Give Gardening Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything Else

Trying to buy a gift for someone who has everything can be pretty frustrating. But a gift area that’s usually overlooked is—the garden! Gardening gifts are so much more thoughtful than gifts of the tie, belt or handkerchief genre because they tell a person that you know they’re into gardening and that you know about gardens too.

The number of items made for gardens is enormous. Just going into your neighborhood garden supplies store can be a mind-boggling experience, kind of like going into a Home Depot on a weekend day. Aside from garden plants and the usual assortment of rakes, hoes, shovels and the like—there’s some very unusual garden items that make great gifts.

Today’s Armchair Quarterback May Be the Gardener of Tomorrow. Or Maybe Not.

Once you find out what kind of gardener you’re gifting—the choices are easier. Do we have a weekend gardener here? Y’know the type. He hasn’t looked at his garden since football season started. Now it’s off-season, his Monday nights are free. And Mr. Generosity here is devoting this entirely to his garden, all of a few of hours a week.

Or we have the opposite kind of gardener. This one’s favorite author is Earle Stanley Gardener. This one eats, drinks and sleeps gardening. And bores you to death with stories of his leaf-sucking aphids. But this one will be very happy with whatever kind of garden gift you bestow upon him.

Get a load of these for eye-opening gift ideas:  Mini Greenhouse. Compost Kits. Kneeler Seats. Gardening Gloves and Boots. Trellises. Home Weather Stations. Bird Houses and Baths. Windmills and Weather Vanes. Canning Sets. Sprayers. Wine-Making Kits. Strawberry Towers. Insect and Pest Traps. Plastic Owls. And what every gardener shouldn’t be without-- Coyote Urine.

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