Well, many people are having to put their thinking caps on to come up with meaningful and not-too-pricey gifts for their family and friends. For my hard-core, dirt-gardening friends, this will be the year I give a ledger from the stationary store.
I’ll date each page for a day during gardening season, and they can jot down notes - over a period of several years - that record what went on in their (garden!) beds. A nice ledger is not cheap, but it’s better than the garden journals that are sold.
Along those same lines, everyone appreciates having a place to put a printed photograph of their garden. When they take one snapshot every week during the growing season, they get a pretty good idea about bloom times for all their plants … as well as what looks good with what. So a photo album is a welcome gift.
From my website (http://www.cottagegardencompanion.com/), you can find a listing of seed companies and nurseries. You can click through to their websites and sign up for your friends to receive the seed catalogues. It just takes a bit of time. (…more for me, actually, because I have to pause and see what their seasonal offerings are … then read their newsletters … then order for me … sigh.) Obviously, I’d only do this if I thought the catalogues would be welcomed, but it’s a nice gift for some people. Another idea would be to give a membership in a plant society (see website).
We feel as though we have chosen interesting gifts that fall into every price-point on our website, but we don’t give a certificate for free weeding … you have to do that yourself! And many of our information articles are down-loadable, if someone would appreciate help with pruning … or rose-care … or some-such.
Hands down, the sweetest gift on our site is the $1.95 flower tube that sticks onto a computer (or almost any surface) to hold a single cheery bloom and a message card.
For office-mates, it’s the perfect gesture without making someone uncomfortable about what you’ve spent. As people discover it, they love it!
... and related to my last blog ...
What is this bird, please?
2 comments:
Hi! First visit to your site and enjoyed it! As to your question about the bird...Its a woodpecker! We have quite a few around our property, but I'm not sure exactly what kind of woodpecker it is.
Karla, not only is it a woodpecker, but it's a red-bellied woodpecker! Who knew?!? (seems as tho it should be a red-HEADED w'pecker, doesn't it?
Thanks for dropping by!
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