What this means for you, as a gift-giver, is that there’s never a bad time to give a gardening gift! At any given moment, the gardener in your life is probably thinking about how to get their hands on more plants and gardening gear!

How to Choose a Great Gift for the Avid Gardener

There are a few nuances to choosing the perfect gift for an avid gardener, however. Follow these simple tips to pick just the right thing for the right occasion:

• Know their gardening level. A beginner gardener would likely be happy with some courses, introductory books, or basic gardening tools while a master gardener probably has all the basic necessities and might be happier with consumable or specialty items.
• Understand their gardening preferences. Are they a hobby gardener or a full-on homesteader? Do they garden vegetables? Ornamentals? House plants? The type of present you choose will depend a lot on the kind of gardening they do. In particular, the tools and accessories for indoor gardening, patio gardening, and outdoor gardening can be very different!

Hanging Bee Habitat

A good gardener knows that encouraging helpful insects to take up residence near the garden is just as important as keeping out the critters you don’t want. A hanging bee and butterfly habitat is an ideal gift for gardeners who are trying to cultivate an entire ecosystem in their backyard. This option from Elipark features a metal roof to keep beneficial insects dry and a variety of hole sizes and filling materials to encourage a greater variety of inhabitants, including ladybugs and lacewings. Even better, it’s made by hand out of 100% natural, unpainted materials.

Lomi Smart Kitchen Composter

This smart composter comes at a steeper price point, but is a gift that a true homesteader would greatly appreciate. The Lomi Smart Kitchen Composter uses advanced technology to turn table scraps and kitchen waste into nutrient-rich compost in 24 hours! The compact, countertop unit delivers a perfectly broken-down mix at the touch of a button. No mess, no smell, no slime, no turning, no waiting months for nature to do her thing. It really is a modern miracle!

Solar-Powered Garden Statue

This whimsical garden statue is more than just an adorable addition to your favorite gardener’s landscape design. It’s also practical! Eco-friendly, solar-powered lights brighten up any outdoor space and extend gardening time into the dusk or those coveted early morning hours. The lights run for a full 8 to 10 hours on a single day’s charge.

HODUP Gardening Gloves

The gold standard in gardening gloves. Whether your favorite gardener prefers vegetables, roses, or a perfectly manicured lawn, a durable pair of garden gloves make the ideal gift. Made from breathable, puncture-resistant synthetic leather, these elbow-length gardening gloves virtually eliminate scratches and other common gardening injuries.

“Inspirational” Garden Sign

Is your favorite gardener notorious for having more of a black thumb than a green thumb? This hilarious garden sign makes the perfect gift for all the frustrated gardeners of the world. Because we all know those men and women who love plants way more than plants love them back.

Stylish Sun Hat

Give the gift of stylish sun protection. This broad-brimmed gardening hat provides UPF 50+ UV protection, keeping damaging UV rays off of your favorite gardener’s face, head, and neck. The hat comes in 14 different styles and colors, including several unisex designs, making it a fitting gift for any gardener. 

Square Foot Gardening Template

Square-foot gardens have taken the vegetable gardening world by storm. This ingenious gardening method allows gardeners to grow far more produce in far less space with less water and less weeding. It sounds like a win-win-win, but the time spent upfront measuring and planning out the garden can be intense. That’s where this clever seeding square comes in! No more measuring or building square-foot grids. Simply press the template into the prepared soil and you’re ready to go!

Fabric Gardening Cubes

Speaking of square-foot gardening, these handy little fabric garden pots make a thoughtful gift for patio gardeners, city gardeners, or any gardener who’s short on space. The modular units have easy-lift tabs so they can be moved around into any configuration or even placed inside an existing raised bed garden. Or, opt for a slightly larger fabric raised bed garden. Either way, the budding gardener in your life is sure to be pleased with this unique and practical gift.

