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LangleyAdvance | Friday, November 19, 2010 A29
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Gifts practically pretty create year-round structure that’s enhanced if they become moss-covered. But you do need to know your gardener. My sister has a rabbit-plagued garden, and her sense of humour would be severely tested if she received a concrete rabbit. For small-space gardeners, ornamental pots for houseplants or gardens are easily found. Matching pots in small, medium, or large sizes add design possibilities to the gift. On the practical side, trowels are usually welcome, especially as different tasks need different shapes. The business end can be wide, narrow, shallow, deeply indented, or pointed. All are valuable, including long-handled trowels which make planting easier for aging backs. Gardening gloves tend to go missing, and gloves for the dominant hand eventually self-destruct. Botanus offers a Dig This glove that’s sturdily reinforced with leather at the fingers. It’s flexible, and strapped at the wrist. Lee Valley Foxgloves’ are lighter and excellent for subtle fingering work. Both block soil particles and are machine washable. But people with large and varied gardens could also use leather rose (or bramble) gloves, long, rubber pond gloves, and rugged thorn-proof gloves.
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For winter gardening, a wool beret or tie-on ski hat can keep light rain off the head for long periods. Cowichan wool toques are especially useful for warmth and rain resistance. New gardeners might like a varied gift basket of small items, including hand cream, magnifying glass (to identify tiny pests), a mister (ornamental if possible), Velcro plant ties, copper
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ardeners given beautiful and practical Christmas gifts that can count themselves lucky. Metal or wooden obelisks, for instance are lovely in themselves, and enlarge garden space by making vertical plantings possible. Some artisans can make fascinating things out of wrought iron. In a North Vancouver garden, I saw a gate made from old garden tools on an iron-rail base. Gardeners with few places for climbing plants will welcome an arch or a trellis that’s good-looking by itself in winter, and a home for beautiful summer vines. Wooden birdhouses are found in craft fairs as well as some garden centres. The funky little structures are eye-catching and useful in any garden – provided they have clean-out access and a hole of a size that local bird species will accept. Few bird feeders are pretty – but the feathered clients they attract put on an ever-changing show. Squirrels are a feeder problem, although squirrel-resistant feeders can be found. Unfortunately, nothing protects feeders from bears. In bear country, feeders should be put outside only while bears are hibernating. Birdbaths are pretty and useful. Concrete animals are not useful, but they do
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slug tape, and perhaps some tiny tools for houseplant gardening or seedlings. A garden magazine might be an especially nice touch. The gift basket could always be a gift bucket. Gardeners use buckets in many ways: weeding, harvesting, storing soil amendments, and transporting several tools at once to the action zone. Like compost, one never has enough buckets.
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