Objects of use in the garden, for manual labour and to ease the wait whilst the fruit of your labour grows
Objects of use in the garden, for manual labour and to ease the wait whilst the fruit of your labour grows

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Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop ..

Objects of Use gift certificates
£10.00 - £100.00
Pigskin gardening gloves from Japan. Supple but protective the leather is micro perforated for comfort and ventilation whilst the palm carries a rever..

Japanese gardening gloves
£16.00
A split bamboo hand rake made with eight heat formed clawed tines cut, shaped, and tied in Japan. Ideal as a small rake for work in borders clearing a..

Bamboo hand rake
£12.00
A 24 fine wire tined adjustable and extendable leaf rake from Niigata Prefecture Japan. Quickly adjusts with an arc of 14cm to 40cm by way of a wing-s..

Japanese extending leaf rake
£34.00
Smaller trowels and forks both with ash handles and forged stainless steel bodies - made with the same care to quality and manufacture as the full siz..

Children's garden tools, trowel or fork
£23.00
The firm of Sneeboer began manufacturing garden tools in 1913, and were in the 1940s amongst the first to embrace the use of stainless steel. Original..

Sneeboer spade and fork
£102.00 – £107.50
Lighter weight trowels hand forged by a father and son team in Sanjō in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan, and area long known for iron work, tool, ..

Hand forged Japanese potting trowels
£59.00 – £69.00
Special 420J2 stainless steel, walnut handled multifunctional gardening knives from Tsubame-Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, north central Japan. Hori-hor..

Hori-hori, Japanese walnut handled garden and planting knives
£30.00 - £40.00
A double sided hoe forged in Tsubame-Sanjo, a city famed for its multitude of smithies and small metalworking workshops. Made of Japanese carbon steel..

Ikagata, Tsubame-Sanjo cuttlefish hoe
£24.00
A hand forged carbon steel hoe with an almost semicircular 135mm blade mounted on a crane neck to a straight 350mm poplar wood handle. With a very sha..

Japanese crane-neck hoe
£26.00
A hand forged carbon steel hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, with a longish arcing trapezoid head and a lightweight 900mm poplar handle. These are used standing..

Bachi-kuwa, Tsubame-Sanjo long handled trapezoid hoe
£34.50
A hand forged carbon steel sickle-hoe with a crane-necked tang fixed to a poplar wood handle, of a type thought to have originated in the vicinity of ..

Kakushu kama, Yonezawa type sickle-hoe
£24.00
A hand forged carbon steel straight bladed mowing or weeding sickle with a straight poplar wood handle from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata ..

Kusakari kama, Japanese mowing sickle
£48.00
A hand forged carbon steel hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, with a longish arcing trapezoid head and Japanese oak handle. These are used with a chopping action..

Kuwa, Tsubame-Sanjo trapezoid hoe
£19.50
A forked cultivating hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan. Hand forged of carbon steel with a lightweight 900mm poplar wood ..

Long handled Sanbon Kuwa, Tsubame-Sanjo forked hoe
£35.00
A small hand cultivator or root hook hand made in a small workshop in Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With two carbon steel hooked t..

Ne-kaki, 2 tined root hook
£17.50
A cranked handled razor hoe from Japan. Forged from carbon steel the blade of this hoe takes an excellent edge - ideal for cutting through weed roots ..

Right handed Japanese weeding hoe
£18.00
A small forked cultivating hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan. Hand forged of carbon steel with a Japanese oak handle. Use..

Sanbon Kuwa, Tsubame-Sanjo forked hoe
£20.00
A carbon steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle fitted to a hexagonal poplar wood handle for a better and more comfortable grip. From Asano Mokko..

Hexagonal handled harvesting sickle
£16.50
A stainless steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine bu..

Japanese stainless steel harvesting sickle
£18.00
A hand forged Aogami blue paper steel weeding sickle with a with a straight poplar wood handle from the workshops of Nagata Kamaya in Kasai City, Hyog..

'Resting Deer' mikadzuki kama, Aogami weeding sickle
£30.00
A diminutive razor or sickle hoe with a sharpened slightly curved carbon steel blade and poplar wood handle. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, N..

