Favorite Gifts for Gardeners by Donna Duffy

Throughout the year, and especially during the winter holidays, I often want to buy a special gardening gift for a friend. So I polled twelve gardeners to see what gift they’d most like to receive. Here’s their list (in random order):

Items you can purchase: 

·   Hori hori knife

·    Shredder that turns “stuff” into mulch

·    Gardening tool tote bag

·    Slip-on rubber gardening shoes

·    Nitrile gardening gloves

·    Flower bulbs (Amaryllis, etc.)

·    Compost tumbler

·    Bluebird watering spike

·    Cool, useful watering can

·    Cold frames

·    Garden journal

·    Fun garden markers, mine says “plantus unknownus”

·    Lawn Buddy – small plastic “wagon” with tool and trash holders

·    Awl for electric drill that digs holes for bulbs

Things you can make:

·    Calendar of favorite photos from the garden

·    Pressed flower cards

·    Framed collage of favorite photos from the garden

·    Recipe cards using garden edibles, accompanied by samples

·    Handmade stepping stone 

·    Heart stone decorated by my grandkids with colored stones

Gifts from the heart – priceless (and free!)

·    Cuttings of rare or unusual plants

·    Prized seeds from a friend’s garden

·    Gift certificate for yard work provided by a friend (e.g., weeding, digging, planting)

·    A friend planted a section of her garden on the day my son was born, and named it after him