Here's a very pretty website, brightly coloured and perfect for the glamorous gardener. This is an excellent place to find unusual gifts, from handmade garden trugs and coloured handle topiary shears to Aunt Sadie's scented candles and the pink and green camouflage cool bag. A great deal of trouble has been taken here to create a collection you won't find together anywhere else and you may well be tempted to treat yourself as well.
Based in Wiltshire this online retailer offers an excellent gift delivery service. They have a very good selection including gifts for babies, gourmet hampers, (think The French Hot Chocolate Pot gift set and chocolate truffles with champagne) pampering gift boxes and ideas for men plus lots more. If you need a gift in a hurry I would definitely have a look here as they offer all the right services – gift wrapping including your personal message and express delivery.
This is not as it sounds to me - a plant website - but a great place to find lifestyle products and gardening gifts. It's beautifully laid out and easy to navigate and you can buy braziers and hammocks, candles in metal pots, slate cheeseboards, lead ducks and Hunter clogs and wellies. There's also an wonderful gardener's hamper although most gardeners would almost certainly have some of the items included already. Returns are free.
Yes this is the place to find the most outstanding roses of all varieties, from climbing and floribundas to ground cover and hybrid tea varieties, however don't expect to find your standard hand tieds here as these are gorgeous roses for planting in your garden. You can order them in pots, bare root or gift wrapped and select the date that you want them delivered. If you want something totally unique you can name a rose here as well.
There's a very wide range of prices here as Garden Trading offer some unusual pieces of furniture, such as the 'Broomstick Bench', right through to interesting canisters and glassware and the Lisa Stickley collection of cushions, enamel mugs and matchbox covers. There are some suggestions in their 'Gift Ideas' section but personally I would recommend having a browse round the whole site as there's lots to see.
There are perfect gifts here for anyone who loves roses and also being pampered as this is a hand-picked collection of luxurious rose-inspired products, each one selected to compliment the natural beauty of a Simply Roses bouquet (which you need to call them to order). Online you can choose from rose scented foaming bath oil, candles and prettily packaged soaps, pomanders, savon de Marseilles and bath truffles. At the moment you need to send a cheque with your order.
Here's a wonderful place to find gifts for the gardener in your life produced by a husband and wife team inspired by visits to long established working gardens around the country. The products combine practicality with style and most would make excellent presents although if you're the gardener in your family you'll no doubt want a treat as well. There are beautifully made, classic tools, gloves, aprons and wonderful boots, dibbers, tampers and twine plus carefully thought out gift sets.
Bradleys are an independent leather tannery based in Shropshire and specialising in the design and manufacture of a unique, high quality range of garden, gift, leisurewear and lifestyle products. Everything is hand made in the UK using traditional methods and local craftsman and all the leathers are tanned in-house. If I were a gardener (and I have to confess here that I'm not) I'd definitely want a pair of their unique gloves or leather trimmed topiary shears which come in a range of colours.
Plants make wonderful gifts for most occasions and whereas that wonderful bunch of flowers will be gone within a week plants, of course, last much, much longer. Here you can order from a really good selection including pink roses, early Clematis, fruiting lemon and kumquat trees, jasmine, azaleas and beautiful Moth Orchids. Each plant is hand-wrapped and packed with care instructions and a handwritten full-size greeting card. The service is excellent
You may well have heard of Rick Stein – eaten at his restaurant in Padstowe if you’re very lucky or bought or cooked from one of his many excellent recipe books. Now on his online shop you can order the items in his cook shop such as cooking utensils and original tea towels; send one of his hampers as a gift, buy his Chilli Chutney, tapenade or home made Florentines, choose from his personal wine selection or buy Gift Vouchers. There’s a really good collection here and some great gift ideas for the cook, but of course only if he or she likes fish.
Fruit and nut trees, ornamentals and aromatic, evergreen bays are just some of the unusual gift ideas you can find here. The trees are chosen for their colour, blossom, shape and size to suit all types of gardens and patios and they arrive dressed in a hessian sack tied with green garden string, planting instructions and hand written message card. You can request that your tree arrives on a specific date and if you want advice just give them a call.
This is an extremely tempting website, where you can order the highest quality olive oil and balsamic vinegar, British and French cheese, caviar, Foie Gras, black and white truffles and truffle oil, spices, mushrooms and champagne. Everything is beautifully photographed with lots of information about every product - where it comes from and what makes it special. The prices here are good, particularly when you consider the quality of what you're buying. They offer gift vouchers as well.
Beautifully packaged and hand tied with raffia, this is a wide selection of well photographed gifts for any of your friends who like to garden and eat as well. So you'll find sloe gin accompanying young sloe trees, a bottle of Macon with a white grape vine and champagne with terracotta pots planted with sage, thyme, oregano and rosemary. This really is an excellent website for gifts and something just that little bit different.
Bayley and Sage are a top quality delicatessen based in Wimbledon. On their website you can't actually visit the deli, but you can buy one of their well put together gift selections, with names like Sweet Sensation (jelly beans, chocolate brownies, mini cakes and marshmallows etc) or Gentleman's Selection (wine, coffee, marmalade, nuts and Gentlemen's Relish). Everything is very clearly photographed and the prices are reasonable.
For anyone interested in gardening, membership of the Royal Horticultural Society is a must, not least for entrance to the Chelsea Flower Show, but also for the many other shows, free entry to all their recommended gardens, advice from the Wisley Advisory Department and access to seeds from their annual Seed Distribution Scheme. Online you can become a member or give the gift of membership and also access their beautifully photographed plant selector.