A graceful, unique and practical addition to your landscape, completely handcrafted in Santa Cruz, California.

This garden border system is hand-forged from 1/2" wrought iron, and adapts to a wide variety of landscaping styles -- it will work as well with a Southwestern desert landscape as an English country garden.

Sticky Wickets are easy to work with because they are based on a very simple concept -- each wicket is a hoop, similar to a croquet wicket (hence the name, of course!), punched through with a specially-designed hole. Each wicket passes through the next, creating a very strong, linked-chain effect. Installation instructions ar further down this page.

Sticky Wickets adapt easily to even tight curves, and with the addition of corner and decorative end units, provide a finished look for any landscape application.

Installed properly, the wickets lock together to create a border that is extremely strong and stable -- sturdy enough to keep a hose from dragging across plantings, or encourage pets and children to stay out of flowerbeds.

Sticky Wickets are available in three lengths. For more information on heights see below, in our price list.

The basic finish is basic black iron, coated with a protective polymer sealer. The wickets can be left as is, in which case they will eventually oxidize and age to a rusty red-brown, or the sealer also acts as a protective base coat for painting to match your landscape's color scheme.

Since they are basically unprotected steel, the lIfespan of polymer-sealed wickets left unpainted will vary between ten and one hundred years, according to your climate and the moisture content of the soil in which they are embedded.

We also offer Sticky Wickets with a matte-silver galvanized finish. The galvanized style carries a lifetime guarantee, because this process protects the wickets against rust and corrosion. Galvanized wickets can also be painted to match your color scheme.

If you plan to paint your wickets, we recommend that you wait until after installation, or at least plan to touch them up, as some paint will chip during the installation process.