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Petal-soft hands for gardeners from Crabtree & Evelyn

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You can often recognize gardeners by their hands. Rough. Dry. A little dirt under the fingernails.

$_57-1Crabtree & Evelyn has a line of products designed to deal with this thorny dilemma. The Gardeners Collection enables lovers of the soil to exult in the garden while nurturing their hands and nails.

You don’t have to give up your green thumb to have petal-soft hands. Gardeners Ultra Moisturizing Hand Formula gives back what an afternoon working the trowel takes away.

This intense cream is recommended for anyone with dry skin, even if they don’t dig around in the dirt. The formula includes conditioning shea butter, cleansing cucumber extract, purifying rosemary extract and refreshing sage extract. There’s also macadamia nut oil to moisturise and soften weary hands. Myrrh conditions nails and cuticles.

It comes in a variety of sizes, from an 8-gram tube you can tuck in your jeans pocket to a generous, 250 gram pump bottle you can keep in the potting shed. Prices range from $8-$30.

The collection also includes packets of restorative muscle soaks, liquid hand soap, and keratin-rich cream for nails and cuticles. Gardeners’ Hand Scrub with Pumice ($22) exfoliates the skin while gently washing away soil, leaving you with skin smooth enough for an English garden party.

 

Tour Brandywine Cottage gardens

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The best way to learn about gardening is to experience the gardens of other plant lovers.

Content_Event_2014_BrandywineCottageGreatGardensThe Delaware Center for Horticulture nurtures that pursuit through Learning from Great Gardens, a special series that treats guests to sublime strolls through wondrous private gardens. Your guides are the ultimate authority, the gardeners who created these marvels of nature.

Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pa., is the two-acre private garden of David Culp and is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Garden Archives. Culp is a celebrated gardener and author of “The Layered Garden.” He teaches at Longwood Gardens, is an expert in snowdrops and is creator of the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores. He serves on Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Gold Medal Plant Selection Committee. And he is crazy about tulips.

The tour takes place 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 30, starting at DCH in Wilmington. Rain or shine. Space ion the shuttle to Brandywine Cottage is limited, so register early. Cost is $60 for DCH members, $80 for nonmembers,

DCH’s series continue to bloom with Open Space, Sweeping Beds on May 21, and Urban Collector’s Dream on June 25.  Sign up for the monthly E-News mailing list to learn more about this and other events at DCH, where wonderful ideas are always growing.