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Burgon & Ball RHS Asteraceae Gardening Gloves

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Burgon & Ball RHS Asteraceae Gardening GlovesSome gardening gloves are tools. These are something different closer to wearing a small piece of botanical history while you potter through your borders. The Asteraceae print on these gloves is taken from botanical illustrations dating to around 1810, drawn from the RHS Lindley Collections one of the world's most important horticultural archives. Two centuries old, and now hand picked to wrap around your wrists on a Sunday afternoon in the cutting

Some gardening gloves are tools. These are something different — closer to wearing a small piece of botanical history while you potter through your borders. The Asteraceae print on these gloves is taken from botanical illustrations dating to around 1810, drawn from the RHS Lindley Collections — one of the world's most important horticultural archives. Two centuries old, and now hand-picked to wrap around your wrists on a Sunday afternoon in the cutting garden.

Set against a soft sage green background, the jewel-bright blooms — China asters, coreopsis, and other Asteraceae family flowers — celebrate the late-summer and autumn colour that holds the garden together when the early roses have gone over. They're also some of the most important pollinator plants of the late season, which feels right: a glove that nods quietly to the bees and butterflies as you go about the work that supports them.

Made by Burgon & Ball, the Sheffield toolmaker who've been making garden tools since 1730, as part of their RHS-endorsed "Gifts for Gardeners" collection. Supplied to us through our partners at AllotMate, who curate proper, well-made tools for gardeners and allotmenteers who'd rather buy once.

The design

The Asteraceae family is one of the most diverse and rewarding plant groups in the cottage garden — and one of the most important for late-season pollinators:

  • China asters and coreopsis are the signature flowers in the print, with their bright, daisy-like blooms in pinks, oranges, and yellows
  • The botanical illustrations are hand-picked from the RHS Lindley Collections, c.1810 — the kind of antique botanical art that costs serious money in framed prints
  • The soft sage green background grounds the jewel-bright flowers and stops the design from feeling busy
  • The whole effect is celebratory rather than fussy — the resilience and radiant colour of late-season cottage garden flowers, captured on something you'll actually use

It's the kind of design that gets noticed — by visitors who admire your gloves, and by you in the small daily moments when a beautiful object brings a small lift to ordinary work.

What makes them work

Beautiful design is no use if the gloves don't function. Burgon & Ball have built genuinely thoughtful working features into these:

  • Cushioned palm — proper protection for everyday garden work, reducing hand fatigue during longer sessions
  • Gathered wrist — close-fitting cuff that keeps soil, mulch, and small debris from finding their way down your sleeve
  • Soft yet tough fabric with built-in stretch — flexible enough for fiddly tasks like deadheading and tying, durable enough to take repeated use
  • Snug, flexible fit — moves naturally with your hand rather than sliding around as you work
  • Machine-washable at 30°C — significantly more practical than most workwear gloves. Pop them in with the next dark wash and they come out fresh for next time

That last point is worth dwelling on. Most gardening gloves can't go in the washing machine — the construction or coatings can't take it. These can, which means they stay looking nice rather than gradually accumulating a season of soil into the fabric.

Sizing

These are a universal women's fit, size 8.5 (a glove length of around 23.5cm tip to cuff) — equivalent to a UK women's medium. They suit average to slightly broader women's hands, and many smaller men's hands as well thanks to the stretch fit.

If you have particularly small or particularly broad hands, our Briers range may offer a more precise fit. But for most women's hands, the universal sizing here works comfortably.

As a gift

This is one of the loveliest gardening gifts you can give someone — practical enough to be used, beautiful enough to be appreciated, and rooted in proper horticultural heritage rather than novelty. Particularly thoughtful for:

  • A gardening friend with an eye for the beautiful — anyone who chooses kit on aesthetics as well as function will love these
  • Mother's Day, birthdays, Christmas — perennially difficult gift moments solved with a properly thoughtful piece of garden kit
  • A new gardener just starting out — these say "this is going to be lovely, take your time"
  • An older gardener who'd rather be given something pretty than something purely functional
  • Pair with a packet of cottage garden seeds for a complete small gift

Looking after them

The machine-washable construction makes care genuinely easy:

  • Shake out and brush off visible soil before washing
  • Machine wash at 30°C — ideally with similar colours rather than bright whites
  • Air dry away from direct heat — the printed fabric will fade quickly under tumble dryers or strong sun
  • Avoid bleach or fabric softeners — both can damage the print and the stretch fabric
  • Store flat or hung gently rather than scrunched up

Treated this way, the print stays vivid and the gloves keep their lovely look for many seasons.

About Burgon & Ball and the RHS Lindley Collections

Burgon & Ball have been making garden tools in Sheffield since 1730, drawing on the city's centuries-old expertise in steel and craft. Their RHS-endorsed "Gifts for Gardeners" collection draws on the RHS Lindley Collections — one of the most significant horticultural libraries and archives in the world, containing thousands of botanical illustrations and historical garden materials. We're proud to stock pieces from this collaboration; using two-hundred-year-old botanical art to decorate practical garden kit is the kind of small cultural project that suits our shop exactly.

