The use of smart technology in the garden is increasing (Photo: Getty)
The use of smart garden technology is increasing, with everyone grabbing experienced gardeners as enthusiasts.
Grow kits allow you to plant fresh tomatoes in a cramped single layer, apps can help keep you on top of irrigation and robotic spider planters ensure that your indoor putting green thrives in the sun …
Here are some of the best garden tools for your home:
Floating Lyfe plants
If your home is as full of equipment as plants, the Flyten Lyfe seeder is the perfect product to bring your two avocations together.
The minimalist 12-sided vase floats spectacularly and rotates above the cut oak base.
Not only does it convince your visitors that you are some kind of wizard, but it also provides your greenery with a steady exposure to light.
£ 213.99, Amazon
Click & Grow’s Smart 9
Perhaps our favorite tool in this summary, Click & Grow’s Smart 9 is an innovative self-growing garden that allows you to grow your own food indoors year-round thanks to integrated (albeit blinding) pro-lights and innovative self-irrigation.
It’s easy to install, looks like something from a sci-fi movie, and offers a huge number of planting options. Our basil, lettuce and tomatoes are doing well.
£ 175.54, eu.clickandgrow.com
Hexa
And now for the most creepy. Perhaps not one for arachnophobes, Hexa is a six-legged field robot that doubles as a plant pot.
Sit in the bush at the top of a freak-looking gadget like a kind of leaf hat and Hexa automatically switches to sunshine when needed and retreats into the shade when it’s enough.
It also notifies you when it has run out of water by hitting your feet. Certainly not one of the scary ones.
£ 769, vincross.com
Netatmo weather station
The Netatmon Weather Station has recently been updated to be compatible with Apple’s HomeKit and Amazon Alexa, and is an all-in-one solution for closely tracking important data such as temperature, humidity and pollution from your smartphone.
As such, it helps you care for your plants more effectively – if it’s too humid, for example, you know it’s time to shower your greenery with a leaf-cooling mist.
£ 122.93, amazon.co.uk
VegTrug Grow Care Garden
Smart sensors take the stress out of garden maintenance, and this is our favorite.
Simply plant the cane in an elevated bed or outdoors and with built-in Bluetooth connectivity, real-time data is sent directly to your smartphone – everything from soil moisture and fertility to temperature and light intensity.
£ 30, robertdyas.co.uk
Gardena Smart Water Control
If you are away from home for a long time, Gardena’s Smart Water Control is the device for you.
An inconspicuous system automatically controls the watering of outdoor plants, ensuring that shrubs are always properly watered.
£ 144.95, worldofwatering.co.uk
Polk Audio Atrium garden system
Scientists claim that plants thrive as music plays, so Polk Audio has created a state-of-the-art speaker system that can be planted in the garden.
It withstands harsh weather, extreme temperatures and the harshest conditions, while producing high quality sound for great outdoor activities.
£ 404, en.polkaudio.com
Stihl iMow
Stihl’s iMow series is another for the busy (or lazy) gardener.
The robotic lawnmower not only helps your yard look its best, but also ensures it is well-groomed.
It crushes the grass clippings finely and lets them fall onto the lawn to act as an effective fertilizer, helping to provide vital nutrition.
Starting at £ 999, stihl.co.uk
Lua Smart Planter
If you’re a 90s kid who fondly remembers Tamagotchi and you want to turn your black thumb green, the Lua Smart Drill is the device for you.
The pet-like plant pan, available at Indiegogo, lets you know how the bush feels: its built-in LCD display can show 15 feelings of ‘happy’ when it has plenty of water and natural light, ‘vampire’. when it has not been exposed to sufficient sunlight.
£ 87, indiegogo.com
Botanical
One of the most futuristic-looking devices on our list, the Wall-E-style Botanium is a self-watering planter that’s great access to growing herbs and vegetables in your garden.
Fill a minimalistly designed self-irrigating planter on a ‘growing medium’, plug it into a power supply, and you can easily start growing herbs and vegetables – be it coriander or cherry tomatoes – with their innovative growth technology.
£ 79.99, suttons.co.uk
Brabantia
If Botanium sounds like too hard work, the Brabantia regrow kit makes growing vegetables even easier.
You don’t even need seeds to get moving – just fill the pot with water, fill the floating supplement with leftovers from vegetables you’ve already chopped – whether it’s chili or onions – and voila, you have your own small amount.
€ 22.95, amazon.co.uk
Dowsing & Reynolds Moss wall panel
If your home is traditionally a place where plants go to death, why not buy a plant that is already dead?
It’s not as gloomy as its sounds, as the Dowsing & Reynolds Moss wall panel looks impressive stylish not only for plants that don’t live – moss is harvested and stored, which puts it to sleep – but also maintenance-free so no watering or maintenance is required.
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