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Monday, December 10, 2007
Holiday Shopping
by Lisa Newman, Art Director
I enjoy shopping at two types of stores-- gourmet grocery and cooking supply stores and nursery and garden stores. So faced with the holidays I rethought the gift giving options and tried to find presents that would would be fun to give and would keep me out of the mall and in the shops I enjoy visiting.
A few of the solutions:
Customized "mini-gardens". Grab a low container and create a mini-garden that also doubles as a table centerpiece. This little garden will live throughout the winter and will happily make the trip outside come spring.
Plant bulbs in a container and provide instructions for how to force these bulbs indoors. A great way for friend to enjoy midwinter blooms and bulbs for the next season.
Mail-order presents. I ordered items from catalogs and web sites, including plants and shrubs for planting next season. I created cards with the images clipped or downloaded from the catalogs and created a collage of the plants that will be shipped to them as they are ready.
If you're still looking for a great source of gifts for gardners, head to the botanical garden shops at your local botanical garden or visit on-line sites for botanical gardens around the country.
And if friends are reading this entry-- I'm hoping for a hand saw for pruning. And always plants, new plants and seeds for next year.
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12/10/2007 1:08:19 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Comments [1]
12/19/2007 4:59:05 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
The "mini gardens" are a good idea but too many people will stuff unrelated plants with different needs into a "dish garden." Plants kicking the bucket in a dish garden have to be my number most emailed problem.
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