Haws Watering Cans

When it comes to watering cans for your garden, nothing beats a Haws - plain and simple. I avoided buying one for years thinking it was a purist coup. I finally received one as a gift many years ago and came to the realization that I was resisting for no reason. This watering can design is amazing. Simple to fill and carry around the house or the yard due to the design, and the various attachments make it perfect for delicate flowers or new seedlings.

Over one hundred years ago in 1885 John Haws of Clapton, London obtained a patent for an improved watering pot. John Haws first worked out his improved design and method of manufacture from a French made waterpot (or can as they are now called) and designed a can with perfect balance. Whether full, half full or empty the can could be used without undue strain to the operator.

To this day, the original design has not been altered in any major way.
As watering was all done by hand in those days, there was a clear need for a good range of watering cans and the new Haws models found a ready market. Sales were buoyant both to the large glasshouse nurseries being established around London and the large provincial cities, and to professional gardeners on the landed estates flourishing throughout Great Britain.

When John Haws’ descendant Arthur Haws took over the management of the business in the early 1900s he faced stiff competition from companies imitating the Haws design. To meet it he spent a good deal of time perfecting the design of the roses, both oval and round, such that they were suitable for watering newly sown seeds, delicate seedlings and small plants. This feature of Haws cans also remains as important now as it was then.

Today, Haws’ comprehensive range of watering cans continues to offer new innovations (pot watering attachments and parking points for roses are recent examples) as well as utilizing the many excellent design features of the original models.

I have several of these now, even a plastic one. If you are a serious gardener or you know one, I would call this a must have! They have several price points to fit anyone's budget and you cannot go wrong.