75 Gifts for Gardeners - Get Inspired by Our Garden Wish List

If you are looking for the perfect gifts for gardeners, or if you’re looking for some inspiration for your own gardening wish lists, then you’ve come to the right place. 

We’ve put together a list of 75 gifts for gardeners, some of these gifts are items that we own and love or they're gardening gifts that we have on our own gardening wish list. 

These are all useful gifts, gifts that gardeners need, and not things that’ll be put in a closet and never looked at again. Of course, gardeners come in many different variations, so when you go through the list of gifts for gardeners, keep the gardener in mind that you are gifting to. 

You can buy these gifts for gardeners online or locally. 

We are amazon affiliates. If you click through any link in the captions of the video or on our website and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

You can also watch the video 75 Gifts for Gardeners at our Dancing Treetops Family Farm YouTube channel, and while you're there, please don't forget to support our farming dreams by liking and subscribing. 

There’s no order to the list, and there are gifts in all different price ranges. 

If you’re a gardener and you have something on your wish list that we don’t have on ours, please leave a comment. 

75 Gifts for Gardeners

1. Our Gorilla Cart has been a steady friend for the past three years, and it is still going strong 
2. A wheelbarrow
3. Good pruners are essential, our Fiskars pruners, which were a gift, have worked well for us, but if you’re willing to spend a little more we’ve got the Felco 2 pruners on our wish list. 
4. Loppers
5. Air layering pods will be a hit with any gardener looking to make more plants. We love these, and we prefer the clear ones, because you can actually see whether roots are forming without having to open up the pods. We also recommend that you get different sizes, because some branches are bigger than others. 
6. Rooting hormone. This is a great gift for both beginner and seasoned gardeners, as making more plants is an important step in the journey to becoming a skilled gardener. You can use many different brands, but these are two of our favorite rooting hormones. Hormodin 3 rooting hormone and Garden Safe rooting powder.
7. A birdbath - we’ve had a birdbath on our wish list for a long time. Here a few of our favorites: Concrete birdbath, Mosaic Birdbath, and Ceramic Birdbath.
8. A Hammock. If you have a couple of trees in your yard, we can highly recommend a hammock. We use ours a lot, and there’s just something calming about being in a hammock looking up at the dancing treetops. These hammocks are on our garden wish list: Handcrafted, USA made hammock, hammock with stand, and the hammock with washable cover. 
9. A compost storage bin for inside. We use an empty ice cream container, but we’d love to have a nice-looking compost bin. Kitchen compost bin with filter, robin's egg blue compost bucket, and the stainless-steel compost bucket. 
10. A pH meter that works. Yes, not all pH meters work, we’ve tried a couple of them. This pH meter for plants works and is user friendly.
11. A sharpening stone. This is a small and inexpensive, but helpful gift, for any gardener or farmer. It is portable and easy to carry along, plus if you use gardening tools they constantly need to be sharpened. We like this sharpening stone, because it is small and thereby versatile for pruners, plus it comes with a good cover. 
12. A good pitchfork is essential in the garden. Whether you’re moving wood chips, loosening soil, or digging up potatoes, turmeric, and other rhizomes or root vegetables, it is helpful to have a pitchfork on hand. Make sure the pitchfork has a good grip. We have this pitchfork on our list. 
13. A good shovel. We’re on a teacher’s budget, and we usually buy our shovels used, and not all shovels are created equal. That’s why we always have a shovel on our wish list. Here's a heavy-duty shovel.
14. We also have a banana shovel on our wish list, as this is a great tool for anyone who ever needs to dig up banana pups. We have this banana shovel on our wish list.  
15. A fruit picker is helpful if you are a fruit gardener. We use ours for picking papayas, but you can use it for mangos, avocados, apples, and many other fruits. You need to look for a fruit picker with a good grip and length. We like this extendable fruit picker for our list when we need a second one. 
16. A battery-powered chainsaw. This is ours, and we love it! It is great for small projects, and while I’m a feminist, let me tell you I think this is a great chainsaw for women. I will admit that I’m a little scared of the big chainsaws, and I’ve had this chainsaw for 5 years. It’s cut up countless palmettos and taken down a few small dead trees. Our battery-powered chainsaw from Greenworks is a very hard worker, and we've put it through a lot.
17. A gas-powered chainsaw.
18. A battery powered handsaw. You can't go wrong with this Craftsman battery-powered pole chainsaw. 
19. We also love our small handsaw, but it is old and rusty, and it needs to be exchanged for a new one. Here's a foldable handsaw similar to ours. But this battery powered handsaw will be a big hit with any gardener. 
20. A long pruner. These are especially great for cutting banana leaves. This banana pruner is very similar to ours.  
21. A pole saw is great for those branches up high. 
