What do you call an elf who runs away from Santa’s workshop? A rebel without a Claus.

Santa’s workshop is busy constructing gifts for gardeners, but what if your gardener already has everything?

If you’re stumped this season, here are ideas that even the most well-equipped gardener will find both useful and delightful. And I can personally vouch for the usefulness of every item on the list.

Buy a gardener a better version of what they already own, such as ergonomic hand tools, especially pruners, weeders and soil knives with quality steel and comfortable grips. Even a gardener with three flimsy trowels on the shelf will appreciate one that doesn’t bend in clay soil.

A favorite tool of mine, which I got several years ago, is the hori-hori gardening knife. Besides having an interesting n

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