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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Allan Jenkins

With Christmas around the corner, what to give the gardener in your life?

Hoe hoe hoe… a bronze specimen from Implementations.
Hoe hoe hoe: a glorious bronze tool from Implementations Photograph: Allan Jenkins

Just two weeks to go until Christmas Eve. But what to give the gardener in your life? Or more accurately, presenting here a modest list of a few of the garden gifts I’d dare to hope for.

To start, perhaps, I am slightly obsessed by a huge 3kg ball of costly coir garden twine for training sweet peas, climbing beans, building tipis. Perhaps the ultimate garden string. Or so I will tell myself.

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