Christmas Gifts for Gardeners

Gardeners are often easy to shop for since there are many Christmas gifts your gardener will love.

Oilcloth Tool Organizer

I found a brightly decorated floral oilcloth garden tool organizer that wraps around a five gallon bucket (you supply the bucket). The cheery and easy to clean organizer has 24 pockets for tools, seeds and twine. The cost is $29.95 from Gardeners.com, and this company is “rooted in Vermont and 100 percent employee owned.”

Gardeners Wellies with Chicken Theme

The company listed above sells cute yellow waterproof wellies with chickens on them, for $39.95. The wellies are 10 inches tall, and have buckles so they can be adjusted to keep out the rain, and will make muddy garden tasks more fun.

Garden Hats

I always wear a hat while gardening as protection from the sun. The store SongBirdGarden.com offers many garden gifts from gloves to clogs and bird houses and feeders, and an assortment of hats. They sell cotton Sloggers hats in lime green, sky blue, pink or white that are vented and have wind lanyards, for $31.99 and a Principle Men’s Aussie cotton hat, UPF 50 protection for $39.99, for your favorite guy.

Books

It is fun to go to your local or online bookstore and browse the garden section for gift ideas. Some suggestions are Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! by Carleen Madigan and The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. In my Father’s Vineyard by Wayne Jacobsen is full color and combines Scripture with a year of vineyard observations.

Gift Certificate for a Nursery Catalog

Gift certificates mean that you won’t buy something not needed or wanted, and the recipient gets the pleasure of dreaming and selecting. Perhaps a rose bush, or garden pruners, or vegetable seeds, or… You know what I mean.

Whimsy

Would your gardener like a gnome, or a ceramic rabbit, or a cute sign? I bought myself a life size white ceramic rabbit at Goodwill for $2.00, so consider bargain hunting this holiday season.

Garden gnomes are cute and comical and one company, GnomesPixiesAndMore.com, offers some gnomes designed by Anthony Fisher in England. One is a garden gnome sleeping in a wheelbarrow for $33.89. The gnome is 10 inches tall and 12 inches long.

For more whimsy, how about an elephant watering can for a child for $10.00? There is a recycled plastic elephant watering can 13 inches long, from www.ahaModernLiving.com that holds one half gallon of water and is ideal for indoor plants.

For the Birds

Hanging tubular bird feeders are easy to fill, and hang on a nail from the eaves of your house or garage, or from a tall shrub or tree limb. Fill with black sunflower seeds or mixed seeds to encourage your feathered visitors. My garden always sports a hummingbird feeder, which attracts these flying jewel-like birds. For climates where freezing temperatures are found, a heater for your bird bath will keep water available to your songbirds.