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Japanese Hand Pruners

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Japanese Hand Pruners (Secateurs) are professional quality tools that have a very deep history in Japan. Japanese gardens have been developing for over a thousand year and along with that the precise tools to get the job done have also developed. These razor sharp blades are used in the finest world famous Japanese gardens. Hand pruners made in Japan definitely give other companies like Felco a run for their money. If you are tired of using the same old pruners Read More

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: History and Analysis of the First Sunflower Series (August, 1888)

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Painted in roughly one week at the end of August 1888, the original series of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers were intended as inspirational and decorative pieces for his “yellow house” in Arles, France. In preparation for painter Paul Gauguin’s arrival later in the year, Van Gogh wanted his house and his paintings to reflect the extra-luminous, mysterious color palette he found in the surrounding countryside of Arles and the Mediterranean Sea: “The Mediterranean has the colors of mackerel, changeable I mean. Read More