Garden Museum

Room 10 – Garden tools

 

Spades, rakes, watering cans and wheelbarrows are essential implements for garden work. Their basic form was developed early on and perfected in the course of time. In addition, tools were developed for special work, such as edging knives, garden rollers and fruit pickers.

Some garden tools have gone out of use with the changes in gardening methods, such as the large knife used for removing young shoots from shrubs and trees. Other tools are increasingly being replaced by motor-driven equipment, such as hedge-clippers and lawn-mowers. Small tools for planting and weeding have on the other hand survived to the present day in their original form.