Christmas gifts to get your children into the garden
Struggling to get gifts for your gardening friends and relatives? Here is a selection of the best products on the market – they’ll not want to stay indoors on Christmas Day!
Encouraging children to get into horticulture can be challenging but these three gifts certainly help:
Kid’s Small Personalised Crate contains a choice of seeds from the ‘Fun to Grow’ Kids range so all they have to do is plant and watch them grow. Pack includes small crate (31cm x 20cm x 15cm), personalised with 18 characters per line, planting liner, seeds and growing instructions. Price £32, www.plantabox.co.uk.
Little Thoughtful Gardener The Great Sunflower Race Kit – who can grow the tallest and most impressive sunflower?
This pint-sized watering can comes with sunflower seeds plus a paper tape measure. Price £14.95, www.annabeljames.co.uk.
A bit expensive for a child’s gift but something they’ll love in the garden. Camilla The Caterpillar is hand finished from recycled shipping drums and other upcycled materials with a design that stands out and catches the eye.
Finished with tough lacquer paint, price £99.99, www.gardenfurniturecentre.co.uk.
These two gifts will encourage birds to visit (and stay) in your garden;
This personalised RHS bird house has a removable bottom for easy cleaning and is made from FSC approved wood with a turquoise roof. It can be engraved with a message of up to 40 characters. Dimensions 23cm x 15cm x 14.5cm, price £22.99, www. GettingPersonal.co.uk.
Winter Bird Seed Gift Box contains three hand blended seed mixes and a seed scoop for robins, a general winter mix and the Boxwild Bird Seed Blend – 50p from each box sold goes to UK wildlife charities. Price £18, www.boxwild.com.
Pocket-sized tools are so handy, as are containers to carry them around the garden:
Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball’s galvanized trug is a great way to carry your tools about. Price £24.99, www. dobbies.com.
These Copper Coloured Scissors made of iron have a black leather grip for small-scale pruning tasks. Size 16cm, price £15, www.tandshop.com.
A handy tool indeed – this Pocket Pruner Multi Tool includes a pruner, saw blade, knife blade, rule, ruler, Philips head, 2x flat head, wrench, awl, bottle opener and can opener. Price £22.50, www.kikkerlandeu. com.
Keep your tools neat and to hand in this Elderflower Tool Box from Flora. It has a hinged lid, made of powder coated steel and measures 24.4cm x 17.8cm x 10.2cm. Price £25, www. magpieline.com
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