The 14 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers We’d Buy Ourselves (2025)

Featured successful this article

• The Ultimate Plant Parent Mug

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  Fellow

  Carter Wide Houseplants Mug

  Many WIRED reviewers committedness by their Carter mugs—Boutayna Chokrane and java writer Matthew Korfhage, among them—and for bully reason. They're stylish (especially nan versions from Fellow's Artist Series), nan articulator is perfectly bladed to debar spills, basking drinks enactment basking each day, and nan wide rima is made to fresh an Aeropress. The only caveat is that this wide type won't fresh successful a car's cupholder, truthful it's champion arsenic a mug for stepping … preferably to a works store, which is appropriate, arsenic nan mug's designer, creator Charlie Wagers, is himself part-time proprietor of a plant shop successful Pittsburgh.

• A Plant That Lasts Forever

  

  Courtesy of LEGO

  Lego

  Icons Succulents Building Kit

  Though this completed Lego group takes up valuable support aliases array existent property that could beryllium unfastened for plants, it could supply a cheery popular of colour for a acheronian area aliases area wherever plants mightiness not thrive. My family has some this succulent kit and nan bonsai character ($50), which features seasonal blossoms.

• A Stylish Propagation Station

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  Mkono

  Plant Propagation Tubes

  Propagation tubes arsenic decor is not a caller concept, but not everyone has nan array aliases support abstraction for nan number of tubes they need. This hanging type comes successful small, medium, aliases ample sizes, arsenic good arsenic your prime of wood finishes. There's besides a achromatic type pinch colored tubes if your recipient wanted to bent it successful beforehand of a model for a stained-glass effect. (They whitethorn want to dainty nan tubes pinch hydrogen peroxide first to debar algae growth.)

  Pair 1 pinch a gift certificate to Palmstreet, an online marketplace for unrecorded plants successful nan vein of Etsy aliases Poshmark. The app's a spot cumbersome, but I had a amazingly awesome clip buying enigma boxes of houseplant cuttings to capable my ain propagation tubes. Unwrapping each cutting was its ain gift—I had nary thought what specimens I was going to get, immoderate of which ended up being rather absorbing and/or rare. (Boxes mean astir $15 to $25.)

• A Fun Puzzle

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  Cavanilli & Co.

  Cacti & Succulents Vintage Puzzle

  This 1,000-piece puzzle is based connected a vintage botanical poster and not only looks great, it's ace challenging pinch each nan achromatic abstraction and similar-looking greens. The pieces travel successful a drawstring cloth container wrong nan giftable tube-shaped container, and there's a mini poster included to thief pinch orientation. If succulents aren't your recipient's thing, Cavallini besides makes akin vintage-inspired versions pinch houseplants, floral specimens, a flower garden, and wildflowers.

• Grow Your Own Mushrooms

  

  Courtesy of North Spore

  North Spore

  Organic Spray & Grow Mushroom Kit

  You person astir apt seen different brands' versions of this kit, but those are usually stored dehydrated and are only bully for 1 fruiting, if you're lucky. North Spore's are shipped fresh, pinch an enclosed small squirt vessel for keeping moist (sorry), truthful they'll beryllium bully for aggregate fruitings. My pinkish oyster mushroom artifact is astir to person its third. Oyster mushrooms are typically nan astir beginner-friendly, and North Spore offers 3 different kinds—pink, golden, and blue, arsenic good arsenic trendy lion's mane if your recipient is simply a much knowledgeable mycologist.

  Suppose your giftee loves increasing mushrooms but has graduated to much challenging varieties. In that case, North Spore makes an automated monotub ($165) that tin beryllium paired pinch either substrate aliases nan brand's fruiting blocks. It keeps nan increasing situation pinch nan due airflow and humidity, and I've grown truthful galore mushrooms successful excavation that I've turned into a Crazy Mushroom Lady, leaving bags connected neighbors' porches and chasing down acquaintances successful nan market store.

• A Decorative Indoor Trellis

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  If your friend aliases loved 1 is supporting their vines aliases floppy houseplants pinch bendable moss poles or, worse, a jury-rigged ladder made retired of duct-taped pencils (it was an emergency, OK?), dainty them to 1 of these hand-finished, laser-cut works supports. There are staked versions, modular versions, coasters, wall mounts, and moreover a paintable peperomia leaf. I tested two—one shaped for illustration a monstera leafage and different for illustration a palm—and some person held up good pinch floppy philodendrons and occasionally over-watered soil.

• For Your Recipient—and Their Plants

  

  Photograph: Lisa Wood Shapiro

  HoMedics

  Natura Small Plant Humidifier

  Humidity is basal for plants year-round, but particularly successful winter. If your recipient lives successful a barren environment, why not springiness them a double-duty gift—a humidifier pinch a planter successful it! The Natura is made pinch recycled materials and FSC-certified bamboo, meaning nan bamboo was harvested from responsibly managed forests.

  WIRED contributing reviewer Lisa Wood Shapiro tested it for our guideline to nan Best Humidifiers and liked that it could beryllium filled either from nan apical aliases from nan side, and that nan mist spout could beryllium rotated for customized spray directions.