Paper Pot Maker

This paper pot maker is a useful gift for gardeners who like to start their own seedlings. Buying plastic pots every year can get expensive, and it’s not great for the environment either! With this handy tool, gardeners can make their own seedling starter pots out of newspaper and magazine scraps. As a bonus, when the plant is ready to be repotted or transplanted to the garden, the starter pot can go right in the ground with it, leaving roots intact.

Hand Cream Gift Set

Sunburn, scratches, and dry, chapped hands are all part of the life of the avid gardener. Show your thoughtfulness with a gift tin full of homemade hand care essentials: A fingernail brush, scented hand soap, and a super-rich, moisturizing hand and cuticle balm round out this beautiful little gift set.

Laser-Cut Plant Tags

These eco-friendly garden markers are about the cutest thing we’ve ever seen! Mix and match your favorite vegetables and herbs or request a plant they don’t already have in their collection. Make great stocking stuffers or present toppers too!

Terra Cotta Plant Lady Mug

If there’s one thing better than sitting out in your garden in the morning, it’s sitting out there with a steaming cup of coffee. This charming coffee mug shaped like a terra cotta planter would make those precious morning moments even more memorable. Pair it with a favorite bag of coffee for a thoughtful gardening gift that’s sure to please.

Jellyfish Air Planter

People who love air plants are a community unto themselves, with a vibrant, sharing culture and a true passion for these strange little plants. If you’re trying to find the perfect gift for an air plant lover, look no further than these fun and funky planters. Gorgeous hand-blown hanging jellyfish planters with air plant “tentacles” are the kind of genius design that will make them smile every day.

A Year of Unusual Blooms

For the flower enthusiast, you can’t beat this beautifully-packaged box of over 1,200 flower seeds. The unusual blooms included in the box include plum-colored sunflowers, enormous cosmos, and magical dusty-gray poppies that will make any flower lover’s yard a standout. A gardening gift that’s sure to delight and impress.

Plant Personality Magnet Set

For that unique and funky gardener with a great sense of humor, try gifting these plant personality magnets. They pair well with this hilarious plant life support self-waterer. Most gardening gifts are sweet and whimsical – these go in a decidedly different direction for the gardener who prefers a barrel of laughs to a bushel of whimsy.

Garden Tool Set

While veteran gardeners usually have all their tools already, a convenient garden tool set is an incredibly useful gift for a new gardener. Get your friend or loved one started off on the right foot in this lifelong hobby with an essential gardening tools set. We love this multifunctional, 10-in-1 garden tool kit.

Folding Wheelbarrow

A sturdy wheelbarrow is a must for the serious gardener, but they can take up so much room in the garage or work shed! It’s tough to beat the space-saving convenience of this foldable wheelbarrow. When not in use, the lightweight wheelbarrow can be folded flat to just over a foot wide.

Aerogarden Indoor Garden

Bring a little nature indoors with the Aerogarden Indoor Garden. This gardening gift works especially well for gardeners who live in apartments, beginner gardeners, and gardeners who live in cold climates and want to extend their growing season. Users can grow up to nine of their favorite vegetables, herbs, or flowers year-round without the mess and hassle of soil. For an even more beginner-friendly option, try the Click & Grow Indoor Herb Garden Kit.

Garden Kneeler & Seat

A folding garden kneeler is a great gift for senior adults – but is helpful for any avid gardener. Long hours spent kneeling or hovering over garden beds can be painful for the back, neck, shoulders, and knees. A folding seat takes some of the strain out of their favorite pastime.

Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker

Long hours of weeding and planting are sure to pass more quickly with some favorite tunes or podcasts. This handsome waterproof bluetooth speaker doubles as an ambient light source, ideal for gardens, parties, and patios. Use the speaker as a hanging lantern or a torch. The USB-charged battery lasts for 24 hours on a full charge, which takes 4-5 hours.

Cocktail Garden Kit

For the gardener who also enjoys an herbal-infused cocktail, pick up one of these clever cocktail garden kits. Each self-contained kit includes everything needed to grow uniquely flavored cocktail herbs, including cucamelon, blue borage, and lime basil. Makes a delightful hostess gift or stocking stuffer as well.

