Esure highlights home insurance cover for gardens

Esure is advising homeowners to ensure that their home insurance covers garden theft, as one in ten has invested £600 on garden accessories over the past year.

Esure offers home insurance of up to £1000 including plants and garden equipment. It offers up to £2000 of cover for contents of outbuildings, including garden sheds.

Those with homeowners insurance may want to consider defensive planting. Using prickly plants such as the holly bush or pyracantha may put off potential thieves, as escape may not be such a pain free ordeal.

Nikki Sellers, head of home insurance at Esure, commented: With light evenings and pleasant summertime temperatures, many of us will be spending more time in the garden than inside our homes. So it's not surprising that as a nation we spent over £3.7bn this year on our backyards.

But this investment needs protecting. Garden equipment, toys and bikes left out overnight are easy targets for opportunistic thieves. We should all get in the habit of locking up items in the house and making our gardens as secure as possible.