Gardening Christmas Gift Ideas

• Indoor plants continue to be a hot item, and for good reasons! Plants can combine wonderfully with interior decor and design, improve our mood and reduce stress, and the combination of the plants and the microbes found in potting mix can help purify the air.

• Create a perfect leafy-themed Christmas gift with a new indoor plant, a decorative pot, some Yates Specialty Potting Mix Plants & Ferns and easy to use Yates Thrive Plant Food Spikes Plants & Ferns to keep the new plant well fed and lush.

• For orchid lovers, combine a beautiful flowering moth orchid, a pretty pot, a bag of Yates Specialty Potting Mix Orchids and Yates Thrive Plant Food Spikes Orchidto promote healthy growth and lots of gorgeous flowers.

• Citrus continue to be one of the most popular fruit trees for people to grow at home. In addition to their colourful and delicious fruit, they also have glossy green leaves and fragrant white flowers in spring.

• A perfect Christmas gift for a citrus lover is a citrus tree (look for dwarf varieties), a Yates Tuscan pot, a bag of Yates Potting Mix with Dynamic Lifterand a bottle of specialised citrus food like Yates Thrive Citrus & Fruit Liqiud Plant Food. All tied up with a big bow of course!

• A fully revised and updated edition of the Yates Garden Guide is out now. With over 7 million copies sold since it was first published in 1895, it contains a wealth of gardening information. With chapters on planning gardens, choosing feature plants and growing trees and shrubs, creating productive vegie gardens, solving the most common garden problems, guides on what to sow and grow throughout the year, organic gardening, growing lush green lawns and general garden maintenance, it's a comprehensive guide for beginner and experienced gardeners alike. Available at book and department stores and through online booksellers. RRP $45.
• The good gardening reads continue with the 'Yates Top 50' series of books. Yates Top 50 Indoor Plants and how NOT to kill them details how to care for 50 of the most popular indoor plants. And Yates Top 50 Edible Plants for Pots and how NOT to kill them contains easy to follow information on how to successfully grow 50 delicious edible vegies, herbs and fruit in pots. RRP $35.

• A collection of flower seeds can create months of floral colour for the lucky recipient. You could choose seeds based on that person's favourite colour, for example Yates Salvia Blue Bedder, Yates Accent on Blue, Yates Cornflower and Yates Forget-me-not for blue lovers. 

Or perhaps a pretty in pink collection, including Yates Accent on Pink, Yates Cosmos Sensation and Yates Dianthus Double Pinks.

• And for people that are keen to grow some of their own fresh vegies and herbs, a collection of tasty vegie and herb seeds, including Yates Sweet Basil, Yates Lebanese Cucumber, Yates Sweet Corn Sun'n'Snow, Yates Zucchini Blackjack and Yates Tomato Tiny Tim. Include a bag of Yates Specialty Potting Mix Cuttings & Seeds and a seedling tray to complete this special home-growing kit.

In the lead up to Christmas, garden centres will be filled with colourful potted plants that make beautiful gifts. Vibrant red poinsettias are super Christmassy or there are also pretty pastel pink and white poinsettia varieties. Or what about a beautiful hanging basket filled with a cascading calibrachoa, a potted Australian native NSW Christmas bush or a hydrangea in full stunning bloom. Christmas sorted!