Asano baby sickle
£10.50
A small razor or sickle hoe with a very sharp and fine pointed hand forged carbon steel blade fixed to a hexagonal poplar wood handle which allows for..

Hexagonal handled weed and root cutting sickle
£18.00
A hand made carbon steel serrated hooked knife with a long poplar wood handle from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan..

Japanese asparagus knife
£13.50
Not a ghoulish sibling of the tooth fairy from some dark Japanese horror but instead a surprisingly useful small carbon steel blade attached to a blac..

Japanese finger harvester
£20.00
A small professional grade weeding hoe hand forged of Hitachi SK steel fixed to a magnolia wood handle. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigat..

Left-handed kogama, a small sickle hoe
£12.00
A double sided triangular carbon steel cultivating hoe or light pick from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. A kind of one h..

Ryōba kama, Japanese pick-hoe
£24.00
An almost culinary standard knife with a very sharp acutely beveled almost rectangular carbon steel blade fixed to a magnolia wood handle, and cedar s..

Shūkaku hōchō - Japanese harvesting knife
£65.00
A small serrated stainless steel vegetable harvesting sickle with a poplar wood handle from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, cent..

Yasai setsu kama, vegetable sickle
£15.00
A small tightly curved stainless steel sickle knife with a poplar wood handle. Of a type especially useful for harvesting courgettes and similar squas..

Zucchini harvester
£16.50
A partially serrated carbon steel sickle knife, with a tape splitting hook to the back, a poplar handle, and a wire hanging loop. Incredibly sharp bot..

‘Resting Deer’ box opener or small pruning knife
£8.50
A choice of two curved cutting knives from Morris & Sons of Dunsford, a Devon village on the very edge of Dartmoor, and home to their once water power..

Morris grass hooks and harvesting knives
£13.50 – £22.00
It seems curious that for a gardening obsessed nation so few garden tools are still made in the UK. That so many long established British brands have ..

Raspberry or pruning hook
£31.50
A choice of forged carbon steel secateurs with either flat ground curved blades or else straight with one serrated and one flat ground blade; both des..

Spanish grape harvesting secateurs
£18.00
Classic and fairly long handled hedge cutting and forming shears from Japan. Rather like a proper pair of scissors these are made with slightly in-cur..

Japanese hedge trimmers
£70.00
Mid weight carbon steel (meaning they can rust) flower snips, strong enough for cutting and trimming fresh and dried woody flower stems, and the tradi..

Kadō snips
£29.00
Strong secateurs from Okatuse of Japan made with blades of Hitachi Yasugi high carbon steel and a simple single pivot design. The steel is hardened to..

Okatsune secateurs no.104
£42.00
Lightweight flower and cuttings snips with 5cm straight ground pointed blades, ideal for finer work. Not as strong a secateurs these aren't intended f..

Okatsune snips no.304
£12.00
Professional hand-forged Yasuki Speciality Steel hedge trimmers with long Japanese Oak handles from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefectu..

Yasuki Steel hand-forged hedge shears
£90.00
Professional soft squeeze garden and topiary shears, ideal for detailed work or light pruning.Established in 1730, Burgon & Ball moved into its curren..

Garden or topiary shears
£26.00 – £30.00
A choice of four classic pocket knives all hand made by apprentice trained cutlers in the workshops of Arthur Wright & Sons of Sheffield, who since 19..

Arthur Wright pocket knives
£24.00 – £32.50
A choice of four Individually handmade knives from a specialised and dedicated workshop at the New Eye Witness Works in Sheffield. Reinstating a long ..

Artisan pocket knives
£97.50 – £255.00
Created in 1928 by Gaspard Cognet for sales to the French pacific colonies, the knife handle bears the etched image of a douk-douk a Melanesian spirit..

Douk-Douk Sorcier
£27.50 – £29.00
A classically styled puukko - a kind of general purpose and carving knife from Finland. The archetypal ‘everyday’ knife it is typically used for every..

Finnish puukko knife
£38.00
Classic folding knives with a choice of carbon (rustable) or stainless steel blades set into boxwood handles. Made without linings or a bolster just a..

Pastor No.1 folding knives in carbon or stainless steel
£46.50
A handmade knife from the Finnish part of Lapland, with a curly birch handle, brass bolster, stainless steel curved blade, with a vegetable tanned lea..

