So it has been a really long time since my last post about our French Pottery. Well it has finally made it to the US. It has been the most difficult time have every encountered. Besides the ever rising Euro, the French ports went on strike at one point and made transportation difficult. So it finally makes it across the ocean and end up in the mouth of the Mississippi River and wouldn’t you know that a accident took place…the river get closed the day we are to unload.

A week goes by and Houston needs up with our container. Of course now we have to hire another shipper to transport it via trucking to New Orleans. I am glad to say that Tuesday Morning August 5, 2008 we will finally receive a shipment that we placed in March 2007.

Life is always a great adventure….

Angel Pottery from Anduze

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This is for the gardener looking for perfection. These shears make prune almost fun. Slicing through new growth, soft foliage or wet material is one of the most demanding tasks for a cutting tool. It is in effect a specialist job. It’s no good expecting secateurs to do it – they were designed specifically to cut through woody material and will just chew up anything soft, leaving ragged, unsightly AND unhealthy edges.

These shears, with their razor sharp blades will slice through soft stuff like butter and what’s more, they’ll keep doing it long after other similar tools have blunted.

This design of shear (developed from sheep shears) is particularly good for Topiary because:the grip position places the hands right over the blades giving maximum possible cutting control – essential for precious topiary shapes.and the single handed operation leaves one hand free to ‘fluff up’ the foliage
Burgon & Ball Topiary & Garden Shears are also ideal for lawn edging, dead heading, opening compost sacks, cutting wet pond weed and dozens of other trimming jobs around the garden.

Burgon & Ball shears out perform any others of similar design by miles – here’s how and why - insert anatomy of a shear!!

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Garden Gate advertises all the time and we finally decided to make our own TV commercial. We were only able to pull this off because our website guru is also a film guru. He did an awesome job and it truly is a piece of art.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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So over the past few months, we have had some computer issues. I guess you could say it all started with a fire this passed January and it all went downhill from that point. The fire trigger a server disaster and it has been a rough run since that point.

So we have been working on getting all the data back and even our backups were affected. So I have lost about a year of blogs but no big deal. I will just make up for all the lost info.

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