22. A metal stamping set, a pair of metal cutters, and roll of aluminum flashing so the garden lover in your family can make permanent plant tags and never lose track of another plant id again. We’ve got a video that’ll show you how to make these. 
23. Bird feeders. If you love nature, and if you are a gardener, it’s very likely that you love birds too….as long as they stay away from your bird trees. But, you can also just feed the birds close by, and maybe they’ll lose interest in the delicious food you're growing. That’s why we always have bird feeders on my garden wish list. This is a solar-powered bird feeder with light. 
24. We have a hummingbird by the house, and they are just amazing to see swishing by, so we can highly recommend gifting a hummingbird feeder for a gardener. This Nature's Way hummingbird feeder is on our wish list. 
25. A bird feeder hanger. Here's a two-pack bird feeder hanger set with enough hanging space for several bird feeders. 
26. A birdhouse. Birds are essential to the health of our ecosystem, and they eat so many bugs that we wish for as many birdhouses as possible. This is one of the bird houses on our wish list. 
27. A bat house. Bats eat bugs, bats eat mosquitoes, and bats are amazing pollinators, plus bat droppings also called guano is great fertilizer. Here's a USA made cedar wood bat house that's on our garden wish list. 
28. A chicken coop. If you have a garden lover in your family, who you want to surprise with a great gift, a chicken coop is a great although a little expensive idea. 
29. A rain barrel - we recently did a video of how to make your own rain barrel, which is the budget-friendly option, but you can also find lots of rain barrels online and locally. Just make sure that they are mosquito-proof and are made of good materials. Here's a 50-gallon rain barrel made from recycled plastic.
30. A woodchipper - this one is one of the more expensive gifts, but if you have a serious gardener in the family, we cannot emphasize the importance enough. We use our woodchipper often. It helps break down branches so they can be composted into soil, and it ensures that no yard waste (other than poison ivy) ever leaves our land. Our woodchipper is so old that it hasn’t been in production for years, and we are looking for a new one. When you shop for a woodchipper make sure it has lots of horsepower and at least an opening for a 4-inch branch. We have our eyes on this woodchipper with a 5-inch opening and 15 HP. 
31. Thornproof gardening gloves are especially important if you handle roses, blackberries, citrus or bougainvillea, and other plants with thorns. 
32. A solar fountain - We gave my dad one of these a few years ago, and it has worked great, and it’s been on our own gardening wish list ever since. 
33. We absolutely love our Solar Powered Lighthouse for the garden with the spinning light. We actually got this to help against armadillo digging up our garden at night, and it seemed to work. Even if you don’t have armadillos, this solar-powered rotating light is a great gift for gardeners as it looks great and helps against nightly predators in the garden. 
34. A garden kite to keep birds away from berries. My dad is a farmer, and he has these in his fields to keep birds away. We definitely need one of these for berry season. 
35. A great-looking pot for outside. 
36. A misting watering can for indoors. When you start seedlings, a misting bottle helps get the seeds off to a great start. 
37. A mini greenhouse for outside. We don’t have one, but our friend does, and we wish we did. This is the mini greenhouse on our garden wish list. 
38. A grafting knife plus grafting tape. We’ve just started our grafting journey and still need to get better. If a gardener can learn how to graft, the sky’s the limit. We have both this Felco grafting knife on our wish list and this grafting tool set. 
39. A raised garden bed. Homemade or store-bought, a raised garden bed is great for all gardeners, and the higher it is the better. 
40. A compost bin- If you are a gardener, you must have a composting pile or a compost bin, because compost is a gardener’s best friend. 
41. A worm bin - We absolutely love our worm bin, and it is essential to the productivity of our garden. We couldn’t afford the one we really wanted, so we made our own. It doesn’t look too fancy, and if we could, we’d get a bigger one so that we could make more vermicompost. 
42. Solar-powered lights for the patio. 
43. A great sunhat for working in the garden. 
44. A trellis. A gardener can never have enough garden trellises, and most gardeners have plants on their wish lists that they can’t get because they don’t have somewhere to grow them, which especially goes for vining plants. 
45. A propagating greenhouse for indoors. 
46. A good hand shovel. 
47. A rain gauge. 
48. An outdoor thermometer showing both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Preferably one with big numbers so you can see it from a window or a door if it's freezing outside. This is a 14-inch outdoor thermometer similar to ours. 
49. An outdoor garden workstation. We got this one from a friend, and it really is a garage table, but it helps with so many things, because we don’t have to bend over when we work with our plants. If you can get an outdoor garden table, it would make a great gift. 
50. Grow lights setup for indoors 
51. A whiskey barrel planter. They just look great in any kind of garden setting. 
52. A great gardening knife, for weeding, pruning, and planting, and even better if it comes with a protective cover. 
53. Gardening shoes. Waterproof gardening shoes are very helpful, because somehow gardeners just tend to get wet feet. 
