Keep cool with fab grey garden umbrellas

Keep things cool, take it easy, chill out in the shade… and do it all in considerable style with our collection of beautiful grey garden umbrellas. Everything from a smart olive green-grey and subtle warm taupe-grey to the palest grey, deep charcoal, or even a super-cool distressed black. If you’re feeling the heat and want to shelter from the rays, try these.

Oodles of gorgeous grey garden umbrellas!

Our biggest garden parasol of all is a monster of a thing at 4m x 3m. Meet the awesome Pacific Lifestyle Icon Premium T1 4mx3m Oblong Faded Black Parasol, shown below, an absolutely enormous garden umbrella. As you can se it’s big enough to fit a set of garden furniture underneath, the perfect shade and shelter for a lively, varied and comfortable outdoor life. The colour of the umbrella itself is sophisticated, plain and simple so it won’t clash with your garden design or garden furniture.

The clever wind stabiliser means it’ll stay put, where it’s meant to be, even in an exposed place. Strong ribs and a thick, chunky 78 x 78mm pole and tough yet lightweight aluminium frame keep things rugged and the huge sail-like umbrella is made from top quality spun acrylic polyester, made for outdoor use to a Material Class 4 standard that delivers great colour protection. Just add a special fitted cover for an even longer life and no-fade good looks.

The Pacific Lifestyle Glow Challenger T2 3m Square Luna Grey Parasol comes from the same designer and manufacturer, known and trusted for excellent quality products. This time it’s a lovely cool, pale grey that complements the greenery and sits there quietly doing a top job of keeping you shaded and sheltered. Like all the brand’s garden parasols it’s made from the best materials with a long useful life in mind. It might not be quite as big as the previous model but at 3m square there’s still a load of space underneath the canopy. Best of all it includes cool LED lighting, which you can see below.

The Pacific Lifestyle Challenger T2 3m Square Olive Parasol below offers an unusual colour scheme with its grey-green canopy, a gorgeous rich colour that looks great in every sort of setting, perfect with a strong 90 kilo base. This luxury garden parasol cleverly rotates 360 degrees as well as tilting forwards, backwards and sideways, an incredibly flexible way to move the shade around your garden as the sun moves across the sky. Strong tension springs on the ribs keep the canopy taut, it won’t go all baggy like cheapo alternatives can. And while it’s a generous size the strong, lightweight aluminium pole and cast aluminium housing features keep things easy to move around.

Sometimes you need something small and neat. The Pacific Lifestyle Riva 2.5m Round Anthracite Parasol is an excellent choice. Buy several to create a flock of cool, shady areas on the lawn or patio, maybe place a bistro set under each one for a Parisian cafe feel. In fact the Riva model is yours in three different sizes, making it easy to create a stunning matching look: 2.5m, 3m and 3.5m diameter, each available in deep Anthracite grey, pale Luna Grey, classic Taupe and Olive green. The easy-rotate crank and strong tension springs keep the operation smooth. Bear in mind the biggest version, 3.5m, comes with a thicker pole and no tilt mechanism to keep things stable in the wind.

And finally… the Norfolk Leisure Elizabeth Parasol 2.7m, which comes without a base so you can make your own choice of bases. It offers a traditional-look design complete with a decorative circular knob on top and simple ventilation around the top, and the material is an unusually durable polyester. There’s a neat crank and tilt system for easily changing the angle of the shade and the aluminium frame is strong without being heavy. The pretty pale grey complements every garden setting and looks fab with our grey garden furniture.

Just to round things off nicely, here are some more inspiring photos from our extensive grey garden umbrellas collection.