This Father’s day, Covent Garden Apple Market is offering a host of unique and wonderful gifts to surprise and delight Dads everywhere, from the style conscious, to the art lover to the sports fan.
Home of the original art and craft, Covent Garden Apple Market has some great, stylish British hand-made goods – some perhaps a little out there… but that’s half the fun!
From vibrant hand painted silk ties and sterling silver cufflinks to individual hand painted caricatures especially for your Dad. A great day out at the very least!
Now here’s a novel idea suitable for all gardeners (amateurs or pros). Put simply it’s a ‘garden in a box’ containing everything you need to be able to grow your own produce and live the Good Life.
There’s a load of different gift boxes available (three of our favorites shown below) each containing lots of different baby organic plants which you can choose dependent upon your garden size and desired taste in veg, salad or herbs.
All you do is unpack and plant into raised beds, containers or window boxes to create in just a couple of hours a growing organic vegetable garden. Couldn’t be simpler we say!
Rocket Gardens have supplied gardens to the eden project, innocent drinks, BBC Blue Peter Garden, Chelsea Flower show and thousands of people and schools across the country.
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If you’re looking to inject a little character into someone’s garden this summer then a sculpture can often be perfect.
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Here is a pair of good value leaf-shaped sculptures from John Lewis that are completely weather and rust-resistant, meaning they can be left outside all year round without treatment.
They’re £190 for the pair and crafted from aluminium and given an antique bronze finish. Simply drive them into the ground to create an interesting feature and a great conversation piece at BBQs!
Is your mum a secret hippie?
If so, she’d love this rather novel eco-friendly gift which involves sending one of 20 native tree saplings to her door this Mother’s Day. Every order can be personalised, packed and sent directly to your mum by tree2mydoor.com.
They cost around £25 and hereyou’re your choices:
Wild Cherry Tree
Rowan Tree
Beech Tree
Hazel Tree
Hawthorn Tree
Holly Tree
Crab Apple Tree
Silver Birch Tree
Ash Tree
Oak Tree
Grey Willow Tree
Scots Pine Tree
Blackthorn Tree
Elder Tree
Every mum likes a bunch of flowers on Mothering Sunday… but rather than the same old roses, lilies or daffs why not give her something a little different this year.
Scented Narcissi are grown on the Isles of Scilly and only bloom between October and March, in fact harvesting these flowers is one of the last thriving cottage industries in the country.
For £33.75 you get 100 stems of Scented Narcissi which are delivered direct to your mum’s door in a midnight-blue biodegradable presentation box.
Brownie points here I come!
