I remember 2 years ago when I needed a new garden hose

I bought two 100' hoses from Costco when I bought house in 2000. I've kept one in front and one in back, outside, in the elements, under the sun this whole time, and they're both still going strong.

I have cut one down to a 75' and a 25' and put quality brass barbed ends on them and secured them with stainless lacing wire hose clamps and covered with adhesive lined heat shrink tubing

I don't know their country of origin, but to me, their quality was obvious. The hose is made of a dense, flexible vinyl, reinforced with nylon threads, and the factory ends are thick brass.

I've also tried some of that highly flexible, jacketed hose. I've tried both the expanding kind and non expanding kind. They are sure easier to roll up or coil up, but don't get them near any blackberry or lemon or bougainvillea, or any thorn producing vegetation. The hose will eventually lose every time. I usually cut it at the puncture and either make two hoses out of it or just one shorter hose if the puncture is close to the end.

It's good to keep on hand some reusable hose ends. I like solid brass, and I make my own hose clamps with my homemade tool that is also commercially available from various makers. Mine looks like this:



The other pic is of the wire clamps in action. Thats 5/16" tubing (1/16" larger than the plugs) full of water being plugged with 1/4" smooth shanks under pressure of me coiling and folding and squeezing to create as much pressure as I could. The little bit of water that's visible on the wrong side of the clamp was from the filling process