Garden seating for children is where a lot of outdoor ranges quietly give up: either the fabric is chemically treated to survive outside and starts to degrade within a season, or it was never designed for outside at all, and it gets brought in “just for tonight” every evening until it stops going back out. The Wigiwama Outdoor Beanbag Chair takes a different approach. Its Olefin cover resists water, stains and mould as a property of the fibre itself rather than through a chemical coating, and Wigiwama have UV-tested it to 1,200 hours of direct sunlight exposure, a properly useful benchmark for anything spending a British summer, and the odd properly hot week, sitting outside. The fabric is also chlorine-resistant, which matters if it lives anywhere near a paddling pool, and the inner shell is a fully waterproof polyester filled with EPS beads, so the chair holds its shape and stays comfortable rather than turning into a soggy cushion after the first shower.

At 80cm wide, 70cm deep and 50cm high, it is a generous size for a child from around three upwards, and cleaning is a wipe with a damp cloth rather than a specialist process. Both the outer Olefin fabric and the inner shell carry OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certification. It costs £159.99, which places it firmly in the category of furniture rather than a seasonal accessory, and that is a reasonable way to think about it: this is a garden chair, not a pool toy that happens to be shaped like one.

The instinct every summer is to pack the ball pit away and let the garden do the entertaining, and it is worth resisting. The MeowBaby White Boucle Round Ball Pit was never designed to be seasonal: the anti-allergic foam core and zip-off, machine-washable cover work exactly the same in July as they do in November, and reaching, gripping and tracking a ball across a round space is useful sensory and motor skill practice regardless of what the weather is doing outside. On the kind of grey, in-between UK summer day that turns up more often than the forecasts promise, an indoor ball pit fills the same role a garden would on a better afternoon: somewhere for a child to move, throw and reset without it becoming a full afternoon out. Children will empty the entire thing onto the floor within about four minutes of getting near it, refill it, and do the whole thing again, and there is not much to be done about that except accept it as the actual use case. Prices start from £104.99 for the 30cm height, which suits younger babies still finding their balance, and the 40cm option at £119.99 gives toddlers more of an enclosed space to settle into.

None of the products above were chosen because they photograph well in a garden, although they generally do. They were chosen because they hold up past the point where most outdoor equipment starts to disappoint: the scooter that is still the right size six months later, the beanbag that has lived outside through a British summer rather than merely surviving it, the ball pit that never needed the good weather in the first place. That is the same filter Nestoro applies to everything in the range, indoors or out: not whether something looks right for the first afternoon, but whether it still earns its place once the novelty has worn off.