Christmas presents for the last minute (and afterwards): Fast gifts for garden owners

Did you just notice that you still need a Christmas present ? Or did you just think that you would like to make a Christmas present to a person who wasn't actually on your gift list ? Don't just want to run to the next shop and buy "something"?

Then only helps: keep calm and rather invest a few minutes in considerations (and read this and other article about the Christmas presents at the last minute). It is also much more pleasant than to plunge into the Christmas bustle on the last trigger.

Here are a few ideas for quick Christmas presents for garden owners:

Every gardener who not only cultivates a desert in front of his house needs plant plugs with which he z. B. herbs and freshly planted innovations. Because plants change in growing, and the gardener who has not studied biology wants to be able to keep an eye on what grows up.

These plant plugs are used in quite a few quantities when they are bought, this is quite the money even with a modest unit price.

You can also make plant plugs yourself and give away inexpensively, and with the right idea it even works on the last minute:

You could z. For example, in the next office requirements that special labels , in hardware stores that have florist needs, or on the Internet (depending on what is more accessible to you and is faster), search for small plastic labels.

These labels are offered in very different sizes , with holes for hanging or with metal os and wire for fastening, in white, but often also colored, e.g. B. in garden -friendly green . All of these labels have in common that they consist of waterproof material and are intended for labeling.

This lettering should of course also be waterproof for the intended use of you. These labels also have to get a stem to plug it into the ground, mostly you will find a suitable solution for this when buying the labels.

That could z. B. the plugs to which the labels are actually to be attached in the shop. A very inconspicuous and elegant solution to give the labels a "stem" are the so -called efeunadels. These are needles from the florist needs that resemble a long and narrow U, a very narrow arc. If these efeunadles are threaded through the eyelet or hole of the etiquette, your gardener can simply put the label on site in the ground, the labels look as if they grow straight out of the earth.

How you can proceed when this Christmas gift is put together depends on how well you know the gardener to be presented: If you know what to plant in the next few years, you can already give away fully labeled labels, with colorful tapes (or of course inserting the garden) for attachment.

If you know which plants he dreams of in his garden , give away the fully equipped labels with the result of a shopping in the next seed action. If you do not know what is planned in your garden next year, give away the fully equipped labels together with guaranteed waterproof pins of good quality, perhaps in different colors.

If you are more likely to look for a gift for a gardener who attaches importance to design in his garden, it may not want to have bright white nor strikingly colorful plant plug, and maybe such labels for a design freak also appear a little too sloppy.

Then you could fine labels from polypropylene foils , which gives in beautiful tender colors that also fit very well in gardens, in light orange, friendly grass green and matt olive green, for example.

In addition, these polypropylene films are translucent, a little transparent, so they always let it shine a little from the rest of the garden. This is actually a very simple idea, and yet you can make a Christmas present that a gardener can impress (for all non-gardeners: gardeners have to watch a lot of terrible kitsch if they go to buy plant plugs).

Other fast and sometimes really artistic plant plugs arise z. B. from old silver cutlery (find at the last flea market), into which they engravate plant names. Or from labeled slate, small slate slabs are available in auctions, in the aquarism requirement and sometimes also in the hardware store.

You can also transform beautiful stones into plant indicators, or an almost antique remaining post roof tile, wooden pan, tone plates, and many other things that remain in a household, offer a possibility for attaching a band or a stem and have an area for the lettering. Paint pens or permanent markers, depending on the material, are used for labeling or gifted.

For garden owners there is also a "deadly" gift that they can always use, because every gardener wants to enjoy some warm summer evenings in their own garden . And he always needs atmospheric lighting , which is a bit more stylish than a candle on the table.

It goes out with every windy anyway, the romantic mood can be better generated a garden lantern equipped with candles Such a garden lantern quickly puts the garden into a festive celebration mood, it is much more convenient to build and supervise than candles, and you can put together a little imagination yourself.

You can z. B. windproof tealight holder , which can also be hung and used very well as garden lanterns, they are available in countless figures for a few euros. Garden lanterns, which are equipped with larger candles, are also available in many sizes and in all price ranges, and of course they can still beautify each of these lanterns extensively.

More ideas are quick:

• Photo calendar or photo book with pictures of the last garden party
• T-shirt or coffee cup with photo printing of the record-Zucchini, which the recipient gardener bred last year (if you don't have a photo, just ask his wife, who certainly has one)
• Voucher for helping with gardening (and that should be help with gardening so that nobody really tears it))

If you are not quite sure whether all of these suggestions can really go through as a Christmas present: Yes, of course, show much better than the (painful) praline pack from the next business that you have thought real - that always delights!

Lina cream

Passionate author with lively art interest

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