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Modfire’s Astrofire

I am so grateful for designers like Brandon Williams.  We need a little more imagination and design savvy in our outdoor products and he is delivering.  Love it or hate it…(I love it) but I think the Astrofire  is one of the best new products I have seen for the garden in a while.  Fun, funky and [...]

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Garden Gallery: The Alchemist’s Garden

Should we take a little blogland trip to France?  Lets. Have a wander through the Alchemist’s Garden which is in Provence and is featured on About Gardens. I am taking inspiration from the White garden, the black garden and the red garden — Each are so striking and full of interesting ideas. Rills are fascianting [...]

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Father’s Day Gift Idea: Little Stone House

My husband never fails to point out how much he loves the handful of small stone houses that are scattered hills around where we live. I have to admit, there is something especially charming and loveable about old stone homes….the type that seem like Hagrid might have just moved out of. We are not moving…the [...]

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Compost Aerators, Bamboo Gloves & Tall Cloches

If you are anything like me, your compost heap is a work in progress.  It is an effort in pure do-gooder hopefulness.  Mine has been active and getting larger for probably 4 years, but since I have never turned it and I have never tried to take anything from beneath the new stuff that gets [...]

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HozeLock’s Flexi Spray & the X-Hose

Between the X-Hose and the Flexi Sprayer, hand watering might just have moved into the world of modern day convenience.  If you have a big garden like I do, then you need lots of lengths of heavy hose that have surely taken out your back — or at least a plant of two as you have moved [...]

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Sneeboer’s Royal Dutch Hoe

Sneeboer makes tools that are on my personal short list of things worth spending a little more money for.   They have developed a new tool that made the Best New Product Shortlist at Chelsea.  It is designed specifically for women and it is meant to be used as you walk backwards (leaving you with [...]

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Twool Wool Garden Twine

A vote for Twool’s new line of garden twine may not be a vote for a product you are going to see on your local nursery shelves (unless you live in the UK) – but that is kind of the point.  Twool twine is local to England is made of wool from sheep in Dartmoor. [...]

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