54. Rainboots. A pair of quality rainboots are extremely useful for a gardener. 
55. A garden seat. The older we get, the harder it gets to get up from the ground and let’s face it, it doesn’t matter how old you are, if you can make gardening easier, it’s just better. This is the garden seat we wish for. 
56. A harvest basket. We need to put the fruit and veggies we harvest somewhere, and why not do it in style. When you shop for a harvest basket look for those that don't have big gaps for small tomatoes and berries to drop out. The harvest basket is on our wish list.
57. A rake. There are different types of rakes, but all gardeners should have one of each of these as they have different uses. 
58. Seed saving bags. These are just small wedding favor bags that can be tied around a seed pod to save the seeds. We use them all the time, and because of it we can grow more plants, save money, and spend less. We use these organza wedding favor bags for seed savings bags, but you can also get them a size bigger if you prefer. Just make sure to get the white or green bags so they don't stand out too much in the garden setting. 
59. A stylish seed saver box. Make sure you check the size, ass some of the seed saver boxes are smaller than they look. We wish for this seed-saver box.
60. A dehydrator - because when we grow our own fruits, herbs, and veggies, we also need to save them for when they’re no longer in season. We wish for this electric dehydrator and this non-electric mesh outdoor dehydrator.
61. A juice pot. My mama had one of these when I was growing up, well, my dad actually still uses it every year to make his own elderberry juice and soup on the farm. When we discovered elderberries in our area, I knew we had to get one, and after lots of research, I finally made the purchase. It is one purchase I've never regretted, and now we also make our very own elderberry juice every summer to last for the rest of the year. This is the juice pot that we use, and it's still going strong 7 years later. 
62. A good but stylish stainless steel water bottle. When it’s hot, my rule is usually that I need to stop working in the food forest if I run out of water. 
63. Insect netting. If you want to make life easier for any gardener, insect netting is a must. 
64. Frost protection covers. This is a big help for any gardener if they live in any growing zone where they may get hit with a freeze. Here's another cloth plant frost cover we have on our wish list. 
65. A cold frame. These are great for anywhere where you want to extend the growing season, even in Florida. This cold frame is on our wish list. Cedar wood cold frame. 
66. A wind chime - There’s just something magical about wind chimes. But if your gardening loved one already has one or more wind chimes, we recommend that you choose one of the other great gardening gifts that I’ve listed. This windchime is on our wish list. 
67. A watering can. We especially wish for a stainless-steel watering can.
68. The Grow a Little Fruit Tree book by Ann Ralph was the book that finally taught us how to prune our fruit trees. 
69. Eat the Weeds by Deane Jordan helps any plant lover identify and harvest 274 wild edibles, and that is something we can stand behind. 
70. David the Good’s Florida Food Forest book, it’s a must-have book for any Florida gardener, or gardener in the South or in California, but he has a lot more gardening books published, and we hope to make it through all of them. We learn something every time. 
71. Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown has taught us so much about growing plants while helping the earth and our plants at the same time. We cannot recommend this one enough. 
72. Transforming Florida Yards book by Amanda Pike is an eye-opener, even if you’re not in Florida. 
73. We have a book on our wish list that hasn’t been published yet. Amanda Pike is working on a food forest cookbook, and we can’t wait to get our hands on it. It’s not due to her publisher until February, and Amanda is sharing her process on Facebook, so if you want a sneak peak, follow her on Facebook. You can follow Amanda Pike's Amazon page to make sure you don't miss out on this future food forest cookbook,
74. What's at the top of our gardening wish list? Plants. Fruit trees, edible plants, pollinator plants, etc. It depends on the garden lover in your life and what kind of gardener they are. 
75. And at the top of our gardening wish list is an owl house. We know we have owls in our area, we hear them, and we’ve actually seen a large owl up in the trees. An owl is a predator, and it is a great visitor to your garden of any size. Owls help with pest control as they keep rats and other rodents at bay in your garden. Of course, make sure that your chicken coop is covered, so small chicks won’t suffer. and make sure that you get an owl house for the owls in your area, as owls come in many different sizes. Here in Florida, we have 9 different owl species and while some are small and live in underground burrows, others are huge with large wingspans. This is the owl box on our wish list. 

We'd love for you to leave a comment telling us one (or more) of the gifts mentioned you decided to get, and maybe even who you are gifting it to.

And don't forget that you can watch our video 75 Gifts for Gardeners at the Dancing Treetops Family Farm as well.

Disclaimer: We are amazon affiliates. If you click through any link in the captions of the video or on our website and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.