Haws Fazeley Flow Copper Watering Can

Haws has been making watering cans in Birmingham since 1886. That’s not a marketing claim — it’s a simple fact that most of their competitors can’t come close to matching. When a company has been refining the same object for 140 years, the result tends to be very good.

The Fazeley Flow is their indoor can. One pint capacity, solid copper, curved spout that angles downward for accurate pouring from the first drop. No drips. No splash. Just water going exactly where you point it.

The copper

This is the thing that separates it from everything else on the market. Copper is a genuinely unusual material choice for a watering can — it’s more expensive, harder to work, and requires more care than galvanised steel or plastic. Haws uses it anyway, and the reason is obvious the moment you pick one up.

New, it has that warm rosy-gold colour of polished copper. Used regularly, it develops a patina — a softening, a darkening in the recesses, a surface that starts to record its own history. You can polish it back to bright if you prefer. Or you can let it go, and in a few years you’ll have something that looks genuinely old and genuinely beautiful on a shelf.

The copper sheet is formed and soldered by hand. The seams are tight. The handle has a slight curve that makes it comfortable to hold even when the can is full — at a litre of water, full is about a kilogram, which is enough weight that balance matters.

The spout

The long, curved spout is the functional centrepiece. It angles down gradually so that the water stream is already moving downward when it leaves the tip — this means no initial splashing, no overwatering, no collateral damage to the leaves of the plant next to the one you’re trying to water. You get a direct stream, nothing else.

I use this for houseplants on a narrow windowsill where everything is too close together. Being able to place water precisely at the base of a stem, without disturbing anything else, is genuinely useful. Most watering cans make this difficult. This one makes it easy.

Practicalities

At one pint (0.6 litres), it’s deliberately small. This is an indoor can, sized for the kind of watering you do on a kitchen windowsill or a collection of pots in a living room — not for hauling across a garden. The size is also part of why it works: a smaller can is easier to control, easier to pour accurately, and easier to store somewhere visible where you’ll actually use it.

Haws backs it with a five-year guarantee. Given that the object is solid copper with no moving parts, that feels like understatement.

Materials: Solid copper sheet, polished finish
Capacity: 1 pint (0.6 litres)
Made in: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Care: Polish occasionally with copper cleaner; or allow to patina naturally