How much time do you spend in the Garden?

Green-fingered Brits with a fondness for the outdoors spend the equivalent of over three years of their working lives out in the backyard preening and maintaining their gardens during their lifetime.

The research has been carried out by garden furniture specialists BillyOh.com, who discovered that UK gardeners spend an average of a whopping 5,675 hours getting their lawns and flowers looking pristine over 50 years.

Taking into account that Brits usually spend around 37 hours per week at work for 48 weeks of the year, this means that the UK’s garden enthusiasts will spend the equivalent of just over three years of their working lives in the garden.