Worth a moment to think about which design suits where you're going to put it:

Ball tops — quietly classical

• 40mm Ball — the smaller, more delicate ball top
• 70mm Ball — chunkier, more architecturally present

Geometric and architectural

• Star, Celtic Star, Celtic Circle — clean, formal designs that suit considered planting
• Ring, Horse Shoe, FishTail Ring — open shapes that catch light through them

Classical and decorative

• Flute, Basket — properly traditional finial forms
• Cup, Shell, Moon — gentle decorative shapes with a touch of folk character

Architectural finials

• Finale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — six different ornamental finial designs, each with its own architectural character. Particularly suited to formal or country-house style gardens

Wildlife silhouettes

• Bird, Bee, Butterfly, Dragonfly — flying creatures, classic cottage garden visitors
• Frog, Lizard, Tortoise, Seahorse, Fish — ground-and-water creatures, more playful

The wildlife silhouettes are particularly lovely for pollinator gardens (bee, butterfly, dragonfly), pond-side planting (frog, dragonfly, fish), or children's gardens (any of the more whimsical designs).

Despite the decorative tops, these are genuine plant supports — useful for the small everyday jobs where a single stake makes the difference:

• Supporting a single peony stem after rain — the ball or finial top sits at flower height as a discreet visual prop
• Holding up a wayward delphinium or foxglove spike before it leans too far
• Marking a planted bulb's location through winter — particularly useful for late-emerging bulbs you might otherwise dig up by accident
• Guiding a young climber upwards before it reaches its main support
• Supporting heavy-headed annuals like dahlias, sunflowers or zinnias planted in containers
• Adding small visual interest amongst quieter planting — a single dragonfly stake amongst a hosta-and-fern bed, a moon top emerging from low salvias
• Memorial markers in a special part of the garden — particularly the Celtic motifs or bird silhouettes

• Height: Approximately 1000mm steel rod plus design top
• Width: Varies by design
• Material: Raw steel
• Finish: Designed to develop a natural rust patina outdoors
• Designs: 28 options — see the variant list above
• Use: Outdoor garden — single plant support, decorative marker, planted bulb identifier, or simply as small individual visual interest
• Made by: LV Bespoke, North Norfolk

At £12 a stake, building a small collection is properly affordable. Some thoughts on coordinated sets:

• Three matching — the same design (three bee silhouettes, three ring-tops) creates a visual rhyme amongst your planting
• Three from a theme — three pollinator silhouettes (bee, butterfly, dragonfly) for a wildlife garden; three flying creatures (bird, butterfly, dragonfly) for an open border; three water creatures (frog, fish, dragonfly) for pond-side
• A whole border — five or seven matching stakes through a longer border create proper rhythm; particularly lovely with one of the simpler tops (Star, 40mm Ball, Moon) where consistency reads as elegance
• Mixed designs along a path — a different finial top at each marker, creating a small visual story as you walk past

Worth picking up a few of your favourites at once if you're inclined. The rust patina will harmonise across the set as they age together over the same months and seasons.

The steel is supplied raw and designed to develop a natural rust patina over time, particularly outdoors. Within a few weeks they'll begin to take on a warm, mottled rust tone; over months and seasons it deepens further. The result is stakes that feel rooted in your garden rather than imposed onto it.

If you'd prefer to slow the rusting, a clear protective wax or matte lacquer applied on arrival will hold off the patina considerably. Most owners come to love the natural ageing.

The wider LV Bespoke range carries the same Norfolk-made character — pieces age beautifully alongside each other:

• Aeonium Stem Plant Support — small steel rings on slim stakes for keeping aeoniums upright (the most directly comparable other functional support)
• Heart-Shaped Plant Support — a substantial 1450mm sculptural support for climbers
• Single Glass Stake, 3D Orb Stake, Bird & Insect Stakes, Butterfly Stakes — single decorative stakes for amongst planting
• Cluster of 3 Glass/Marble, Cluster of 5 Marbles, Cluster of 5 Feature Glass, Cluster of 5 Cups or Balls — grouped and splayable cluster pieces
• Bee Drinker / Cuppy, Bird Feeding Stake — stakes with functional elements
• Decorative Crown, Bespoke Marble Steel Crown — sculptural surface pieces
• Handmade Bespoke Allium Heads — colour-finished steel allium heads, made to order
• Garden Edging — bar-and-ball Victorian-style panels

LV Bespoke is a small family business based in North Norfolk, hand-making garden features in their own workshop. They've exhibited at RHS shows and Gardeners' World Live, and were commissioned by the King's estate at Sandringham in 2022 to create a "Sea of Crowns" installation as part of Sandringham In Bloom — properly serious provenance for a small Norfolk maker. Each piece is made by hand in their workshop, designed to do its job quietly, age gracefully, and look like it belongs. We're proud to stock their work; objects with this kind of character don't come from factories, they come from somebody's careful hands.