Wrapping your Xmas plant?

Wrapping Christmas parcels doesn't get any easier, however advanced and sophisticated our living standards become, it seems.  Or is it that we give odder-shaped gifts these days?

In years gone by, a book was a common present to give, and reasonably simple to wrap. But these days people don't want books; they want things with curves and angles and spikes - a pogo-stick or a yukulele or a pair of sheers with extendable handles, and if we're stuck for an idea, we may well plump for a plant - but how to wrap it... wrap it?  See 'Gift-wrapping Your Plant' for some handy tips on this. More Christmas wrapping poems on my other website, poemsforfun.wordpress.com - posts + Mad Side of Mod + Grim Side of Gardening pages.

In fact, gardening gifts tend to be tricky items when it comes to wrapping.  Forks, for instance.


Wrapping That Garden Fork

Bought some paper... and some more.
Wrapped and wrapped and - cursed bore! -
needed even more.

Wrapped the handle, wrapped the stem, 
first prong, second prong, third prong, then
something worse went wrong:
the paper tore.



Written by, and copyright of, Kate Williams

How about giving a poem instead? No wrapping! (No cost either!)




Kate