Lots of people now love their indoor plants;  they are a way to bring nature from outdoors inside.  Plants can provide colour and life to a home, and many of course need watering.   

Enter EvenGreener who have this really pretty indoor watering can for £22.99.

This Burgon & Ball 1 Litre British Meadow Indoor Watering Can is available from EvenGreener.  It's got a slender spout so it makes it easier to water plants and get the water where you want it to go!

Actually, I think it would make a great decorative feature at home as well!

Find out more about it here from EvenGreener.  By the way, they have a whole host of garden products, from water butts to help you save water, to composting equipment, recycled watering cans, and more!

Looking for a gift for a dog owning friend or dog loving pal? Take a look at this!  Virgin Experience Days have a couple of great gift ideas, one of which is a Personalised Pet Magazine Front Cover with Frame.

This is the Personalised Pet Magazine Front Cover with Frame 
for £30.00

Choose your pet’s picture and put them on the front cover of your chosen magazine!  Options include Dogmopolitan, Rolling Bone, Furbes and Catographic.   Printed on high quality gloss photo paper in A4 sizing, you’ll also receive a frame of your choice to hang your masterpiece on the wall.   This is certainly a gift with a difference for a dog-owning pal! 

There's also a Personalised Pet Movie Poster with Frame,
also for £30.00

It's similar to the Magazine option above, but this time you'll choose the movie between Paws, Jurassic Bark or Skyball. It's a very novel idea!

Or how about...

Emma Bridgewater has a Personalised Polka Dogs Small Mug
from £19.00
After walkies, enjoy a lovely hot brew in your Personalised Polka Dogs Small Mug.
Choose what you want Emma Bridgewater to script on the piece and let them do the rest!
Their pottery is handmade and hand-decorated in their factory in Stoke on Trent.

There's also this Personalised Polka Paws Small Mug from £19.00

Getting Personal have this Personalised Wooden Key Ring - Dog Bone
For £9.99  You can personalise the key ring with a message in up to 45 characters.



How about a Personalised Love Dog Bandana?
For £13.99 from Getting Personal
This is suitable for small to medium sized dogs.
You can add a name (up to 12 characters) after the fixed text "Love is a dog called…"



There's a Multi Photo Upload Square Framed Print - 8 Dog Photos -
 from Getting Personal for £16.99. 
You can personalise the print with 8 photos, a name in up to 12 characters
and a message in up to 50 characters. 

 
Snapfish have different types of wall art - get creative and do your own!
They've got acrylic prints, canvas prints, framed prints, metal prints, 
photo tiles, photo posters, metal prints and college canvas prints.
Take a look at the range here.


They've also got a Personalised Travel Mug, 16oz -
just the thing for anyone on the go!

and a Single Photo Coaster for £5.99:

Did you know that the 31st January is International Zebra Day?  It's a day that takes place every year to raise awareness of zebras, zebra conservation and how we can all help.  

When we think of African animals, zebras often don't come to the top of our minds - lions, giraffes, rhinos, elephants may well be first in our thoughts.  But the zebra is an animal with quite a character, and you don't have to go to Africa to meet one!

Fife Zoo in Scotland has a Meet and Feed the Zebras with Entry for Two experience, available from Virgin Experience Days.

Fife Zoo Meet and Feed The Zebras with Entry for Two
£80.00

You can meet the Grevy's Zebras, going behind the scnees to see their private bedrooms and find out how the keepers care for them.  The encounter includes the chance to feed them, too!

You'll also have a full day admission to the Zoo, to see the other resident animals, so you really can make a day of it!

Find out more here.

Please note that:

• Minimum age: 8 (all under 16's need to be accompanied by a participating adult aged 16 and over)
• There is no wheelchair access
• The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary

Can't get to Scotland?


How about this Hamleys® Mini Zebra instead?
from Hamleys for £11.00

One of my great pleasures in life is looking through the window and watching the birds in our garden feast and rest.

Every morning at the moment, we have a blackbird who hops around the garden before coming to tuck in to the berries on the pyracantha.  Ours is the Pyracantha Soleil d'Or  giving off a bright yellow colour and providing us with much joy, especially when the blackbird tucks in.  

Find out more about this Pyracantha Soleil d'Or 
from Thompson & Morgan here

So if you're trying to think what to get a nature lover for Christmas and they've got a garden, one thing you could give them is a pyracantha.  Then you've got a win-win - a win for your loved one and a win for garden birds!   Thompson & Morgan have several different colours to choose from, one of which is this lovely bright red one below:

This is the Pyracantha coccinea 'Red Column' Firethorn - 

We are training our pyracantha along a wooden fence, to encourage more birds to visit.  There's a bird bath by it as well so that they can both feed and drink, and it's kind of like their own restaurant, if you like! 

 
This is the Garden Life Wooden Insect Hotel
with lots of hollow tubes for insects to rest in.
Flutter away to find out more!



The RSPB has this Bird Bath, amongst others, in its range.
It's always important with any source of water for wildlife
to make sure that they can climb out, so sloping sides are a must. 
£25.00 from the RSPB Shop.

Give wildlife somewhere to rest and nest, to feed and drink, and they will come.  Britain's nature is in trouble so anything we can all do to help will be important.  Every action matters!  And supporting  nature and wildlife with your present buying is one way to help.

 
Why not give them a plant for pollinators such as bees and butterflies?
Take a look at the range with Thompson & Morgan here.

(And if you want to try growing some wildflowers yourself, 
there's advice and help here to get you started.

As you may know, there are thousands of experience days people can enjoy to get them out and about, from gift memberships to one-offs, from afternoon teas, to visits to attractions.

And there are also lots to give you the chance to try a new skill, or improve a skill, to try something new.  Photography, pottery, painting, singing, dancing, horse riding, flower arranging - they all give people the chance to give something a go!

Virgin Experience Days have a "Experiences to Enjoy At Home Collection" for £35.00.

For £35.00.
Find out more from Virgin Exprience Days

This means that your loved one can have an experience from the comfort and convenience of home!  There are over 20 to choose from within the collection such as languages, garden design, interior design, nutrition, mindfulness, gin tasting and writing.  

But there are lots of others you can also look at outside of the collection.  Called Stay at Home experiences, Virgin Experience Days lists nearly 300 of them.  Some are things to eat and/or drink, but others do give you the chance to learn something new or try something out.   

• There are subscriptions (book clubs, fitness, coffee, tea, cheese, knitting, gin, rum, Indian curry etc) 
• There are physical gifts (candle making gift kit, name a star, buy a piece of the moon, chocolate, wine, cheese, afternoon tea, hampers, making your own soap)
• At home date nights - everything you need for a romantic evening in, aaaahhh

And there are online experiences available through Virgin Experience Days, too, so that you can enjoy doing something from home and - in many cases - learn something new.

Click here to see the range of online experiences
from £18.99 from Virgin Experience Days