Holiday Gardening Gift Guide

It is time to spread love and joy through gift giving. Finding the right gift may be difficult for the special someone in your life so we have several options to help take the stress away! Plants are oh so unique and make the perfect gift for anyone. Come to Patuxent for all the holiday cheer this season!

Selecting the right gift shows your understanding and knowledge of your friend, family, or significant other. We have featured some great plants and more that will make beautiful memories for years to come. When you give gifts that you know your friends and family will absolutely love, the experience becomes more personal. If you need gift ideas this holiday season, you are in the right place!

This holiday season give a thoughtful gift, the kind of gift that keeps growing. Whether you are shopping for the avid gardener in your life or someone who has no green thumb at all, the following plants make great gifts that they will love growing.

Our beautiful Christmas Cactus comes in a variety of different colors including red, white, pink, and salmon. This plant makes a great gift, very fitting for the holidays. Christmas Cactus will adapt to low light conditions, but the plant will form blooms more readily if exposed to bright light.

Norfolk Island Pines are elegant, low-maintenance indoor trees that are often used as little Christmas Trees. Place small ornaments on it to give it a festive feel around the holidays! The Norfolk Pine does great in bright, indirect light with high humidity.

These exquisite plants shine bright indoors. Place them where they will receive bright daylight and with indoor temperatures of 65-70 degrees Fahrenheit are best. These plants fit well with the holiday decorative scheme and truly capture the eye. Poinsettias come in various colors that range from, creamy white to pink to the traditional bright red.

Hurry and grab them while you can! These cool-season plants are very popular in the winter since they are able to handle temperatures in the 40s. Place Cyclamen indoors because they do best with bright indirect to bright direct light. These flowers can be bright red to pink or pure white. Not only do they have beautiful flowers, but they also have heart-shaped foliage with striking patterns on them! Gift them to your loved ones, and you will surely be appreciated.

Frosty Ferns have unique foliage that makes a great holiday gift. A fitting decoration for your home this winter season. These gorgeous houseplants look like they have been touched by soft winter snow. These frosted tips are actually new leaves growing at the edge of old. They are great to have on your coffee table or desk.

The perfect flowering plant for a beginner gardener would have to be amaryllis or paperwhites. We offer bulbs of both and blooming amaryllis. They require no gardening tools to succeed, they will even bloom in water with no soil. Any plant lover will appreciate how easy they are to grow and the beauty they exude!

Let’s move on to some non-living gifts you can grab for your loved ones!

Before you know it spring and summertime will be here. Give the gift of sun protection with a fashionable garden sun hat! This will keep the sun off of a gardener’s head as well as keep them from being blinded by the sun. We have a variety of options for you to choose from, come check them out!

Every gardener, whether gardening indoors or out, needs a good set of gardening gloves. We offer many different sizes and patterns to choose from for every type of gardener!

What is a gardener without their tools? From small hand tools to large digging tools, and everything in between, we have it all. The stainless steel gardening tools we offer are needed for the next heavy-duty project the gardener in your life is looking to tackle.

Whether you are looking for an accent pot for plants, or a show-stopper to stand out in a collection, we have all the pottery you could ever want to give someone. Both outdoor and indoor pots are available. From simple pottery to pots with clever sayings, you are sure to find the perfect pot for any loved one!

Don’t forget about the stocking stuffers. Seed packets make great additions to a gardening basket or to add to your favorite gardeners’ stocking this holiday season. Stop by to check out which seeds you can plant now for spring blooms!

Another amazing stocking stuffer is a Patuxent Nursery gift card! It takes the stress out of present shopping. Grab your loved ones a $25, $50, $100, or $250 gift card, and let them grab everything they have been desiring from the nursery!

There you go! You are ready for the gift-giving season. Your holiday shopping is complete with Patuxent. Stop by now to pick up all the great goodies and make sure to catch the amazing deals we have in stores.