Garden Gifts for Friends and Family

For the gardener in your life, you will never have a shortage of choices for holiday and birthdays because you can always find garden gifts. From plant seeds to garden gnomes, the ideas are endless.

Garden accessories such as decorative watering cans, gardeners’ gloves, and ceramic planters are big favorites. You can also aim for garden gifts that are more practical, such as seed containers or gardening shoes. Or, consider shopping through garden and seed catalogs to look for heirloom seeds—unusual varieties you know the gardener has not yet tried in her vegetable garden design.

Have a Garden Party

You may not have considered the possibility of holding a surprise garden party for your favorite gardener, or for someone who wants to start a garden. You can send out invitations that specify the theme, and ask that all gifts be garden-related. You can find invitations for the occasion online or in stationery stores, or you can design your own with dried flowers or herbs and recycled paper.

Gardening gifts are ideal both indoors and out. Attractive plants that can be enjoyed indoors until the spring and then planted outside are ideal gifts for plant lovers. Of course, the perfect garden party would take place outdoors, on the lawn or on the patio surrounded by plants on a gorgeous spring day.

Any gift of a plant or seeds is a meaningful gift that requires care and attention for it to grow year after year. Garden gifts of growing plants are also appropriate for funerals and wedding celebrations: the gift of something that grows is significant and appreciated, rather than cut flowers that die after a week. Consider a garden gift for that special someone.

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