| p>If your friends or family members are | | | | plantings. If they grow vegetables a small tiller or |
| gardeners, you will never run out of gift ideas for | | | | a new hoe with an ergonomic handle design will be |
| special occasions. The only problem will be deciding | | | | a winner. For a man who loves the garden as an |
| what gardening tool or accessory to buy. We | | | | observer, a hammock is a great choice. |
| think of gardens in connection with spring and | | | | Need a house warming gift? How about a gift |
| summer but there are garden gifts suitable for | | | | certificate from a garden center to help the new |
| any season of the year. Customizing the gift to | | | | homeowners buy landscape plants? Tuck the gift |
| suit the interests and personality of the gardener | | | | certificate into an envelope and slide it into a book |
| guarantees a gift your friend will cherish and use. | | | | of landscape designs. For a truly unusual house |
| Someone who loves roses will appreciate a pair of | | | | warming gift in the spring, show up with a steel |
| rose shears to cut the blooms and strip the | | | | garden wagon loaded with bags of peat and top |
| thorns. If you want think bigger, put together a | | | | soil and perhaps a spade or shovel. |
| rose bucket. Buy a colorful enamel bucket (not | | | | Summer gifts could include gardening books, |
| too large) that is suitable for placing roses in as | | | | garden stools and high quality gloves or even |
| they are cut. Fill the bright bucket with a thorn | | | | gardening boots for a daughter or niece and don't |
| stripper, pruning shears, rose food and a spray | | | | forget such possibilities as benches, fire pits and |
| bottle of insecticidal soap. Another option is a | | | | bird baths or feeders. For many people their |
| popular classic potted rose already in bloom. Stick | | | | garden is an extension of their home so anything |
| a trowel and thorn stripper into the pot and add a | | | | that contributes to the enjoyment of the garden |
| small packet of rose food. Wrap the pot in a | | | | or the wildlife in it will be appreciated. |
| circular piece of landscape fabric used to thwart | | | | Fall gifts are some of the most fun gifts to |
| weeds. | | | | choose. The variety of flower bulbs available in |
| In cold climates, winter is a frustrating time for | | | | the fall is amazing and the pictures on the boxes |
| dedicated gardeners. Houseplants just aren't the | | | | of bulbs are enough to make anyone dream of a |
| same as colorful blooms and a gardener will | | | | flower filled garden oasis. Choose bulbs in groups |
| always enjoy a gift basket of narcissus bulbs, a | | | | of 3 or 5 and keep each group in a separate small |
| shallow decorative plantar and the gravel to plant | | | | mesh bag with instructions enclosed. Pile the bulbs |
| those bulbs. Six weeks later when the delicate | | | | into a good sized basket with a handle adding a |
| white flowers appear, your gardening friend will | | | | trowel or bulb planter and a package of bulb food. |
| thank you again for the lovely Christmas gift. | | | | Tuck in a set of plant stakes that can be used to |
| Garden gifts for men will depend on whether they | | | | label where bulbs are planted and you have a |
| focus on gardening, care for a pond or water | | | | great gift for any gardener in any region of the |
| feature or fuss about their grass and landscape | | | | country. |