We’re in the throes of winter, starting to count the days until spring with Valentine’s Day as the only thing to look forward to in the next month. Your challenge for this upcoming holiday is to find a gift for your sweetheart that shows more creativity than a box of chocolates, a piece of jewelry, or a dinner out. This year, why not consider a remedy for those cold months ahead when we gardeners or lovers of the outdoors experience a bit of sensory deprivation?
During the winter, we miss the sight of color-washed flowers and cool green shade, the scent of sweet blooms and warm mulch, the taste of vine-ripened tomatoes, melons and berries, the feel of moist, crumbly soil, sun on our shoulders and a resident thorn or two. As a remedy to this seasonal sensory deprivation, we suggest that you give your gardener’s sagging senses a lift this winter with a present that whispers of spring!
Fresh Flowers
Of course, your gardener will always appreciate a bouquet or arrangement of fresh flowers. Having a vase full of the real deal to gaze at, breathe in, clip a bit, and rearrange is like having two weeks of occupational therapy for your house-bound buddy. It’s possible too, these days, to find high-quality silk arrangements so real, that even a confirmed gardener won’t disdain them. Today’s silks are so realistic that you’ll find yourself touching them to see if they’re real.
With our outdoor gardens asleep, a good piece of garden art would be a sight for sore eyes. Reproductions of botanical prints, paintings of enticing paths, cottage gardens, and softly glowing floral tapestries offer a hungry gardener or lover of outdoor living a satisfying sense of summer. Lovely enough to be garden art, hand painted furniture graced with delicate sprays of fruits and flowers, can also bring the feel of a garden into a room.
Scents of the Outdoors
You might consider revitalizing your gardener with aromatherapy candles, diffusers, lotions, and bath salts. Aromatherapy candles offer a limitless choice of tantalizing scents with lead-free wicks. And diffusers using the essential oils of herbs and flowers, not only clean the air but improve your health and mood as well. And while it’s not as exhilarating as harvesting and handling real lavender, naturally scented lavender lotion or bath salts can really lift a dreary mood and help dispel the winter wearies.
Dreaming of Spring and Summer
Perhaps your lover of the outdoors looks forward to long summer afternoon naps in an outdoor hammock. Well, this is no time to hang around outdoors, but you could surprise your sweetheart with a Brazilian Handmade Hammock so lacy and so refined that it looks like it belongs in a Victorian parlor. With one of those beauties and a big enough corner, your gardener will contentedly sway while he/she whiles away many a gray winter’s day. Find many detailed instructions for hanging a hammock indoors through a Google search and surprise your sweetheart with this unexpected winter gift.
Whatever gift you decide on, the outdoor theme for a Valentine’s Day gift will be an unexpected and welcomed surprise.