Gift Ideas For Gardeners And People Who Love Wildlife In The Garden.

 

Gift Ideas For Gardeners And People Who Love Wildlife In The Garden. 

If you are looking for a gift for anyone who loves gardening, wildlife or nature do take a look at these articles below for inspiration and suggestions.

There are many gifts a gardener would love and if they like to garden with wildlife in mind many of these are useful and practical. 

These gifts make excellent presents for Birthdays, Christmas and Housewarmings. 

Metal Wind Spinners For The Garden Reviewed  

Beautiful Metal Windspinners to add sculpture and movement to a garden, adding interest whatever the season. They look so lovely in the sunlight, spin with either a gentle breeze or a serious wind and look so gorgeous. 

Why Insect Hotels Are Good For Wildlife And Gardeners

This article discusses why every garden will benefit from an insect hotel and has suggestions to buy and make. Providing beneficial insects with a home to live and breed in is a direct benefit to them and also to the gardener who is gardening without chemicals to benefit wildlife. By housing beneficial predators we help the balance in the garden and reduce or eliminate the need for any chemical use. 

Review of Wolf ByPass Secateurs

Secateurs are an essential piece of kit for every gardener and a good solid hardworking pair are a joy to own and use. A gift I certainly cherish.

5 Wildlife Gift ideas Reviewed

Here are five great ideas of gifts to buy for anyone who loves wildlife and wants to help them and attract more wildlife into the garden. 

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Valentines Cards And Gifts For Wildlife Gardeners.

As Valentines Day approaches I am thinking about what Valentines gifts would be great for gardeners who love to garden with wildlife in mind.

Also a selection of beautiful Valentine cards based on a nature theme which you can customise to make them very personal and special for your loved one.

The 14th February is a good time to get a gift for a gardener as it is fast approaching for many of us the start of the gardening year when with luck it starts to be warm enough to get out and do something in the garden and the birds and wildlife are all gearing up for Spring.

For those if us whose Birthdays are in the summer or Autumn and  who perhaps did not get a gardening gift for Christmas it is a lovely idea to get a gift for Valentines day for a keen gardener that is romantic yes but also useful.

A gift basket is always lovely and there will be lots in this one that a gardener will love! 

A book, sunflower packs, and of course sunflowers are much appreciated by wildlife,  crackers and various spreads, herbal teas, gardening notepad, gloves, pruning shears and canvas gardening tote and more.

Sunflowers, Lemons and Herbs "Oh My" 
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This gift set is a nice mix of something for the gardener with snacks, cookies, wildflower honey and for the wildlife a clay pot for planting seeds in, maybe some pretty wildflowers and a bird box.

 A lovely gift with a  flavour of the summertime to come

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Also do not forget your Valentines day card for your loved one. If you know they love wildlife and gardens and flowers then one of these may be a good choice. 

The wonderful thing about a card from zazzle is that you can make it very personal as each card is customisable for your very own special message.

 

Two Fuchsia Flowers Valentine Card by RaintreeDesigns
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Romantic Roses Bouquet Valentine Card by RaintreeDesigns
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Magnolia Blossom In Spring Greeting Cards by RaintreeDesigns
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Precious Roses Valentine Card by RaintreeDesigns
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Two Waterlilies Valentine card by RaintreeDesigns
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Woodstock Chimes Of Earth Wind Chimes Gift Idea.

I am a little in love with these Woodstock Chimes Of Earth wind chimes.I first saw them in a shop on holiday years ago and just loved the way they looked and the way they sounded.

I love the bronze colour, it is very warm and natural. The chimes have a really beautiful satisfying warm melodious sound. It feels soothing and calming to me.


 
These chimes are hand-tuned to a universal five-note scale. In the wind or a gentle breeze, you will hear random patterns of amazing sounds. 

If you click through Woodstock Chimes of  Earth you can listen to the video of them playing in the wind. Soft, gentle, substantial and beautiful sounds...

I know some wind chimes are annoying. I have heard those rattly, high pitched screaming wind chimes that grate and annoy. I would never have those in the garden. They would annoy me and the wildlife. 

These Woodstock Chimes Of Earth however are totally in a different class. The wildlife do not appear to be worried by them at all and they have a calming effect on the garden with the added advantage of making any other noise like traffic less noticeable. 

As a gift they are stunning. They are quite substantial measuring 37-inches in length from top of gather ring to the base. The top is wood with a Bubinga finish that is weather resistant. It has 6 bronze aluminum tubes that it says do not rust.

I personally would not leave it out in the depths of my winter when it's blowing gales and raining all the time. I feel that would not be sensible and I wouldn't gain any benefit from it then as I would not be outside to hear it either! 

