Stocking Filler Gifts for Plant Loving Friends and Family
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the streets are lined with twinkling lights, decorated trees are popping up in windows across the city and Christmas tunes are blaring out from Edinburgh’s famous Christmas market.
Got your main gifts sorted, but looking for little extras to pad out Christmas stockings? No need to stress! We have the perfect range of tiny trinkets, edible delights and extra decorations perfect for stuffing stockings of all sizes!
The Plant Lover.
We have so many great gifts for plant lovers it’s hard to choose just a few!
Plant care tools are always a welcome gift for plant lovers. Starting with watering we recommend Haws watering cans as they are incredibly hard wearing and are the oldest watering can manufacturer in the world. The Langley Sprinkler – one pint is a perfect lightweight stocking addition and available in sage green, dark green and black. Maybe your friend or family member is struggling to figure out if the compost has dried out for watering? Willy the Worm is a great option for this! This tiny terracotta worm will dry out with your compost to let you know when it is time to water. Other great plant care accessories include our Leaf Love Gloves. These microfibre gloves are the perfect for gently dusting leaves to improve their houseplants ability to photosynthesise, or boost their houseplant regime for the Spring with Root Buddies or 250ml Liquid Gold Leaf. Finally, pop in a copy of The Houseplant Rescuer. This fantastic book tells you everything you need to know about care and troubleshooting when it comes to keeping your plants happy. It is a must-have for any plant lover and your friends will be extremely grateful to find this in their Christmas stocking!
The grow urban Lover.
Do you have a grow urban obsessed friend? Whether they are a coffee or plant regular we have lots of lovely gifty bits to bring a little bit of their favourite shop home! Firstly, why not fill their home with lots of lovely botanical scents with our grow urban candles. Our soya candles burn for 50 hours and are available in the scents ‘Limeleaf and Ginger’, ‘Black Pomegranate’, ‘Tomato and Blackcurrant’ and brand new scent 'Rosemary, Sage and Thyme'. For something as delightfully scented, but a little smaller, choose from our collection of incense sticks. Help them carry their inevitable plant purchases with one of our grow urban tote bags complete with our grow urban slogan ‘drink coffee. buy plants. repeat’. If a bag is too big, but you love the sentiment, our drink coffee. buy-plants. repeat. enamel pins are an easy size for slipping into stockings. If you don’t know what to get, grab them a grow urban. gift card starting from £10! These are available digitally through our website or in store.
The Foodie.
Let’s start with something small and sweet when choosing gifts for foodies! Introducing FATSO chocolate, these indulgently chunky chocolate bars are made in the UK.
We offer four of their incredible flavours. HOME RUN is inspired by the classic baseball snack, made up with 60% dark chocolate delicious pockets of crunchy salted pretzel, whole almonds and honeycomb. KING’S RANSOM is a bar fit for royalty made up of 60% dark chocolate with whole pistachios, crunchy cocoa nibs with a hint of mint. SWEET TART is another crowd pleaser with 60% dark chocolate, sweetly seduced by cherries and almonds, lovingly caressed by buttery shortbread.
Finally, our personal favourite NANS STASH is made up of every tasty treat your Nan keeps in that old quality street tin! It’s got chewy toffee, crunchy peanuts and lots of buttery biscuits paired with 70% dark chocolate!
Choose from a 40g Mini Bar for a stocking-sized sample or treat them to the original 150g Chunky Chocolate Bars. For the perfect chocolate / coffee pairing we recommend popping in a bag of our grow urban. Coffee. Our beans are locally roasted by Mr Eion and if you add in a grow urban. Reusable Cup you can earn your caffeine loving pal 50p off takeaway hot drinks when they bring in our cup!
Maybe they love to cook as well as eat! If so, allow them to explore traditional Scottish cuisine and how it has developed over the centuries with The Scottish Cookbook. For the bakers amongst us, The Scottish Baking Bible by Liz Ashworth celebrates all things Scottish baking with recipes graded depending on baking abilities.
Maybe growing their own food is the next step on your Food Lovers list, but they don’t know where to start? Introduce them to The Plant Gift Co. Mini Grow Kit. Choose from Kitchen Herbs: Basil, Herbal Tea: Peppermint or Flaming Hot Chillies. Each kit comes with all the essentials for growing on your own seeds including easy-grow seeds, a step-by-step beginner sowing guide, wooden plant markers and eco-coir soil disc.
