Getting Into The Spirit – Garden Style
With the holidays right around the corner, you may be looking for the perfect gift for the garden lover in your life. We’re here to help with some of our favorite DIY garden gift ideas! These gift ideas are a great place to start. Add your own special touches and personalization for extra meaningful gifts to show how much you care.
Indoor Kitchen Herb Kit-
This one is excellent for gardeners that love to cook or who may be feeling the winter blues. A few cute growing containers and packets of their favorite herbs form the basis of this gift set. You can dress it up further with miniature indoor tools and a watering can or a mortar and pestle and spice jars for saving their dried herbs.
Mini Flower Garden Seeds With Mini Flower Press-
Your loved one can grow their own mini flower garden and then preserve the flowers with a mini flower press. This mini flower press is surprisingly simple to make with two pieces of wood, a drill, and four machine screws with matching wing nuts. You can add your own artistic touch with paint or wood burning to make it extra special.
Bonsai Pepper Kit-
Did you know that you can bonsai peppers? It’s true! Peppers can be kept small to become beautiful, woody stalked mini pepper trees. The biquinho is my favorite pepper for this, as its petite size lends itself nicely to the mission, but any pepper will do. A bonsai planter, an atomizer, a pair of bonsai snips and a packet of pepper seeds make the start of a fun new hobby!
Recipe Sets-
This is another good one for gardeners who cook. Find a fun herb and veggie-based recipe, pick out the seeds they would need to grow the ingredients for that recipe! Easy! I like to include a recipe card. The appropriate serving dish for the recipe makes a great ‘gift basket’ for this one.
Grow Your Own Butterfly Garden-
Whether 9 or 99, people of all ages love butterflies. And butterflies need our help. With a gift like this, your friend or loved one can turn their outdoor space into a butterfly oasis. Providing a variety of nectar-rich flowers, like those included in our Monarch Butterfly Wildflower mix, will help feed hungry butterflies all season long. Complete the gift by including a shallow butterfly watering station with rocks for them to perch on to ensure that they can always find a refreshing drink, even on hot summer days.
Flower Seed Bouquet
You can never go wrong with a bouquet of flowers, or a bouquet of flower seeds that is. Unlike a bouquet of flowers that only last for so long, this gift keeps on giving bloom after bloom! Including a lovely vase meas they will have something to keep their cut flowers in once their garden starts to bloom.
Bird Lovers Kit-
Have you noticed any of your friends who seem to have acquired an interest in birds that wasn’t even fathomable in your 20s? Don’t be alarmed, this just sometimes happens as we age! It’s perfectly natural and you can help foster your friend’s newfound interest with a giftset that will help bring the birds to them! Package these flower mixes–filled with all the flowers birds love most–with a birdhouse. Or combine their love of gardening and birds with a gift of birdhouse gourd seeds that let them grow their own natural birdhouse.
Grow Your Own Herbal Tea Garden Kit-
Is a cup of tea your loved one’s cup of tea? This gift is perfect for herbal tea drinkers because it’s so easy to grow these herbs, whether in your backyard or in planters on your balcony. They grow happily in just about any space. You can include any of the usual tea drinking accoutrements. A special teacup, honey sticks, or a tea pot make excellent additions to this gift.
Wildflower Seed Tags & Ornaments-
You remember making recycled paper as a kid. It was so fun and easy! Give your holiday some extra pizzazz with wildflower seed tags and ornaments. Simply blend paper and water in a blender to create a paper pulp. Add wildflower seeds. Use a fine mesh screen, like a silk screen, to press out the water. Allow paper to dry and then cut to shape.
What ideas do you have for gardening gift baskets? Let us know in the comments. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter so you can follow along for more fun-filled gardening ideas and tips!
