When water is short sprinklers are wasteful – and illegal, too, in some areas. These easy-to-use devices make what water there is go further in the garden.
Helen Yemm’s favourite, the NuCan, is the world’s only push-button watering can. This blindingly simple idea gives you complete control – water flows at the speed you want, and where you want, i.e. to the base of the plant, rather than sloshing around, £15.99 inc p&p (01983 537 408; miraclewateringcans.com).