Terrific Mother’s Day Gifts for the Garden Loving Mom

When special celebrations like Mother’s Day rolls around, gift selection is made easier when the honoree has a hobby or interest to help guide you.

When it comes to finding just the right gift for an avid gardener, try one of the following ideas.

Gardener’s Basket Delight

Buy an inexpensive oblong or hour-glass shaped basket, long and deep enough to hold cut flowers. Make sure it has a sturdy carrying handle, like this Butternut Flower Basket. The basket will not only be used to “package” other gifts you put inside; it can later be used as a carrying caddy for gardening supplies, or cut flowers gathered from the garden after Mother’s Day.

Fill the basket with an assorted selection of garden related items: Gardening gloves, stem stripper, snips, rooting hormone, gardening shears, rose cutters, a flower gatherer, harvesting shears, and pruners.

Gardening hand tools such as a trowel, weeder, cultivator, bulb planter, transplanter, soil scooper, and dibber are also useful hand tools that make planting and gardening maintenance easier.

Ergonomic hand tools like a Natural Grip Weederwould be perfect for Mom! The unique handle design positions the wrist at a natural angle, transferring arm strength to the blade; reducing hand stress while improving digging power.

A small plant mister or two (for water, fertilizer, or insect and disease control solutions), and a knee and seat pad specifically designed for gardeners are also choice possibilities.

Arrange the items in the basket to look attractive and balanced. You may want to roll up the knee and seat pad and tuck it in the basket, extending out over one corner. Gather the gloves together in the center with a twist tie; affix to the handle of the basket like a bow!

A Hat Full of Promises

Another great Mother’s Day gift idea for a gardener is “A Hat Full of Promises.”

Shop around for wide rimmed gardening hat; one made from straw would be perfect. It should be cheerful and colorful!

This Womens Straw Cowboy Hatwould make a great gardening fashion statement!

Buy an assortment of seeds: flower, herb, and vegetable. Select wildflower mixes – both shade and sun-loving varieties; vine types such as morning glory and moon flowers, container favorites such as marigold, petunia, and violas, and such likeable perennial specimens as flax, Shasta daisies, poppy, and lantana.
Small boxes of mixed wildflower seeds are also available.

Choose flower varieties for along a fence, for flower beds, container pots, and low growing specimens for groundcover, such as alyssum, creeping baby’s breath, and lemon thyme. These can be used to fill in the spaces between other plants and flowers in container gardens and flower beds. Select herbs for their scent, beauty, and medicinal value.

Herb Garden Seed Ballsare the latest Gardener’s rage!

Each clay ball has enough seed to cover a square foot area. No more tedious single seed planting and no digging required. Flower Garden Seed Balls are also available!

When making both flower and herb selections, choose varieties that flower at different times of the year to prolong enjoyment.

When making vegetable seed selections, select types you know Mom likes – but buy an unusual varieties for added excitement. For instance, instead of regular oblong zucchini, buy the small round, roly-poly type. Instead of just green pepper seeds, choose a package containing a colorful mixture of red, orange, yellow, green, and deep purple varieties. Instead of regular radishes, get the white icicle variety.

Place crumpled tissue paper in the belly of the inverted hat, and arrange the seed packages on top. Add a pair of gardening gloves if you like, overlapping one side of the brim. Pin a printed poem about flowers or gardening on the gloves.

Center the filled hat on a large piece of colorfully tinted cellophane; bring the edges of the cellophane up around the hat and tie in the middle. You can affix silk or plastic flowers, or a bow, to cover the tie.

Other Gift Ideas for a Gardening Lover Mom

Flower drying crystals and a “how-to” book, or free information on how to use the crystals, printed from the Internet, would be fun and could become a favorite new hobby.

There are a variety of kits and books available for making pressed flowers; the new trend is micro-waved pressed flowers using special presses!

This Watering Can Bouquet is really two great gifts in one; a fully functional red designer watering can with brass rose, filled with 10 dainty Scilla bulbs. Bulbs can be transplanted outside to enjoy year after year; container can be used to water flowers. Bulbs come pre-planted, pre-sprouted!

Any one of these terrific gift ideas is sure to sprout a smile across your garden-loving Mom’s face and make her love grow! Delight her and please her this Mother’s Day with a unique gift that truly says, “You’re special!”

RESOURCES

> Butternut Flower Basket >>>
> Natural Grip Weeder >>>
> Womens Straw Cowboy Hat >>>
> Flowering Watering Can >>>
> Herb Seed Balls >>>