The festive season is all about sharing joy and goodwill with others, but our holiday cheer is often completely spent by the time December 26 rolls around. Before the post-Christmas slump sets in, why not take a moment to treat yourself and nurture your passions?
Gardening is the ultimate blues-buster, and while winter is a quiet season outdoors, it's a key time for making plans and getting ready for the growing season. With longer days on the horizon, now is the ideal moment to invest in tools, plants, and accessories that will inspire you and make your life easier in the new year. Alternatively, it's a great time to get stuck into an indoor garden, and surround yourself with beautiful houseplants.
Here, we reveal the best gardening buys to reignite your spark in 2025 – all available through tried-and-trusted brands in the Gardening Know How Shop.
1. Pretty Gardening Gloves
Bring joy to mundane tasks such as pruning and weeding with a pair of beautiful gardening gloves. Womanswork's gloves are designed specifically for women – rather than adapted from men's gloves, like most brands.
The gloves feature gorgeous heritage-inspired prints, such as this Heirloom design, included in the Heirloom Garden Arm Saver Gloves & Apron Gift Set. They have extra-long cuffs to protect arms, synthetic leather palms, and reinforced thumb and pointer fingers. The matching apron features large pockets and reassuringly long apron strings.
It's the perfect way to treat yourself and get excited about the growing year ahead.
2. Bee Cups
Bee Cups are a treat for you and the bees! Made by a scientist-turned-ceramicist, these pretty pollinator drinking stations are designed to provide just the perfect amount of water for thirsty bees. They also feature a textured non-slip surface and UV glaze that the insects are drawn to.
Place the cups near pollinator-friendly plants and enjoy seeing bees and butterflies make hydration stops on warm days.
Bee Cups are available in a range of colors, including these pastel cups, and if you want to go all in, then opt for the Queen Bee kit, which includes a set of Bee Nurseries, to give a home to native bees.
3. Stylish Gardening Bag
Crescent Garden's Gabrielle gardening bag is also a shopping tote, beach bag, planter, storage container, and so much more. Its chic, lightweight design is made from durable eco-friendly materials and comes in a range of fashion-forward colors. Watertight and easy to wash, it always looks its best.
It's the perfect post-holidays pick-me-up that will have you excited to get out into the garden again.
4. Herb Growing Kit
Growing herbs indoors is the perfect way to nurture yourself over winter. Aromatic herbs are wonderful mood boosters, and add flavor to countless dishes.
Coco & Seed's Mason Jar Herb Garden Soil Kit comes with everything you need to get started growing herbs on your kitchen windowsill. Choose from basil, mint, cilantro, thyme, and sage.
The kit includes a mason jar – which enables you to keep an eye on what's going on below the soil line – nutrient-rich potting soil, drainage materials, and even an engraved bamboo label.
Coco & Seed has been featured in Oprah magazine’s list of favorite things, and it's easy to see why. The brand's kits demystify growing indoors, and look fantastic in the kitchen.
5. Rare Houseplant
Treat yourself to a special houseplant to nurture and melt away those winter blues. Just because a plant is rare or unusual, doesn't have to mean it's difficult to look after. Our houseplant partner Costa Farms searches the globe for hard-to-find varieties that are compatible with the home environment. The plants are supplied in self-watering planters for ease of care.
This Calathea Dottie variety is brimming with playful charm, with its hot pink variegated leaves that almost appear to be painted on.
6. Hori Hori Knife
Make life easier in the garden this year with the ultimate all-rounder tool. The hori hori knife is an ingenious Japanese tool used for weeding, cutting, harvesting, and digging. But Vego has managed to improve upon perfection with its 10 in 1 Hori Hori Knife Kit, which comes complete with a heavy-duty case that clips right to your belt.
As well as a classic flat blade and serrated blade, the knife can be used as a shovel, bottle opener, nail puller, ruler, and wrench, with four sizes covered. Trust us, this will fast become your new go-to tool.
7. Hummingbird Feeder
Get closer to nature with Wayside Gardens' Sugar Shack Hanging Hummingbird Feeder. Its pretty flower design is made from recycled cans, making it an eco-friendly choice. Its petals not only look great but protect the sugar water from the sun to keep it from spoiling.
If you want to get even closer to these fascinating creatures, the brand's Jewel Box Hummingbird Feeder has suction cups, allowing it to be attached to a window.
8. Self-Watering Tomato Planter
Get your growing ambitions off to the best possible start with Vego's Self-Watering Rolling Tomato Planter Pot With Trellis. Tomatoes are famously fussy about moisture levels, but the planter's internal water reservoir delivers just the right amount of water over a consistent period of time.
The built-in trellis is height-adjustable, allowing you to grow climbers like tomatoes and beans, as well as shorter crops such as zucchinis and eggplants. Best of all, it's on wheels, so you can move your precious crops whenever you need to protect them from the elements.
9. Garden Bed Kit
A new, thoughtfully designed garden bed is the ultimate pick-me-up. Plant By Number's garden kits and accent maps take all the guesswork out of creating a beautiful planting scheme.
The brand's planting accent maps are printed on weed-blocking landscape fabric, so they can just be rolled out where you want your bed to go. Simply choose your preferred design and a plant shopping list is supplied, so you can fill in your map with the correct varieties. Alternatively, you can invest in a full growing kit complete with plants suited to your growing zone – such as this beautiful Pastel Tones Garden Kit.
10. Stylish Planter
There's nothing like planting a new plant in a pretty pot to put a spring in your step and get you dreaming about warmer days ahead. Crescent Garden's Fold Indoor/Outdoor Contemporary Round Planter is a sophisticated design that's fade-resistant and crack-proof.
Best of all, the pot can be fitted with the brand's TruDrop Flex self-watering insert. which keeps plants hydrated for up to 4-6 weeks.
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