Copper Watering Cans - Beautiful and Practical Gardening Tools

Gardening is a very tactile and hand-on hobby. I love the way dirt and mud feels in my hand - whether it's warm from the sun or cold from a winter's day. But it's not just your hands that get to play in the mud. It's so much fun to smell the garden come to life. That first day in the Spring when I spread the manure from the compost pile to the days that come later as I watch the seedlings grow and sprout. Nothing makes a garden spring to life more than water. Watering your plants is one of the most important garden tasks that there is.

There is no more beautiful way to accomplish a targeted watering task than with a copper watering can. The first thing you notice when you pick up a high-quality watering can is the feel of the handle in your hand and the overall watering can balance. This makes carrying heavy water so much easier. Then there is the perfectly angled watering spout that ensures that the water easily reaches a hanging plant, a plant in the back of a wide window or a plant growing low to the ground.

You can see looking at this beautiful collection of copper watering cans that there are two basic styles to choose from. The first is smallish and delicate with a long narrow spout. These are perfect for watering delicate bonsai plants, orchids and violets. It's important with these plants that you not get the leaves wet.

Then you see the larger and hardier copper watering cans perfect for walking around the yard and spot watering plants that need an extra dose of water. That way during the extra dry summer days, you don't waste one drop of water.

Many of these copper watering cans also come with rosettes so that you can gently water the top of the plants as well.

I know that many people don't enjoy watering their plants, but when you use the right tools then it makes your gardening chores so much easier. For me, walking around my yard and finding plants to water is a joy and a task that I look forward to every day.

I was raised to keep my gardening tools clean and oiled. As the youngest of seven children, my job always seemed to polish and oil the tools in the gardening shed. My grandmother and mother never wanted anything to do with aged patinas. That was just another name for dirt. However, many gardeners today work hard to have a copper watering can with that aged look. It's truly a matter of choice. I admit that I still polish and oil my gardening tools in the fall as part of the yard cleanup.