The City Gardener.
Do you have a friend with an empty garden, but they don’t know where to start? Encourage them to grow with our Wildflower seedballs. These wildflower mixes are perfect for adding a pop of colour to their outdoor space and more importantly increase biodiversity for pollinators! Choose from a range of native flowers including the Common Poppy, Cornflower, Forget-Me-Not, Oxeye Daisy and Red Campion. Each tube contains 20 clay seed balls to scatter throughout your garden in the Spring or Autumn. The clay shell prevents sneaky birds snacking on the seeds and is perfect for those looking to make the garden a little more eco by growing blooms for native pollinators! Available in Wildflower Seedball Tubes or go small with our stocking-sized Happy Christmas Seed Boxes. These smaller boxes have 6 mixed wildflower balls containing Cornflowers, Red Campion, Oxeye Daisy, Musk Mallow and Meadow Cranesbill Bloom. Alternatively, maybe you know their heart is set on growing specific Flower, Herb or Fruit & Veg varieties so why not peruse our collection of grow urban seeds? Speaking of pollinators, don't forget to help out our feathered friends with our Apple Bird Feeder. Simply stake the apple of the centre spike and hang in the garden.
Other great gifting pieces include functional items for gardening such as protective gardening gear. Whether it’s to prevent cuts and scratches from heavy pruning or an attempt to keep your hands clean whilst working in the garden, we recommend grabbing your friend or loved one a pair of Niwaki Gardening Gloves. These gloves are super comfortable and breathable due to their nylon/ spandex liner. They also have a nitrile coating which gives slightly more grip than your standard gardening glove. These sizes run small so we recommend starting at a size medium for small hands!
Tool maintenance bits are another great stocking addition for those who love to garden. Many people don’t justify the extra bits, but they truly are crucial for keeping premium tools fresh and functional. So create a tool care bundle with the Niwaki Mini Crean Mate for rust, sap and resin removal, the Niwaki Sharpening Stone to prevent blunt blades and Niwaki Camellia Oil for regular protective coating.
Add a little Christmas flare to their home by choosing from our range of gardening Christmas decorations by Sass & elle. Choose from a Gnome, Garden Trowel, Garden Shed or Bee.
The Animal Lover
As a dog friendly plant and coffee shop we know Edinburgh is predominantly populated with animal lovers so why not add in some animal themed treats to pad out Christmas stockings such as our Mini Plant Pot Yoga Cats and Adorable Dogs Plant Markers. For a fun, but slightly more sophisticated look check out our range of brass Plant Animals companions. From Cats to Bush Babies there is something for everyone!
A perfect stocking sized gift for you cat crazed friends are our Mini Grow Kit by The Plant Gift Co. Choose from Cat Grass or Cat Nip and allow them to grow their feline friends their favourite snack.
Inspire them to prioritize some selfcare with ‘The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care’, ‘Be More Dog’ or ‘Be More Cat’. This is a great stocking filler for friends in need of a boost as they allow their favourite furry and amphibious friends to guide them towards a happier existence.
Adorn their Christmas tree with some of our gorgeous felt decorations. Choose from Scottish wildlife, popular pets and even festive dinosaurs! They are small and fuzzy and are perfect for slipping into a Christmas stocking!
The Crafter
For crafty friends choose from our DIY kits including our DIY Macrame Kit or DIY Flower Press to fulfil all their plantae, crafty needs! Allow them to make their own Christmas decorations with our East End Press Paper Chains kits available in yellow and green or pink and red. Add in a Wooden Pop-Out Christmas card so they can build their own bauble once they have read your Christmas well wishes. No doubt they have spent the festive season making wreaths, harvesting decorative foliage and making decorations so pop in a tube of our Lime, Basil and Mandarin scented grow urban hand cream to keep those busy hands cared for after an intense season of making!
Hopefully this carefully curated guide gives you a little gift giving inspiration, however we’ve made sure both our shops at 92 Grove Street and 8b St Vincent Street are overflowing with lots of other great gifting ideas including books, plant care accessories, candles and lots more so pop in store or check out our website for more gifting inspiration!