Gardening Gift Buyer’s Guide – We help you pick the best garden gifts around the web. — Page 2

Cedar Adirondack Chair

December 26, 2007

In 1903 Thomas Lee was on vacation in Westport, New York, and need some outdoor chairs for his summer home. His now famous design originally consisted of 11 pieces of wood, cut from one board. He showed to a carpenter friend, Harry Bunnell, who patented the design and made the chairs for next 20 years. [...]

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Last minute gardening gifts that ship quickly

December 19, 2007

So here it is, with less than a week left before Christmas. You’re still browsing blogs looking for ideas and haven’t even ordered anything yet. I feel your pain! It’s not to late to order something online, and still have it in time for Christmas. Clean Air Gardening just announced on their blog that they [...]

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Aerogrow Indoor Kitchen Garden

December 18, 2007

Know any cooks who love to use fresh herbs, or love preparing fresh salads? Well, the Aerogrow Indoor Kitchen Garden is the perfect gift for them! The AeroGarden does all the work. No tools. No dirt. Just results: Delicious fresh salad greens, gourmet herbs, cherry tomatoes and even chili peppers, crisp and close-by as you [...]

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Steam Punk Rain Gauge

December 18, 2007

Steam Punk, it’s what all the cool kids are doing these days. The term came from a parody of cyber punk and originated in the fiction works of authors such as K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers. Those authors themselves derived a great deal from HG Wells. But it’s moved beyond the realm of fiction [...]

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Four-Tier Solar Fountain

December 18, 2007

It’s solar; it’s a fountain…what’s not love. Ordinary garden sculpture just lies there doing nothing; even the more interesting ones eventually get to the point where I just don’t notice they are there anymore. But fountains aren’t like that. Something in our primitive programming attracts us to flowing water. It’s a survival instinct that in [...]

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The Aluminum Can Crusher

December 16, 2007

They say the body is 60 percent water. Having grown up shuffled between home where the water was a none-too tasty municipal concoction and my grandparents who lived in a city in Arkansas quite literally named after its horrible tasting mineral water I got out of the habit of drinking the stuff. I’m pretty sure [...]

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Eco Friendly House Plan

December 14, 2007

Maybe it’s safer. A beige ranch rambler on a street named after a whatever kind of tree was growing there before some developer ran a fleet a bulldozers over the land and dropped a couple of hundred carbon copy houses off the back of a very large truck. I drive down streets like that all [...]

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The Solar Torch Light

December 10, 2007

There is no law that says that solar powered garden lights have to be functional industrial looking hunks of plastic. I’m not knocking functional industrial looking décor; I kind of dig that really. But some times you just want something different, or you know, attractive. For that we have the solar powered torch light. Now, [...]

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Ultra-Bright Double Spotlight

December 8, 2007

I’ve said it before, I have a soft spot for solar. The idea of us having so much grief over energy when the surface of our planet is being constantly bombarded by solar energy just seems so absurd on so many levels. Now, I understand that for a whole heck of a lot of applications [...]

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Chicken Coop Cubbies

December 6, 2007

When I was a child I when most kids went to summer camp me and my sister would go to see my grandparents on their little farm up in Arkansas. I did go to a summer camp one time and we were the lucky ones, I can assure you. Nights I would sit up and [...]

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Frog Sundial

December 4, 2007

Pappy Boyington, the WWII Fighter Ace, wrote about making a sundial in the Japanese POW camp he was held in after being shot down in the pacific. The prisoners made the sundial out of boredom and when one of the not so bright guards asked how you would tell time with it after dark, they [...]

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Mission Poly-Wood Sofa, Loveseat, Chair, Ottoman, and Coffee Table.

December 2, 2007

To Gustav Stickley furniture was a movement; a philosophy of function over form and a celebration of design and engineering. He produced a periodical called The Craftsman that came filled with plans for everything from furniture to entire houses. As an insult, his detractors referred to this furniture as mission furniture…implying that his designs were [...]

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Yard Machines 19″ corded electric mulching lawn mower

November 30, 2007

I grew up fascinated by Gasoline engines, and learned my way around a wrench by working on the family’s gas powered lawn mower. I felt kind of sad when I pushed my last gas powered lawn mower out to the curb. I soon added the gas powered string trimmer that had stopped working to the [...]

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English Carbon-Steel Spades and Forks

November 29, 2007

In my home town, we don’t have basements. We have a pre-prepared list of excuses we give to those out of towners that ask: · We don’t have to dig below a frost line here; we don’t have frost. · This is Texas; we have lots of space so we just build out horizontally. · We don’t want [...]

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Cool Garden-themed indoor Décor

November 18, 2007

These recycled metal branches are cast from real twigs and help create unique flower arrangement. Your flowers become true eco-friendly works of art with this sculpture/flower holder. Available from VivaTerra.com for about $80.00 for one, $150.00 for two.

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Hose Bowl Planter

November 18, 2007

The trouble with garden hoses in my experience is that most of them are lawn colored. Now this may be a boon to those who are more organized or indeed have better eyesight than me; you can leave your hose out while watering the lawn and not have it stick out like a sore thumb. For me [...]

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Solar Lily Pond Island

November 14, 2007

We’ve been using solar energy to create electricity for ages. My father has a solar powered AM radio that is probably older than I am…or at least it looks like it. Now there really isn’t anything I want to listen to on AM anymore but the geek in me still finds it fascinating. So I’m [...]

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Bigfoot…He looked so much bigger in those blurry photographs

November 12, 2007

I’m just really not a garden gnome kinda guy. Any positive feelings I may have had towards those little guys has been thoroughly and completely driven out of me by travel commercials. But this little guy I could see putting in my yard. By little, I mean compared to the real thing…if there is a [...]

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Eucalyptus Outdoor Slat Bench

November 9, 2007

It is a common misconception that simply reducing the amount of wood we use will actually save forests; I know it seems counter intuitive but often the opposite is true. Much of the wood we use for construction, furniture, and paper are grown just for that purpose. The harsh reality of this world is that [...]

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Electric Snowblower

November 8, 2007

I grew up in Texas; where the fabled activity of shoveling snow was something they only did on TV shows for the week or so before Christmas. We got snow once in a while, sure…. If it was in your way you scraped it aside with your foot. Then I moved to Utah for a [...]

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