The best Mother’s Day gardening gifts in 2025
Our round up of Mother's Day gifts for a green-fingered mum, including garden tools, accessories and great days out
The array of gifts available for Mother’s Day can be quite overwhelming, from bouquets to chocolates and mugs to books, there’s plenty of choice. So just how do you find the perfect gift?
We’ve put together our pick of gardening themed gifts that would make the perfect treat for a green-fingered Mum, whether they’re just starting out on their gardening journey or have been gardening for years. We’ve even got gift ideas for Mum’s who’d rather put their feet up and enjoy the results of their hard work.
We’ve included some of our BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy winning tools, which were all put to the test by our expert reviewers and came out on top, so you’ll know that you’re getting your Mum the very best.
To send a bouquet of fresh, seasonal flowers, check out our guide to the best flower delivery services, or try Eflorist, or, for house plants, Bloombox.
The best Mother’s Day gardening gifts for 2025
Engraved terracotta name pot
Personalise a handmade terracotta plant pot with this engraving service from Letterfest. Each pot can be engraved with three lines of text, so you can include a thoughtful message. For an extra £3, you can also include herb, flower, or chilli seeds, so your mum can get growing too.
Price: £42
Available from Letterfest
Dianthus 'I Love you'
For a time-honoured gardening gift, try pinks. Not only will they look great potted up on a patio or planted in a flowerbed, but carnations are the flower associated with Mother’s Day. They make a thoughtful, traditional gift.
Price: £7.99
Buy Dianthus 'I Love you' from Crocus
Three-season women's gardening trousers
Endorsed by the RHS these trousers are a great gift to help your mum through hours in the garden. They are designed with comfort in mind and made by gardeners, for gardeners. They come with a waterproof seat and padded knees, reinforced pockets for secateurs and knives and adjustable ankles to accommodate boots. They are water resistant and also have a high waistband to warm the back when bending over and are even given a relaxed cut specifically to suit women.
Price: £149
Available from Genus
Garden Shed Gin
Distilled using common backyard botanicals like burdock, dandelion root, and lavender, this dry, London-style gin makes a great garden-themed gift. Plus, a percentage of the profits are donated to Trees4Scotland and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, so you can do some good too.
Price: £39.99
Available from Master of Malt
For more advice on gin gifts, check out these expert gin taste tests from our colleagues at BBC Good Food.
Emma Bridgewater roses mum mug
This Emma Bridgewater mug is surrounded by roses and promises to make your mum feel like it's Mother's Day, every day. Each mug is made from cream-coloured earthenware and is decorated by hand at Emma Bridgewater's factory.
Price: £25
Available from Emma Bridgewater
Caddy bag
This useful caddy bag is great for keeping all of your gardening essentials close at hand with space for tools, seeds and snacks. The bag has eight spacious external pockets as well as six inside ones so you shouldn't run out of storage space. It's ideal for both pro gardens and amateurs with a handy shoulder strap to help transport your gear from job to job.
Price: £69
Available from Genus
Chocolate gardening selection box
Chocolates are a popular Mother’s Day gift, so why not give a garden-loving mum thoughtful handmade Belgian chocolates, featuring cute garden-themed designs.
Price: £13
Available from Not on the High Street
BBC Gardeners' World Magazine subscription
Gift a subscription to BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine this Mother's Day and pay just £25.75 for 6 issues. Your payment will then continue at £25.75 every 6 issues thereafter, saving you 30% on the usual shop price. You get a host of benefits with a subscription including the May issue which comes with our famous 2 for 1 Gardens entry card and guide, and offers 2 for 1 entry to 416 gardens nationwide, plus a bumper pack of 6 free seeds.
Price: £25.75
Buy a BBC Gardener’s World Magazine Subscription
Haws copper indoor watering can
This charming watering can is as pretty as it is practical and would make a great gift for houseplant fans or greenhouse gardeners. Haws’ watering can is made by hand from solid copper.
Price: £90
Available from Farrer and Tanner
Neal's Yard Remedies citrus hand softener
This cruelty-free hand cream works wonderfully for dry, rough, and hardworking hands. With a light, pleasing scent from its fragrant ingredients, this cream packages luxury and utility, making it perfect for treating any gardening mums.
