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Top 15 Gifts for Gardeners

By Marie Iannotti, About.com

Shopping for gifts for gardeners is easy. Garden tools alone could keep you in gift ideas for years. Then there's garden totes, gardening boots, garden books... Here are 15 suggestions to get you thinking. If you want to drop a hint or two of your own, share what you'd put on your gardening wish list.

11. Garden Bench

A bench makes a garden look finished and these benches from the Essex Design Collection are inviting enough that you may actually use them. They’re made of shorea (bankarai), a heavier wood in the teak family that shares teak’s durability. It won’t rot and doesn’t require finishing, however it will fade to gray if left untreated. [p]Requires assembly, but if I can do it, you can do it. Comes in 4', 6' or 8' models as well as a curved version (83").
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12. Cattail Bird Feeder

Bird watching is the most universal form of winter interest in the garden. These cleaver bird feeders are year-round garden ornaments that look an awful lot like real cattails. They're a sturdy metal mesh and easily fill with seed for what ever bird you're hoping to attract.

13. Cedar Potting Bench

Just in time for seed starting. Potting benches seem like a luxury, but they really do make all that standing a lot easier, by having your potting needs at a workable height and organized all together. The bench featured here is made of western red cedar, to stand up to all the soil and water that will fall on it. Measures 2'(D) x 3'6" (W) x 4'2" (H). For use indoors or out.
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14. Did You Know...? Wise Words & Advice for Gardeners

This wonderful book is a compilation of inside dirt from the members of the National Capital Garden Clubs, Inc. It covers everything from getting started to growing better plants through displaying them with 'Wow'. I was surprised at how many of the tips I'd never heard before. This is a fund raiser for the club, but it's the gardeners who read this book who get the most benefit.

15. Potato of the Month Club

Don't laugh. I've given this gift before and it's a wonderful way to sample different types of potatoes. And who doesn't love potatoes? They come from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine, a great area to grow potatoes. You can send a 1 month club, up to an 8 month club. Each month your gift recipient is enrolled, they'll get an eight pound gift box containing 3 different types of potatoes, a potato recipe book and a card describing each potato and it recommended uses. Perfect for the gardener who's potato patch disappointed them this year.

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