Gardening: Perfect gifts for gardeners
If you are like me and even now searching for that perfect holiday break or hostess reward for someone on your record, why not treat them to a gardening-similar present?
Regardless of whether the difficult-to-get-for individual is an professional gardener or an aspiring just one hoping to develop a inexperienced thumb, they will eagerly await spring when they acquire a gardening reward this holiday period.
There are several possibilities ranging from modest items that make great stocking stuffers to equipment and larger sized merchandise that gardeners will use for a long time to appear.
Below are some concepts for helpful gardening presents:
Give a plant
What better gardening present than a live plant?
Standard holiday plants these as poinsettias, amaryllises, Xmas cacti, and paperwhites are always correct and make wonderful live holiday getaway décor. Other flowering plants this kind of as crimson or white cyclamens make festive gifts, and houseplants and succulents make great presents no make a difference the holiday getaway or season.
One of a kind plant gift choices contain terrariums, air vegetation, orchids and compact indoor aquatic gardens. For individuals unable or unwilling to dedicate to plant care, slash flowers blended with seasonal greens are an alternative.
Decorative pots
An extraordinary assortment of ornamental pots in a wide assortment of designs and materials are currently on the sector for out of doors and indoor use. Resourceful consumers may perhaps even uncover deep discounts suitable now on out of doors pots that vendors hope to clear from their inventories right before year’s conclude. Whichever design and style of pot you pick, be certain that it includes a drainage gap around the bottom of the pot. A hand-decorated pot makes a fun holiday craft job for young children and a lovable present for grandparents.
Stuff the stockings
Seed packets make terrific stocking stuffers, and gardening gloves and hand tools will also healthy properly into a stocking. Most gardeners can use an extra set of pruning shears, and gardeners can never ever have as well numerous hand trowels!
Gardeners really like to get their hands soiled, so how about incorporating significant-top quality hand soap, soothing salve or hand cream to your favored gardener’s stocking. Other practical gifts that healthy into a stocking include plant stakes, tags and ties, as effectively as gardening-linked magazines.
Books
Publications and subscriptions to magazines that are connected to performing all-around the yard will assistance gardeners endure the extended, darkish times of winter right until they can get back exterior and dig in the soil. For a lot of gardeners, the up coming ideal issue to obtaining their hands into the soil is curling up in a cozy chair and reading about new strategies to get their hands into the soil.
A gift for the birds
Gardeners understand the added benefits of attracting wildlife and beneficial insects to their gardens and property landscapes, and hen houses and feeders, bee resorts, bat residences, chicken baths and butterfly residences will make best presents for the environmentally acutely aware gardener on your listing.
Backyard garden bling
Bring the bling to the backyard or household landscape with yard ornaments built of glass, metallic, pottery or other resources.
Give an experience
Memberships or admission tickets to community gardens, arboreta and gardening activities make excellent holiday gifts for gardeners. Local choices include Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Chadwick Arboretum on the Ohio Condition College campus and Dawes Arboretum near Newark.
For the vacationer gardeners on your listing, other Ohio options include: the Cleveland Botanical Yard Holden Arboretum in Kirtland Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron Kingwood Center Gardens in Mansfield and Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati.
Read additional: Gains of indoor crops incorporate improved air quality and get the job done efficiency
Lend a hand
For senior citizens and other gardeners who may possibly have to have some assistance with larger gardening or home landscape maintenance tasks, think about a reward certificate from a nursery or landscape organization for skilled landscape servicing or advancements. You may well also decide on to give the gift of your labor to assist a gardener with gardening or landscape tasks next season.
No matter which style of gardening present you opt for to give, it will bring holiday joy to the recipient and continued enjoyment all over the gardening time for years to appear.
Mike Hogan is an associate professor at Ohio State University and an educator at the OSU Extension.