• A Lucky Jade

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  We emotion Urban Stems' flower delivery, but it turns retired nan marque besides offers a action of works gifts that vessel successful conscionable a mates of days. The Good Omen consists of a mini jade succulent—thought to pull wealthiness and prosperity according to feng shui principles, owed to its coin-shaped leaves—in an elephant-shaped planter. (Elephants are besides considered bully luck successful galore cultures.)

  It comes very cautiously wrapped successful stiff cardboard and foam, and nan vintage-inspired, off-white planter looks moreover amended successful personification than it does online. If nan stems look a small mashed astatine first, not to worry—it will perk up successful astir a week. If your recipient already has a jade, Urban Stems offers orchids, bromeliads, ZZs, and more.

• A Tabletop Grow House

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  Ferry-Morse

  Modern Indoor Bamboo LED Growhouse

  Whether your recipient is an indoor aliases outdoor gardener, likelihood are they person immoderate plants, seeds, aliases starts that could usage immoderate other light. This easy-to-assemble turn container is simply a captious portion of my farming life—it features 3 LED ray strips astatine nan apical pinch a timer and varied light-intensity settings.

  It's designed to fresh Ferry-Morse's seed-starting trays, but it's besides awesome for houseplant cuttings, starts, and immoderate of nan different myriad projects works group often person going.

• Grow Your Own Herbs

  • 

    Courtesy of Auk

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  I trial a batch of indoor hydroponic gardens, and this stylish small planter (read our afloat reappraisal here) hits nan saccharine spot of occurrence and easiness of use. You tin turn immoderate you want successful nan coco coir pots, which are slotted connected nan bottommost truthful nan roots tin scope nan reservoir below. When nan h2o is empty, a dial connected nan broadside pinch a bid of achromatic dots shows a reddish dot. Fill it backmost up pinch h2o and nan included nutrients, and nan dial rolls backmost to nan first achromatic dot.

  I wouldn't turn thing different than herbs successful present owed to nan ray barroom tallness (there's supposedly a mounting for tomatoes and peppers, but successful my experience, nan yields won't beryllium worthy it successful a plot of this size), but herbs it so does well. (It comes pinch basil and parsley.)

• Grow and Then Chop Your Own Herbs

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  John Boos

  Herb Enthusiast Gift Pack

  If you cognize personification who's willing successful increasing culinary herbs but doesn't want to perpetrate to a afloat garden setup, this gift group from cutting committee shaper John Boos & Co. could beryllium nan ticket. It includes 3 Kratky method hydroponic herb-growing kits—rosemary, cilantro, and basil—along pinch a harvest portion instrumentality that I loved truthful overmuch I would give it arsenic a gift connected its own, a 17 x 12 x 1-inch Boos Block walnut cutting board, and a burlap farmers marketplace bag. I admit I wasn't judge what to expect from nan disconcertingly elemental mason-jar herb kits, which are from Modern Sprout, but excavation are each increasing successfully successful a sunny room window.

• A Mail-Order Fruit Tree

  

  Photograph: Via Citrus

  A favourite from our guideline to nan Best Flower Delivery Services, Via Citrus sends miniature consequence trees successful a cookware astir nan size of a flower bouquet. Options see Meyer lemon, kumquat, and calamondin orange. WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell received nan calamondin past year, which was successful bloom erstwhile it arrived, and she reported it smelled awesome nan infinitesimal she unboxed it. It yet did fruit, and is still live and good connected her patio a twelvemonth later. (They tin turn indoors aliases outdoors.)

• For Making Compost Indoors

  

  Photograph: Kat Merck

  Reencle

  Prime Electric Composter

  As seen successful our guideline to nan Best Kitchen Composters, nan Reencle Prime doesn't afloat make ready-to-use compost, but it comes nan closest retired of immoderate of nan awesome brands. It functions a batch for illustration a heated trash can—just propulsion your room scraps in, and microbes will break them down complete clip into a benignant of loamy mixture. When nan measurement of nan Prime reaches nan capable line, nan substance tin beryllium scooped retired and added astatine a 1:4 ratio pinch potting soil, past near to cure for 3 weeks. After this, it tin beryllium utilized for some outdoor and indoor plants. Not only will it free up abstraction successful your giftee's trash tin and trim down connected dangerous greenhouse state production, it will make their plants happy.

• A Splurge Showpiece

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  • 

    Photograph: Kat Merck

  • 

    Courtesy of Gardyn

  Gardyn

  Indoor Hydroponic Garden

  This is my favourite indoor hydroponic garden. (Read my afloat reappraisal here.) It's pricey, and it's a symptom to cleanable erstwhile it's clip to move complete your plants, but nan vertical conduit creation and front-mounted ray barroom let nan plants to turn arsenic gangly aliases arsenic wide arsenic they request to, resulting successful thing that looks much for illustration a surviving creation portion than a rootlike garden. (In conscionable 2 quadrate feet!) An optional subscription plan allows for guided increasing done “Kelby,” an AI farming adjunct who tells you erstwhile to adhd h2o and nutrients and trim roots, and tin moreover compile a cool time-lapse video of your existent maturation cycle. Gardyn conscionable released an updated type of its smaller Studio model, the Studio 2, which has each nan features of nan larger plot but pinch half nan plants, for $350 less.