DIY Gifts From Your Garden (Homemade and Simple)

Whether you’re a flower gardener or a vegetable gardener, there are lots of delightful gifts you can create from your garden. Gifts that you would appreciate receiving.

Your gardens can be a source of inspiration for homemade gifts and a wonderful means to express your passion for gardening to others, offering them something distinctive and heartfelt. Plus, handmade gifts are the best gifts!

We’re including ideas from around the web of some of the best homemade gifts you can give from your own garden, as well as DIY gifts we’ve shared here on Gingham Gardens. Although most of us think the most about gift giving during the holiday season, many gifts from your garden can be given all year round, you just have to do a little planning ahead.

Whether you need ideas for Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, wedding gifts, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gifts, or just because gifts, we’ve got you covered! Get ready for an overload of creative ideas.

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Easy Gifts from Your Flower Garden

One of the easiest gifts to make from your garden is a simple bouquet of flowers. Whether it’s a single stem or a full bouquet, fresh flowers are always appreciated. They can be arranged in a vase or in a mason jar for a more rustic look. Get some great tips on arranging flowers from your garden in this post.

If you need a Mother’s Day or spring birthday gift, consider putting together an outdoor container garden using plants from your gardens. Flowers planted in a wicker basket make a really creative gift. You can do a flower planter, herb planter, or vegetable planter. Just be sure to include instructions on caring for the plant(s) and be mindful of the recipient’s growing conditions in their yard. For instance, you wouldn’t want to gift a planter that requires full sun, when the recipient only has shady outdoor spaces.

For more tips and ideas on gifting plants, check out – Plants Make Great Gifts. What about putting together a winter porch pot with items from your backyard.

Seeds from your flower garden make a fun gift for garden lovers, family members or anyone who would like to start gardening. Gingham Gardens’ Etsy store has an adorable collection of seed packets you can print at home and are the perfect package for your gifts of seeds. Put together a gift basket with the seeds packets, some seed starting soil and some little pots. Make the gift extra special and add in our excellent Seed Starting tutorial that can be printed off in a booklet format.

Making potpourri is so easy and a great way to preserve your favorite flowers. I waited so long to make potpourri and now I’m hooked. Even if you missed the window of opportunity to pick fresh flowers from your garden, you can make potpourri using store-bought bouquets. What’s more, potpourri makes the perfect gift for anyone on your gift list. Check out the linked article when you finish up here.

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Gift Ideas Using Pressed Flowers

Using pressed flowers from your garden is a great option for creating a DIY garden gift. I press flowers using this kit from Amazon. It took some time, but the pressed flowers turned out amazing.

I also tried using this microwave flower pressing kit and the flowers turned out great and it was actually easier than I thought it would be. Pressed flowers can be used to make greeting cards or note cards, resin projects, phone cases, framed pictures, and many more cool things. Any flower lover would appreciate a gift with pressed flowers. I used two frames from the dollar store to make a pressed flower frame, but you can also purchase frames specifically for pressed flowers.

If you missed the window of opportunity to collect flowers from your own garden, you can purchase beautiful pressed flowers, or you can purchase a fresh flower arrangement and press those flowers.

The candle holder or vase below was a little more time-consuming, but I love the way it turned out. All it takes is a jar, mod podge and pressed flowers. I followed the steps in this short video tutorial. A few pointers – using a square glass vase or jar with flat sides is definitely easier. After you get your flowers glued on with mod podge, let everything dry before you add the final coat of mod podge. Add a flameless candle and you have a beautiful gift.

Photos of Your Garden Make Unique Gifts

These simple DIY projects can be done in Microsoft Word, Canva, PicMonkey, Photoshop, and many other programs.

Do you have a beautiful flower garden? Create a gift certificate for a photo shoot in your gardens.

Create a calendar using photos from your garden. Shutterfly has many different calendar choices.

Using one of your favorite garden photos as a background, add a favorite verse or poem over the top of it. Add it to a beautiful frame and that makes a wonderful gift.

Likewise, you can create notecards with pictures of your gardens on the front. Print the cards on nice cardstock.  Add envelopes and tie string, jute cord or raffia around a group of cards.

Gifts from Your Vegetable Garden

Even if it’s not the growing season, jams, jellies, pickles, or any preserved fruits or vegetables make excellent gifts. Someday I hope to be a pro at food preservation. So much to do, so little time!

Do you have a foodie on your gift list? Here are some great gift ideas you can give someone who loves to cook, including

• Dried herbs or braided garlic both are good gift ideas for couples who like to cook together or really anyone who likes to cook.
• Make an herbal tea with dried herbs from your garden.
• An indoor herb garden to keep in their kitchen window so they have fresh herbs at the ready.
• It’s really easy to use herbs from your garden to make infused oil or vinegar. Yum!
• Here is a link to my favorite recipe for salsa. I used to make this regularly and my adult children still ask for it. Maybe next year… Tie a jute string around the top of the jar and add a gift tag and you have the perfect small gift from your vegetable garden. Another great idea is to put a bag of chips, a jar of homemade salsa and some cute dishes for dipping into a basket.

Don’t discount the abundance of fresh vegetables you grow in your gardens. A basket with a variety of fresh produce is an easy way to make a thoughtful gift for anyone.

For the ultimate gift from your garden, put together a gift basket and include a variety of these garden goodies.

Think Outside the Box for Gifts From Your Garden

Do you have a backyard bird watcher on your gift-giving list? Consider growing and making a gourd birdhouse. Christina from Little Sprouts Learning includes both easy-to-follow instructions for growing gourds and how to make them into a birdhouse. Heather, a Minnesota gardener made the adorable birdhouse gourds pictured below and she graciously gave me permission to use her photo.

Stephanie from Garden Therapy has a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a herbal healing salve using lavender or calendula from your garden.

Garden Gate magazine shares a recipe for homemade lavender sugar scrub. I’ve done this before with a group of friends. It would be fun to experiment with different herbs, like rosemary.

So what if you don’t have any fresh vegetables or flowers from your gardens, let’s be creative and think outside the box for more unique gift ideas.

Painted rocks with a reaffirming Bible verse, or even a small one word painted rock. Painted rocks can either be used outdoors or indoors and can be a reminder to your gift recipient that someone is thinking of them.

We have a few articles and tutorials for making things with wood slices, twigs and tree branches that you can source from your own backyard. Check them out:

DIY Christmas Crafts Using Twigs
DIY Natural Christmas Decorations
Christmas DIY Projects Using Tree Branches
Easy DIY Candlemaking

Do you need more ideas for gifts from your garden, check out these books:

 

I hope you enjoyed these ideas for giving gifts from your garden. Have you ever given a gift from your garden? Please share your experience in the comment section below. 

Happy gardening,
Joanna

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