Gifts for Gardeners

Beeswax Candles

Handmade in Ontario, these are the longest-lasting, cleanest-burning, sweetest-smelling, all natural 100% beeswax candles around. Available in honey-gold, undyed natural colour. This kit contains ten tea lights that will burn for four to six hours each, plus two 21cm (8") tapers that do not drip or smoke.

Box of 20 Barn Owl Notecards

We brought a small selection of blank notecards into our retail store in Ladner, and this was the runaway hit. The box contains twenty assorted 12x 18cm (5x7") blank note cards featuring paintings of barn owls by Jeannine Chappell (5 each of 4 designs), and includes plain white envelopes. Elegant, tasteful, and very reasonably priced.

Fall Harvest Seed Collection

Start these seeds in the summer months and enjoy big harvests of leaf and root vegetables throughout the fall and into early winter. These twelve varieties thrive in the cooler weather that arrives at the end of summer. In this collection you'll find:
Detroit Supreme beets
Calibrese broccoli
Providence Savoy cabbage
Royal Chantenay carrots
Lacinato kale
Varna leeks
Coastal Star lettuce
West Coast Market Mix mescluns
White Stemmed pac choi
Palla Rossa radicchio
Kincho scallions
Bright Lights Swiss chard

Heirloom Seed Collection

Harvest seeds from your vegetable garden and save them for next year! The 8 open pollinated varieties in this HEIRLOOM seed collection predate industrial farming. Grow some history and save 20% while you do it! This collection includes:
Chioggia beets
Danvers carrots
Red Russian kale
Parris Island lettuce
Rouge d'Hiver lettuce
Yellow Crookneck squash
Bloomsdale Savoy spinach
Amish Paste tomatoes

Moss Garden

Got shade? Grow moss! Create a lush, tranquil, eco-friendly shade garden nearly anywhere with this live moss. The kit contains three species: broom moss, cushion moss, and sheet moss, which will grow together over time. Create a patchwork moss quilt covering 2 square feet, or cut the pieces to fit between paving stones for an instant livng carpet of soft moss. Just add water! These moss pieces are also great for terrariums.

Moss Milkshake

Just add a few cups of water to a bucket, stir in the ocntents of this carton, and let stand for ten minutes. Then find a shady area and spread the gel-like paste over any surface - bare soil, stone, wood, or weathered concrete. Even vertical surfaces! Each small moss fragment will grow into a new moss plant, which then grows together over time to form a dense green blanket. The Moss Milkshake has an indefinite shelf life, and will cover up to 20 square feet of surface. All you need is shade, moisture, and patience!

Mothers Day Annual Flowers Collection

This collection features five beautiful annual flower varieties. They are very easy to plant and care for either in the garden or in patio containers. Help Mom plant the seeds, and then enjoy a range of colour throughout the spring, summer, and fall.

Snapdragon Blend - These beautiful, traditional garden favourites have been selected for their colour richness: from the palest to the deepest pinks, coral, blood-red and yellow.. Learn more... Mini Cosmos - Lovely, delicate Cosmos in a range of pinks, attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, and wild bees, this blend looks fantastic on its own or as a short-growing meadow flower.

Clarkia Godieta - Godetia also goes by the names Farewell-To-Spring and Clarkia. The species (formerly called Godetia botanically) has been improved to produce varieties for spring gardens as well as for cool coastal and mountain locations in the summer. It looks beautiful in a border or in containers.

Alyssum - Alyssum makes a fantastic mulch between vegetables rows because it grows so quickly it will keep weeds from taking hold. It has very short, unintrusive roots, and is easy to pull out when you no longer require its services. Meanwhile, the tiny white flowers will attract beneficial pollinators, and increase the chances of good fruit set for fussy vegetables like squash. Alyssum is one of the longest blooming garden flowers.

Chinese Forget-Me-Nots -Grow them as a source of sky-blue color in beds or borders. They're also striking in beds all by themselves or mixed with other flowers to tone down hot colors or to complement a range of pastels.

Mothers Day Annual Collection: Snapdragon Mini Cosmos Clarkia Godieta Alysuum Chinese Forget-Me-Nots

Neptune Wind Chimes

The bronze finished aluminum tubes on this exceptional chime set are musically tuned to produce beautiful scales, and they will not rust. The hardwood fittings are treated with weather resistant varnish and held together with heavy duty nylon string for a long life in the garden. Tubes measure between 58-79cm (23-31"), and produce lovely, deep tones.

Overwintering Spring Harvest Seed Collection

Sow these seeds during the summer and reap the rewards throughout the following spring. The eight varieties in this collection benefit from the extra time it takes to reach maturity. None of them require any protection from the elements (in coastal gardens), and you can enjoy harvests right around the time you are planning your summer-harvest garden. This overwintering seed collection includes:
Purple Sprouting broccoli
White Star sprouting broccoli
Windsor broad beans
January King cabbage
Galleon cauliflower
Improved Siberian kale
Walla Walla onion
Bloomsdale Savoy spinach

Solar Tea Lantern

Catching the sun's rays by day, this solar-powered tea lantern lights up by night to cast a warm glow from within. Clean and quaint, each hand-blown glass lantern is embedded with luminous crystals. The LED light within is powered by a solar battery cell. intended for outdoor use, this lantern can hang or sit flat to light a tabletop or stairway. Now available in three colours: Ghostly white, mint green, or rich, orangey saffron.

Solmate Recycled Cotton Socks

No two Solmate socks are the same, so don't expect a matching pair! These crazy socks are made from castaway materials that are a by-product of t-shirt manufacturing. They are snuggly warm and unusually comfortable. "Life is too short for matching socks!" Available in three adult sizes. Kids sizes coming soon!

Solmate Socks for Kids

Fun, recycled cotton socks in wild colours in children's sizes. Solmate Socks for Kids come in "pairs" of three, just in case one goes missing, but no two socks are the same. Life is too short for matching socks!

Vermont Outdoor Thermometer

The solid brass housing and mounting bracket of this outdoor thermometer are not coated, painted, or plated, so it won't peel, chip, or rust. The Vermont outdoor thermometer is guaranteed for life! The thermometer itself is encased in an adjustable glass tube, and runs on accurate spirit level technology, so it's entirely free from mercury. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales are shown. 19cm (7½") tall.

Vermont Weather Station

Monitor weather conditions with this attractive and precise combination thermometer/hygrometer. The main dial shows the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit, and the lower dial indicates the relative humidity of the air. Suitable for mounting outdoors, the solid brass and glass construction will stand up to any weather conditions, eventually an attractive patina. 11cm (4¼") in diameter.

Winter Harvest Seed Collection

The twelve vegetable varieties in this collection are cold hardy, and will grow slowly, or sit dormant awaiting harvest. Some of these will benefit from the protection of a cold frame or cloche cover, or even simple mulch, but all of them can be enjoyed will into December, if not into the following spring. This winter harvest seed collection includes:
Arugula
Brussels sprouts
Danish Ballhead cabbage
Napoli carrots
Cilantro
Champion collards
Corn Salad
Winterbor kale
Continuity lettuce
Winter Mescluns Blend
Gladiator parsnips
Purple Top White Globe turnips