Burgon & Ball - British Meadow Garden Snip – Precision Harvesting with Heritage Style

Burgon & Ball British Meadow Garden Snip – Precision Harvesting with Heritage Style

A practical and useful gift for any gardener, this pair of snips is endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society, perhaps the ultimate recognition in gardening. These high-quality scissor-action garden snips combine professional performance with a celebration of nature, making them an essential addition to any gardening toolkit.

Best For: Gardeners and florists who require a reliable, high-precision cutting tool for harvesting, deadheading, and detailed pruning of soft to medium-tough stems.

Key Features

• RHS Endorsed Excellence: These snips carry the official endorsement of the Royal Horticultural Society, a mark of superior quality and performance in the horticultural world.
• Precision Scissor Action: The pointed blade tips allow for surgical accuracy, making it easy to isolate and cut specific stems in dense foliage or floral displays.
• Rust-Resistant Stainless Steel: Crafted with high-quality stainless steel blades, ensuring long-lasting sharpness, rust resistance, and easy cleaning for optimal hygiene.
• Ergonomic & Stylish: Features uniquely-colored handles designed to coordinate with the British Meadow heritage pattern, providing a comfortable and controlled grip.
• Sustainable Gifting: Presented in a plastic-free, fully recyclable gift box made from engineered cardboard, making it a perfect gift for the eco-conscious gardener.

Specifications

• Brand: Burgon & Ball
• Overall Length: 19cm
• Blade Material: Stainless steel
• Weight: 120g
• Design: British Meadow (Illustrations from 1815)

Ideal For (Uses)

• Flower Harvesting: Perfect for cutting fresh stems from the garden for vases, ensuring a clean cut that helps flowers stay hydrated longer.
• Fruit & Vegetable Picking: Use the sharp blades to harvest tomatoes, peppers, or grapes without damaging the delicate vines or branches.
• Detailed Deadheading: Ideal for removing spent blossoms from smaller plants like pansies, petunias, or native meadow flowers to encourage re-blooming.
• Floristry & Crafting: A must-have tool for arranging bouquets or creating dried flower crafts, offering much more control than standard kitchen scissors.

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.