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lawn & garden
Portable power supply
extends productivity
A new portable battery pack to support Makita cordless equipment guarantees long run times and extra comfort and convenience thanks to a fully adjustable and detachable harness.
The PDC01 backpack weighs just 1.7kg and uses four Lithium-ion batteries to provide longer run time for LXT and LXT X2 tools, providing four times the runtime on 18V products and double the runtime on 36V products. Meanwhile, the backpack power supply is connector cord compatible with Makita’s 18V LXT adapter or 18V X2 LXT adapter.
Additional features include an LED battery charge indicator that allows monitoring of charge on all four batteries individually. The battery box can also be detached from the harness for use
as a stationary power supply and the durable housing with base allows the pack to stand upright.
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Cut through with new
GARDENA loppers
GARDENA’s comprehensive new premium range of loppers includes the classic, hardworking EasyCut design, extendable telescopic TeleCut models (above), and the new geared EnergyCut tools for demanding cutting tasks.
All the new models are designed with aluminium handles to be lightweight but also strong and robust, with good ergonomics and comfort, while delivering outstanding performance and precise cutting that is gentle on plants.
Quality materials, with precision-ground, non-stick blades and ergonomically shaped aluminium handles with soft, non-slip grips mean gardeners will enjoy greater comfort, reduced fatigue and safe work.
With bypass and anvil models throughout, the range also includes a unique new SlimCut pruning lopper, specially designed for hard to reach places, dense undergrowth or shrubbery, or unfriendly plants. With a long, height-adjustable handle and integrated gear for more power with less effort, SlimCut offers versatile, year-round cutting solutions.
GARDENA’s new loppers come with a 25-year warranty.
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Colourful Calibrachoa trio
Zealandia’s trio of spring new releases are all from the Calibrachoa (Million Bells) family and are suitable in the garden or to add a splash of colour to patio pots, window planters or hanging baskets.
Calibrachoa Can-Can Bumble Bee Pink “Tricolour Marvel”
(above left) is the first Calibrachoa with a coloured eye that bleeds into a star pattern. It’s bred to have a compact nature that becomes adorned with masses of unique, eye-catching blooms which are
sure to create a showstopping display. As the long flowering blooms expire, they dry and fall, making this a self-cleaning variety which will even continue to flower even through periods of low light.
striking orange star-patterned flowers, provides an intense tropical feel. A reasonably vigorous growing plant which can cover a good area making it perfect for hanging baskets, the flowers will produce over a long period all over the plant from spring through to autumn.
Calibrachoa Cabrio Eclipse Lilac “Subtly striking” (above right) produces striking flowers with a dark purple centre which contrasts with its pale lilac outer petals. A beautiful compact growing plant, it forms a mound which can trail when used in hanging baskets. The flowers are produced all over the plant, creating high impact colour for contrast in mixed plantings, as well as on its own.
Calibrachoa Callie Star Orange “New Star on the Block”, with its
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