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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) 
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sentimental
by Lisa Newman, Art Director
I was walking around the garden this morning. Something I do most mornings. Coffee in hand. Amos and Chester (my labs) at my side. I note the plants, see what’s blooming, think about what changes I might like to make. Take stock. Just take it all in before the day gets going.
I realized this morning how many memories are attached to everything in the garden. There’s the spot, once vacant, where my dad and I stood the first time he came to see my new house. A lilac planted in his memory now stands there. The stonewall started by visiting friends—wobbly but irreplaceable. Fritallaria planted one fall by a friend as a surprise to cheer me the next spring. The tiny but growing maple rescued from the family house by my brother. Its parent was a tree given to my mother by her mother, which was too large to remove when we sold that house. Plants given to me to start my garden by friends, all gifts from their own gardens. Empty spaces of now-gone plants mistakenly weeded by children eager to help and too cherished to scold.
I’m sure that your garden is also full all of these kinds of memories. We all just need to look beyond the plants and the hardscape to remember how everything found its home in our garden.
There are so many other spots, plants, places that hold wonderful memories. While I love the garden itself, I’m realizing how much more is living and loveable in that space I call my garden.
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12/4/2007 9:37:23 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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