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Homemade Gift Baskets for Gardeners
Great Gifts For Gardeners and Nature Lovers
Homemade gift baskets for gardeners are not only for gardeners, but also for anyone who enjoys flowers or indoor plants. They make nice housewarming gifts, get well gifts, or for holidays or special occasions.
Any type of planters or flower pots are good containers, as well as baskets and wooden crates. Toy wagons or wheelbarrows
are good choices also.
Moss or natural straw are good fillers for these containers; purchase these products at craft stores. Another nice decorative touch is to use small silk flowers to fill in any empty spaces in your gift basket.
For inexpensive gifts, go to your local dollar-type store. Select a flower pot, small basket, or large coffee mug with a flower theme. Fill the container with garden gifts and food items.
If you've never made a gift basket before, you may want to read through my web page dedicated to
making gift baskets.
There's a vast amount of information here including directions to tie several different bows and dozens of suggestions to make your gift baskets unique and special.

There are many gift items that would be great to place in your
homemade gift baskets for gardeners.
Here are some ideas you might want to consider: gardening tools, gloves, knee pads, seed packets, potting soil, peat pots, flower bulbs, a bulb planter, Miracle Grow plant food, an apron or kitchen towel with flowers or plants,garden bells, signs or plant markers, rain gauge, outdoor thermometer, a notepad with flower theme, gardening book or magazine, a floral scented candle, insect repellent, hand lotion, or sun screen.
Include some well packaged favorite food or beverage items like
herbal tea, gourmet coffee, or cappuccino mix, shortbread cookies, biscotti, chocolate covered mints, mixed nuts or cashews.

Another idea is to paint a
decorative watering can
and use it as the container for homemade gift baskets for gardeners. Place enough crumpled brown paper in the bottom so that the gifts show out the top.
If you plan to make gardening gift baskets for children, start with a child size theme container such as a toy pail or wheelbarrow. Fill the container with a toy gardening tools, child-size gardening gloves, a gardening book for children, seed packets, etc.

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