What to buy for your favourite gardening buddy? A very upscale Brit periodical recently featured French enamel buckets with wood handles, slightly battered to ”add to their character” at just £20 each or about Cdn$30 ( deepuddy.co.uk). Or how about a lamp with a paper shade covered with skeletal magnolia leaves from greatenglish.co.uk for a mere £125 plus p&p? Then can we interest you in The Gluttonous Gardener’s wine-and-vine crates, with a grape vine ready for planting along with a bottle of Bordeaux ( .glut.co.uk)? No? Then there are reproductions of educational German botanical charts costing £48, plus p&p, each from Whippet Grey ( whippetgrey.co.uk). Ah well, perhaps something more Canadian orientated . . .
