Category Archives: Christmas Gifts

It’s Almost Grave Blanket Time

Custom Decorated Blanket with Silks and Velvet Ribbons

The weather doesn’t agree, but it’s almost time to order your grave blankets, pillows, wreaths and sprays. Our price lists get mailed out next week to all of our customers who have ordered from us in the past few years.

We can’t begin to place them until mid-November (because of cemetery rules) but we’ve actually begun production– making the wood and straw bases that we make them on. I think we’re the only source still making them this way.

The benefit of our base is that it gathers rain (and melting snow) to help keep the greens fresher longer. (Have you ever tried to get Styrofoam to take up water? It’s not gonna happen.) It also adds weight that helps to keep the blankets and pillows from flipping and blowing off in windy areas. (If we place them, we also fasten them down with a sturdy wire.)

If you haven’t ordered from us before, but would like a price list/order sheet, please call 740-546-4467 or toll free 800-844-5944, or email us at bob@ferdas.com and we’ll get one right out to you.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Twelve

Day 12: A We Plan/You Plant or Bob-the-Garden-Coach Plan

Well, we made it. It’s Christmas Eve. And if you’re like me, you’re wondering if what you got for ______ is really enough. Or what to get for _______ in the first place. May I suggest a We Plan/You Plant or Bob-the Garden Coach Plan.

These two programs differ only slightly. The We Plan program is a mini-landscape design (more of a sketch on graph paper than a formal design) for an area of your yard that you’d like to change or improve. You tell Bob what your purpose or vision is for the area, and he helps you decide what to plant there to accomplish it.

The Garden Coach program is less specific. Maybe you just don’t know how to prune your trees and shrubs, or would like to attract birds to your back yard and don’t know how to go about doing it. Bob will come to your house and talk with you about it and show you what to do.

Bob will be manning the store on Christmas Eve until 2PM, so you can ask him for more specifics when you make your purchase.

Cost of each plan is $100, with a $50 coupon toward buying the plants to accomplish the design or area.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Eleven

Day 11: A Beautiful Poinsettia dressed for gifting with foil and a hand-tied bow.

Whew! We’re down to the wire, aren’t we? I know there are some of you out there that are in a tizzy about what to get that hard-to-buy-for person who still doesn’t have a gift. There is always one person who gives you a problem, isn’t there?

We still have lots of beautiful poinsettias, in several sizes and colors. It’s a tasteful choice of gift, and the recipient doesn’t have to decide what to do with it after the holidays. No worries about whether it will fit, either. We’ve gotcha covered! From $7.98.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Ten

Day 10: A flag pole and a seasonal flag or two

We have a nice assortment of seasonal flags and flag poles and holders in two basic sizes. The standard-size flags look good displayed on a flag pole or a stand-alone holder in the yard. The garden-size flags are more versatile and can be moved around on their holders to accessorize a vignette or entryway. Why not buy them a Christmas flag and a Valentine’s Day or St Patrick’s Day flag to get them started on a collection?

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Nine

Day 9: A Fire Pit for the patio or deck

When it’s dreary and drizzly as it is this week, it’s hard to imaging sitting on a patio or deck on a cool summer or fall evening. But that time will come again. And what better addition to the scene than a fire pit? Just add wood and you’ve got a cozy scene out of House Beautiful! We have several styles to choose from, including the brass chiminea-style one shown here. Prices vary.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Seven

Day 7: Garden Tools

Again, for the gardener on your list, we have garden tools, both hand tools and full-size tools like shovels. If you aren’t a gardener, you might think that would be a gift that wouldn’t be welcomed. But take it from me, a dyed-in-the-wool garden fanatic, a gardener would LOVE it! Prices vary.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Six

Day 6: A Mat Mate rug for an entry or work area.

We have some colorful area rugs that are great for an entryway or a kitchen work area (like in front of the sink or counter.) You could buy an doormat tray or comfort tray, and then a rug insert or two that can be changed out with the seasons or mood. The comfort trays are cushioned and the doormat trays are heavy-duty to help keep them from moving. Trays $35, rug inserts $24.99.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Five

Day 5: Seed Starting Supplies

Do you have someone on your list who wishes that he/she could be out in the garden? RIGHT NOW.

Give them a gift of hope for the next gardening season, and something to do when the winter begins to get to them and they just wish they could be OUTSIDE. An assortment of seed starting supplies, peat pots, soil and heat cables to use to start their own seeds inside in February or March when they just need to feel like they are doing SOMETHING for the garden. Prices Vary.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Four

Day 4: A Beautiful basket of fruit.

Have you ever given (or received) one of our beautiful fruit baskets? They are as different from grocery store fruit baskets as a steak is from a burger. They aren’t shrink-wrapped, and they are full of top-size, beautiful fruit, nuts, candy and a sparkling beverage (what all is included depends on the price-point you choose) This one will create quite an  impression!  (Available this weekend and into Christmas week while they last.) $30, $35, $40 and $50.

12 Gifts of Christmas: Day Three

Day 3: A Book for your favorite food gardener.

Growing your own food is an idea whose time has come… again! With the price of fresh fruit, herbs and veggies, and the news about food contamination, growing your own (or at least some of your own) makes good sense and good cents.

In our loft gift shop we have an assortment of gardening books geared for the food gardener. One of them might be just the right gift for the Foodie on your list!