| Creating custom garden gift baskets is the perfect | | | | Fill the bottom of the container with some kind of |
| way to let that special someone know how much | | | | packing material, such as packing peanuts or |
| you care about them. For the gardener, a gift basket | | | | shredded newspaper. Over the top of that, spread |
| can contain any number of useful and fun items that | | | | some tissue paper or shiny paper. The container is |
| caters to their passion for flowers and vegetables. | | | | now ready for gifts. |
| There's no limit to the number of gift basket ideas | | | | Fillers. Finding fillers is the best part of creating a |
| for the gardener, from the container to the contents. | | | | gardener's gift basket. First, start with some of the |
| The key to making a lovely and appealing basket is | | | | tools that a gardener would use, such as a trowel, a |
| to choose the right container, and jam-pack it with | | | | hand rake and garden clippers. A new pair of |
| fillers. Adorn it with lovely details to add the finishing | | | | gardening gloves will always be appreciated. Packets |
| touches, and the gardener in your life will be delighted | | | | of vegetable and flower seeds, a kneeling pad, a |
| with the gift. | | | | gardening book and even a garden decoration can |
| Container. A number of garden-related items can | | | | round out a gardener's gift basket. |
| work as a gift basket container. Consider a large | | | | Start with the largest items, and place them in the |
| terra-cotta planter or ceramic flowerpot as the | | | | container spaced apart from each other. Place the |
| perfect container. Other options are a cute metal or | | | | biggest and tallest items in the middle and toward the |
| plastic watering can or a plastic bucket. It doesn't | | | | back. Make it look balanced and visually appealing. Fill |
| need to be an expensive item, but it should be one | | | | in the gaps with smaller filler items, adding the lightest |
| that has a wide enough opening to hold the fillers. | | | | and smallest items last. |