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The Cream of the Crop

February 8, 2015

Let your flowers know they’re fancy with cement Seletti chapeau vases shaped like gentlemen’s hats.

$70 at Kuhl-Linscomb

Gauntlet-length all-leather gardening gloves are both tough enough and pretty enough to make pruning appealing.

$46 at womanswork.com

Every artist needs an audience, and if your garden is your pièce de résistance, indulge in a little silent approval from a trio of sheep garden statues.

$39.95–$99.95 at plowhearth.com

Englishman John Haws devised the ideal design for a watering can in 1886, and over a century later, the world has yet to improve on it, as this gorgeous indoor copper watering can amply shows.

$89.95 at Williams-Sonoma

It only makes sense that Jollys, the most functional, durable, and surprisingly beautiful garden shoes and clogs in the world, would come from creative, industrious Germany.

$59.98 at Home Depot

Hydroponic gardens use 85 percent less water and grow plants 30 percent more quickly than traditional soil beds, so it’s great to see this tabletop version by Modern Sprout that hides the technology within a chic planter of chalkboard or reclaimed wood.

$139–$219 at modernsproutplanter.com

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There’s nothing like a garden to remind us that for all our struggles, our moment in the sun is anything but permanent. There are things we can control, however, like our gardening gear. —Sarah Rufca
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