7 Gifts for Gardeners🌿 green burial Solstice event 🌿 wild winter wreaths

Seven Holiday Gift Ideas for Gardeners

1. "Plant Science for Gardeners" by Robert Pavlis. The expertise of many amateur gardeners tends to be a little sketchy when it comes to science. This book will solve that. BookPeople

2. A visit from a garden coach. Every gardener can benefit from the guidance and encouragement of an expert. 🌿 Lori Daul (general designer/arborist) $100 per hour; loridauldesign@gmail.com 🌿 Austin Davenport (cultivation coach) $100 per hour: austinrdavenport@gmail.com 🌿 Figbeard (fruit tree and edible perennial expert, pictured above) $125 per hour 512-584-3886

3. Nature Sunprint Kit This is a fun way to bring the beauty of nature into the house. They are called cyanotype prints, and all you need is some of this special paper (sensitive to light in the ultraviolet and blue spectrum), and some sunshine. Sun Print Kit ($17)

4. Gift memberships to local gardening organizations:

Austin Organic Gardeners: $25

Central Texas Mycological Society: $25

Native Plant Society of Texas: $45

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: $50

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5. Garden hose filter Remove chlorine and other undesirables from tap water, and watch your garden flourish anew. The Clean Water Fun filter cleans 10,000 gallons. $40, the Great Outdoors

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6. Natural Gardener gift card If you buy a gardening friend a $100 gift card before Christmas day, you get a $20 gift card of your own. TNG

7. Hori Hori knife This Japanese soil knife will put a certain swagger in every gardener's walk. $75 from Barton Springs Nursery. (Find it in their Museum of Dirt.) - DM ❦

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NURSERY NOTES: The Natural Gardener currently has a 30% off everything sale happening until Christmas eve. (A few restrictions apply) If you have any gardening resolutions for 2025, please send them to internationalrain@yahoo.com.

I'm eager to include them in the first issue of the new year. ❦

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CONSERVATION BURIAL WORKSHOP & SOLSTICE ECOLOGY WALK: join our friends at Campo de Estrellas tomorrow (Dec. 21) at noon for an introduction to green burial, and an evening celebration of the Solstice, with a sunset ecology walk, and a gathering plants for the Yule log. Suggested donation: $7 Estrellas ❦

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WINTER WREATHS GONE WILD: grasses and weeds are being woven into seasonal wreaths by new floral artists, such as Anna Potter. “Overlooked tangled vines, weathered seed heads and grasses are so wonderful to weave with and can be combined to create unexpectedly ethereal sculptures," says Anna. Gardenista ❦

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