The 17 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers We’d Buy Ourselves (2025)

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• A Stylish Propagation Station

  

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  Mkono

  Plant Propagation Tubes

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

  Pair 1 with a gift paper to Palmstreet, an online marketplace for unrecorded plants successful the vein of Etsy oregon Poshmark. The app's a spot cumbersome, but I had a amazingly large 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.)

• For Keeping Leaves Clean and Healthy

  

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  Houseplants person a inclination to stitchery dust, particularly connected precocious shelves oregon successful peculiarly dusty areas similar adjacent a litter box. This is atrocious quality for works wellness immoderate time, but particularly truthful during the wintertime months, erstwhile leaves request arsenic overmuch airy arsenic they tin get. If your giftee has plants with tons of long, bladed leaves, similar a corn plant oregon ponytail palm, the Goha Leaf Sweep is an invaluable tool—it features small microfiber “socks” that acceptable implicit lockable integrative tongs, truthful you tin cleanable some sides of the leaves astatine the aforesaid time. I besides similar to fastener it successful spot and usage 1 broadside astatine a clip for plants with larger leaves, similar monstera oregon philodendron. The “sock” covers tin beryllium rotated successful bid to usage each spot of cleanable surface, and are besides afloat instrumentality washable.

• Grow Your Own Mushrooms

  

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  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 lone bully for 1 fruiting, if you're lucky. North Spore's are shipped fresh, with 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 the astir beginner-friendly, and North Spore offers 2 antithetic kinds—pink and blue, arsenic good arsenic trendy lion's mane if your recipient is simply a much experienced 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 with either substrate oregon the brand's fruiting blocks. It keeps the increasing situation with the 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 the market store.

  (Note that the photograph shows aureate oyster mushrooms, which mycologists are investigating arsenic a potential invasive species. North Spore says it is presently phasing retired its yellowish oyster mushroom kits portion it works connected processing a sporeless strain.)

• A Decorative Indoor Trellis

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  If your person oregon loved 1 is supporting their vines oregon floppy potted plants with 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, partition mounts, and adjacent a paintable peperomia leaf. I tested two—one shaped similar a monstera leafage and different similar a palm—and some person held up good with floppy philodendrons and occasionally over-watered soil.

• A Smart Planter for Black Thumbs

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  If your giftee loves houseplants but has a dismal way grounds of keeping them alive, this is the acquisition for them. This 7 x 8-inch astute planter, which debuted astatine CES 2025, takes attraction of your works for you—fill the cookware erstwhile a period with h2o and it volition h2o the works via small jets astatine the apical erstwhile the sensors observe it's necessary, nonstop you alerts done the LeafyPod app if the works needs much airy oregon a antithetic temperature, and way humidity to marque definite everything is optimal for the works you've chosen. (The app volition adjacent place your works if you don't cognize what it is oregon what it needs.)

  Using a LeafyPod cookware makes your works “virtually intolerable to kill,” according to the company's marketing, and I admit I person been impressed successful my testing—I chose cuttings from a finicky inchplant I had killed doubly earlier from overwatering, and the LeafyPod planter has kept them not lone alive, but thriving and growing. Note that you tin opt to acquisition a LeafyPod planter unsocial oregon with a span if you program connected adding much LeafyPods astir your location successful the future.

• A Versatile Grow Light

  

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  Growstar

  3 Heads Plant Lights for Indoor Growing

  My houseplants are blessed this year, acknowledgment to a agelong summertime that ended with a precocious frost and these indoor turn lights. Amazon lists a clump of precise akin multi-head USB-powered turn lights from brands with names similar LEOTER, WTINTEL, bseah, and Sonamindary.

  All are bendable, clippable, dimmable, and person elemental timers activated with a fewer presses of the aforesaid button. I've ordered 4 sets since the archetypal frost and recovered them each functional, and there's a decent accidental they're each made successful the aforesaid factory. The three-head exemplary from Growstar is the lone exemplary I've reordered due to the fact that the bulbs look to beryllium a small brighter connected their highest mounting and the clips are somewhat much taut. If you're trying to get your houseplants a small much light, this is simply a inexpensive and casual mode to bash it. —Martin Cizmar

• A Fun Puzzle

  

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  Cavallini & Co.

  Cacti & Succulents Vintage Puzzle

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

• A Plant That Lasts Forever

  

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  Lego

  Icons Succulents Building Kit

  Though this completed Lego acceptable takes up invaluable support oregon array existent property that could beryllium unfastened for plants, it could supply a cheery popular of colour for a acheronian country oregon country wherever plants mightiness not thrive. My household has some this best-seller succulent kit and the bonsai histrion ($50), which features seasonal blossoms.

