set rather than a bright white LED.
Wall-mounted units for a doorway, a gable or a drive. Most of them carry their own panel, so no cable has to be run through the wall.
HMCITY
It runs off its own small panel, so no cable has to be taken through the wall. A motion sensor brings it on, and three modes decide how long it then stays lit.
BesLowe
A matt black frame with a clear glass shade, about 33 cm tall and 12 cm wide — sized for a porch post or beside a door rather than for a long garden path.
CLAONER
Six identical units in one box, each around 800 lumens, all with motion sensors — enough to cover a long wall or a row of pillars in one go.
TECKNET
Two units rated at around 4200 lumens, each about 22 cm across, with a motion sensor and three lighting modes to choose from.
Light is thrown up and down the wall instead of outwards, in RGBIC colour plus warm and cool white. Two units, around 1200 lumens each.
Steel bowls for a braai or a fire in the garden, in the sizes that fit a normal terrace — plus the glass that goes in the bottom.
BraaiBoss
A 60 cm bowl in powder-coated carbon steel with a grill grate that drops straight onto the rim, so the coals can be raked and the meat laid on without extra kit.
Casa Calore
A double-walled bowl in 430 stainless steel, roughly 69 cm across and 30 cm high — low enough to step over, wide enough for proper logs.
Hiland
Not a fire pit in itself: roughly 4.5 kg of cobalt-tinted glass beads, about the size of a fingernail. Poured into the base of a bowl, they reflect the flames back upwards.
Canopies from 1.5 m up to 2.7 m. The small ones fold onto a tripod; the large ones need a base, which is the part most people forget.
Abba Patio
Nine feet across on eight ribs, opened with a crank and tilted with a push button. That span is what a garden table needs to stay in shade as the sun moves round.
Blissun
A nine-foot market canopy on eight ribs, cranked open and tilted by button. It needs a base or a table with a hole, since the pole is all that stands on the ground.
JEAREY
A 2.7 m beige canopy with the base plate in the box, so nothing else has to be bought before it can go up. Tilt is by push button.
Wondershade
A smaller five-foot canopy on a folding tripod. The height adjusts along the pole, which is what makes it work over a sun lounger rather than over a table.
Sunnyglade
Nine feet of canopy on eight ribs with a crank and push-button tilt. The pole is 40 mm across, which is the size that drops into a standard table hole.
Woven PE rattan on metal frames, from a two-seat bistro set up to a corner sofa. What differs is how many people fit and how much space the set takes up.
Aoxun
An L-shaped four-seater in woven PE rattan on a metal frame. The seat cushions and a glass-topped table come in the same box, so the set is complete as delivered.
Yaangagpe
Two chairs and a tempered-glass table in black woven rattan. The footprint is small enough for a balcony, while the table still sits at a normal dining height.
rattanstar
Four seats with high backrests in woven PE rattan, plus a tempered-glass table. The high back is the main difference from the low lounge sets that make up most garden furniture.
ALAULM
Two woven chairs and a round metal table, with cushion covers that come off for washing. A set for a corner of a patio rather than for a whole terrace.
rattanstar
A four-seat set in woven PE rattan with a tempered-glass top and the cushions included. The whole set stands about 80 cm tall, so it fits under a window ledge.
RAM ONLINE
A round concrete base 45 cm across and 10 kg in weight, with a clamp on the side that takes a 35, 38 or 48 mm pole through the middle.
EVRE
A loveseat, two chairs and a glass coffee table in woven PE rattan. Set out as intended, the group takes up roughly 2.2 × 1.6 m of terrace.
Yaangagpe
Four pieces in black woven rattan with beige cushions. The chairs stack, so the whole set can be tidied away into roughly the space of one chair.
URBNLIVING
A round glass-topped table and two textilene chairs. Textilene is a woven mesh rather than a solid fabric, so the seats drain instead of holding water after rain.
Garden Store Direct
Two woven chairs and a steel-framed table about 60 cm square — a set that fits a small patio without blocking the door to the house.
Folding chairs, rockers and zero-gravity loungers — the kind that can be carried out in the morning and put away in the evening.
A steel frame on spring rockers, so the chair rocks front to back without tipping. It folds flat and carries armrests, a cup holder and a mesh back.
Best Choice Products
Tips back until the legs come up roughly level with the heart, then folds into a flat bundle about a metre long that will stand in a cupboard.
NEWBULIG
Reclines back with the legs raised, and carries two clip-on trays for a drink and a phone, so neither ends up on the grass.
SERWALL
Two adult-size rocking chairs in weather-resistant HDPE with armrests. It is the plastic composite, not wood, that allows them to be left out between showers.
Nazhura
Two steel-mesh loungers that adjust through several recline angles and then fold down small enough for the boot of a car.
Kettle braais in enamelled steel, from a 46 cm stand up to the classic 57 cm bowl.
Weber
A 57 cm enamelled kettle on a wheeled trolley, sized for a group of six to eight. Enamel rather than paint is what keeps the bowl looking the same after a few seasons.
Weber
A 57 cm enamelled kettle with a chrome-plated grate, on a tripod base with two wheels for moving it around the patio.
Weber
The 57 cm enamelled bowl, but with a stainless steel grate instead of chrome — the version to choose if the grate is likely to be left out in the rain.
Decorum & Co
A compact 46 cm stand on legs, around 74 cm tall — the size for a smaller garden or a stoep where a full kettle would be in the way.
Generic
Folds flat for a boot or a camping kit, and opens into a small charcoal stand about 45 × 30 cm that can sit on a table or on the ground.
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