Oh oh! Only one more shopping day until Christmas. Here are a few suggestions for last minute gifts for the gardener on your list.
- Canvas tool bags so your tools are right there with you.
- Garden carts to haul your supplies or your debris.
- Bird baths or feeders or houses.
- Bee and butterfly houses.
- Potting bench
- Kneelers so your gardener doesn’t face knee replacement surgery later.
- A whole garden set including the canvas bag, a Hori-Hori, steel everyday pruners, by-pass pruners, trowel and cultivators.
- Ratcheting pruning loppers
- Telescoping pole saw.
- Telescoping fruit picker
- Folding seat with tools
- Folding pruning saw (one of my favorite tools)
- Weeding hoe
- Twelve pair of Goat skin garden gloves (one per month)
Christmas in Florida. The balmy weather, palm trees swaying in the gentle breezes off the Gulf of Mexico and yards with green grass and colorful flowers.
If you grew up in the North, like I did, your visions of Christmas are filled with pine trees and snow not palm trees and sunshine. The first few years you live here it just doesn’t feel like Christmas! But you get used to it and the cold fronts and rainy December weather help put you in the mood for the holidays.
Another fact to help you learn to enjoy your Christmas with palm trees is the fact that Christ was born in Bethlehem, a land with landscapes and weather much like ours here on Marco Island. So decorate your palm trees and rejoice in the fact that this is what Christmas is supposed to look like!
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.