18 Gifts for Gardeners

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Video clips from this camera feeder show which birds are visiting a yard planted with coneflowers and berry shrubs.

Its built-in AI helps name the species that stop to eat, turning a season of wildlife gardening into footage worth replaying and sending to friends. Now and then, the clips turn up a wren among the usual sparrows.

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Every hoe, spade and broom stands upright in this rack, which holds up to 40 tools, so nothing ends up in a heap on the shed floor.

Grabbing the rake no longer means untangling three others first. Because it rolls on wheels, the whole set can be pushed aside when the mower needs that corner.

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Spent petunia blooms in the window boxes and a basil plant gone leggy get trimmed with these Fiskars snips.

They hang on a hook by the back door, handy for a quick tidy while the evening watering runs.

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A garden center is the scene on this 1,000-piece RoseArt puzzle, familiar ground for anyone who can spend an hour wandering nursery aisles.

Spread over a spare card table, it comes together across a few unhurried sittings, a good use for a rainy weekend when the beds are too wet to work.

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Cracked knuckles after a morning of pulling weeds bare-handed get some care from this Burt's Bees set.

It waits on the mudroom windowsill, ready for a dab before the gardening gloves go back on.

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Evenings after the clocks change leave a flower lover with no daylight for the beds, and this Galison garden scene fills them.

The pieces come together on a tray by the sofa, a cottage path appearing as the tea goes cold.

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Midwinter, when seed catalogs pile up on the counter, this Ravensburger summer garden gives a grower something sunny to work on.

It stays half-finished on the dining table for weeks, each sitting adding another flower border.

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Rose canes, a leggy forsythia and the plum tree's crossing branches all get shaped with these FELCO pruners.

Kept in a coat pocket, they come out for every stray shoot spotted on a morning walk around the yard.

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Zucchini, chard and a row of cutting lettuce come in every few days, and this Fiskars set handles the picking.

The shears cut stems right over the basket, and the pruner takes care of tomato suckers on the way back.

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This hand cream gift set goes to a gardener whose hands spend weekends in the soil.

Weeding and pruning are rough on bare hands, so they can rub some in once the dirt is scrubbed off.

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Dragging the hose around the corner of the bed always flattens the same clump of hostas, and this crowned frog stops that.

Pushed into the soil at the turn, it sits among the ferns like a garden ornament.

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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein gives a flower gardener a book to plan with.

They can mark pages while choosing what to plant next season. It then stays near the seed catalogs for reference.

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Nature's Best Hope gives a gardener keen on wildlife a book by Douglas W. Tallamy.

They can read it over winter while planning next spring's beds. It then lives on the potting-shed shelf.

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Keen gardeners can plan every bed and border with The Complete Gardener by Monty Don beside them.

They read a chapter by the back door before heading out with the trowel. In winter, it comes off the shelf for planning the planting ahead.

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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith gives a vegetable grower a reference to keep handy.

They can look things up while planning beds in late winter. It then stays on the shelf by the back door.

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The Hidden Life of Trees gives a gardener curious about trees a book by Peter Wohlleben.

They can read a chapter after a day outdoors. Afterward, it makes an easy loan to a fellow gardener.