Great Gift Ideas

Great Gift Ideas

Produce nutrient-rich compost for your flowers and vegetables with this patented design.A large lid on top for large loads along with 2 flip-up hinged doors for kitchen scraps and vent design promotes bio-degradation without nasty odors and lower door slides for easy compost access.Also included is the most powerful compost activator available. Sprinkle it on, bio-activator immediately unleashes nature's powerful enzyme reactions for faster decomposition, richer, more fertile compost.

Classic Roses Playing Cards

This pack contains 54 of some of the best known and loved varieties of Roses found in the world today. The beauty is eloquently depicted on each card.All rose enthusiasts are sure to find some of their favorites and possibly discover other varieties.Each flower has the Common and Latin names printed on the card, an excellent educational tool.

Cobblestone Mold

Create your own stone walkway or lay your own patio in just an afternoon. In three simple steps you can create a cobblestone.Pour quick-set concrete into the mold on a relatively flat surface. Smooth with a trowel. Wait one minute, lift the mold and move on to the next one.This tough mold is made with recycled plastics and can be used over and over.

Cottage Garden Playing Cards

This pack consists of 54 varieties of enchanting flowers found in the English cottage garden.A great gift idea for the avid gardener or plant historian. Each plant has the Common and Latin names printed on the card, an excellent educational tool.

Flexible Tool Rack

Keep all of your tools organized with the new Toolflex System. The tool holder can withstand high weight loads and fits both round and angular handles.Holders are made of sturdy ABS plastic and thick gripping weather resistant quality rubber. Made of sturdy anodized aluminum. Rack can be joined or cut to any length, has 4 predrilled holes for easy installation.Can be mounted indoors or out. Great for the toolshed, garage, factory or workshop.

Garden Tool Set

Gardening has never been easier when you use this durable tool set.This set is designed to offer comfort along with durability at a low cost. Made from cast aluminum polished smooth with rubberized grips for comfort and control.The tools are 12” in overall length. The set includes a cultivator, transplanter and a trowel.

Gro and Show Kit

A perfect “impulse gift” and a must for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Secretary’s Day. The real beauty of this little wonder is that ANYONE can make a great little centerpiece with this beautifully hand crafted vase.With this vase, the flowers arrange themselves, the glass globes sparkle, and the mirror doubles the beauty.Included with each vase is a Full Oz. of Seed mix that contains all wildflowers shown and many more. This gift will continue to provide beauty every day of the year.

Haven Bird Feeder

One of the best selling bird feeders ever! Attract more songbirds by not having pesky squirrels hang on the feeder hour after hour.Metal trays, cap, ports and base are rustproof and impervious to squirrel damage, designed for durability. Holds up to 1 ½ pounds of sunflower or mixes seed.The Haven Bird Feeder provides a haven for small songbirds to enter the feeder easily and start eating.

Kenkel Nut Cracker

This nutcracker is built to last a lifetime, designed to crack even the toughest hard shell nuts! Each nutcracker is assembled by hand of solid steel and plated to resist rust. A simple turn of the knob adjusts the nutcracker to the general size of the nutshell you are harvesting, from macadamia nuts to pecans to black walnuts.The Kenkel Nutcracker will yield you the meat of the nut, not bits and pieces. Simply, the best nutcracker on the market today. Mounting board not included.

Poetry Stones

Create your own personalized decorative borders, stepping-stones or garden labels with this unique kit. The creative possibilities are endless, from poetic borders to personalized stepping-stones for your backyard.Mix up some concrete, put it into one of the cobblestone forms, and then make a word with the press-in letters, it’s that easy.Perfect for creative person who has everything!

Trees Playing Cards

These trees are some of the oldest and largest living things on our earth. The pictures include a close-up of the leaf of 54 different species, together with a flower or fruit.This pack is very useful with tree identification, as well as lovely to look at and play with.Each tree has the Common and Latin names printed on the card, an excellent educational tool.

Wild Flowers Playing Cards

This beautiful pack of playing cards contains 54 different full color illustrations of wild flowers.A great gift idea for all nature lovers and garden enthusiast. Each card was beautifully designed to capture the vivid colors of each flower in the series.Each flower has the Common and Latin names printed on the card, an excellent educational tool.

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ACORN HILL

Acorn Hill is the name we’ve given to our home. Situated in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, it is so named for the thousands of acorns produced by the red oaks growing here. We spent years looking for just the right spot. Some of the most important criteria were plenty of room to garden and space for our menagerie of dogs and cats to safely run and play. And we found it here.

We have undertaken several big outdoor projects and have many more planned. I have been taking pictures and making notes, which in essence constitute a journal of these projects. I thought it might be interesting and perhaps helpful to share our progress. So in addition to my Garden Journal where I routinely note what’s happening around the garden, we’ve added Acorn Hill Garden Projects to our site and intend to update it as we complete specific projects. The Acorn Hill Garden Projects detail specific projects from start to finish with notes on what we learned in the process.

When we first came to Acorn Hill, one of the first things I realized was that I had more great ideas than I had time, energy, or money. I had so many things that I hoped to accomplish the first year, but luckily we didn’t get very much done. I say luckily because when starting a garden in a new place it is critical to observe, for at least one full cycle of the seasons, how the seasons change the existing landscape, how the views from your house differ in summer and winter, and how you and your family use your outdoor space. So lesson number one was be patient. Something I’ve been known to have trouble with.

The projects listed below are things we’ve done so far, and things we intend to complete in the near future. As I write the story of each, I’ll include my thoughts on what we’ve done right and what we’ve learned from the things that haven’t gone as planned. I hope you find these stories useful and, if nothing else, amusing. We try to have fun at whatever we do, otherwise, why do it!

So look for these stories coming soon to Acorn Hill Garden Projects:

A year of observation, four seasons at Acorn Hill
A path through the wilderness, making the upper and lower trails
The long and short of it, creating a view from the porch
Keeping the hounds at bay, do-it-yourself garden fencing
High on a hill, creating the hilltop garden

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