To garden…
Kew Gardens Leather Gardening Gloves – Hardwearing and reassuringly supplied by one of the nation’s most beloved gardens. These look good, feel good and will keep your hands warm and un-spiked!
Gardener’s Pail from Carrier Company – Wide-necked and lightweight, this handy little container is designed to bring all of your gardening bits and bobs around with you with ease – and also makes a handy all-in-one-place storage container.
Rain Catcher via Etsy – Natural metal that will beautifully rust with time, these stunning rain catchers make a beautiful addition to any flower bed. The colours are natural, and they’ll gently collect rainfall, creating drinking spots for birdlife, and vertical height to your designs.
Niwaki Rattan Snips – We’ve recommended the Niwaki Secateurs too many times now to merit including… But what about their snips?! Personally, we find we use snips far more than secateurs in the garden. They’re more precise and come in very handy for houseplants too.
To read…
Dig Delve online gardening magazine – a beautifully laid out online gardening magazine by garden designer Dan Pearson which offers an annual subscription service. With four hearty issues a year and new weekly articles, it’s inspiring, portable, modern and beautiful.
Modern Nature – Derek Jarman – A stone cold classic. The late-great Derek Jarman’s diary of his garden at Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Slow, peaceful, purposeful and sure to inspire. A must-read for any gardener.
A Wilder Way – Poppy Okotcha – A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world. What’s not to like.
Literary Gardens – Sandra Lawrence – For garden lovers as well as gardeners, Literary Gardens explores thirty of the most atmospheric and emotionally charged gardens in literature. A very neat way of taking some of the most magical gardens of all time with you wherever you go.
For our books, we like bookshop.org – a great website that supports independent booksellers.
Everything else…
Lego Fountain Garden – When the weather is miserable and even the keenest of gardeners can’t face heading outside, what better way than to wile away an afternoon with a Lego set. This formal garden design reminds us of our Classic theme and will look lovely nestled on a bookshelf once complete.
Gardener ‘Boy Smells’ Candle – Boy Smells range of affordable, comfortable candles are really special. With the addition of a Gardener fragrance, we’re confident it will make a tasteful present for any gardener, smelly boy or otherwise.
Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 – An instant camera from Fujifilm popular at parties, weddings, and other gatherings… But have you considered it as a beautiful way of documenting garden progress? A fun, multi-purpose gift that, given with intent, could transform someone’s garden transformation journey.
And, finally, oh go on then…
A Dig Winter Indoor Plant Collection – A perfect Christmas / winter centrepiece, sideboard display, kitchen windowsill decoration – you name it. Our brand new Winter Collection (which also has Instant Bed offerings and outdoor plant collections) makes a neat decorative gift that can be onward-planted out in a pot or into your garden. You can find out more about all of our Winter Collection offerings here.
