RHS Gifts for Gardeners 'Asteraceae' collection

The new design collection in the popular RHS Gifts for Gardeners series is entitled ‘Asteraceae’. It is the latest development in the fruitful collaboration between Burgon & Ball and the Royal Horticultural Society. Working closely together since 2012, both parties have benefitted from combining their respective expertise in toolmaking and in horticulture, resulting in extensive ranges of high-quality gardening tools and beautiful gardening giftware.

‘Asteraceae’ adds exciting new gifting options to update and refresh the ‘RHS Gifts for Gardeners’ range. It also includes new twists on top-selling lines from previous RHS Gifts design collections. In tune with consumer expectations, the packaging is plastic-free and easily recyclable, as well as featuring the eye-catching new design.

Adding the element of topicality, the new collection showcases flowers from the ‘Asteraceae’ daisy family, which have a starring role to play in our gardens as summers become longer and autumns get warmer. These resilient late-season flowers keep the colour going in a longer season, also offering an important source of forage for pollinators when other flowers fade.

The elegant new design has been created by Burgon & Ball featuring watercolour illustrations dating from circa 1810, specially selected from the RHS Lindley Collections of historic botanical art. A soft sage green background is the perfect foil for the jewel-bright colours of the China aster and coreopsis.

The line-up of products includes a number of new product introductions. There’s a gift-boxed set of the new RHS-endorsed planting trowel plus a new design of dibber, also RHS-endorsed; a set of a herb stripper and a mini snip are presented in an appealing reusable storage tin; and a set of three ‘Asteraceae’ herb pots, handily sized to hold supermarket herbs.

Then there are exciting new presentations of established favourites. An RHS-endorsed pruner and holster set is presented in a new reusable storage tin, and in a complete design refresh there’s a new-look indoor watering can, with a distinctly contemporary feel.

Favourite gift options from other design collections in the series make a welcome return. The ever-popular trowel and hand fork set is here, now with a new butterfly etching on the trowel head. There’s a gift-boxed RHS-endorsed secateur, and pretty-but-practical gardening gloves. Completing the line-up, the much-loved Kneelo® memory foam kneeler shows off the sunny new pattern to perfection.

The delightful ‘Asteraceae’ RHS Gifts for Gardeners collection is an inspired collaboration between Burgon & Ball and the RHS. Blending new product ideas with appealing new twists on existing successful gifts, it offers gifts to suit all budgets, with RRPs from just £9.99 up to £26.99. The collection benefits from the extensive synergy of these two historic names in gardening, and would be a worthy winner in this ‘Branded Gift’ category.