BellaOnline Forums Home and Garden Gardening Attention, holiday shoppers!

Can you believe the holidays are just around the corner? What are you getting for the gardeners in your life? Or, as a gardener, what would you like to receive this year?

I love to make gift baskets for people for christmas. You can adapt that to the gardeners in your life. I put in packets of special seeds, tools, gloves, fancy plant markers, whatever I see that I think is cute for my gardening friends.

I also like to get landscaping or plants books for my mom. She loves them.

Gardening magazine subscriptions are nice. I used to get them for my husbands grandmother. I love getting magazines in the mail!

Don't forget lovely evocative summery garden books for those long winter evenings some folks have!

I love DH Lawrence (Sons and Lovers - pretty, flowery,wildlife appreciation)

Hardy of course, and as a reminder of the harder work - Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

Siobhain (new Short Stories editor and gardening fanatic! - heaven is .... reading, or writing! ..... in .... the garden of course!) Hi all.

PS Compost article - I always throw a rowelf full of dirt in with each load of new compost - apparently adds lots of lovely microbes to get it going!

I love the gift basket idea! I'll try that for my mom, who is an avid gardener. In fact, I just bought some soaps that were scented in lemon, rosemary and chamomile that would work great in a basket.

Does anyone have a recommendation on magazines? there are so many out there.

Great ideas, Sue and Joan! I love gift baskets.

Hi Siobhain, welcome!

Green1 - As for recommended gardening magazines, are you looking for some general, beginner types or specific types of gardens or climates? That might help to narrow it down a bit.

My mom lives in Oregon and has been gardening a long time. I know she likes magazines with lots of pictures and landscaping ideas.

HI,

Can you recommend some good sites for getting seeds, bulbs etc. I live in Canada where this time of year there isn't much in the way of gardening stuff on the market.

Re: Gardening magazines ... I'd recommend Fine Gardening and Garden Design - two of my favorites.

Carennedy - try Salt Spring Seeds

Hi!

I'd like any or all of the above for Christmas, lol!

One neat present to give is a bag of wildflower (or other) seeds, with some garden tools, in a pretty basket. It's like getting three gifts in one--the seeds, the tools, and the basket!

I am starting to plan my spring and summer garden now--maybe I should show my husband this topic as a hint for Christmas ideas...!