Highcliffe Touch Leather Gardening Gloves, Extra Large | Touchscreen Compatible | Notable badger

There's a particular kind of gardening admin that only happens in the cold: checking a weather app before you commit to going outside, glancing at a sowing reminder, taking a photo of the first frost on the cloches. All of it usually means peeling a glove off, doing the thing on your phone, and putting the glove back on with cold fingers. These gloves solve that specific, small, recurring annoyance, and do a proper job of keeping your hands warm and protected while they're at it.

The Highcliffe Touch gloves are built from leather, with a soft fleece lining that makes a genuine difference once the temperature drops. Late autumn sowing, winter pruning, digging over beds before the ground hardens, all the jobs that don't stop just because it's cold, get noticeably more bearable with a proper lining between your hands and the weather. The palm is durable and built for grip, so you're not sacrificing dexterity or control for warmth.

The detail that sets these apart is in the fingertips. They're touch sensor compatible, which means you can unlock your phone, check a message, or snap a photo of whatever's just come up in the garden without stopping to strip a glove off first.

This extra large size, a size 12, is the roomiest fit in the range, built for larger hands that need the extra length and width across the palm. It's still designed to sit close enough to keep the fleece lining working properly, rather than gaping loosely and letting the cold in around the cuff, so you get the space without losing the warmth or the grip.

Whether you're gardening through a British winter, walking the dog on a frosty morning, or just want a pair of gloves that keep your hands warm without cutting you off from your phone, these earn their place by the back door.