Primary Tools

We stand on the shoulders of the gardeners of the past. Humans have been fashioning cultivation implements since the beginning of time, first with stone, then with iron and more sophisticated technology, so that implements used by the Romans bear a striking resemblance to those we use today. Unearthing a piece of broken china or a rusty bit of tool in a flower bed is all it takes to be reminded that someone was here before us, possibly also despairing at the slugs and working in all weathers to put in the potatoes or stake the delphiniums.

Loosely termed gardenalia, the objects that survive the gardeners of the past