HOME AND GARDENS: Fork out on a Great Green Gift; You Are Never Short of Inspirational Gift Ideas for Gardeners If You Make the Effort, Discovers Hannah Stephenson

Byline: Hannah Stephenson

What do you give the person who has everything? Well, if he or she is a gardener they will never have everything because new and exciting gifts are being created for gardeners every year.

While many high street shops and garden centres will have the classic trugs, tools and garden trivia, if you look hard you may be able to find something a bit different, especially if you trawl the internet or some specialist garden catalogues.

There are some great items, for instance, from Garden Images, including some tasteful Suzie Marsh bronze sculptures of Indian runner ducks (from pounds 84.95) which can look a stunning addition at the side of any water feature or other garden setting.

Alternatively, from the same sculptress there is a hippopotamus (pounds 329.95), whose detailed skin texture …

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Publication information: Article title: HOME AND GARDENS: Fork out on a Great Green Gift; You Are Never Short of Inspirational Gift Ideas for Gardeners If You Make the Effort, Discovers Hannah Stephenson. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Birmingham Post (England). Publication date: December 13, 2003. Page number: 49. © 2009 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group.

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