Specifications

  • Design: Asteraceae botanical print on sage green background
  • Source: RHS Lindley Collections, illustrations c.1810
  • Palm: cushioned for protection and comfort (60% polyurethane, 40% polyester)
  • Back: stretch fabric (95% polyester, 5% elastane)
  • Wrist: gathered cuff to keep debris out
  • Washing: machine-washable at 30°C
  • Size: universal women's fit, size 8.5 (approx. 23.5cm length)
  • Endorsement: Royal Horticultural Society approved
  • Range: part of the RHS "Gifts for Gardeners" collection
  • Made by: Burgon & Ball, Sheffield (since 1730)
  • Supplied through: AllotMate

A small thought: there's a quiet pleasure in beautiful working kit. Most gardening gloves are bought for utility and worn until they fall apart. These ask to be enjoyed — which, for the kind of gardener who already finds joy in the small details of their plot, is exactly the right invitation.

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karine
Belleville, US
★★★★★ 5
Works
Size: 3 Panel-102'', Color: Beige, Size: 3 Panel-102'', Color: Beige
It’s beige and not white. Once install - hard to disinstall. Need a drill to put it together
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2026
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ralversity
Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 3
Does the job, but assembling by yourself is a nightmare
Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Black
Does it do the job? Yes, although as others said there are small gaps but it's not a huge deal. The price is also good. But the reason I'm giving it a 3/5 is simply because the assembly for this was a complete nightmare. I honestly don't think I would recommend this to anyone unless they have another person to help them assemble it, because doing it by myself was terrible. I don't think I'd buy this again, I think I'd opt to just spend a bit more money and save myself the trouble personally.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2026
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Talagand
Dallas, US
★★★★★ 4
Reasonably adequate room divider
Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Beige
I'm reviewing this as I assemble it. Couple things: 1. I didn't expect as much assembly. I've ordered dividers before and they more-or-less came as one unit. Sometimes the panels needed screwing together. These require complete assembly and come largely as three rods: two make up vertical columns and snap together. Another one (called part "C") makes the horizontal columns and you have two of these per panel (one attaches to part "A" and the other part "B"). These parts are metal with a plastic shim. Using the wood screws to attach to part "C" is a real pain in the neck. There's not much holding the panel in place so it's a little tricky. One tactic I've found while I'm assembling that works for the initial connections from parts A and B to their respective "C" rods is to hold the screw in place with a screw driver and then rotating the rod around the screw. This will do a number on your hands if you aren't wearing gloves. This obviously doesn't work when completing the connection. Using a driller driver on this is really near impossible because there isn't anything you can use to secure it in place. You can use it on the first panel, but as it gets longer, it becomes increasingly difficult and because it isn't wood, it's really tight. I considered drilling larger pilot holes but since there are only 4x4=16 screws I need to screw in, I just decided to use my screw driver to complete it. 2. Also related to assembly. When completing the panels (attaching parts "A" and "B" to parts "C" that have the cloth cover on it), you have to be careful that when you tighten that side that it isn't loosening the other side. Because the pilot holes are so tight, you can end up rotating the rod, which rotates it in the same direction as looser on the original side. Having someone hold the "C" rod in place while you screw it in is probably the easiest approach. I didn't have a 2nd person, so I just had to keep flipping back and forth and tightening both sides as I screwed it in. Not the worlds biggest deal, but annoying nonetheless. 3. The way the instructions are written, they seem to suggest building this thing progressively; that is, you do panel 1, then 2, connect them together, then do 3 and connect it, etc. I took a different route that I suspect saved me quite a bit of trouble, and I assembled all four panels first and THEN connected everything together. 4. For the love of God make sure you check that the plastic tip is on the same side for every panel. Otherwise, you have to take one side apart again and reverse it. On the bright side, if this happens, you've essentially bored out the pilot holes to be the correct size... which is having me question if I shouldn't have just bored them out to the appropriate width in the first place. 5. Attaching all of the panels together is also an enormous pain in the ass unless you happen to have an 88" long elevated surface. Attaching the legs either requires you to elevate one side, which will invariably twist the inexplicably cheap material in the bottom connectors... or you can attach them sideways... or you can put this thing upright, having two people hold the panels in place while you use the allen wrench to tighten the bolts on the underside. None of those are particularly great options. NOW on to the utility itself. 1. The panels do let some light through (I didn't believe their advertising, and that was one of the reasons that I bought beige, is that I wanted it to not be too dark). They aren't transparent though, so it isn't that far off from their description. They functionally work great, and keep the mess of wires hidden and when I'm sitting at my desk, actually reflect quite a bit of light into my office. Great! 2. My wife has described these as "the most hideous piece of furniture ever conceived of by man." So it does not have spouse approval factor. Granted, she will seldom be in my office area, so that isn't the end of the world. 3. These are really hard to align in a way that doesn't look a little tacky. There are some plastic connectors but they don't do a bang up job of keeping these in place. Each panel is slightly tilted and it's... quite obvious. I may at some point make my own improvements to these to help make them more level. It's not a particularly expensive product so I wasn't expecting much so it's fine and I'm not going to ding them on the rating because of it. All said, would I buy this product again? Probably not. It's assembly was ~90 minutes which is about 75 minutes longer than I was anticipating spending on this (not including the 5 minute writeup that I'm doing here). But am I going to return it? Also no, if for no other reason I'd be just as annoyed taking it apart and putting it in the original box to return it.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
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Barbara McCloud
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 5
Nice and strong
Color: Black, Size: Wheel-6 Panel
Nice and strong, tedious, putting together, but very good quality
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2026
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Al Tompkins
Massapequa, US
★★★★★ 5
if you are going to be moving them a lot, buy something more sturdy.
Color: Black, Size: Wheel-6 Panel
I use these at our churchc. They are pretty good, not terribly study and the screw that hold the faabric have pulled out in a couple of places. But they wqould work especially well if you were not constantly moving them as we do. They are a bit of a pain to assemble.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2026

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