Best Gifts for Gardeners
As a woman who loves to garden and who loves receive gifts, I have lots to say about the best gifts for gardeners. Here I share
Best Overall Gift for Gardeners
Best Gardening Garb Gifts
Best Gardening Tools Gifts
Best Gardening Gear Gifts, especially thoughtful for your Vintage Gardener
Best Garden Watering Gear Gifts
Best Garden Raised Bed Gift
Best After-Gardening Care Gifts
Best Garden Bling Gifts
Best Dahlia Gardener Gifts
Best Indoor Gardener Gifts
Best Overall Gift for Gardeners
You. You are the best gift. Offer your time, companionship, and help. There is nothing better.
Best Gardening Garb Gifts
Before we head out to the garden, we need to make sure we are protected against the weather and the work. In winter, a warm hat is essential and this merino wool hat comes in loads of colors — perfect for gift-giving. In summer, a garden hat will help keep sunburn and sunstroke away.
Gloves are another essential. For ordinary gardening, I like these lightweight gloves: gloves for men and gloves for women, but if I am working with roses or blackberries, thorn-proof leather gloves are the ones to reach for. Gardening in wet weather? Slip a pair of medical gloves on first to keep your hands warm and dry.
I love my garden coveralls. I can get as grubby as I need to be and shed them at the back door, sparing my house all that grime. Best of all, no waistband, so when I squat and bend I don’t get pinched in the middle. I find breathing to be very helpful when gardening.
These bogs. I don’t actually have these, but I sure wish I did. So cute. And handy pull-on straps. And so stinkin’ cute. When my plain black boots wear out, I’m going for these next.
Best Gardening Tools Gifts
If you are shopping for a gardener who lifts and divides dahlias, these snips are what they need. Even if they have no idea that they need them, they need them. These are THE BEST DAHLIA DIVIDING SNIPS ever.
And for splitting the really big dahlia clumps, your gardener needs an oscillating multi-tool. More tips on dividing dahlias here.
Other fantastic gifts for dahlia-growers or for regular gardeners are the Hori Hori knife, the mini snips for dead-heading, and the cordless mini-chainsaw for shaping and pruning shrubberies.
Best Gardening Gear Gifts, especially thoughtful for your Vintage Gardener
The older and creakier I get, the more I appreciate garden gear. A cushy kneeling pad, a kneeling bench (converts from a seat to kneeling surface), and a rolling seat all help me get more down with less struggle. A good garden cart is a must — thank you for reminding me of this MaryLou.
Best Garden Watering Gear Gifts
We put in timers this year, both manual watering timer and programmable watering timer. We used the manual watering timer for gardens that didn’t need to be on a schedule — it’s so nice to not have to go out and remember to turn the sprinkler off, as we could just set it for however many minutes we wanted it to run. The programmable watering timer we set up on the dahlia beds for 15 minutes every morning. Worked beautifully.
One can never have to many soaker hoses. They release the water slowly and at ground level, reducing evaporation and run-off. And this retractable garden hose is a yard clutter-buster for sure.
Best Garden Raised Bed Gift
I first saw the Olle galvinzed raised bed at the Seattle Home Show and they are top-of-the-line. A raised bed is so much easier to keep weeded and so much easier on the knees and the back. Click through the link above or the picture below and then use Coupon Code FLOWERFEATHERFARM at check-out to receive 10% off your Olle order and make the gardener on your list so very happy.
Best After-Gardening Care Gifts
So your gardener has come in for the day, often with an bouquet — this vase is my favorite vase ever. Because it is narrow, it holds the stems where I put them. I don’t need a huge amount of stems to get a good-looking bouquet. Three tulips? It will make them shine.
Then your gardener needs a good soak in an Epsom Salts bath and some good lotion for his or her hands.
And if your gardener is also old and creaky, they are going to rejoice in some deep muscle pain cream; of these — and I have tried so many — I favor Voltarin or a CBD cream followed by Arnica Gel. Arnica drives the CBD cream deep into the tissue for prompt and long-lasting relief.
Best Garden Bling Gifts
I’m usually not one to go in too much for garden decor — no ceramic gnomes at my place — but these Solar Watering Can Lights are fun. It gets dark at 3:30 p.m. here, so I’m drawn like a moth to anything that lights ups. Solar Garden Spotlights are another great idea, contributing to both beauty and safety. These are nice as each light has its own solar panel so they can be placed wherever you like.
A flowery phone case is always fun, as is a dahlia puzzle while we wait for spring gardening season to begin again.
Best Dahlia Gardener Gifts
Did none of these catch your fancy? Well then, how about an e-gift certificate to Flower Feather Farm’s Dahlia Shop?
Best Indoor Gardener Gifts
I found this amazing wooden plant stand for only 39.99, regularly 83.98, on the Black Friday sale. I have to admit, I bought one.
And because where there are plants there is potting soil and dead leaves and who has time to vacuum anyway? I’ve had Roombas and Sharks, the Shark Robot Vacuums perform better and cost less. Mabel, our Shark Robot Vacuum with Self-Emptying base, zips around and gathers up dog and cat hair and farm dirt daily. On Saturdays, we empty the base container. That is all I do. Press start once a day, and empty her on the weekends. Occasionally I have to rescue her from under a couch, but it is rare.
When she first moved in, she made a map of the house and now, if she needs to empty or recharge, she will find her way back to the base, do what needs to be done, and when she is ready, return to where she left off to continue cleaning. We have five housecats and two to four dogs and our floors are not furry thanks to Mabel.
What do you love to give or to receive? Let me know and I will add them!
