Gifts for Gardeners 2007
This is the month of shopping for people who love plants. Fortunately, there are so many choices that no two gifts have to be alike: a pot of bulbs, a new tool, planters, live plants, grow lights, heaters and heat mats, shelving for indoors and out. The amount spent can be from zero with a gift certificate for hours of digging and weeding to a fountain outside on the deck. Gifts for gardeners includes items for every pocketbook and gifts from the humble to the sublime. Washable garden gloves $5 — Ora Mae Piester, 918-683-4433, sells them for Muskogee Garden Club. Or, become charter members of the new Oklahoma Botanical Garden, north of Tulsa. Send $35 for an individual or $50 for a family to Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden, 5323 W. 31st Street North, Tulsa 74127 and 728-2707. On the higher end, a broad fork to loosen soil without using a rototiller, $160, or Johnny’s Selected Seeds, www.johnnyseeds.com and (877) 564-6697. Seed collections: children’s garden, hummingbird and butte...