With Mothers’ Day just around the corner, it’s time to find that perfect gift. If your mom, wife, or grandmother has a green thumb, then you can bet there are a few gardening-related items on her wish list. Helium writers share their thoughts on great gift ideas for the gardening mom:
“Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man (or woman) gives his heart.”- Karel Capek. Such is the sentiment of the gardening mother.
Gardening often provides mothers with a great escape from the daily grind of everyday life. When searching for the perfect gift, thinking from the gardener’s perspective should make your search fairly easy… read more from Virginia L. Allen
I could endeavour to write you all a long list of gardening tools and other items, and chemicals for you to purchase. My Mum is an avid gardener, though would hardly be called so, if she needed tools or the everyday chemicals that we find gardeners use. No disrespect intended to the avid collection of list makers here at Helium, I too like a good list. Though this time it is not of things to buy but rather, that money cannot buy…. read more from Sid De Knees
I have dug up and given and been given many plants from friends and family over the years. It means a lot to be able to say that someone else nurtured and loved the original plant and cared enough to share its beauty with you… read more from Laura Leigh Fields
