Green-fingered gifts: Presents to suit every budget and every plot

Is it the lack of chimneys in modern homes that has forced Santa to turn to garden centres instead? From the end of November onwards, garden-centre grottoes spring up faster than mushrooms. Stranded between the compost and the chemicals (in the space that the garden furniture usually occupies) are hasty constructions of picket fences, borrowed from the DIY section, scantily disguised with plastic snow.






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