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Allan Block retaining walls make it possible to build homes and achieve landscaping projects in some of the most unlikely places. These walls can support foundational structures and significantly reduce soil erosion. Builders have relied on them for millennia, but how exactly do they work?

If you're ready for top gift-giving ideas for friends and family this year, why not make it easy and browse by theme? In this article, we share the top picks from our seven seasonal themes this year. 

1. Christmas Eve

The magic and anticipation of Christmas Eve light up Red's Home & Garden in the “night-before-Christmas” category. Ornaments, hand towels, figurines, and stockings are the hallmarks of this popular category.   Stock up on various sizes of posable elves! Position them on fireplace mantels, library shelves or kitchen spice racks and add a dash of seasonal whimsy to any flat surface with these adorable figures that have a rich Christmas history. If you're looking for tree ornaments, consider red pine cones that add a festive punch of color and texture to any real or artificial fir tree.

Flowers that are tolerant of cold weather are not that plentiful, but luckily both pansies and violas offer a range of colors when the weather cools down. They can even be mixed and matched in a garden to create a wider spread of color across your early-blooming flower bed. The two flowers look so much alike that many people mistake one for the other. Some even think they are the same flower.