Garden hoses are one of my (many) irritations. I occasionally try and persuade himself to buy a very expensive one - I could always go and do this myself of course but garden hoses are in the same category as the various wheelie bins and remain, his responsibility.
Having typed that, I feel slightly ashamed and will take myself off to the very good garden centre, rather than B&Q and buy a proper one. The staff at the (rather expensive) good garden centre are very helpful. We have an ordinary hose pipe on a circular thing, from B&Q which as annsixty says, it's light and (relatively) easy to use, but it catches on absolutely everything and easily kinks. It's also very tedious to keep turning the rolling thing to tidy the hose up after use.