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If your friends or family members are gardeners, you will never run out of gift ideas for special occasions. The only problem will be deciding what gardening tool or accessory to buy. We think of gardens in connection with spring and summer but there are garden gifts suitable for any season of the year. Customizing the gift to suit the interests and personality of the gardener guarantees a gift your friend will cherish and use.

Someone who loves roses will appreciate a pair of rose shears to cut the blooms and strip the thorns. If you want think bigger, put together a rose bucket. Buy a colorful enamel bucket (not too large) that is suitable for placing roses in as they are cut. Fill the bright bucket with a thorn stripper, pruning shears, rose food and a spray bottle of insecticidal soap. Another option is a popular classic potted rose already in bloom. Stick a trowel and thorn stripper into the pot and add a small packet of rose food. Wrap the pot in a circular piece of landscape fabric used to thwart weeds.

In cold climates, winter is a frustrating time for dedicated gardeners. Houseplants just aren't the same as colorful blooms and a gardener will always enjoy a gift basket of narcissus bulbs, a shallow decorative plantar and the gravel to plant those bulbs. Six weeks later when the delicate white flowers appear, your gardening friend will thank you again for the lovely Christmas gift.

Garden gifts for men will depend on whether they фокус on gardening, care for a pond or water feature or fuss about their grass and landscape plantings. If they grow vegetables a small tiller or a new hoe with an ergonomic handle design will be a winner. For a man who loves the garden as an observer, a hammock is a great choice.

Need a house warming gift? How about a gift certificate from a garden center to help the new homeowners buy landscape plants? Tuck the gift certificate into an envelope and slide it into a book of landscape designs. For a truly unusual house warming gift in the spring, show up with a steel garden wagon loaded with bags of peat and top soil and perhaps a spade or shovel.

Summer gifts could include gardening books, garden stools and high quality gloves or even gardening boots for a daughter or niece and don't forget such possibilities as benches, fire pits and bird baths or feeders. For many people their garden is an extension of their home so anything that contributes to the enjoyment of the garden or the wildlife in it will be appreciated.

Fall gifts are some of the most fun gifts to choose. The variety of flower bulbs available in the fall is amazing and the pictures on the boxes of bulbs are enough to make anyone dream of a flower filled garden oasis. Choose bulbs in groups of 3 or 5 and keep each group in a separate small mesh bag with instructions enclosed. Pile the bulbs into a good sized basket with a handle adding a trowel or bulb planter and a package of bulb food. Tuck in a set of plant stakes that can be used to label where bulbs are planted and you have a great gift for any gardener in any region of the country.

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