New for this season, Sheffield-based Burgon & Ball company, creator of beautiful premium gardening tools and accessories since 1730, is launching an elegant new design collection in its gorgeous ‘RHS Gifts for Gardeners’ range of gardening gifts.

Entitled ‘Asteraceae’, the new design showcases flowers from the daisy family. Adding exciting new gift ideas to the ‘RHS Gifts for Gardeners’ range, it also includes new twists on old favourites from previous RHS Gifts design collections. Beautiful gift packaging features an eye-catching new design, and as you’d expect, the packaging is plastic-free and easily recyclable.

Flowers from the ‘Asteraceae’ family have a starring role to play in the 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 pattern has been created by Burgon & Ball, incorporating specially selected illustrations from the RHS Lindley Collections of historic botanical art. The watercolour paintings by Caroline Maria Applebee date from circa 1810 and feature China aster and coreopsis. A soft sage green background makes the perfect foil for the jewel-bright colours.

The line-up of new gifts includes a couple of activity-themed sets. Focusing on planting, there’s a gift-boxed set of the new heart-shaped RHS-endorsed planting trowel plus a new design of dibber, also RHS-endorsed. The tools have a lifetime guarantee and purple-painted FCS® wooden handles, a nod to the vibrant tones of the China aster. And for the herb grower or keen cook, a set of herb stripper and snip is presented in an appealing tin bearing the Asteraceae pattern. Staying with herbs, there’s a set of three ‘Asteraceae’ herb pots, handily sized to hold supermarket herbs and of course, it is possible to use them to grow your own.

The final two new gifts the ‘Asteraceae’ collection offer new exciting presentations of much-loved favorites. An RHS-endorsed pruner and holster set is presented in a new keepsake tin bearing the Asteraceae pattern. The pruner has a ten-year guarantee and purple comfort-grip handles. And in a complete design refresh, there’s a new-look indoor watering can, with a distinctly contemporary feel.

Favourite gifts from previous design collections in the RHS Gifts series make a welcome return with ‘Asteraceae’. In RHS-endorsed tools, the ever-popular trowel and hand fork set is here, now with a new butterfly etching on the trowel head and as ever, offering a lifetime guarantee. There’s a gift-boxed RHS-endorsed secateur, with a ten-year guarantee. All tools have custom-coloured purple handles. Completing the line-up, the much-loved Kneelo® memory foam kneeler shows off the sunny new pattern to perfection, while the gardening gloves have cushioned palm and anti-debris gathered wrist, and are washable at 30 degrees to keep them looking good.