Suomi mushroom Knife
£40.00
A sort of heavy cleaver used in Japan as a general purpose small forestry hatchet, for splitting firewood, limbing small trees, scraping bark, and pru..

Asano kanto nata, Japanese hatchet
£60.00
A small hand forged hatchet with a lacquered Japanese Oak handle and a leatherette case. From Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, ce..

Asano mini nata
£48.00
Hand forged, shaped, ground, and assembled axes from Hults Bruk in Sweden, mounted on seasoned, oiled hickory heartwood handles. The blade edges are t..

Handforged Swedish axes
£90.00 - £105.00
A hand forged long bladed carbon steel pruning hatchet with a lacquered Japanese Oak handle. From Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture..

Saya nata, right-handed hatchet
£75.00
A lightweight hatchet from Tsubame-Sanjo city, of a type thought to have been produced in Japan for over 1700 years. These have a lacquered Kanto oak ..

Asano chouna, Tsubame-Sanjo hand axe
£54.00
A hand-forged pruning axe with a Blue Paper steel - renowned for the longevity and finesse it grants an edge - blade laminated between layers of tough..

Eda da ono pruning axe
£150.00
A hand forged axe from Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With a 1.5kg long, fairly thick, steep beveled, but quite narrow from heel to..

Kiwari ono, a Japanese wood-splitting axe
£125.00
Fully ground simple brush cutting hooks hand produced in Catalonia at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès the one surviving knife and tool maker in ..

Catalonian billhooks
£28.50 – £40.00
Except perhaps by aficionados the billhook is today amongst the most undervalued of gardener’s or woodsman’s tools, seldom if ever found amongst the o..

Four types of Morris billhook
£26.00 – £35.00
A natural canoe shaped stone cut from a quarry near Milan. About 400 grit with a high carborundum content this is a fairly soft but fast cutting stone..

Mailänder scythe stone
£13.50
The famous and original tin of twine from the Nutscene company of Angus, Scotland. The twine is 3 ply jute in a centre pull spool of about 150 meters,..

Tin o' Twine
£4.00 – £7.00
A kind of split toed wellington called nagagutsu daichi, that is 'earth boots' in Japan. These are jika-tabi made of vulcanized natural rubber with a ..

Rubber jika-tabi gardening boots
£80.00
A pack of two of these natural jute open weave leaf composting sacks which are fully biodegradable and safely compostable. Simply filled with damp lea..

Jute leaf sacks
£4.50
A pack of two natural jute sacks. These are biodegradable, breathable, and strong, ideal for carrying or storing vegetables, garden waste, cuttings, l..

Jute sacks
£4.00
A choice of 5 sizes of mouth blown house plant watering bulbs from small lamp workshops in Lauscha, Germany - the traditional home of glass Christmas ..

Blown glass watering bulbs
£3.60 - £6.00
Hand drawn brushes of long arenga fibre stitched into a birch stocks and handles. Arenga - derived from the trunks of a South East Asian sugar palm - ..

Porch and boot brooms
£45.00 - £49.00
An incredibly simple hand broom from Japan made from the finer tops of bamboo canes bound tightly together with wire. Similarly to our zatacon scrubbi..

Japanese bamboo hand broom
£7.00
Japanese display vases designed and hand fabricated by Daisuke Tsumanuma and Kenichi Yamada of glass, copper, lead came, and solder. Reminiscent of mu..

Terra hydroponic cases
£140.00
A 22 tine adjustable rake made in Germany of galvanised and passivated steel. Extends with an arc of 30 to 50cm by way of a wing-screw and sliding bar..

Adjustable leaf-rake
£35.00
An ash handled, hand-forged stainless steel flowerbed trowel, with a tapering blade for planting or transplanting young plants whilst minimising damag..

Flowerbed trowel
£37.00
This ash-handled, hand-forged stainless steel weeding trowel has a strong and narrow sharpened blade, especially useful for removing tap rooted weeds ..

Weeding trowel
£37.00
A long-bladed, hand-forged stainless steel trowel designed by Christopher Lloyd — horticulturalist and author, who for many years resided at Great Dix..

