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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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
The firm of Sneeboer began manufacturing garden tools in 1913. Everything they produce is still forged, ground, and assembled entirely by hand, and th..

Sneeboer hand tools
£35.50 – £43.50
A small hoe to be used with a swinging or raking action to dig out and remove weeds in tightly planted borders. Hand produced in Catalonia at the work..

Catalonian triangular hand hoe
£14.50
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
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
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
Hand forged using a spring hammer from a billet of Japanese carbon steel, with a shaped white oak handle, secured through the eye with a steel wedge w..

Ikagata, Japanese cuttlefish hoe
£35.50
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
£15.00
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
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
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
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 sort of heavy cleaver used in Japan as a general purpose small forestry hatchet, for splitting firewood, limbing small trees, scraping bark, and pru..

Kanto nata, Japanese hatchet
£78.50
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 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
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 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
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
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
A pack of three of these natural jute open weave leaf composting sacks which are fully biodegradable and safely compostable. Simply filled with damp l..

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
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..

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
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
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
£35.00
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
Rice straw broom. Rice straw not being derived from rice at all but from sorghum a type of cereal growing from the sub-tropics to the Balkans. Rice st..

Rice straw broom
£15.00
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
£10.00
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
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 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
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
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
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
£33.00
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
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