Cute or Funny Gardening T-Shirt

You can’t go wrong with a graphic tee that announces the recipient’s love for all things plant-related. We love this “I Wet My Plants” Tee, but there are tons of options online, whether you’re looking for a funny gardening T-shirt or a cute gardening T-shirt.

The Burro Buddy

The Burro Buddy is the best gift you can give a gardener short of a second set of hands. This tray attaches to standard-sized wheelbarrows to hold everything from short hand tools, coffee, keys, cell phones, seed packets, and longer tools like rakes and hoes. Eliminate multiple trips and tools haphazardly (and dangerously) piled high in the wheelbarrow.

Classic Crocs

Durable, waterproof, and undeniably comfy, Crocs have quickly become the unofficial shoe of gardeners everywhere. Give your favorite gardener a brand new pair to start the growing season off on the right foot.

Urban Bloomer Raised Garden Bed

An excellent choice for seniors who garden or for balcony gardeners, the Keter Urban Bloomer Raised Garden Bed is only 32” long by 14” wide. In addition to its compact size, it is at a comfortable standing height, saving older gardeners from the need to crouch or kneel to enjoy their hobby. The ingenious design also includes a built-in, easy-to-read water gauge and a watering system with a reservoir to prevent overwatering and root rot.

Stackable Vertical Garden

Vertical gardens are all the rage now because they save space and make gardening easier. This clever stackable version features a few extras designed to help plants thrive, such as soil separators to promote better air circulation and drainage holes that allow excess water to flow down to the plants below.

Extra Thick Kneeling Pad

There’s a reason the Gorilla Grip Extra Thick Kneeling Pad has nearly 20,000 5-star reviews on Amazon. It’s simply the best. The ultra-durable high density foam won’t tear, compress, or break down over time. Make the veteran gardener in your life super happy with this amazing and thoughtful gift.

A Gardening Journal

Avid gardeners swear by gardening journals – a place where they record their yearly practices, tips, tricks, and results. In gardening, as in most of life, we learn best by trial and error! There are tons of gardening journal designs online to best suit your recipient’s style and taste. We greatly prefer rugged, spiral-bound journals that can lie flat on a potting bench (or the side of a raised bed garden!)

Root Viewer for Kids

Many gardeners are eager to help the next generation develop an interest in plants and nature. This easy indoor garden kit lets kids see the roots of the plants as they grow! Pair it with a nice set of kids garden tools for the perfect gift for a beginning gardener.

A Repotting Mat

Everyone knows gardening is a messy business. But it doesn’t have to be! Beginner and veteran gardeners alike will appreciate this handy and practical repotting mat. Just snap the four corners together to create a walled-in repotting surface. When finished, brush the dirt off the mat and roll it up until next time!

Gardens Under Glass Art Book

For the armchair gardener who’d prefer to look at plants than grow them, choose this gorgeous art book featuring full-color photographs of elegant, light-filled conservatories. Gardens Under Glass is a 2021 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner. More importantly, it’s sure to make your plant-lover extra happy.

Cute Mushroom Watering Spikes

One of the most frustrating things about gardening is figuring out how much and how often to water. Water too little and your plants die. Water too much or too often…and your plants die. These delightful mushroom-shaped watering spikes take the guesswork and the headaches out of this common gardening complaint. Once filled with water, the terra cotta spikes naturally and slowly drip water into soil as it dries out. Bonus: The water gets released near the bottom of the pot, at the roots where it’s most needed.

Minimalistic Cat Planters

We’re not saying that everyone who likes house plants also likes cats – just that the two things tend to go hand-in-hand. Surprise and delight the plant-lover in your life with this too-cute-for-words gift. Three succulent planters with a minimalistic cat design can be used indoors or outdoors and include drainage holes and a removable bamboo base.