Plenty of our Rural Moms readers are garden lovers and certainly, so are we! It’s not always easy finding gifts for garden lovers, though. Often they have every tool, gadget, and seed they like to plant already in their garden bag.
If you take a moment to think outside the garden box, however, you’ll find there are plenty of great items and activities to gift. Your “plant mom” will enjoy your thoughtfulness!
Need some inspiration? We’ve got you covered with some of the best Mother’s Day gift ideas for gardeners and garden lovers. Happy planting!
Celebrating Mom’s Garden
The number one favorite place gardeners want to be is in their own garden. First, find out what help is needed in the garden. Maybe it is an old shrub that needs replacing, a patch of perennials that requires digging and dividing. Perhaps your mom’s vegetable garden that should be tilled before planting. Whatever the need, every gardening mom appreciates help.
Gift your time! Plan to spend the day tackling all the garden chores that the gardening mom in your life needs help with. Make your gift even grander by planning a special picnic lunch or afternoon tea.
If outside activity or manual labor is not an option, try searching out author events at the local library or bookseller. Meeting and listening to garden writers speak about their books and finishing with a book signing is also a great way to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Bring The Garden Inside
Gardening moms love spending time outdoors, but weather can keep them inside from time to time. A gift like the AeroGarden Harvest Unit is the perfect solution for rainy or wintery days… and every day! One of the hottest emerging trends is convenient indoor gardening. For good reason. It’s a convenient, healthy, way to grow produce inside all year round.
AeroGarden leads the way in innovative, reliable products for indoor gardening. Using hydroponic (water) power to grow plants faster, AeroGarden provides bountiful harvests that brings garden lovers great joy. The Harvest Unit is the most popular choice to begin with. At a price point around $99, it’s also an affordable option for Mother’s Day gift giving.
We’ve been testing out the AeroGarden Harvest Unit with herbs and are honestly amazed at how quickly everything sprouted and how well the herbs are flourishing in a short amount of time. The feature we particularly love is the convenient automatic reminders that alert you to water and plant food needs. It takes the guesswork out and enhances what is truly a lovely experience.
You can learn more about the AeroGarden Harvest Unit and other options available at: https://www.aerogarden.com/.
For moms who are foodies or tea lovers, bringing herbs inside is also a huge bonus! Imagine having herbs to cook or make tea with right on the countertop. It just doesn’t get any fresher!
Go Plant Shopping
The second best place gardeners love to be is where plants are sold. Pick a favorite destination garden center or plant nursery, gather up the plant list and spend the day plant shopping.
The joy in searching out plants from a sea of benches in a greenhouse, reading small details on plant tags or striking up a garden conversation with a fellow shopper is priceless. Be the one navigating the plant cart, lifting heavy pots or reaching for hanging baskets.
A variation of the plant shopping idea is to choose a never-before-visited garden center. Search for a big new destination garden center or well-respected plant seller, perhaps turning the day into an overnight mini-vacation.
For moms who are container gardeners, choose a garden center that specializes in containers and dwarf plants. You’ll likely find AeroGarden options there, too, which are a favorite of container gardeners!
If the gardening mom prefers to shop on-line or by catalog gather up all the resources and make a day of plant shopping or AeroGarden shopping from home. Make the day special by having lunch outdoors or just decide to spend the whole day in pajamas while hovering over the computer.
Visiting Botanical Gardens
Visiting a botanical garden is a traditional Mother’s Day gift idea. Take that idea further by investigating the classes or volunteer projects offered at a local botanical garden and arrange to attend one together. Some volunteer projects, with a larger focus, aim at improving a community issue such as controlling invasive plants. Some classes increase the gardener’s knowledge, for example learning how to identify the region’s native wildflowers.
Most bontanical garden locations have an exhaustive list of garden styles to walk through. They’ll offers plenty of ideas and inspiration for garden lovers to take away and use in the home garden.
