It should be a no-brainer what gifts to put in the stocking for your favorite gardener or under the tree for the plant enthusiast in your life!
Everyone gives Paperwhites, Amaryllis, and other bulbs for forcing in the winter during the holidays, which are gorgeous in their own right…but maybe you want to give something with a lasting impact?
So for some inspiration, here are some of the plants on Nature Hills' wish list!
Unique Tree Gifts
Tree gifts symbolize growth, love, and a commitment - to each other and to the environment. Here are our favorite and most unique trees for you to consider!
SmokeShow™ Kousa Dogwood
Gorgeous smokey purple new growth and pretty white 4-pointed spring blooms, the new-on-the-scene SmokeShow™ Dogwood is an adaptable Kousa cultivar that can be a tree or shrub depending on your needs! Summer brings glossy foliage and the cold temperatures in the fall add a rosy blush to your foliage! Plus edible berries for your jam and jelly, or leave these pinkish-red gifts for your grateful songbirds!
Whitewater Weeping Redbud Tree
Gift yourself or someone you love with the beautiful heart-shaped leaves of this unique Weeping Redbud! Splashed and streaked in white, pink, and green, the weeping branches of the Whitewater Redbud create a sculptural small flowering ornamental with bright lavender-pink flowers in the early spring!
Shiloh Splash River Birch Tree
Variegated Birch trees are hard to come by and the Shiloh Splash is just that bright beacon for your part shade garden! Flowing and ornamental, these smaller trees love high moisture and are complete with the usual peeling bark and golden fall color you love about Birch trees!
Skeeter's Broom Japanese Maple Tree
A miniature Japanese Maple that is perfectly gift-sized! Featuring the incredibly fine-cut, lacy foliage we love in Japanese Maples, but in a container-ready size and a unique reddish-purple foliage color! Skeeter's Broom is wonderfully easy to grow and perfect for porch, balcony, and patio décor!
Persian Spire™ Persian Ironwood
Ironwood trees live up to their name with their strong timber. But they can get huge and overpower smaller modern lots! Get all the beauty of the Persian Ironwood in a compact, columnar form that spreads just 8-10 feet wide! Glossy rippled leaves emerge purple and keep a purple margin all summer, followed by dramatic multi-hued fall color, Persian Spire™ is a faster-growing tree featuring a twisting trunk for winter interest!
Planting a gifted tree is a special way to celebrate the holiday season sustainably!
Incredible Giftable Shrubs
Some unique and underused flowering shrubs that bring more than just flowers one part of the year - these shrubs keep on giving! Holiday-themed shrubs, like Holly or Winterberry, bring seasonal cheer with their vibrant red berries.
Dwarf Fothergilla
Sweet little shrubs with bottlebrush white blossoms, the Dwarf Fothergilla is a low-maintenance plant that puts on a dramatic show of yellow, orange, and red fall color! A hardy native, Fothergilla is a widely underused shrub that handles sun, shade, acidic soil, and heat!
Moje Hammarberg Rugosa Rose
Bold magenta blooms, highly scented, full, and ruffled, the Moje Hammarberg is a fantastic Rugosa that is incredibly cold-hardy and heat-tolerant. Salt-tolerant and highly adaptable, Rugosa Roses are incredible plants that are deer and disease-resistant. Plus you and your birds will enjoy the bright orange Rose Hips in the fall!
Miniature Snowflake Mock Orange
Small shrubs with snowy white pompoms that have an incredible perfume! Called the Northern Gardenia, the Miniature Snowflake Mock Orange puts on a spring show and looks great throughout the growing season! Cold-hardy and very easy to grow, Miniature Snowflake is a compact form that’s low-maintenance.
Golden Guinea Kerria
Gorgeous foliage with lacy leaves and gleaming golden flowers in the spring, the Golden Guinea Kerria bush is an incredibly adaptable ornamental that handles full sun to full shade locations and high moisture soils!
Chicago Lustre® Arrowwood Viburnum
A larger Viburnum with glossy foliage, snowy white flowers, and cranberry-red fall color, the Chicago Lustre® will also put on a fall display of bright blue berries the birds adore when you plant it with other dentatum Viburnums. Give someone a shrub that gives back all four seasons of the year!
Many shrubs are low-maintenance and thrive in a wide range of climates, making them perfect for gardening enthusiasts of both the brown-thumbed and green-thumbed varieties!
Present-Worthy Perennials
Long-lived, colorful, compact, and oh-so-easy to give and grow, Perennials at Nature Hills are perfect stocking stuffers! They are a present that comes back year after year, and then bring Christmas back in the spring, summer, and fall for your pollinators too!
Sombrero® Baja Burgundy Coneflower
Big ray petals in bold burgundy-red, the Baja Burgundy is a big and bold Coneflower that puts on a showy display all summer! Handling drought and deer while bringing in the butterflies and bees, these hardy versions of the native wildflower bloom their heads off for your garden!
PERMATHREAD™ Red Satin Coreopsis
Satiny red blooms with toothy petals, the PERMATHREAD™ Red Satin Coreopsis is a sun-loving perennial with incredibly bright contrasting yellow centers! A thread-leaf Tickseed, the fine-textured green leaves add airy low-growing mounds with tall slender stems floating the deep blooms aloft.
