Holiday Gifts for Your Entire List!
‘Tis the season of gifting! Have you found holiday gifts for your garden loving friends and family? Here are some ideas for the gardeners (and garden lovers) on your list!
Galvanized Flower Caddy
Galvanized Flower Caddy
As much as I enjoy the holidays, I can’t help but dream of spring when my garden explodes in a rainbow of flowers. I love to cut flowers to bring inside. That’s when I reach for this adorable metal flower caddy. Red flowers go in one of the metal buckets, yellow in another, then white, then purple — all ready to be arranged into a big vase on my dining room table. Sometimes I create the arrangement in the caddy itself, pour a little water into the bottom of each bucket, and use the entire caddy as a vintage-style vase. Either way, use this cleverly designed flower caddy and a sharp set of shears to fill your home with flowers. Exclusive to Gardener’s Supply Company, order this vintage-inspired caddy for the flower grower on your holiday gifts list here.
White Fusion Peacock Plant
White Fusion Peacock Plant
White Fusion Peacock Plant (Calathea ‘White Fusion’) is a stunning new offering that dresses up in any modern, traditional, or eclectic home or apartment. Calathea is a tropical plant from Brazil that makes the perfect houseplant. Compared to other peacock plants, ‘White Fusion’ has whiter whites, greener greens, and the leaves’ undersides are blush lavender. Absolutely beautiful! Gift this gorgeous plant to your best friend or your cubicle mate – and skip the wrapping paper, a white bow is all it needs!
Herb Drying Rack
Herb Drying Rack
In winter, I harvest bay, rosemary, marjoram, sage, and many other herbs my family loves to cook with all year. But how to dry them? This stylish Herb Drying Rack does the job handily. It’s pretty enough to hang permanently in the kitchen window, near the fireplace, or close to a heating vent. Six hooks are included for you to hang bundles of herbs, or flowers, or garlic, or hot peppers, too. Order this Herb Drying Rack as one of your holiday gifts for the herb gardener on your list here.
‘Dame Judi Dench’ Rose & David Austin English Roses Book 
Edible San Diego Subscription
Edible San Diego Gift Subscription
Your favorite foodie is sure to appreciate an annual subscription to Edible San Diego, featuring the latest on San Diego’s local food scene, seasonal recipes, my articles about growing your own edibles, and more.
Subscribe by December 15th and Edible San Diego will include one of its beautiful commemorative cookbooks, six upcoming issues in 2019, and a market tote — all for just $25. Order subscriptions for your holiday gifts here.
Ceramic Cacti Planter
Cacti and Succulent Pot
This adorable Cacti and Succulent Pot is modeled after a traditional strawberry pot, but issmall enough to fit on a counter top or table. Fill the pot with cactus and succulent mix, then tuck a favorite succulent cutting into each pocket for a sleek, stunning display. Available in white, anthracite grey, red, or turquoise. Plant it and give it as one of your holiday gifts, or keep it for your own collection! Order any color planter here.
Imabali and Grand Diva Amaryllis
Amaryllis ‘Imbali’ (left) and ‘Grand Diva’ (right)
On the garden tour I led to South Africa earlier this year, we saw thousands of beautiful wild bulbs, but few compared to the rare Imbali Amaryllis. This beauty’s foot-tall stems make four or five blooms, each with distinctive rose and white stripes. Every bulb comes with its own ceramic cachepot textured to look like tree bark. Enjoy its grand-size blooms indoors while you wait for spring bulbs to appear outdoors. Find the Imbali Amaryllis ready for gifting here.
Red is the color of passion and lust, and that’s just how you’ll feel when you see the deep red, velvety blooms of the Grand Diva Amaryllis. Every precious bulb comes already planted in a golden cachepot, ready to emerge and bloom in a sunny window. Gift this Amaryllis to your favorite flower lovers, they’ll be enthralled. Order the Grand Diva Amaryllis here.
Love gifting Amaryllis? Choose from more unique blooms here.
DIY Craft Food Kits
DIY Hot Sauce and Cheese Making Kits
What are you giving the kitchen wizards on your list? Why not introduce them to mixing their own hot sauces or crafting their own cheeses? Gardener’s Pantry™ offers a variety of kits this holiday season. One of my favorites is Gardener’s Pantry™ Deluxe Hot Sauce Kit, which includes mixings for six tangy sauces, from Mole Hot Sauce to Lime Jalapeno. The Deluxe Cheese Making Kit makes up to 20 pounds of soft cheeses, including farmhouse cheddar, Gouda, Colby, Monterey jack, cottage, feta, ricotta and parmesan cheeses. Everything for soft cheeses is included — just add milk!
Happy Holidays from all of us at A Growing Passion!
— Nan Sterman
