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Top 10 Perfect Gifts for Gardeners

Top 10 Gifts for Gardeners

With the holidays approaching it’s time to check your green-thumbed friend off your list! Shopping can be stressful… whether it’s for a fellow gardener or that aunt that doesn’t want anything. These gift ideas are sure to be perfect for the garden enthusiast in your life and maybe even those other hard-to-buy-for family members!

1. Garden Journal

Every gardener needs one! A garden journal is perfect for keeping track of all those pesky things we forget about! Help your friend stay organized in their garden and remember which plants they want to divide, phenological notes, ideas for next season, which plants the rabbits ate, and any other reminders!

2. DIY Wildflower Seed Bombs

3. Olbrich Botanical Gardens Membership

For the month of December, current members can gift a membership to new members for 1/2 price! It is the gift that keeps on giving all year long with free admission to the Bolz Conservancy, discounts in the Growing Gifts gift shop, discounts on Olbrich classes and trips, access to special members only events and reciprocal benefits to over 300 gardens nationwide!! Check out their website to fill out the application.

4. Hori-Hori Garden Tool

5. Magazine Subscription

There are so many fantastic garden magazines that provide inspiration and creative ideas all year long! Avant Gardening & Landscaping’s favorites include: Wisconsin Gardener Magazine, Garden Design Magazine & Horticulture.

6. DIY Hand Scrub

7. UW-Arboretum Winter Enrichment Lecture Series Registration

Since 1968, the Arboretum has offered lectures for naturalists in the greater Madison area. This winter program is also open to Arboretum volunteers, friends, and interested public as space allows. Great topics that branch out form birding to geology and everything in between! Check out their website to sign up.

8. Growing the Midwest Garden Book by Ed Lyon

9. Fiskars Knee Pads

10. Tilandsia – Air Plant Terrarium Kit