By this time of year, many people are running out of gift ideas. Well, if Ты have a gardener (or a potential gardener) among your Друзья and family, we have a few ideas for you!

You can always buy a plant for your gardener. But that's too easy--let's be a little еще creative.

If Ты know a fellow gardener who would like Еда plants but just can't resist those beautiful Цветы and decorative plants, plan a decorative Еда garden for them! Many vegetables and herbs have lovely Цветы или foliage. Ornamental kale, for instance, is often grown simply as an ornamental but it is both pretty and...

Back when I was a kid watching Рождество specials on TV, Mrs. Claus was invariably portrayed as a sweet but dowdy older woman of slightly plump stature. She could cook a mean pie and reminded Ты of your Grandma. Of course, we loved her and so did Santa.

But did Ты ever wonder what Mrs. Claus might have looked like when she was younger? I mean, I assume she must've be smokin' (natch).

So why is it that so many of the classic holiday programs Показать us a Santa Claus surrounded by androgynous little elves and a matronly Mrs. Claus? I mean, it's cold up at the North Pole. Surely Santa isn't adverse...