One of the disadvantages of gardening in a cold climate is that we have no flowers in our gardens at this time of the year.
There may be some flower gardeners on your gift list this December, and if so I can assure you, they love flower-related offerings.
The information is timeless, so they make good reading for anyone who loves flowers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson used a garden metaphor when he wrote about an old year coming to a close.