Rocket 🎆

Rockets get height nothing else in a display can match. A single big one at the right moment lands harder than a handful of small ones fired together — which is why they are worth buying deliberately rather than as an afterthought.

We stock singles and multi-packs. Packs are the sensible way to open or close a display: fire three or four in quick succession and you have a proper moment without the cost of a large compound.

Setting them up matters more with rockets than anything else. They need a proper launch tube or rack pushed firmly into the ground — never a bottle, which tips as the rocket leaves and sends it flat across the garden. Do not shorten, bend or tape the stick; it is what steers the thing. And check the safety distance on the box: our larger rockets are category F3 and want 25 metres.

More on firing them safely in the Firework Safety Hub.