16 of the best Christmas gifts for gardeners
From gorgeous garden wear and robust tools to heavenly houseplants, check out our gift guide for gardeners.
Whether the person you are buying for is new grower or an experienced green-fingered guru, there is a wealth of gifts out there that they will love this Christmas.
And as well as sorting your festive shopping for gardening friends or relatives, a scroll through our top 16 presents might just provide some inspiration for your own wish list.
Here’s our pick of the gifts for gardeners indoors and out.
1. Dexshell Fair Isle Waterproof Beanie (£25, aquaproofs.com)
Waterproof beanies are great for gardeners
This waterproof Fair Isle beanie is a must for gardeners who don’t let rain dampen their spirits or put paid to their efforts in the garden. It’ll keep gardeners warm and dry with its super-soft fleece lining and wind-and-rainproof membrane.
2. Personalised fork and trowel set (£25.87, Etsy)
Personalise your garden tools
You can personalise this traditional wooden-handled stainless steel fork and trowel set with own message or perhaps the recipient’s name. Each tool can have up to 30 characters.
3. A Christmas Cook’s Garden (£20, The Gluttonous Gardener, glut.co.uk)
Give your loved one a Christmas Cook’s Garden
This festive gift set gives you the ingredients you need to grow your own herbs, along with aromatic spices for mulled wine. The pack includes seeds for sage, rosemary and thyme, as well as cinnamon sticks, cloves and star anise, along with growing instructions and recipes.
4. Upcycled vintage spoon garden plant markers (£15 for set of three, Amazon)
Stylish spoon plant markers
If you’re into vintage, you’ll love this set of three upcycled vintage teaspoon garden markers which can be personalised with the plant, vegetable or herb name of your choice. The spoons have been flattened and the words are hand-stamped onto them, so perfect for the gardener who has everything.
5. Caledonian Tiered Raised Bed (£121.99, forestgarden.co.uk)
This tiered raised bed is a space-saver
Another space-saver for people who want to grow flowers, fruit and veg but don’t have enough room – the answer is to grow upwards. This planter can hold 250L of compost and the frame comes pre-notched so is quick and easy to assemble. Remember to line the trough with a permeable membrane if you are using it to grow food.
6. Barry’s Cactus Club subscription (£15 for a one-time gift; £42 for a 3 month subscription; £156 for 12 month subscription, barryscactusclub.com)
Barry’s Cactus Club
This is a brilliant idea for people who love these prickly plants and want to get a bit of a collection going, to put on their desk, or line up on shelves or windowsills. Each month the recipient will receive a surprise mini cactus or succulent and a specially designed ceramic pot that you won’t find anywhere else, plus in the first box you’ll get a few other goodies. Perfect for those who like low maintenance plants and fancy some new desk buddies.
7. Wildlife Letterbox Gift (£19.99, Suttons, suttons.co.uk)
Posting gardening gifts can be easy
Letterbox gift sets have now landed at Suttons for you to send to friends and relatives who aren’t going to be joining you during the festive season. You can choose from five different types – from chilli, herb, fragrant, vegetable and wildlife. The wildlife set comes with floral seed mixes, twine, mini secateurs, exfoliating soap and a pressed flower kit.
8. Veritable Classic Garden White Indoor cultivation garden (£137.10, Amazon)
Grow herbs indoors all year with this high-tech planter
This ingenious high-tech self-sufficient garden incorporates lighting with a colour spectrum adapted specifically for edible plants, enabling you to grow herbs all year round easily indoors. You don’t need any natural light, its clever automatic irrigation system will water plants for three to four weeks, and it comes with four seed kits so you can get growing straight away.
9. Iris & Lady Moore Charity Candle (£49, Jo Malone, jomalone.co.uk)
Bring floral scent indoors
A gorgeous irises design adorns the casing of this deliciously scented charity candle, which has a burn time of around 45 hours. For each charity candle you buy, Jo Malone will make a donation equal to 75% of the price to charities which support people affected by mental health.
10. Cast iron boot brush and jack (£23.95, Harrod Horticultural, harrodhorticultural.com)
This may be the solution to muddy boots
This is a must for those of us who struggle to remove their muddy boots at the end of the day and don’t know where to start when it comes to cleaning them. The tough brush bristles should remove a lot of the dirt, while the specially shaped jack will prise off the tightest boots.
11. House of Plants game (£14.99 Amazon)
Enjoy a plant-themed game at Christmas
Who doesn’t love a Christmas game? And when it has a gardening theme even better for the green-fingered among us. The plant-themed card game is perfect for millennials and plant lovers as they build up their own urban jungles.
12. Priestlands Birch Scrub-Up and Celebrate gift set (£32.99, Suttons.co.uk)
Be pampered after a day in the garden
After a long day of gardening, pamper yourself with these soaps, dry skin rescue oil and lip balm, and there’s even a spirit you can serve over ice – all derived from various parts of the birch tree.
13. Jane coin purse – Bumblebee Garden (£44.95, willbeesbespoke.com)
Bee prints make a lovely gift
This beautiful new handmade range, The Bee Garden Collection, is a new collaboration between Will Bees Bespoke and former head of design at Liberty Art Fabrics, Emma Mawston, featuring designs inspired by the flora and bees native to Devon and Cornwall. Handmade in England, with free personalisation – you can have the purse embossed with initials – it also comes with a small pack of wildflower seeds to attract bees.
14. Trumpet peony plant support (from £34, Harrod Horticultural, harrodhorticultural.com)
Splash out on a subtle plant support
There are some really stylish plant supports on the market – but some are less noticeable and let the plants do the talking and, if that’s your preference, this rust-coloured peony support fits the bill. Available in two heights and four diameters, it will keep your plants propped up without stealing their thunder.
15. Festive Kilner (from £7.50, Rosebud Preserves, rosebudpreserves.co.uk)
When you’ve finished the preserve, keep the jar for your own harvests
Festive mincemeat, chutney, marmalade and pickle all go down well at Christmas, but if your loved one fancies a go at making their own next year, these robust Kilner jars from Rosebud which come packed with flavoursome fare can be reused next year when gardening fans want to have a go at preserving their own harvests.
16. Personalised gardening calendar (£14.99, gettingpersonal.co.uk)
Planning for the next season is always high on the gardener’s list of to-dos, so let them see in the New Year with a personalised gardening calendar so they can pencil in those garden visits, plan their gardening schedule and admire their own name in a variety of garden settings with each calendar month.
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