Canopy Uses

Garden Centre Tunnel Canopies

Our range of galvanised or powder coated garden centre tunnel canopies offers an aesthetically pleasing and comfortable environment for your visitors to browse your plants and other products. With more and more people across the UK visiting garden centres each year, it’s increasingly important to make the most of your available space. Consumers now demand a better shopping experience than ever, which is why it is important that any exposed areas are sheltered if necessary. Our large-span garden centre tunnel canopies and covers for outdoor sales areas will help you to do that, allowing your customers to appreciate the beauty of your plants while sheltered from the wind, rain and snow.

If you’re a start-up looking for weather-resistant premises, or looking to replace your old garden centre canopy, contact us today for a free no-obligation quote.

Canopy Installation

Installing a canopy in your garden centre will not only help to keep your visitors dry and comfortable, but it could help to increase sales too. Covering your outside sales space with one of our canopies will help to keep your flowers and plants looking good all year round regardless of the weather, thereby reducing stock damage or loss and increasing profits. Codsall & Wergs Garden Centre is a prime example of how a Clovis canopy has been used to extend the “indoor” sales area, maximise available space and provide customers with a comfortable shopping experience.

As well as being a sound commercial investment for any garden centre with an outside space in which they display plants and flowers, our canopies and covers are also extremely versatile. Able to cover large areas within a set budget or awkward areas that would be difficult or expensive to cover with conventional structures, our garden centre canopies can be adapted to suit the needs of your business.

Quality, Durable Canopies

Our canopies are also extremely durable and robust. Clovis Canopies can supply and install non-fragile canopies and shelters that can withstand heavy impacts without sustaining noticeable damage, as demonstrated by our 45kg drop test. Our non-fragile garden centre canopies are extremely strong and can withstand knocks and scrapes that would dent, crack or even shatter most other types of canopies and covers.

Garden centre canopies can also be used to house extra seasonal shopping areas or even restaurant and coffee shop areas, thereby expanding the commercial opportunities available to your garden centre. A weatherproof canopy from Clovis will turn your garden centre into more than just a place to buy flowers and other plants; it will expand the possibilities for your business and allow it to fully cater to the needs of your visitors, whatever the time of year.

Canopies for Customer Movement

Our garden centre canopies also have another, more subtle use: they can be used to encourage customer movement to various areas of your centre and guide them to special promotions and those products that drive high-profit margins. Your garden centre’s physical environment affects the way in which shoppers interact with your merchandise, and it ultimately affects how much money customers spend.

We manufacture our garden centre canopies from the highest quality materials and design them to blend in seamlessly with the rest of your garden centre, giving a flawless look which is bound to impress your customers. If you’re considering covering an exposed area of your sales space or replacing an existing garden centre canopy with a metal canopy or a polycarbonate awning, get in touch for a free quote.

Common canopies found at Garden Center’s include: entrance canopies, covered walkways, general use canopies and barrel canopies.

We also operate in other industries including:

Why Clovis Canopies?

British made

Made to measure

Up to 25 year framework guarantee & 50 year structural design life

All year round use

After sales service

Designs

Applicable Designs

Ascot Barrel Vault Canopy

The Ascot Barrel Vault design uses a single rolled box section for the roof arches giving a clean line to the roof. The barrel format brings the eaves down on…

Keston Dual-pitch Canopy

The Keston Dual-pitch canopy is purpose designed for the public market, this is not a lightweight domestic canopy designed for residential patio areas. Using structural steel sections large uninterrupted spans…

Bespoke Canopies

We can fabricate almost any size and shape canopy, using fabric, polycarbonate or glass as the cladding material. Our standard structures and canopies are available in a wide variety of…

Oxford Wave Form Canopy

The Oxford twin hoop waveform is an alternative to the standard lean-to or barrel vault style canopies. Due to the double curvature, it is only available with polycarbonate cladding. The…

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Projects

Example Projects

Olivers Nursery

Country Gardens Pulborough – Planteria Canopy

A Crescent Barrel Vault fabric structure beautifully covers the entire expanse of this Garden Centre. Light and airy fabric-clad roof, keeps lighting levels high. This example showing a structure 9.7m…

Croydon Garden Centre – Walkway Canopy

A galvanised steel framed, Oxford Walkway canopy with a fabric-clad roof, provides much-needed access cover to all outdoors areas of the garden centre. The Trellis-hooped girders in the roof can be…

Sussex tensile fabric umbrella example with cantilevered column

Croydon Garden Centre – Planteria Canopy

This Diamond 3 span with width total of 20m x a length of 21.5m long has a translucent PVC for the roof.

