gifts for gardeners

Duh…A Plant, But What Plant?

December is a low point in the gardening year, but a high point in the year for giving gifts. A felicitous way to raise that gardening low point is with a gardening gift. What might be a good gift for a gardener?

Most obvious would be a plant. After four decades of growing and buying plants, I, for one, still get a thrill when opening a box with a new — for me — plant in it.

Staghorn fern

Still, there are ho-hum plants, plants that have their qualities but just aren’t going to elicit any surges of excitement from me. Read more