The 25 Best Gardening Gift Ideas
Updated: Mar. 23, 2021These unique and useful garden gift ideas are sure to please every gardener on your shopping list! We found gifts for any occasion that gardeners will love.
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Plant Mug
This large, fun mug proudly states what most over-active gardeners think: “It’s not hoarding if it’s plants.” We’ve never agreed more with a mug. What a fun gardening gift!
Cutting Garden Gift Box
This adorable gift box includes everything a gardener needs to grow fabulous bouquets, including flower seeds, pruning snips, plant markers and garden gloves.
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Tiny Trowel Earrings
Gardeners can share their passion, even if they’re going out to dinner or shopping (hopefully for more new plants!) Just put on these handmade pewter earrings that are shaped like miniature hand trowels.
Plant Lady Shirt
With this shirt, plant ladies can proudly show off their favorite hobby to the world. This comfy t-shirt is an especially adorable choice for indoor plant moms. Choose from a wide variety of colors.
Personalized Garden Apron
Gardeners love to dig in the soil and plant new flowers. But of course, this can get messy. A personalized apron will help keep their clothes clean and it features a pretty floral design. Plus there’s a large pocket to carry hand tools and seeds.
Driftwood Wind Chime
This handmade wind chime is a colorful piece of garden art, made from fallen wood and recycled glass. Hang it on your patio to enjoy a gentle musical song with the spring breezes.
Garden Hod Basket
Use this wire and wood basket to harvest everything from fresh cut flowers to tomatoes. Gardeners will love this functional gift that they can use for years to come.
All Weather Spiral Notebook
The best gardening gift ideas won’t let a little rain and weather stop them. The Rite in the Rain All Weather spiral notebook features 64 weatherproof pages for bird watching notes, sketching landscape designs, recording plant ideas, or just journaling in the great outdoors. Field notes will last a lifetime, and so will a gardener’s gratitude for this unexpected gardening gift.
Golden Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit
For the gardener that has it all, give them a unique project they can grow indoors or out, and eat the harvest. The golden oyster mushroom grow kit is already seeded with spores. Just soak and wait for the mushrooms to appear. Some gardeners have seen mushroom growth in just a few days!
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Digz Adjustable Wrist Garden Gloves
Prepare your hands for any tough task, indoors or outdoors, with these Digz grip foam gloves. The adjustable wrists allow for an ideal fit and spandex offers some breathability. These garden gloves are a gardening gift idea they’ll use for years.
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Vintage Succulents Puzzle
Treat your favorite plant parent to this artful vintage-style succulent puzzle. Its 1,000 pieces are sure to keep gardeners busy through the slow winter garden season and might even lure them indoors in the summers.
Eco Friendly Garden Markers
File this gardening gift idea under: they’re going to love it! These eco-friendly garden markers are handmade from natural wood and give aesthetic and organization to the herb garden, flower box, or living room plant collection. Don’t see your favorite veggie or name label? Simply request it.
Riverstone Bird Bath
Gardeners love bird baths! This riverstone bird bath option is ideal for small garden spaces, or even a balcony or fireplace. Each stone is unique and beautifully shaped. Simply add water and watch the birds take a bath!
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Working Hands Hand Cream
Gardeners know that working in the yard can be tough on hands. Enter: O’Keeffe’s Working Hands hand cream. It’s a concentrated hand cream that heals, relieves, and repairs extremely dry, cracked hands. Expect results in just one use, and a request for a second tube.
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Avah Terracotta Hanging Planter
Add some southwestern color and charm to your home with this festive hanging planter. Pair the set of four together for an interesting vertical arrangement. It’s the perfect size for succulents and cacti. Hanging planters are always one of the best gardening gift ideas.
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Bogs Slip-On Water Rose Shoes
Looking to gift ultra soft rubber rain clogs that are 100 percent waterproof and feature a darling rose print? Right this way to Bogs slip-on shoes. They’re sure to be a favorite gardening shoe for the flower gardener in your life.
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Maye Hummingbird Capri Rain Gauge
This hummingbird rain gauge is not only beautiful but it’s practical, too. Use it to decorate your garden and to see when you need to water your plants. Two gifts for the price of one!
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Rabbit Ear Succulents
Psst, gardeners love getting seeds as gifts! And what’s more perfect than a packet of rare rabbit ear-shaped succulent seeds? These little babies will sprout plants that mimic a bunny’s ears. Adorable!
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Tiny Bee Rubber Stamp
This tiny bee rubber stamp set is a fantastic gardening gift idea! Okay, so they won’t use it in the garden but most gardeners love bees—let them share their gardening shine with a beautiful bee stamp on cards, letters, and stationary. Cute!
Hand Forged Garden Tools
We think the best gardening gift ideas are beautiful and purposeful. These gorgeous (and functional!) garden tools are hand-forged by Fisher Blacksmithing in Montana. They will truly stand the test of time and are durable enough for any gardening job. The handles are crafted of American black walnut wood.
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Clementine Oriole Feeder
This gardening gift idea uses an orange and jar of jelly to attract orioles. The simple design on this clever bird feeder gives you a clear view of your feathered friends as they feast. The feeder also attracts other jelly eating birds like tanagers and gray catbirds.
Gardening Subscription Box
Give the gift of gardening every month—straight to their door. The Bloomin’ Bin gardening subscription box comes with seeds, fruits/vegetables, or both. You customize the box and get a garden upgrade! This is gardening gifting at its easiest, and most appreciated.
Sunflower and Cardinal Face Mask
This pack of two fabric face masks is the perfect gardening gift idea. Give the give of health, and let them show off their love of cardinals and sunflowers. The nose wire insert prevents glasses fog.
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Sun Hat Visor
Keep the sun off your face and your head cool with this genius sun hat visor. The open top fits over ponytails and top knots, and the adjustable back fits any size head. This sun hat is perfect whether you’re trimming hedges or taking a nap in a lawn chair.
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Got a bird or butterfly fan in your life? Gift them with this book about planting a flower garden to attract these pollinators. The illustrated book makes it easy to learn how to easily create wildlife habitat in your own backyard, with more than 250 expert plant picks.
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