Popular Gardening Gift Basket Ideas

Give gardening gift baskets for birthdays or other special occasions. They are simple enough to create from just a basket and a variety of gardening items. Plan what your basket will include by choosing from a diverse selection of smaller gifts.

Personalize Gardening Gift Baskets

Each gardener has their own particular fancy when it comes to gardening. Some may prefer flowers while others prefer a functional garden that produces vegetables and herbs. Still other gardeners may like easy care gardens of rocks and a few low maintenance flowers or shrubs.

Make A Gardening Gift Basket

Begin your gardening gift basket with a large, sturdy wicker container. Look for one that can serve double duty later for flower cuttings for floral arrangements. Be a little creative with the design of the gardening items you want to include.

For the flower gardening gift basket, select packets of flower seeds or pre-started flower seedlings to add to the basket in a symmetrical design. Cut the "cups" from a colored styrofoam egg carton to plant the seedlings. For seed packets arrange them shingle style inside the basket.

Flower pots can also be added to the basket if the basket well is deep enough. Choose potted flowers for an indoor window sill or potted flowers that can be replanted in a flower garden. Purchase flowers in a defined color scheme such as pink and white or gradient hues of reds and oranges.

The vegetable gardening basket will have a more rustic theme. Seed packets and seedlings should be included. Feel free to add other gardening items like pruning shears, trowel or gardening gloves. Give the gardening basket additional height by placing a small bag of potting soil or garden stones in the bottom and then arrange the rest of the items on top.

A gardening gift basket is an ideal opportunity to present the herb lover with a diverse collection of gifts suited to their love of herbs. This basket can be a combination of:

Potted rosemary
Dill
Oregano
Basil
Sage
Curly leaf parsley
Coriander
Mint
Chives

Place herbs with the larger, darker leaves at the front of the basket as a base and add the lighter colored herbs in a semi-circular design. For depth, outline the inner edge of the basket with seed packets, colored tissue paper or foil. Or, outline with a length of decorative gardening edging or low level scalloped fencing that can be reused in the garden later.

Among the types of gardening are those that require the least amount of maintenance. Line a sturdy metal basket with a bed of white garden rocks. Add rock garden starter plants like hens and chicks, bellflower or allysum that can be transplanted to the formal rock garden.

Gardening gift baskets can also contain a calendar, planting zone map, gardening shears, trimmers and potted plants for the indoor window sill as well as books on gardening topics of interest to the gardener.