Best Gifts for Gardener’s Under $20
Recently, I was delighted to have been asked to provide a Gardener’s Gift Guide for Better Homes & Gardens magazine. I was instructed to curate the items from Amazon’s website and to choose gardening gifts with a price that needed to be under $20 ~ meaningful in this time of affordability concerns. With a keen eye for bargains and utility and style, I was ready to make a “green” list ~ and to check it twice 😉 🧑🎄 🧑🌾🌳 As a horticulturist and passionate garden designer for decades, I possess a first-hand/in the trenches sustainable gardening perspective to choose things I’d want to receive and/or give to the green thumbs or budding botanists in my garden glamour world. Here’s my pragmatic, thoughtful gardening gifts for under-the-tree, stocking stuffers, book club, or Secret Santa ~ from gardening journal to tools to gloves and books:
Heirloom Garden Seeds ~ $19.69 Botanical Interests ~ Pollinators Paradise Seed Bundle ~ many choices from Herbs to Vegetables to Flowers Seed Packets are great stocking stuffers too
Vegetable Plant Markers ~ Plant markers with style, featuring artful, decorative plant names & image illustrations of (herbs, vegetables & flowers. Reusable, 15 pieces, $11.99
Or Metal Plant Markers: $19.99 25 Pack, with marker, waterproof ~ With these, you write the names on the marker
Garden Advent Calendar ~ a New Seed Each Day in a Christmas bag. Each day you receive a packet of flower, vegetable, herb seeds to ensure your garden is the most beautiful and productive in the following year. It contains 24 varieties seeds each packed in a picturesque bag featuring 24 diverse botanicals. $19.99
Garden Snips ~ Felco, steel handle, curved blade $19.18 ~ a relative “steal” at this price for a tool brand long-favorited by horticulturists
or Corona at $11.99 ~ Tempered Steel, Lightweight. I love these Corona snips ever since Margaret Roach recommended them and and I now have three pairs. They are very powerful in spite of their featherweight size.
Decorative Sunflower Watering Can ~ $19.99 Metal
Gardening Journal $15.38 Specially formatted for gardening, this journal provides the space the writer needs to record anything and everything they wish to about their gardening, with bulleted journal pages for writing, space for sketches, or freeform notes, and other elements to guide the writer's note-taking and illustration.
Gardening Gloves ~ Thorn proof and puncture resistant, synthetic leather, with decorative flower fabric, Touchable Compatible (! This is so convenient when multi-tasking with your smart phone to say, look up a plant ID or, take a text or call) $14.88 ~ and Long Gardening Gloves: $16.74
Weeder ~ Curved Steel Head, ergonomic wood handle, excellent tool for weeding, edging, and cultivating. Years ago, I was asked to review this tool and I still love it.
Hori Hori Knife ~ $18.99 Multi Purpose tool
Herb Planters ~ 5-Pack White Herb Planter Box with Drip Trays, 8.5 Inch Small Oval Window Planters for Kitchen Sill, Indoor Outdoor. $16.99
Decorative Planter ~ $17.99 Great gift, Fade-Resistant Ceramic Material: Crafted from 100% high-fired ceramic, this head planters for indoor plants is both durable and colorfast
Garden Tea Towels ~ $15.99 housewarming gifts microfiber kitchen towels printed with stylish, unique and cute patterns. They are also perfect for home and kitchen decor
Lotus Leaf Metal Bookmarks ~ 4pcs Metal Bookmarks with Chain Lotus Leaf Bookmark Birthday Gifts Teacher Christmas Gifts Unique Plant Gifts Literary Accessory $15.99 or Green Lotus at $7.19! ~ Great gift for teachers, friends. Cicero said if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need 😀
Book ~ Cut Flower Garden ~ If you love flowers this is a must have garden book to gift yourself or a fellow flower enthusiast ~ by renowned Floret Flower Farm, Erin Benzakein presents a beautiful gardening book and guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round. First volume in the beloved Floret Farm books and gifts series. I follow Floret Flower Farm videos, talks, and tips, and am always inspired. $18.04.
And finally, here I’m adding my very own garden art creations ~ my posh, watercolor cocktail napkins featuring an inspired French 75 with its rose and lemon garnish 🌹🍋. Lovingly beribboned and wrapped in a gauze bag
Buy all three napkin couture creations ~ or three sets ~ and shipping is free! Plus, the purchase goes towards a good cause. So you’ll feel really good about your festive Happy Hours. And you’ll have a good story that you can share during your lively cocktail conversations.
I hope my gardening picks bring you and your green-loving gardeners much holiday joy that will continue throughout every season. Without spending a ton of the other kind of green 😉 🤑
Cheers to a bright red ~ and Green ~ Happy Holiday! See you in the Garden…