Great Dixter trowel
£37.00
A hand-forged, stainless steel planting trowel with an ash wood handle. Use it for planting bulbs, seedlings and small plants or use the large head fo..

Old Dutch trowel
£43.50
A right-handed potting trowel, designed to work in tight space around pot-plants, and for the scooping and deposition of compost without spilling. Han..

Right handed potting trowel
£37.00
A left-handed potting trowel, designed to work in tight space around pot-plants, and for the scooping and deposition of compost without spilling. Hand..

Left handed potting trowel
£37.00
An ash-handled, hand-forged stainless steel weeding fork, strong enough to prise out even the most stubbornly rooted small weeds, as well as for use i..

Weeding fork
£37.00
This deep-reaching, ash-handled, two-pronged stainless steel hand weeder can break up even the heaviest soils allowing easy removal of deep rooted wee..

2 tined weeder
£35.50
A large claw like hand cultivator with a turned ash handle extended neck and two large hooked tines - ideal for breaking up and turning compacted eart..

Hand cultivator, 2 tines
£45.00
Built to last a lifetime, of stainless steel with an ash handle. This is the perfect tool both for the careful scraping away accreted layers of earth,..

Archeologist’s trowel
£42.00
A fairly long handled hand forged hoe with a lightly sharpened spade (♠) shaped black lacquered steel head. Slightly curved and angled back this is us..

Spanish flower hoe
£24.00
A versatile planting and weeding tool from Japan, the hori-hori has a thick polished stainless steel blade of 7¼", 18.5cm, marked with met..

Hori hori planting knife
£34.00
A unique narrow polished stainless steel trowel from Japan, with a metric scale upon the blade, allowing easy judgement of depth when planting. The ha..

Japanese planting trowel
£15.00
With a one piece hand forged carbon steel head, cut and shaped without welding and a white oak handle this is an extremely strong tool ideally suited ..

Japanese cultivator rake
£24.00
A small forked cultivating hoe of carbon steel with a slightly reinforced lacquered birch handle. Used to break up and aerate compacted soil, pulling ..

Japanese forked hand hoe
£18.00
A simple small grubbing hoe of carbon steel with a slightly reinforced lacquered birch handle. Used with a chopping action to dig and till soil amidst..

Japanese grub hoe
£18.00
A 5 tined cultivating draw hoe made to an ancient English pattern supposed to be of Oxfordshire origins. Forged with a ring eye fitted about a 40cm tu..

Oxford hoe
£27.00
A carbon steel razor toothed sickle knife from Japan. Tools of this sort are used all over the far east primarily for harvesting rice, whose fibrous s..

Japanese harvesting sickle
£16.00
A kind of straight grass hook with a fine serrated blade. Right-handed as the blade is sharpened on only one side. From the workshops of Cuchillería P..

Spanish serrated sickle
£9.50
A hand-forged, ground, and sharpened small hand scythe, grass-hook, grain sickle, or scythe sickle from Austria; with a carbon steel blade, long crank..

Austrian scythe sickle
£27.00
A small hoe with a sharpened high carbon steel head, shaped in a manner almost like a flattened plough, or reminiscent of a bird in flight. Designed t..

Weed Slice
£20.00
Japanese drop forged secateurs made of Hitachi SK carbon steel, which gives an excellent general purpose edge, sharper than might be possible for simi..

Sentei secateurs
£39.00
Light-weight straight bladed shears for dead-heading, thinning new growth, and floristry, the fine tapering blades being ideal for accurate work among..

Japanese rose and thinning shears
£48.50
Kijo lightweight by-pass pruning shears from Japan, sprung in the eastern style with a looped wire spring similar to a safety pin. These have tempered..

Kijo secateurs
£29.00
Strong pruning snips from Okatsune of Japan. Whilst still not as substantial as secateurs these are heavier weight than the similar looking no.304 sni..

Okatsune pro snips
£36.00
Classic straight blade manual hedge shears with forged carbon steel 30cm blades, beechwood handles, and an adjustable pivot for tightening or disassem..

Pallarès hedge shears, 30cm
£33.00
With double layered blades for a durable edge these secateurs are otherwise hot-forged from a single piece of differentially tempered steel - without ..

