As an English gardener, I can attest that we are pretty easy to please when it comes to gifts. (Functional, practical, and well-made tools are always a hit.) But there are other well-designed and useful bits of kit, often made locally, that thrifty gardeners wouldn’t necessarily buy for themselves —or even know about if they didn’t live in England.
Here are a few of our favorite gifts for English gardeners and anglophiles alike:
Copper Tools
![A Nunki Weeder has a beech handle and a sharp, curved bronze blade; £30 at Modern Mint.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nunki-weeder-copper-garden-tool-modern-mint-733x463.png)
Ampholia Pot
![A small handmade terra cotta Ampholia Poterie Anduze Vase named after the town in the south of France from which it originated is £75 at Petersham Nurseries.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/terra-cotta-pots-ampholia-poterie-anduze-733x733.jpg)
Lobster Pot Plant Support
![A Muntons Lobster Pot plant support cage, suitable for training clematis vines or roses, is available in two sizes at prices ranging from £\165 to £\195 depending on size at Muntons.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/muntons-lobster-pot-plant-suppor-733x493.png)
Copper Plant Markers
![A pack of \10 Obar Copper Plant Labels is £4 from Rowen & Wren.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/rowen-and-wren-copper-plant-markers-733x733.jpg)
Gardener’s Kit Bag
![Short-listed at the Chelsea Flower Show as Garden Product of the Year and made at the request of garden designer Amanda Evans, a Back Door Gardening Bag is made of canvas and jute; £\19.50 (custom sizes available on request).](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/smaller-gardeners-bag-burlap-carrier-company-733x487.png)
Great Dixter Study Day
![A Study Day at Great Dixter House & Gardens is £\1\10.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/great-dixter-study-day-gift-voucher-733x430.png)
Any day at Great Dixter in East Sussex is time well spent; known as one of England’s great gardens and home to well-loved garden writer (and gardener) Christopher Lloyd, it is managed by head gardener Fergus Garrett, who worked with Lloyd until his death in 2006. For an immersive experience at Great Dixter, there are study days (as well as the bucket list fantasy—a week-long symposium) throughout the year led by Garrett. Themes include succession planting, meadow gardening, and how to integrate bulbs into planting schemes.
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