Burgon & Ball RHS British Meadow Snips

Burgon & Ball RHS British Meadow SnipsThere's a particular Saturday morning ritual that summer cottage gardeners know well. Trug in one hand, snips in the other, wandering through the borders cutting sweet peas before they set seed, gathering a bunch of cosmos and zinnia for the kitchen table, snipping raspberries off the cane before the blackbirds arrive. The job calls for a tool with sharp, pointed blades and a comfortable handle and ideally one that's pretty enough to feel a small

Retirement gift — for someone moving into more time-rich gardening with mature trees

Transform your garden into a unique oasis with our handmade obelisk garden feature

that extra length makes a real

work compost into beds

Spray bottle 500ml ready-to-use — £14

these clippers are endorsed by the RHS

The Flora & Fauna pattern was developed by Burgon & Ball in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society

Caterpillars — the smaller ones

Soil improver for new beds — mixed into existing topsoil when preparing new beds for spring planting

Autumn is the cottage gardener's secret season

particularly compelling in twos and threes scattered through a border at slightly different points

Choose the 24-cell Fast Root (this) if you want more capacity