Burgon & Ball RHS British Bloom Gardening Gloves

Burgon & Ball RHS British Bloom Gardening GlovesSome flowers carry generations of garden history with them. Dahlias and peonies are among the most beloved of all cottage garden blooms and the botanical illustrations on these gloves date back as far as the 1630s. To put that in context: contemporary with William Shakespeare's last plays, the early Stuart kings, and the very first English botanical books. Two centuries before Gertrude Jekyll, three centuries before our grandparents started gardening,

Firefly — warm amber/yellow with glow-like inner patterns

If the British Bloom print is the dressed-up cutting garden and the Asteraceae the soft late-summer border

J-rooted seedlings that struggle to establish

A garden tool you'll reach for daily

These are an extension of that pleasure

The watering mechanism works the same as the 12-cell starter model:

Store dry — high carbon steel rusts faster than stainless if left damp

60mm — a comfortable middle scale at £20

Mother's Day or birthday present for anyone who arranges

Choose the 12-Cell Self-Watering Propagator (£10

Decomposed material can be raked into surrounding beds as soil conditioner

There has to be a better tool