1.   You could either ask a gardening friend if they could give you one or you could try and take one yourself.

2.   A gardening friend and I stood stroking the Carexes, teasing them into top knots and ponytails like a couple of mad hairdressers.

3.   Most of my old-timey gardening friends and relatives understand.

4.   Pick up a flat or two of winter color from a local nursery and plant them near the front door for your older gardening friend.

5.   Their gardening friends saw them as a kind of tabula rasa, and leapt to leave their imprint.