Last minute Christmas gifts: gardening

Perfect for remembering plant names, planning your vegetable patch, or simply recording those moments of quiet inspiration.
Green Fingers notebook, £2.50, order by 20 Dec
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You can’t beat a fresh herb salad for taste, and this will ensure you always have a good supply to hand. The kit comprises a windowsill-size growing box and four pots with a variety of herb seeds.
Unwins Kitchen Garden herb kit, £4.99, order by 20 Dec
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These elegant labels come in packs of 10 or 25, depending on the shape.
Aluminium garden labels, £5.43-£7.25, order by 20 Dec
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The I Love Burt people say this is 95.7% natural – for that precision alone, it’s a winner. Contains olive oil, almond oil, beeswax, cocoa butter and wheat germ oil – ideal for soothing weather-worn hands.
Dr Burt’s Res-Q ointment, £5.99, order by 22 Dec
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One for the guerrilla gardener. Choose the mix you think they’ll like most – country garden, foxglove or field poppy – and they’ll have to get their hands dirty to create their own seed bombs. Expect an explosion of colour in the spring.
Seed bomb making kit, £5.99, order by 19 Dec
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A silver birch tree which you can start growing indoors. Within a few months, you should have a small sapling, sturdy enough to survive life outdoors. Transplant it, bag and all, to a hole in your garden and let it lay down its roots. The packaging will be absorbed back into the earth. Comes with everything you need, including instructions.
Tree in a bag, £5.99, order by 22 Dec
Reader offer: enter the code GUARD125 for a 7.5% discount on all online Nigel’s Ecostore products. Valid until 31 Dec
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As pleasingly cracked and distressed as any venerable old garden fixture should be, this is a small pot just waiting to welcome a fragrant herb, shrub or house plant.
Aged plant pot, £8, order by 22 Dec
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Built from FSC-sourced oak, this is a rustic home for a bird and its apple. You could also place any other suitable bird-friendly snack on the spike and watch it slowly disappear.
Apple bird house, £8.55, order by 22 Dec
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A good-looking bright green hook on which to dry your muddy wellies. The ingenious design sits flush against the wall when not in use.
Welly keeper, £9.95, order by 20 Dec
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A classy enamelled tin string holder, painted shutter blue, apple green, string or slate.
String in a tin can, £10, order by 19 Dec
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Wild & Wolf’s range of solid gardening tools is well designed and beautifully packaged, and these cutters are no exception.
Thoughtful Gardener secateurs, £14.95, order by 22 Dec
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The concept of the traditional garden gnome is turned on its head here. Made of bone china and decorated with delicate line drawings, Vitamin’s Urban Gnomes will spirit away your green space into a wilderness worthy of Japanese manga artist Hayao Miyazaki.
The Urban Gnome, £50.55, order by 19 Dec
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People have been crafting these in Sussex for at least 200 years – the handle and rim are cleaved from coppiced sweet chestnut and the trug from cricket bat willow. Strong, practical and hard-wearing.
Genuine Sussex trug, £57 (size 7), order by 21 Dec
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