Q D Stores Ltd – Garden Centre Shelter

This 5 Span Galvanize Haven Canopy is used as a planteria area for a large garden Centre allowing customs to walk around freely in all weathers.

Le Quesne’s Nurseries – Garden Centre Canopy

Canopy is a 5 span Diamond with each span 8m wide x 104′ long with 2 single Diamonds at 8m wide x 152′ long. These have trellis hoops for that…

Cooling’s Nurseries Ltd – Planteria Canopy

An Oxford, Curved lean-to Canopy size 7m wide x 27m long extends the existing structure, providing much needed additional space and a covered walkway. This free-standing, traditional lattice – hooped…

Thank you, everyone at the hospital have been very complimentary about the design and build quality of this replacement canopy, I would like to personally thank you for managing this project and planning the works so that there has been no disruption to the hospital. I look forward to working with you on a future canopy project.

G White, Capital Programme Manager. , Surrey PCT NHS

We have used Clovis Canopies on a range of projects for a variety of clients and always found them to be competitive , responsive and safe . Coupled with a “can do “ approach from design to fitting , this makes Clovis our first call when we require a canopy or shelter .

A. Larn ,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the two fitters who worked on our canopy. They were very co-operative and professional in their work, and kept us informed throughout. They were also very safety conscious and considered the safety of the children at all times. We were very impressed and would recommend them.

L Denyer, owner. , Early Steps Pre-School

We would like to take this opportunity of thanking Clovis Canopies for supplying and installing a superb shade canopy over our Foundation Stage play area which is proving to be “all weather”! The work was completed on schedule and to our complete satisfaction. Your company listened to our requests, provided a canopy which met all our requirements and was constructed with the minimum of fuss whilst the school was in session. The tradesmen who erected the canopy were most accommodating to the needs of the children and school and arranged their work schedule around the children’s play times. No request was ever too much trouble. I was particularly impressed with the regard the workmen paid to health and safety and with keeping the worksite clean and tidy. I also have to congratulate you on your professionalism and aftercare service, which has been second to none. A huge thank you to all of your staff. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending Clovis Canopies.

S Jackson, Headteacher , Lee Chapel

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we view existing canopies, so that we know what we are buying?: If you are considering purchasing a canopy from any company, it is in fact strongly recommended that you visit an existing installation to see exactly what you are paying for. At Clovis Canopies we are proud of our work and are happy to arrange (with the clients consent) for you to view examples of our work and structures.
What further peace of mind can you give us before we place an order?: We are a sound, family run company with a high credit rating, which has been manufacturing and installing modular steel buildings for over 45 years. A great deal of our work comes from repeat business and recommendations from existing customers (references available on request). We aim for 100% satisfaction 100% of the time. As well as being CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Scheme) accredited, Construction Line registered we are a approved contractor to many Local Authorities and large building contractors. You will be allocated a dedicated Contract Manager who can be contacted to answer any questions that you may have at any point in the process.
Will our concerns over children and staff safety be addressed prior to installation?: We have been working within schools for many years. All contractors are Clovis approved and CRB checked. Full risk assessments are carried out prior to starting installation taking into consideration your requirements and safety fencing is erected wherever needed at no additional charge.
Will I require planning permission?: We always advise that you call your local planning authority as there are no hard and fast rules. They will advise on whether you require planning permission for your proposed canopy. Although it differs from region to region canopies under 30m2 may not require permission but this can be affected by situations such as proximity to neighbours, listed building status, conservation areas etc. so it always best to check. We are happy to provide free of charge, scaled drawings etc. of the proposed canopy structure to assist your application should you require.