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Newbie gardener on your gift list? We have a list of gift ideas for the beginning gardener!
We love it when someone we know takes a sudden interest in gardening. Those first tentative tries frequently meet with limited success, but that doesn’t seem to squash their enthusiasm.
If the beginning gardener holds a spot on your holiday gift list, read on for some brilliant gift ideas. (Find gift ideas for the vegetable gardener here).
Build-Your-Own-Bundle (4 plants/$44)
If the person you’re gifting prefers to grow indoors, you’ll love this deal! PlantVine is offering your choice of 4 houseplants for $44! You could even keep one for yourself and gift the others to the indoor gardener on your list (we won’t tell!)
Here’s are the plants you can choose from:
- Monstera adansonii
- Philodendron micans
- Calathea concinna ‘Freddie’
- Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoviana
- Neon Pothos
- Philodendron Brasil
- Peperomia puteola ‘Diamond’
- Pothos ‘Cebu Blue’
- Peperomia obtusifolia, Green Baby’
- Golden pothos
- Jade pothos
- Silver satin pothos
- Philodendron cordatum
- Peperomia obtusifolia ‘Marble’
- Hawaiian spider plant
Atlas Nitrile Tough Glove
While no one pair of gloves will meet every gardening task, we think these are ideal and pretty close to “all purpose.” So inexpensive you might end up purchasing a pair for yourself too!
9 Piece Garden Tools Set with 6 Ergonomic Gardening Tools
Every gardener needs a set of sturdy hand tools and this set includes the basics: weeder, digger, trowel, rake, pruners, gloves, sprayer and transplanter in a cute tote bag. It’s a best-seller at Amazon.com.
Manual Hand Pruner
If you’re gift shopping for a newbie gardener who doesn’t own a good set of pruning shears, your list just got shorter. Pruners are probably one of the most-used tools in every gardener’s belt and these Felco F2’s can’t be beat. They are well-made so they last forever. If anything should go wrong you can buy replacement parts for them. Trust us, this is an amazing gift.
Soil Kit
New gardeners, especially, need to know their soil. What’s in it? What’s NOT in it? What should be changed?
If you want to set the new gardener up for success, this is one thoughtful gift.
It’s so easy, too, with this kit. “If you can use a smartphone, you can conduct a scientific soil test. SoilKit will geolocate your property, calculate the size of your lawn/garden and maintain an online history of your results,” according to the manufacturers.
Your gardening buddy will receive all the supplies he or she will need to take the soil sample and it will be analyzed by “… one of the nation’s leading agricultural labs.”
In return, the results will be easy-to-understand and come with recommendations to fix what needs to be fixed.
Hoss Tools Garden Spade
Sure, it isn’t your normal holiday gift, but it’s one that your giftee will use over and over and for years to come. He or she will use it for digging, turning soil, dividing plants and more. 
Olle Raised Garden Bed
Lucky is the new gardener if gifted with any of the products from Ollie’s line. Raised-bed gardening is all the rage now, especially in urban areas. Aside from adding gardening space, there are so many other benefits to raised-bed gardening.
A few of these include giving the gardener more control over the soil and a lot less weeds to pull.
Books
“The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible”
A must-have if your newbie gardener intends on growing vegetables. It’s probably the most comprehensive book on vegetable gardening on the market today.
“Plants you Can’t Kill”
Think back to your first days puttering in the garden — and that nagging fear that you were going to kill everything you touched. This is the ideal book to give self-confidence to the beginning gardener.
“Beginners Illustrated Guide to Gardening”
With step-by-step instructions and lots of photos, your gardening giftee will learn everything from how to read plant tags at the nursery, how to start seeds, how to mow a lawn and even how to prune. This guide is indispensable for the new gardener.
