Gardening Gifts for Springtime

This gardening gift selection is suitable for all ages, abilities and occasions. So lets welcome Springtime and get outdoors to make the most of our gardens, balconies and pots. If you’re looking for chocolate-free gifts for all the family, here is a small selection with more available from my online shop www.borderinabox.com/shop.

Young People:

Creative kits for kids encourages their curiosity with nature – from growing their own food and flowers to learning about bugs and the weather. It’s so important to make it fun as we all know, we learn and retain information much more easily if we enjoyed the experience. So with that in mind, I’ve created a few kits for them that make great gifts for birthdays, Easter and holidays!

Egg Box Starter Gardens:

Egg Box Starter Garden

These Egg Box Starter Gardens come with a choice of seeds – Tomatoes, Sunflowers, Nigella or Wildflowers. It makes a quirky gardening gift and is a simple way to start sowing and growing flowers or tomatoes from seed on the windowsill.

Suitable for children or adults with no need for any gardening expertise, just a dollop of enthusiasm and a bit of sunshine!

New Home & first time gardeners

If you’ve moved in to your new home there are plenty of gifts to choose from, including packs of annual flower seeds or a ready-made garden design kit and my book and journal to help with all the basics when starting a new garden.

Ready-made garden design kits

If you need some guidance on how to turn a boring border into a beautiful border, then these ready-made design kits will make your life so much easier as everything is worked out for you – no more overwhelm at the garden centre trying to choose what plants to buy for your plot! Makes the perfect New-Home gift too.

There are nine ready-made garden design kits to choose from. Each one is created for a different environment or style preference – Sunny, Shady, Cottage, Butterflies & Bees, Evergreen, Contemporary, New Build/Clay, Wellbeing and Scented.

Each design measures 3m x 1m. Though you can easily adapt them to fit small spaces or raised beds – or use multiple boxes for a large and cohesive garden.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• A garden border design template of what to plant where
• A mood board showing how the plants look together
• A plant list with photos, flowering times and general care
• Advice on how to prepare the border for your new plants
• Top tips on how to add further interest to your border
• Two packets of seeds to scatter in between plants which will flower from spring to autumn
• Book on how to create your garden with easy to use guidance and information – perfect for newbie gardeners

All borders include a mixture of evergreen and perennial plants so once it’s planted, it will provide years of enjoyment.

Its good to include annual flowers as they are great for pollinators as well as giving some colour to the garden borders and pots in your first year and also fills any gaps whilst waiting for your perennials to mature.

Link for more information: https://borderinabox.com/shop-readymade-garden-design-kits/

If you would like the design kit personalised with Mum for Mother’s Day, add it to the order notes section.

Flower Seed Kit

Growing your own flower garden from seed means you can fill your garden with blooms from spring to first frosts. Its a cost effective way of filling your garden with colour and compared to potted plants, there’s less packaging. Also, by growing a variety of flowers from seed, you can attract and support local pollinators like bees and butterflies, which are essential for our ecosystems’ health.

This kit can be personalised (in place of the Grow Your Own wording). It includes 12 packets of seeds (all in foil sachets), a sowing guide and planting plan.

Click here for more information: Grow Your Own Flower Garden Info

Or if you prefer a veggie version…

Click here for more information: Veggie Seed Kit Info

This veggie seed kit contains 12 packets of seeds (one packet to sow each month) along with a sowing guide and a mini cookbook (10 recipes) to turn your home grown veggies into culinary masterpieces such as carrot cake, mint mocktail and creamy pesto.

Wellbeing & Mindfulness Gift Box

If you’re looking to send some well wishes, this Wellbeing & Mindfulness gift box is a thoughtful gift to pop in the post to someone who needs a bit of TLC. It contains three packets of seeds – Lavender, Calendula and Mint along with recipes to make Lavender shortbread, Calendula balm (great to soothe skin) and a Mint mocktail. Plus a wellbeing journal to help you get started on your journey and a mini colouring book. Nurturing seeds is great for mindfulness and having the recipe card it gives the recipient something to make after growing their plants.

For more information click this link – Wellbeing Gift Box Info

Gifts for Mum and Dad, Uncles, Aunts & Grandparents!

Personalised gifts for parents – there are plenty to choose from! Such as these gardening gloves with seed packs – choice of flower or veg seeds. Each packet has a gold heart and underneath you can have text of your choice – the photo shows ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ but you can have ‘Happy Retirement’ or ‘Happy Birthday’ etc etc

For more information click here – Ladies gardening gloves and seed pack

or Mens version – Mens gardening gloves and seed pack

Garden Journal and Flower Seeds

More information click here: Garden Journal and Seeds

Bird Feeder Gift Box

Feed the birds all year round with this heart-shaped metal bird feeder. Simply add a fat ball (in winter) or fruit and hang it from a tree or bird feeding station. Gift box also includes three packets of seeds to sow and grow – Sunflower, Cosmos and Zinnia which are all loved by birds and pollinators. The box sleeve can be personalised with the recipients name too – just add it to the order notes

Windowsill Gardening

Now the daylight hours are getting longer, sowing seeds on the windowsill is a lovely way to start growing your own herbs, sunflowers and wildflowers. Nurturing seeds is so good for our wellbeing and once the seedlings are large enough, they can be transplanted outside into the garden.

The kits come with a packet of seeds, a trio of pots with a drip tray, and coir compost (just add water, and it will expand to make around 9 litres – so there’s plenty of compost for potting on the seedlings).

Click here for the Herb Garden for Cooks 

Letterbox Gifts

Sometimes you just want to send a little ‘something’ to a friend to say ‘thinking of you’ or ‘congratulations on the promotion/new job’ and you want something more than ‘just a card’ so I’ve created these snazzy seed gifts with a heartfelt quote. There’s plenty of space to write your message on the inside of the folder too if you wish. In addition to the Cosmos version, shown below, there are Geranium, Calendula and Forget-me-Nots to choose from. All of them have a full size packet of seeds, a quote and three coir pellets to start sowing straight away

Cosmos Seed Gift Set – Cosmos Seed Gift Set

There are plenty of gifts to choose from and you can add gardening gloves, seed packs etc to make your gifts even more special – if you need assistance, just ask!