What a nice thread @Allyblueeyes - hope your dad has a very special day.
If you're not already sorted I would just say that I have been gardening for 40+ years and, therefore, I really have all the kit I need but not necessarily all the kit I want...
In recent years I've taken to asking for more expensive items of gardening equipment (that I can't really justify going out and just buying) for birthdays and Christmas.
My 3 favourite gifts are used daily and they are: A metal Haws watering can (most gardeners know they're top of the range and it's such a well balanced lovely thing - makes watering a pleasure), A really, really nice, large, waterproof kneeling cushion and A good quality folding pocket knife that sharpens beautifully - always useful. A really good multi-tool thingy would also be good
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
It is not the rose which constitutes the present but the concept with it. Encourage your father to write down in the journal all the wisdom he has accrued over his gardening lifetime. Supplement it with further stories of his life, with little mementoes, photos, a coin from his birth year, and lots of other bits and pieces personal to him and then bury it in a time capsule below the rose. At some unknown future date memories of him will warm others’ hearts.
When we recently put a capsule in a stone wall built in our garden we used a waterproof plastic keg bought from Solent Plastics in Hampshire.
Happy birthday and warm wishes to him.
@BenCotto. Ben, what a wonderful idea, thank you so much! I think this might be an idea for Christmas or perhaps Father’s Day. I’ll be sure to pass on your, and everyone else’s birthday wishes. So very kind.
Ooops - too late. Our posts crossed and I see you're sorted out. He'll love his present🙂
Well now @Topbird, you may have just solved mum’s gift to him! A really good pocket knife sounds like a great idea. I’ll get on it and see if I can get one in a presentation tin. Actually you’ve just listed three things I’d quite like myself. Especially the Haws watering can!! How long til Christmas?? 😉 x
Wow! There’s no denying these are amazing knives but a little above my budget. Maybe my brothers could club together. Very much more in their league than mine. Dad would love them though …. If only!
Ben does have expensive taste 😂@Allyblueeyes but thankfully many more reasonable priced knives out there. Happy birthday to your dad, the best gift is always the one you will use constantly and probably wouldn't buy for yourself.
Ben does have expensive taste 😂@Allyblueeyes but thankfully many more reasonable priced knives out there. Happy birthday to your dad, the best gift is always the one you will use constantly and probably wouldn't buy for yourself.
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If you're not already sorted I would just say that I have been gardening for 40+ years and, therefore, I really have all the kit I need but not necessarily all the kit I want...
In recent years I've taken to asking for more expensive items of gardening equipment (that I can't really justify going out and just buying) for birthdays and Christmas.
My 3 favourite gifts are used daily and they are:
A metal Haws watering can (most gardeners know they're top of the range and it's such a well balanced lovely thing - makes watering a pleasure),
A really, really nice, large, waterproof kneeling cushion and
A good quality folding pocket knife that sharpens beautifully - always useful. A really good multi-tool thingy would also be good
https://www.niwaki.com/hand-forged-damascus-hori-hori/#P00301-1
With this knife as a stocking filler
https://www.niwaki.com/kotoh-quince-burr/#P00295-1
https://www.oldfieldforge.co.uk/product/forge-a-knife/