Heavy Metal Switch Grass
Metallic blue-green foliage in an upright form, the Heavy Metal Switch Grass features airy pink blooms and a unique coloration! The fine-textured blades take on a yellow fall color and provide winter interest. Switch Grass is salt, sand, clay, deer, and pest resistant plus tolerates a wide range of moisture and pH soil conditions.
Electric Blue Beardtongue
Bright blue blooms with purple stems, the Electric Blue Beardtongue is a hardy plant that loves heat and humidity! Bringing in the bees and butterflies, these tough plants look great in Rock gardens and Cottage borders.
Sensational!® Lavender
Sensational!® is a gorgeous silver foliaged Lavender with incredible fragrance and showy blooms! Growing large, up to 3 feet tall and wide, Sensational!® puts on a summer display for your sun gardens and patio containers.
For gardeners who love fragrance, Lavender or Rosemary are practical and delightful choices!
Fabulous Fruit Trees and Shrubs
Select a present for your loved ones that you know will benefit you in the long run! Once these fruiting bushes and fruit trees start producing, they’ll be sharing the bounty with you!
Stella Cherry Tree
A disease-resistant semi-dwarf Cherry tree, Stella is a self-fruitful sweet Cherry with heart-shaped shiny, dark red fruit! The scented white flowers bring in the pollinators and give way to the mid-summer plump and firm fruit that resists cracking and splitting.
Regent Saskatoon Serviceberry
The June Berry is a tasty early summer treat with gorgeous spring flowers, dainty foliage, and one of the best fall displays around! A hardy native that is heat and cold-tolerant, Regent Saskatoons are fantastic landscaping trees or large shrubs for all your property’s needs!
Boysenberry
The Boysenberry, also known as the Boysen Blackberry, is a dark black fruit with a unique Blackberry-like flavor and cheerful white flowers in the spring. The sweet-tart berries ripen in July and create uniquely flavored jams, syrups, and fruit desserts, setting them apart from regular Blackberry bushes! Cold and heat tolerant, this is a great shrub that few others will have in their berry patches!
Dwarf Strawberry Tree
Mid-sized trees with edible fruit and showy white winter flowers, the Dwarf Strawberry tree is a heat and humidity-tolerant broadleaf evergreen tree that is compact and very ornamental! The dangling strawberry-like fruit is adored by birds and people alike but put on a show like no other too!
Southern Home Muscadine Hybrid Grape Vine
Muscadine Grape Vines are incredible vining fruit plants with big purple fruit with a unique flavor that only a Southern Muscadine embodies. Jam and juice, these Grapes thrive in the heat and humidity of the South! Tasty preserves are sure to find their way back to anyone who gives this lovely fruiting vine!
Fruit trees, such as Apples, Cherries, or Citrus, are thoughtful gifts that provide both beauty and bounty!
Evergreen Stocking Stuffers
Evergreens and broad-leaf evergreens grace your yards all year round! Plant your own Christmas tree or give the gift of year-round greenery to someone special! Evergreen shrubs are perfect for bringing festive greenery indoors or enhancing the garden!
Black Hills Spruce Tree
A gorgeous Christmas tree and bird-friendly legacy tree, Spruce trees, and Colorado Blue Spruce dominate the home landscape. Dark green native evergreen with a sturdy pyramidal shape, the Black Hills Spruce embodies all the perks of a Spruce but with the hardiness and adaptability the rugged Black Hills require of their residents.
Holmstrup Arborvitae
Fat and fluffy, the Holmstrup Arborvitae is a bright evergreen with fern-like foliage that provides incredible year-round privacy and screening! Small-sized and container garden-ready, these compact trees are fantastic hedges and specimens.
Greenwood Orange Azalea
Featuring showy spring blooms and broadleaf evergreen foliage, Greenwood Orange Azalea features red-orange flowers that pollinators love and greenery throughout the entire year! Like other Rhododendron family shrubs, Azaleas are great hedges, backdrops, and specimens.
Katsura Pieris
A heat and cold-tolerant flowering broadleaf evergreen shrub with dainty sprays of bell-shaped blooms, the Katsura Pieris is a fragrant, pink and white ornamental with long pointed, slender green leaves. Hummingbird and pollinator magnets, Katsura are gorgeous year-round, but especially when they bloom!
Variegated Boxwood
Pretty little green and white foliage, the Variegated Boxwood is a tidy little broadleaf evergreen that stays densely packed and colorful all year round! These plants make a stunning impact on those dreary days of wintertime.
Make A List & Check It Twice!
Gift a tree, shrub, perennial, and more this Holiday season, and create lasting memories for loved ones! Add a personalized touch by choosing a gift plant that represents a special memory or favorite flower.
Ordering your gifts at NatureHills.com makes gift-giving easy! Play Santa for your friends and family by ordering online and having your plant presents sent to your doorstep - or straight to your recipient's doorstep!
Christmas shopping in the comfort of your home from a huge selection of high-quality plants, trees, and shrubs that will endure for years or even decades are all available for you with the click of the mouse!
Do you still have no idea what to get the gardener in your life? Check out Nature Hills E-Gift Certificates and let your loved one pick out what they need!
Don’t forget to pick yourself up something since we’re sure you’ve been on Santa’s ‘good’ list and deserve it!
Why not get a head start on spring and be the first on the block with the new Firefly Petuna for a glow-in-the-dark addition to your garden?
Happy Planting!
