Best Houseplant Gifts: 10 Joyful Ideas To Inspire Plant Lovers To Get Growing

This festive season, celebrate the plant lovers in your life with gifts that nurture their passion for greenery. For houseplant enthusiasts, the joy of receiving thoughtful, plant-inspired presents extends beyond the holiday season, inspiring their hobby and brightening their home for years to come.

Whether shopping for seasoned plant parents or beginners just starting their collection, our hand-picked gift selection offers a wonderful way to help them grow their passion even further.

Alternatively, if they love tending to plants in the garden, then choose beautiful gifts for gardeners to encourage them to get outdoors and beat the winter blues after the holidays are over.

Best Gifts for Plant Lovers for Christmas 2024

When choosing a houseplant gift, consider their space, style, and level of plant care expertise. An elegant plant pot that enhances their interior spaces or tools that simplify plant care are ideal for beginners, while for seasoned growers, gifting an unusual plant will bring the wow factor to their collection.

All featured products are available via trusted brands through the Gardening Know How Shop – your one-stop destination for gardening and houseplant shopping.

1. Terrarium Growing Kit

Terrariums offer growers the opportunity to express their creativity by displaying beautiful plants in glass containers, which can become their own thriving ecosystems. Coco & Seed’s Succulent Terrarium Mason Jar Growing Kit is the perfect introduction to terrariums, curated by a small, independent business.

The kit comes complete with a mason jar, live succulent, nutrient-rich soil, pebbles and sand for drainage and aesthetics, and an engraved bamboo plant label.

Even beginner growers will enjoy success by following the detailed instructions and will have so much fun planting and caring for their mini succulent terrarium.

2. Festive Amaryllis

A potted amaryllis in festive red or white is bursting with holiday cheer. Jackson & Perkins offers a hand-picked selection of amaryllis bulbs in the Gardening Know How Shop, presented in decorative containers.

Houseplant lovers will relish tending to one of these beauties over the colder months – and they also make stunning host and hostess gift ideas to take to loved ones over the holidays.

Amaryllis is not just a one-hit wonder either – your lucky recipient can make it rebloom next year with a little TLC, and if they live in USDA zones 8-11, they can plant amaryllis bulbs in the garden to enjoy a fresh display of flowers every spring. It’s truly the gift that keeps on giving!

3. Stylish Planters

A thoughtfully chosen plant pot is the perfect gift for a houseplant enthusiast. Beyond being practical, the right pot sets off a plant's natural beauty and enhances home décor.

With options ranging from ceramic to terracotta, self-watering to hanging designs, you can find a pot tailored to their taste and plant needs. Pair it with a beautiful plant or let it inspire a new addition to their collection.

Crescent Garden has a range of stylish planters in the Gardening Know How Shop. The understated Eva planter is a sophisticated choice that highlights foliage and colorful flowers. Alternatively, opt for a design compatible with the TruDrop Flex Self-watering Inserts to make caring for their houseplants a breeze.

4. Plant Mister

Many houseplants are tropical species originating from warm, humid climates. This means plant parents often struggle to create the right conditions for favorite varieties such as orchids and ferns. Regularly misting plants is one way to raise humidity, but most growers are not able to create a rainforest ambiance through misting alone.

Enter the Mossify Mistr, a rechargeable, automatic, and continuous water mister that creates just the right environment to mimic plants’ natural habitat. The ultra-fine spray is light enough to avoid oversaturating the plants or soil, and the unit recharges in just 2-3 hours via USB.

5. Vibrant Houseplant

What plant lover wouldn’t be delighted to receive a new houseplant to add to their collection? Costa Farms offers a variety of hard-to-find houseplants in the Gardening Know How Shop. Choose a fashion-forward variety such as the Trending Tropicals Calathea Dottie in Self-Watering Planter, which has green-purple leaves variegated with a band of hot pink.

Dottie is a thirsty variety that needs regular watering, but the supplied self-watering planter makes caring for her no trouble at all.

6. Watering Can and Sprayer Set

Treat a style-conscious plant lover to Crescent Garden’s Cleo Houseplant Watering Can and Sprayer Set. Made in Italy, the sleek, sophisticated set is designed to deliver the right amount of water every time.

It comes in a choice of three colors to please even the pickiest houseplant aficionado. The ergonomic design makes light work of watering plants, and the sprayer ​​nozzle can be graduated for perfect precision.

7. Mini Christmas Tree

A living Christmas tree that’s small enough to display on the tabletop is a wonderful gift for plant lovers, who will enjoy tending to it over the holiday season. Jackson & Perkins’ Candy Cane Swirl Decorated Christmas Tree comes fully furnished with festive ornaments and is supplied in a cheery red and white polka dot container.

For a more natural decor, opt for the Nature's Finest Decorated Christmas Tree. Adorned with pinecones and ribbons, it will perfectly enhance any traditional or modern rustic decor.

The trees are dwarf Alberta spruce varieties, which can be planted outside in USDA zones 3-6 after the risk of frost has passed, to enjoy for many years to come.

8. Houseplant Care Kit

Both beginner and seasoned growers will be delighted to receive a Houseplant Care Bundle from Mossify. The kit contains everything needed to support, trim, and clean plants.

A bendable coir pole provides the ultimate flexible support for climbing and trailing plants – from orchids to pothos. Slim garden utility shears offer precise trimming and an ergonomic wooden handle for comfort, while the leaf-shining microfiber gloves allow for easy cleaning.

Mossify also offers a range of other bundles tailored to houseplant lovers, including the Elegant Trellis Bundle, which provides diverse styling options for climbing or trailing plants, and the Masterpiece Houseplant Care Bundle, complete with plant tape, bendable moss pole, and a Mossify Squirtr for precision watering.

9. Holiday Potted Plant

Whether displayed indoors as a houseplant, or as a holiday porch pot plant to greet visitors over the holiday season, a festive plant is such a joyful gift to receive in the season of goodwill.

Green Promise Farms' Christmas Wintergreen is a magical holiday plant bejeweled with ruby-red berries and lustrous foliage. The brand also offers several more pot plants guaranteed to delight, including Honey Maid Holly, with variegated leaves; Goshiki False Holly, featuring gold-speckled foliage; Honey Maid Holly; and Gold Cone Juniper, which makes a striking mini Christmas tree.

10. LED Plant Light

If you know a houseplant parent who struggles to create the right light levels for their plants, then treat them to Mossify’s Adjustable LED Plant Light.

Featuring five levels of dimmable lighting, the full-spectrum light has a lifespan of 50,000 hours. The design is height-adjustable and clips onto the side of containers, making it a versatile design that can be used to get light into the trickiest of houseplant arrangements.

This article features products available from third-party vendors on the Gardening Know How Shop.