I would leave it out all Spring, Summer and Autumn/Fall though unless very bad weather or gale-force winds were forecast, so I could enjoy it. 

As long as you know the person you are gifting to likes wind chimes and has somewhere outdoors to safely hang them this is a beautiful gift that will be treasured.


You can even make this gift extra special by taking it to a local store to have the windcatcher engraved with a personal message. 

It is a beautiful item to have in the garden and what a wonderful sound to accompany the gardener as you work in the garden! As a gift to a loved one or a gift to yourself, if you like wind chimes you will love this one! 



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Gift Ideal For Gardening Beginners -Garden Tools Set

If you are wanting to buy a gift for a gardening beginner or are a new gardener yourself this 9 piece gardening tools set with a mat is a wonderful and very useful present. 

We all need a variety of good garden tools. We can have an established garden that needs ongoing care, or we may have just moved into a newbuild garden with nothing in it, or have moved into an older property with its own garden that is well tended or neglected, packed full or empty. Which ever way there is a need to tend it well if we want it to look beautiful and be welcoming for nature, and wildlife. 

 It may be that your grown child has moved into a new home and they now need to do their own gardening or want to get into beautifying their outdoor space or develop an interest in attracting bees and butterflies to their new garden.

It could be a new hobby or interest for someone newly retired. Maybe you have a new found interest in nature, wildlife and gardening or know someone who does. 

Even if we only have a small garden or balcony these tools will be useful for use in pots and containers and even in a very small space we can still plant and garden for bees and butterflies and do our bit for nature.

 Scuddles Garden Tools Set - 9 Piece Heavy Duty Gardening tools With Storage Organizer, 

This gift will give them all the hand tools they need to get started. The pieces are Ergonomic Hand Digging Weeder, Rake, Shovel, Trowel, Sprayer, Gloves all with a mat and storage organiser.


 Scuddles gives a handy guide to what each tool is to be used for as well-from the page:-

"Transplanting Spade – Used for transplanting your smaller plants or flowers without damaging the roots.

Trowel – This is used for getting the dirt dug up and with the measurements on the trowel getting to the right depth for the plants you are working with.

Rake – The rake you can use for smoothing over the soil that you have just turned up or breaking up the larger clumps of dirt that you have in your garden.

Cultivator – The cultivator tool will be useful for breaking up the dirt and providing some much needed aeration to the soil in the lower levels.

Weeder Tool – The weeder tool will be useful for helping you in getting the weeds root system turned up and exposed to allow the weeds to die off from the garden.

Garden sprayer - Whether you need to spray a plant or water some soil we have included a unique water bottle sprayer for doing just that.

SOFT AND CUSHIONED KNEELER PAD - You can use this garden kneeler & seat as a sitting stool to do chores or flip it over to use as a kneeler to do your garden work"

Whether the garden is large or simply a balcony, these tools will be great to work in borders, troughs and pots and so suitable for large or small gardens, flower and vegetable gardening. 

So especially if you are looking for a gift for a new gardener, a Birthday, Housewarming or other occasion this Scuddles Garden Tools Set - 9 Piece Heavy Duty Gardening tools With Storage Organizer would be a very welcome and useful gift. 



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Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves.

I like to have several pairs of gardening gloves for different uses around the garden. I do like the feel of warm earth and plants, but I do have quite sensitive delicate skin so I need to be sensible. 

Gloves keep my hands clean and reduce the risk of cuts and abrasions and any risk of coming into contact with allergic reactions from some plants. In the colder months, they go some way to keeping my hands a bit warmer. This is even more relevant when talking about working in or clearing wildlife or indeed any other type of pond. 

Some gardeners prefer to garden without gloves and I understand that. Personally, I need gloves and especially for those really messy jobs like clearing the pond. 

These Briers Drain & Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves  are great for that as they are arm length so no water seeping in over the top. They are also elasticated at the top for extra protection and are of course waterproof. They are one size but I imagine will fit most people OK. 

Especially in a wildlife garden, there will also be quite a lot of organic matter and you will want to be careful when removing debris so that you do not harm any wildlife. 

It is always best to put any weeds you remove on the side of the pond for a while so that any small creatures can escape back into the water before you dispose of it.  

The Briers Drain & Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves

are very useful as you can grasp and move plants around as well without getting cold water and mud literally up to your elbows or armpits! I find it hard to have my bare hands in cold water for very long so a nice covering and long gloves are essential.

So probably not a product you need every day or even every week, but when you do need them they are very useful indeed! If you know someone who has a wildlife pond they could be a very welcome and thoughtful gift. 

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The Gardening Gift Of Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

To a gardener the gift of seeds is a special one. Now that Christmas and New year are over my thoughts always turn to when can I get back in the garden and buying and growing seeds is an important part of that hope. 

