What did you get for Christmas?

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What gardening enabling presents did you get? I got a mini chainsaw. Won’t do big stuff, but will cope with the stuff that’s too big for loppers and getting too tedious for a pruning saw.

I got some felco secaturs as recommended on here and a holster for them. Very pleased. If it stays warm today I might go and do some gardening.

Very nice! Perfect sort of present, more money than you might have spent yourself

Is the mini chainsaw one of those ones on a stick to reach high up branches or those ones which has a beak like a bird to hold the beach whilst it cuts? Electric or petrol?
I got a mikita hedge cutter a couple of years ago and it was such a great gift.

Secateurs and a metal seed box.
DH and I bought a massive rhino greenhouse recently, so that was a combined gift for us both too.

I am unable to look after my garden so have a gardener but I still got some lovely decorative things for my garden. I got two very heavy stone pots with elephant heads on, ideal to go out the front as they are too heavy to steal! I also got two lantern style solar lamps, a stone bird bath, three really cute metal birds to perch on the edge of pots and a colourful metal butterfly on a long stake.

I had some fab gardening presents this year - a Ghislaine de Feligonde and pot to plant it in, some gauntlets, plant supports, reusable root trainers and a copy of Wild About Weeds. Delighted! Now just wondering what to underplant the GdeF with, and so it goes on 😆

Long leather gloves that go up to my elbows which will be fantastic as there are a lot of brambles to get rid of this coming year. And a very heavy duty 5 piece gardening set (fork, trowel etc). Really chuffed,

A new rat squirrel proof bird feeder exactly as requested, and nothing else because my family know better than to choose anything for the garden for me that I have not sent a link to! I did buy someone a lovely copper gardening fork though, and gave someone else some baby plants.

No, just a plain chain saw.

I want a mini chainsaw now - with the emphasis on the mini!.😂

My present was a fairly technical bonsai textbook called 'Shohin Through the Seasons'.

I bet that was from a special request and not someone idly leafing through Amazon!

i’ve also had-a belated present of a dragon that you can plant up with a succulent or air plant

I want a mini chainsaw now - with the emphasis on the mini!.😂 I want a mini pruning saw! I saw one which would fit in the palm of your hand - so sweet! Darlac. It’s going on my birthday list

I have a mini pruning saw, maybe not quite that small though.

The book... I actually bought it myself months ago. 😂When I got home with it, I said to DH that if he was stuck for gift ideas then it could be one of my presents. So all he did was wrap the thing up.

I hope he wrapped it up nicely, with bows and ribbons and so on! And bought you something else as well!

Do you find your mini pruning saw useful? I find the bigger ones (10inch blade or so) useful, easy to get in through a tangle of branches, much more manoeuvrable than a bow saw.

I got a little pack of crocus bulbs from M&S. Happy with those and hoping to have a bit more success than I had with crocus bulbs last year.

A seed box, soil testing kit and (gift to self) a walk-in PVC growhouse. Very excited for the latter - I've only got one good growing windowsill and we've just got an allotment, so I'm hoping to raise lots of lovely veg in the growhouse from seed

Are you planting in the soil or in a pot? I usually grow in pots for the first year, then plant out later. Pot secret seems to be to leave them outside till the flowers start to open, then if you want to bring them indoors choose a cooler room.

That’ll transform life! Never mind the warmth, having a slug-free sanctuary is worth its weight in gold.

Ooh I’ve always planted them straight out and no joy. I will try the pot this year! Thank you ☺️

I got two pairs of gloves, go through them like anything, two pairs of new secateurs, again, always breaking them, or loosing them. A new tool for me, which is a long bladed hand shear, great for lavenders, of which I have many.

Cleared out the shed before Xmas, got rid of all the old, broken stuff, the old chemicals, pots, trays. Yards of ivy, nests of nuts (squirrels or mice not sure!), and got DH to blow/ hoover all the giant spiders. Our shed has more holes than structure, but it's very quaint, and does the job.

All ready for Spring now 😊

We have a beautiful wasps' nest in ours, about the size of a satsuma. After about 8 years it's beginning to look a little worse for wear, so I may take it down and look inside at the structure.

Funnily, I never noticed the wasps in the year it was being built and used.

I got a David Austen Garden Lovers Gift Box which includes a voucher for a rose; rose food; Mycorrhizal Fungi; twine & snips. Now I need to work out where a rose can go & choose one.

David Austin is advertising a pruning workshop complete with bacon roll and free rose, and a 10% off voucher

I didn't get any gadgets but my DF gave me a book called The Good Slug Guide - the cover is sluggish green colour.

Very interesting reading and will definitely change the way I try to contribute the bugger this coming year.

Some slugs are carnivorous and eat other slugs. Just wish I could recognise them.