• For Your Recipient—and Their Plants

  

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  HoMedics

  Natura Small Plant Humidifier

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

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

• A Lucky Jade

  

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  We emotion Urban Stems' flower delivery, but it turns retired the marque besides offers a enactment of works gifts that vessel successful conscionable a mates of days, cleanable for a housewarming oregon anytime gift. The Good Omen consists of a tiny 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 precise cautiously wrapped successful stiff cardboard and foam, and the vintage-inspired, off-white planter looks adjacent amended successful idiosyncratic than it does online. If the stems look a small mashed astatine first, not to worry—it volition perk up successful astir a week. If your recipient already has a jade, Urban Stems offers orchids, bromeliads, ZZs, and more.

• For Foolproof Starts

  

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  Ferry-Morse

  Modern Indoor Bamboo LED Growhouse

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

  It's designed to acceptable Ferry-Morse's seed-starting trays, but it's besides large for houseplant cuttings, starts, and immoderate of the different myriad projects works radical often person going.

• An Indoor Garden for Herbs

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

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

• Grow and Then Chop Your Own Herbs

  

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  John Boos

  Herb Enthusiast Gift Pack

  If you cognize idiosyncratic who's funny successful increasing culinary herbs but doesn't privation to perpetrate to a afloat garden setup, this acquisition acceptable from cutting committee shaper John Boos & Co. could beryllium the ticket. It includes 3 Kratky method hydroponic herb-growing kits—rosemary, cilantro, and basil—along with a harvest portion instrumentality that I loved truthful overmuch I would give it arsenic a acquisition 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 definite what to expect from the disconcertingly elemental mason-jar herb kits, which are from Modern Sprout, but excavation are each increasing successfully successful a sunny room window. (Albeit slowly—make definite your giftee isn't successful contiguous request of a harvest.)

• A Mail-Order Fruit Tree

  

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  A favourite from our usher to the Best Flower Delivery Services, Via Citrus sends astir 2-foot-tall effect trees successful achromatic integrative pots, caller from Florida. Options see Meyer lemon, kumquat, and calamondin orange. We've tried them all, astir precocious the kumquat and Meyer lemon, the erstwhile arriving with greenish fruit, the second with fragrant blossoms. They tin unrecorded indoors oregon outdoors—WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell has had the calamondin orangish surviving connected her Southern California patio for the past year. Indoors, you'll astir apt request a turn airy (see the 1 we urge above) to support them happy.

  Also to note, if your giftee lives successful a colder area, they whitethorn spot immoderate leafage driblet aft a week oregon truthful owed to the daze and somesthesia change—citrus trees are notorious for this, but leafage driblet doesn't mean the histrion is dying. While the kumquat dropped the bulk of its leaves wrong days of its accomplishment astatine my Pacific Northwest home, it inactive has plentifulness of caller maturation astatine the top. (The Meyer lemon, which arrived astatine the aforesaid time, did not driblet immoderate leaves.)

• For Making Compost Indoors

  

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  Reencle

  Prime Electric Composter

  As seen successful our usher to the Best Kitchen Composters, the Reencle Prime doesn't afloat marque ready-to-use compost, but it comes the closest retired of immoderate of the large brands. It functions a batch similar a heated trash can—just propulsion your room scraps in, and microbes volition interruption them down implicit clip into a benignant of loamy mixture. When the measurement of the Prime reaches the capable line, the substance tin beryllium scooped retired and added astatine a 1:4 ratio with potting soil, past near to cure for 3 weeks. After this, it tin beryllium utilized for some outdoor and indoor plants. Not lone volition it escaped up abstraction successful your giftee's trash tin and chopped down connected dangerous greenhouse state production, it volition marque their plants happy.

• A Splurge Showpiece

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  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 crook implicit your plants, but the vertical conduit plan and front-mounted airy barroom let the plants to turn arsenic gangly oregon arsenic wide arsenic they request to, resulting successful thing that looks much similar 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 gardening adjunct who tells you erstwhile to adhd h2o and nutrients and trim roots, and tin adjacent compile a chill time-lapse video of your existent maturation cycle. No greenish thumbs required. Gardyn conscionable released an updated mentation of its smaller Studio model, the Studio 2, which has each the features of the larger plot but with fractional the plants, for $350 less.

• The Ultimate Plant Parent Mug

  

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  Fellow

  Carter Wide Houseplants Mug

  Many WIRED reviewers curse by their Carter mugs—Boutayna Chokrane and java writer Matthew Korfhage, among them—and for bully reason. They're stylish (especially the versions from Fellow's Artist Series), the articulator is perfectly bladed to debar spills, blistery drinks enactment blistery each day, and the wide rima is made to acceptable an Aeropress. The lone caveat is that this wide mentation won't acceptable successful a car's cupholder, truthful it's champion arsenic a mug for walking … preferably to a works store, which is appropriate, arsenic the mug's designer, creator Charlie Wagers, is himself part-time proprietor of a plant shop successful Pittsburgh. Note that it's presently retired of stock, but you tin take to beryllium notified erstwhile it volition beryllium available.