We?re doing a few things back to front because of circumstances, (and answering the questions back to front too!) as we?ve had something unexpected happen to deal with between when we entered and getting selected, so a bit behind, (and ds is busy today and tomorrow, and another couple of days) but will hopefully be able to catch up soon.
Where did you get your inspiration for doing up the garden from?
Mainly looking at other people?s gardens and wondering if we could make something of ours, and real concerns about how difficult birds found it last winter and how few bees and butterflies seem to be around this year. It?s inspired us to try and do the little bit we might be able to do to help. We?re also inspired by reducing, recycling, reusing, where practical.
What sort of style are you going for etc?
We want to make a wheelchair accessible gardening area, with a small eating and hopefully barbeque area that attracts birds and bees and butterflies.
It all has to be based around accessibility and budget, (one of the problems of disability is tbh it doubles or triples the budget for everything to make it accessible) so we?re going with practicality and accessibility, first and foremost, and the style is likely to be quite eclectic, as it?s going to have a mixture of reused materials given a new lease of life using B+Q materials, reduced items, and new materials from B+Q, then using creativity to tie it together and blend it all. (wish us luck! 
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How did you find your shopping experience at B&Q? Were the staff helpful?
Long answers here and we aren?t done yet, but here it is so far:
We dropped into our first B+Q (London) a few days back, and were unable to access 2/3rds of the garden centre in a wheelchair because of too much clutter in the aisles. Most plants and many things like decking and gravel were out of reach. Some of the clutter may have been dumped by customers, but a lot clearly wasn?t. Ds could get around but I couldn?t, even with help.
The bit of the plants we could get near were looking very sorry for themselves, and lots of clearly dry as a bone, un-watered dying plants, many lying on their sides.
To be fair to the staff member I eventually collared (one saw me but out ran me!) they went to see if they could shift some of it before realising it was too big a task, then offered to go get me anything to look at, but I explained I didn?t really know what I wanted without seeing it. (though thanked them for good intentions.)
They suggested I should shop on line in future to avoid the problem and I gently said we shouldn?t really have to, and they left at that point, so did we.
I phoned the store to let them know, and was just told it would be passed on to the manager, but will wait to see if they?ve sorted this out before naming them.
Pretty disappointed tbh, but the next day we were headed past Watford (a journey we?re having to make a lot at the moment) so decided to drop into B+Q there, but just to browse.
What a difference! All staff were really helpful, and a clear, tidy, navigable store with no access problems for wheelchairs, and disabled bays close to the entrance, and self-service tills that a wheelchair user can reach and operate independently.
We?ve actually had and are still receiving, the most amazing service from everyone at this store, with several staff members going well beyond what could be expected and getting very behind the idea of us wanting to focus on reuse, recycle and reduce in our garden where possible, and keep an eye out on green footprints too.
I was very pleasantly surprised as I thought it might fly in the face of a large commercial organisation?s focus, but far from it.
So that?s where we?re doing most of our buying. I?m going to talk more about some of the individuals and service we?ve had as we go, because they really are an amazing bunch and deserve to be highlighted.
But for now, I?m just going to say Andy and Morag in particular are absolute stars, (going way beyond all expectations in helping us stretch that budget) and there?s a very good team there. 
We weren?t intending to buy, just browse, but the reduced strawberry?s at 6 for £1, and the strawberry?s in hanging baskets at £2.50 were too good to miss, and Andy who was reducing them automatically picked out the best one?s of the top shelves (which I can?t see) instead of leaving me with the best of what I could see and reach, (what normally happens) and realising we hadn?t expected to be buying, went and got us a trolley despite ds?s legs being perfectly fine.
A quick browse and off to pay at self-service where we found Chelsea who was absolutely lovely and very helpful getting our non-barcoded reduced items through and showed me how to use the card (a new skill for me) with helpful patience, to the point I think she deserves the name-check.
Andy had also suggested we joined the B+Q club for news of extra deals available, so when we went over to their build (and trade point) building, we told the cashier we?d like to join and were taken to a computer by another staff member who signed us up and further explained the e-mail offers. He apologised for the length of time the computer took to manage the task.