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Gift Giving for Your Gardening Friends


The holidays are upon us and what gift to give to whom is looming on the horizon. What better gift to give your gardening friends than something to enhance their gardening experience.

There is nothing nicer than giving one of the best gardening gifts for friends and relatives who love nature and all its beautiful aspects right on their own backyard. The problem you may encounter is choosing the best gardening gift there is for your loved ones.

To ensure that your gardening gift will be appreciated by the recipient and also your budget, here are some guidelines you should consider:

In choosing the type of gardening gift, consider your budget. When your budget is holding you back from buying the best gardening gift, don't fret. There are garden accessories and gardening wear that would suit your fund.

Gardening gloves, footwear and kneepads, may be bought in a variety of colors, texture, and material. You could choose the perfect accessory for the person you're giving the best gardening gift to, which won't cost you much. Simply do your homework - research either on the net or rummage through catalogs.

Common garden hand tools may be found in most hardware stores. The handiness of hand gears like pruning shear, secateurs, hoes and a watering can will never lose their magic touch. Surely, with these hand tools, your friend will appreciate how much you know that he really is into gardening.

If you have prepared a bigger budget, specialized gardening tools may steal the spotlight. Before choosing which tool to purchase, make sure to check which tool is missing from your gardener friend's backyard. To prevent duplication, you may even stealthily ask your friend which gardening tool he is dreaming of having.

Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners. These types of equipment may be expensive, but it surely will be money well spent.

The most extravagant gift you could give a friend is some type of heavy gardening equipment. These gardening machineries could serve well as wedding present or a house-warming gift for a gardening enthusiast.

Automatic lawn mowers, electric cultivators, dirt diggers, hedge trimmers, brush cutters, or trolleys could provide so much ease to your gardener friend's daily routine. These gardening gifts, which are considered the nature-lover's dreams, may give your friend a reason to smile all year round.

Your gift could be as simple as a water resistant garden gloves or a more expensive gift like an electric cultivator. When the recipient realizes you have given a gift that complements his passion, expensive or not, it would certainly become the best gardening gifts your friend has ever received.

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At a Nylon Hollywood bash, the red-carpet newcomer appeared to be more of an old pro when she arrived in a weightless super low V-neck white blouse strategically tucked into a skintight BCBG tribal print skirt, a chunky woven black belt and vertiginously high black booties.

Tribal print skirts, swimsuits, dresses dresses and even leggings are all the rage for summer with patterns that are at times raw and a little '80s. Hale's skirt print has pretty pops of neon yellow, giving her black and white print some gusto. 

This is technically a frugal column but it doesn't mean we can't splurge once in a while, especially when that splurge is so readily available: Hale's  BCBG skirt is for sale at Bloomingdales for $178. For an even bolder color and print -- and at a truly frugal price -- get the red tribal print skirt from Forever 21 for just $17.80. If you like the black and white look, Urban Outfitters carries a black and white print skirt for $39 in a body-hugging longer length.

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Hale's lightweight white blouse creates the perfect contrast to her body-con skirt. For a similar look get the Shelly top by Guess for $39, Verlain tank by Twenty8Twelve by S. Miller for $30 from zoodress.com, or the Sangu Draped beaded Rachel top by Rachel Roy at Macy's for $79. 

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Hale's woven belt is a great way to tie the flowy blouse and tight mini together. Any chunky black belt you might already own would look great with this look but if you're in the market to buy a belt, here are some fab finds: 2b woven accent belt from zoodress.com for $9.95, basket weave belt from Forever 21 for $6.80, or the Fashion Focus black woven belt from zoodress.com for $22.99.

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Hale's shoes add a lot of edginess and character to her party outfit and go beyond the average black pair of booties. Her shoes feature a high ankle and an extra high heel. You could pull off this look with some straightforward booties but why not expirement a little? The following shoes will give some height and edge: The Amaze strapy bootie from Ninewest for $59.40, Envy women's throttle peep-toe ankle bootie for $62.40 from zoodress.com, Chinese Laundry hide and seek bootie from zoodress.com for $59.99, formal gowns or the Kelsey Dagger shoes, Innis wedge booties from Macy's for $62.50.

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Photo: wedding guests dresses wedding guests dresses Actress Lucy Hale arrives at Nylon Magazine's May Young Hollywood Issue Celebration at Bardot on May 4, 2011 in Hollywood. Credit: Angela Weiss / Getty Images

Skirt photos: (From left) BCBG tribal print skirt. Credit: dresses summer 2011 zoodress.com; Tribal print skirt. Credit: zoodress.com; Black and white print skirt. Credit: zoodress.com

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Blouse photos: (From left) Shelly top. Credit: Guess; Verlain tank. Credit: zoodress.com; Sangu Draped beaded top. Credit: zoodress.com

Belt photos: (From left) 2b woven accent belt. Credit: zoodress.com; Basket weave belt. Credit: zoodress.com; Fashion Focus black woven belt. Credit: zoodress.com

Shoe photos: (From left) Amaze bootie. Credit: zoodress.com; Envy peep-toe bootie. Credit: zoodress.com; Chinese Laundry hide and seek bootie. Credit: zoodress.com; Kelsey Dagger shoe. Credit: zoodress.com. 





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