Sentaihasami, Japanese vine shears
£90.00
Each half of these one handed shears (hakari basami) is hot-forged from a single piece of steel, with no joints or welds that might work harden and br..

Japanese topiary shears
£95.00
Hot forged 6.5” carbon steel pruning scissors with approximately 1 3/8” curved micro serrated blades, green handles, and a hardened pivot. Ideal for s..

Pruning scissors
£25.00
A hand forged carbon steel knife with a walnut handle and hand stitched leather sheath. From Asano Woodworking Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, Japa..

Kiridashi gardener's and outdoor knife
£150.00
A hand forged pocket knife made by Motosuke NAGAO in Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. A fourth generation blacksmith the near eighty years old NAGAO-san..

Higonokami (sada koma)
£39.00
A small lightweight hatchet with an untreated white oak handle and a laminated blade - the edge being of hardened (to 58-60 HRC) high carbon steel san..

Chouna, Japanese hand axe
£72.50
A 2.8 kilogram hickory handled heavy splitting maul designed to combat the resistance of hard and dry Iberian timber. Typically used for breaking down..

Spanish forged splitting maul
£47.50
A very distinctively shaped mid-weight brush cutting tool used for cutting and clearing denseand tangled undergrowth. From the workshops of Cuchillerí..

Catalonian axe billhook No.2
£22.50
The No.48 spool holds over 250 metres of 3 ply jute fillis from the Nutscene company of Angus, Scotland. The ideal garden twine, this like all of Nuts..

No. 48 spool of twine
£6.00
A simple device for the quick manufacture of biodegradable seed pots of recycled newspaper. Hand turned in Scotland of English oak strips of paper sho..

Potter's pal
£13.50
Gunsoku or soldiers socks. Made from cotton, with a divided big toe, and reinforced heel and toe sections. Intended for use with jika-tabi, Japanese s..

Gunsoku, japanese socks
£10.00
Founded in Clapton, East London - although long since having migrated to the West Midlands - in 1886 Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can co..

Professional long reach watering can, 4.5 litre
£65.00
A lightweight 4 litre long necked watering can of galvanised steel fitted to a rubber collared brass head. Pressed, trimmed, finished, and assembled l..

Osaka watering can
£40.00
This is a single loop handled large (9 litre or about 2 gallon) waterfall watering can ideal for general use in the garden, heavy galvanized steel wit..

Watering can 9l
£50.00
A loop handled 5 litre watering can ideal for general use in the garden. Heavy galvanised and powder coated steel. Established in 1730, Burgon & B..

Waterfall Watering Can, 5l. Grey
£28.00
Founded in Clapton, East London in 1886 (although long since having migrated to the West Midlands), Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can com..

Duck-egg blue indoor watering can, 1 litre
£40.00
Founded in Clapton, East London in 1886 (although long since having migrated to the West Midlands), Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can com..

Silver lacquered indoor watering can, 1 litre
£40.00
Founded in Clapton, East London - although long since having migrated to the West Midlands - in 1886 Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can co..

Copper indoor watering can, 1 litre
£50.00
Founded in Clapton, East London - although long since having migrated to the West Midlands - in 1886 Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can co..

Haws outdoor watering can, 4.5l
£50.00
Founded in Clapton, East London - although long since having migrated to the West Midlands - in 1886 Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can co..

Nickel mist sprayer
£15.00
A perfect accompaniment to the Haws indoor watering cans, this bright unlacquered brass mist sprayer is ideal for keeping more delicate indoor plants ..

Brass mist sprayer
£15.00
Founded in Clapton, East London - although long since having migrated to the West Midlands - in 1886 Haws are thought to be the oldest watering can co..

Haws professional long reach watering can 8.8l
£80.00
A pair of soft goat-hair and pear-wood brushes mounted upon stainless steel tongs allowing for the easy and scratch free dusting of broad leaved house..

Leaf and vinyl brush
£45.00
Swedish broom suitable for outdoor or indoor use, made from birch and palmyra fibre (bassine) from the same Indian palm as the 'delicious' sag..

Swedish broom
£21.00
For the sweeping of snow from cars. Made from waxed beech and coconut fibers. Coconut does not absorb water and has long been used in the manufacture ..

Snow brush
£15.00