Many gardeners have smaller gardens, patios, balconies, or compact outdoor spaces where using full-size tools can feel awkward and impractical. The right tools can make maintaining these spaces much easier and more enjoyable.
Kent & Stowe offers a range of tools designed to help you maximise smaller spaces without compromising on quality or performance. From smaller snips that are ideal for precise jobs such as deadheading and light pruning, to midi-sized rakes that are perfect for clearing leaves and debris from borders and tight areas, these thoughtfully designed tools allow you to garden comfortably in compact spaces.
Whether you are tending a small garden, maintaining raised beds, or caring for container plants on a patio or balcony, using the right-sized tools can help you work more efficiently and achieve great results in whatever outdoor space you have.
Deadheading & Pruning
Garden Life Snips
For deadheading and intricate trimming or pruning tasks, these compact and impressively lightweight snips prove invaluable. They feature a pointed ‘microtip’, making them ideal for whenever the lightest hand is required, such as deadheading sweet peas, trimming small window-box plants, or detailed work with delicate alpine plants.
Looking after Perennials
Perennial Spade
Lifting and dividing perennials in a crowded border during spring (without disturbing and damaging nearby plants) is made easier with this purpose-made tool. Its pointed blade is sharper and narrower than a traditional spade, allowing it to cleanly slice through clumps of perennials with minimal effort or disruption.
For all Digging Tasks
Garden Life Fork
More compact and 40% lighter than a typical digging fork, this essential border tool allows for greater dexterity in tight spaces for efficient, focused work without disrupting nearby planting. It is double riveted to provide extra strength, and with its large tread edge, digging is easy and comfortable.
Planting Bulbs
Small Bulbs Planter
Make planting small bulbs such as anemones, liatris, and ranunculus a simpler, less disruptive task. The angled, stainless steel head removes a 4cm core of soil, allowing you to position bulbs at the correct depth with ease, while the ash handle ensures comfort and grip with repeated use. It's the easy way to create a stunning display.
To keep Borders tidy
Border Hand Shrub Rake
An essential tool for maintaining mixed borders, used for raking below low-spreading shrubs and small, hard-to-reach places; it’s also handy for painlessly clearing up prickly holly and mahonia leaves. The long ash wood handle provides good reach, while the head’s slender flat tines make short work of collecting fallen debris.