I love how when I buy or receive seeds there is the promise of lovely flowers and tasty vegetables. I love that I get to plant them as tiny seeds, tend them and watch them grow step by step into wonderful plants. I enjoy the whole process.

 It is no quick fix, but eternally satisfying and gives a sense of pride and joy to know you grew your own plants from seed. 

So when I came across this amazing pack of vegetable seeds I had to tell you about it. In 15,000 Non GMO Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Survival Garden 32 Variety Pack by Open Seed Vault there are 32 different vegetable seed types which are non-hybrid and non-GMO which will be important to many people. 

There really is nothing like raising your own veg, picking it fresh from the garden and then eating it. The taste is so different from supermarket veg and somehow you savor it so much more.

If you know anyone who would enjoy growing these then it would be a lovely gift. Or you might like them yourself!

There are full planting and growing instructions for each vegetable and this pack giving over an acre of food could feed a family!  


15,000 Non GMO Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Survival Garden 32 Variety Pack by Open Seed Vault
EACH PACK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING 32 SEED PACKETS: 
1. Tomato Beef Steak ≈ 180 seeds 
2. Eggplant Black Beauty ≈ 80 seeds 
3. Bean Tendergreen Green Bean ≈ 20 seeds 
4. Zucchini Dark Green ≈ 25 seeds 
5. Lettuce Buttercrunch Butterhead ≈ 2280 seeds 
6. Lettuce Ruby Leaf ≈ 2280 seeds 
7. Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson ≈ 2280 seeds 
8. Brussels Sprouts Catskill ≈ 230 seeds 
9. Bell Pepper California Wonder ≈ 40 seeds 
10. Radish Cherry Belle ≈ 180 seeds 
11. Okra Clemson Spineless ≈ 50 seeds 
12. Beet Detroit Dark Red ≈ 180 seeds 
13. Onion Evergreen Bunching ≈ 200 seeds 
14. Cabbage Golden Acre ≈ 280 seeds 
15. Corn Golden Bantam ≈ 45 seeds 
16. Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo ≈ 20 seeds 
17. Winter Squash Jumbo Pink Banana ≈ 10 seeds 
18. Kale Vates Blue Scotch ≈ 280 seeds 
19. Lima Henderson ≈ 15 seeds 
20. Swiss Chard Giant Fordhook ≈ 90 seeds 
21. Cucumber Marketmore ≈ 40 seeds 
22. Spinach Noble Giant ≈ 130 seeds 
23. Carrot Scarlet Nantes ≈ 1750 seeds 
24. Turnip Purple Top ≈ 430 seeds 
25. Pumpkin Sugar Pie ≈ 15 seeds 
26. Cauliflower Snowball Y ≈ 280 seeds 
27. Pea Sugar Daddy ≈ 25 seeds 
28. Broccoli Waltham ≈ 330 seeds 
29. Winter Squash Waltham Butternut ≈ 25 seeds 
30. Sunflower Mammoth ≈ 20 seeds 
31. Parsnips Harris Model ≈ 250 seeds
32. Celery Tall Utah Improved ≈ 3000 seeds
(Plus 14-Page Growing and Seed Saving Guide)


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Bird Bath An Essential Garden Item

I love birds and while many people feed birds I have noticed that a lot less have a bird bath in the garden to help them.

In many ways a Birdbath is probably more important, or certainly as important as putting out food. 

Birds need to drink and in hot weather a bird bath can be a lifesaver. when they have chicks to feed and eggs ti incubate having a clean , fresh source of water nearby saves a lot of hassle for our birds!

Birds need to bathe. They need to keep their feathers clean and fresh and I have often seen birds in our birdbath just sitting in it resting keeping nice and cool, so essential on hot muggy summer days. 

In winter also water is important and again safe clean water that is not frozen over and this can be your birdbath. You just need to make sure that you empty it out and refill with fresh water daily or couple times a week as you can and to keep it clean.

For anyone who loves birds and their garden and likes to garden with wildlife I think a birdbath is essential. In fact we have one but I really want another one as there is such a demand from the local birds now ! I provide them with a lovely water hole and they provide me with wonderful bird watching opportunities all year round. :) 


There are many types of birdbath from the traditional birdbaths to decorative birdbaths. Some have solar power panels to light a nice glow at night, some you can fix to fences or have on the patio.

Some birdbaths are large, some much smaller. Some are traditional colours others can be found in bright cheerful colours. They can be made from glass, stone, resin, cast iron etc.  Really the birds don't mind as long as its fresh clean water! 

So if you are thinking of buying a gift for a gardener, especially if they also love birds and bird watching,  you can't go far wrong with a bird bath! 


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