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Welcome to the Harrod Horticultural Garden Blog...

Welcome to our Garden Blog, the area of our site where we let you know what we're up to and anything we think might be of interest in the big wide world of gardening. We're lucky to have our own horticulturists on hand to keep you informed and we hope you find the gardening blog entries of interest.

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Royal Dutch Hoe

Posted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment by Harrod on 9 April 2013

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show announced Thursday the 21th of March that the Sneeboer entry, the 'Royal Dutch Hoe' with 3 innovations for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Garden Product of the Year 2013 was been successful.

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Matthew Wilson Tools

Posted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment by Harrod on 8 February 2013

"We all know the saying 'a bad workman always blames his tools', but I guess it's easy to forget the other side of the coin, just how helpful the right tool, for the right job, can be. I speak with some authority on this matter, being the kind of bloke who will often slip off a shoe to knock in a picture hook rather than rummage around in my tool kit to find the hammer that I just know is lurking somewhere in the bottom.

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Garden Tools

Posted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment by Harrod on 29 November 2012

The wonderful thing about gardening is it can be as labour intensive or relaxing as possible. You may decide that you will dig your entire plot by hand this year, or you might choose to use some machinery and then spend more time in the deckchair!

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Sneeboer - You Can Taste The History!

Posted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment by Harrod on 16 October 2012

There is something deeply evocative surrounding the traditional hand forging of tools. The heat of the forge, the smell of the coal furnace and the sound of molten steel being hammered into shape all take us back to a time long past, when tools were hand made and lasted for decades.

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Tub Trugs

Posted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment by Harrod on 30 August 2011

Versatile is certainly a word which applies to the tub trug, a real gardener's ally.

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