Price: £17.00
Available from Neal's Yard Remedies
For more inspiration, take a look at our guide to the best hand creams for gardeners.
Indoor allotment
Kitchen herbs bring complex, natural flavour to any dish. This mini allotment will keep everything together, in a fun but practical planter with space for three little pots. What’s more, the shed isn’t just for decoration - your mum can open the door and store snips, soil pellets, and packs of coriander, basil, and oregano seeds, which are all included.
Price: £35
Available from Prezzybox
Personalised denim gardening apron
Gardening can be messy work, but an apron will help keep your mum mud-free, as well as offering useful pockets for little tools and packets of seeds. Made from hard-wearing denim, it can be personalised with your mum’s name.
Price: £35
Available from Not on the High Street
Jane Austen Flowers Growbar
Literary mums might like the Jane Austen Flowers Growbar. Just add water to this neat collection of seeds to grow some of the flowers mentioned in the iconic author’s letters, and bring a touch of the Regency to any garden. If she's not a fan of Austen, they have other fascinating collections of historical horticulture, such as a Victorian Flowers Growbar, an Artists' Flowers Growbar, and collections of Medieval, Roman, and Biblical herbs.
Price: £12.95
Available from Etsy
Kent and Stowe Eversharp bypass secateurs
Good secateurs will usually make for a welcome gift for any gardener, but this is doubly so for this Best Buy-winning set. Winners of our Best Buy for comfort, these secateurs are made of lightweight aluminium and FSC-certified ash. With a hard, sharp blade which easily cuts through live and dead wood, a ten-year warranty, and comfortable handles, these make a wonderful gardening gift for Mother's Day.
Price: £39.99
Available from Crocus
Read the full Kent and Stowe Eversharp Bypass Secateurs review.
For more, check out our tests of the best secateurs.
Shesali artisan bird nester
Wildlife loving mums will like this artisan nester. It’s made from recycled saris in Fairtrade workshops in Bangladesh, so it offers both a home for baby birds and a fair wage for the craftspeople that made it.
Price: £19.95
Available from Ethical Superstore
For more wildlife gift inspiration, check out our guides to nesting boxes, bird baths, and hedgehog houses, or take a look at the wildlife section of our guide to the best gardening gifts.
Feverfew Original Women's gardening gloves
These BBC Gardeners' World Best Buy-winning gloves have been designed specifically to fit women’s hands and our female testers found them to be well fitting, comfortable and durable. They're stretchy and flexible and ideal for all general gardening jobs, such as weeding, pruning and using tools. They have reinforced fingers, a padded, microfibre palm, and a spandex and foam back so they’re comfortable and protective. They’re not waterproof, particularly on the palms, although they do have water resistance and are best for spring and summer wear. They also have handy ‘touch screen’ forefingers and thumbs that work very well.
Available in four sizes, XS-L and in a choice of green or plum, they also come in a protective cloth bag, which is a nice touch.
Price: £22.95
Available from Feverfew
For more, check out our tests of the best gardening gloves.
RHS Burgon & Ball flora & fauna kneeler
Gardening is a relaxing hobby, but hours spent kneeling in damp grass can take their toll. Bring a bit of comfort into the garden with this attractive kneeler. The beautiful design is taken from the RHS’ Lindley Library and the memory foam padding will keep your Mum comfortable and dry.
Price: £21.49
Available from Amazon or Burgon & Ball
For more, take a look at our guide to the best kneelers.
Personalised copper trowel
A good trowel is an essential companion in the garden. Transform it into a thoughtful gift for your mum by adding a personalised message.
Price: £21
Buy the Personalised Copper Trowel from Not on the High Street
For more, check out tests of the best garden hand trowels.
The plant rescue box
The perfect gift for a gardener who loves plants and is looking to care for a new collection. The Plant Rescuer Box is a set of two-to-four randomly-selected plants, which have been rescued from being binned by garden centres for either having small imperfections, or for not selling fast enough. Categorised and priced by plant type and size, a small box of rescued herbs is just £11.00.
Price: from £15.00
Available from Etsy
This product guide was last updated in February 2025. We apologise if anything has changed in price or availability.