Show your green-fingered father figures how much they mean to you with our Fathers’ Day gardening gift guide. To help them create the garden of their dreams we’ve picked out some of our favourite expert-tested, Best Buy winning gardening tools, and added some gardening themed treats. From beer to planters and pizza ovens to seeds, there’s something for everyone.
For more ideas read our complete list of gardening gift ideas with options for every gardening enthusiast, or be inspired by our guide to wildlife gifts. For other options, check out our round-up of the best gardening books and our ideas for garden gadgets.
The best Fathers’ Day gardening gifts for 2024
Seedbom Birds, Bees and Butterflies Seed Bomb Set
Seedbom Birds, Bees and Butterflies Seed Bomb SetWildlife lovers will enjoy this set of four seed bombs. Simply soak, pull the grenade pin and toss onto bare soil. A mix of pollinator-friendly flowers should appear in just a few weeks.
Price: £19.95
Buy the Seedbom Birds, Bees and Butterflies Seed Bomb Set now from Not on the High Street
Gold Leaf Dry Touch Gloves
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Gold Leaf Dry Touch Gloves
Awarded a BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy, these high-quality gloves are ideal for weeding after rain, collecting damp leaves and other wet work. Made from soft, water-repellent leather, they’re luxurious but tough.
Price: from £22.99
Buy Gold Leaf Dry Touch Gloves from Crocus, and Thompson and Morgan.
Read our full review, or have a look at our roundup of some of the best gardening gloves.
Biolite AlpenGlow Mini
These rechargeable lanterns are stylish and handy and ideal for lighting the shed or greenhouse after dark or out in the garden when entertaining for some colourful ambience. A bungee strap helps you attach it wherever you need it and LEDs bring warm lighting with multicolour modes adding some fun. The lantern’s rechargeable via the included USB cable and fully charged you’ll get six hours of light on full brightness.
Choose from charcoal or teal. Larger size lanterns are also available.
Price: £39.99
Buy the Biolite AlpenGlow Mini lantern from Amazon
Darlac Expert Bypass DP1030A secateurs
For a smaller gift, check out these BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy award-winning bypass secateurs from Darlac. Offering great performance, these simple but effective secateurs have a comfortable grip, a smooth cut, and a generous lifetime guarantee.
Price: £23.33
Buy the Darlac Bypass Secateurs on Amazon
For more information, read our full review, or check out our roundup of the best secateurs.
Hog’s Back Brewery Gardener’s Tipple
This delicious beer from the independent Hog’s Back Brewery is just the thing for a relaxed summer evening after thirsty work in the garden. A light, hoppy traditional English ale.
Price: £26.35 for 12 x 500ml bottles
Buy Gardener’s Tipple from Hog’s Back Brewery
Personalised Herb Pot
Bring a touch of individuality to a herb garden with this gorgeously-proportioned terracotta pot from Letterfest. You can put any name and message you like on the pot, and spend a little extra to include eco-friendly coir compost from For Peat’s Sake! and herb seeds, so your dad can get growing straight away.
Price: £32.00
Buy the Personalised Herb Pot from Letterfest
National Trust Build Your Own 32mm Nest Box
DIY dads will love this fun project. A great way to introduce your kids to the basics, this build-your-own nest box will provide a much-needed home for small nesting birds like tits and thrushes.
Price: £14.99
Buy the National Trust Build Your Own 32mm Nest Box from CJ Wildlife
Darlac Lightweight shears
Awarded a BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy, these lightweight shears effortlessly sliced through every branch on test. Whether your dad is hacking through overgrown hedging or taming topiary, these shears are up to the job.
Price: £31.99
Buy the Darlac Lightweight Shears from Amazon
Kneelo Memory Foam Knee Pads
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Kneelo Memory Foam Kneeling Pads
These wearable memory foam garden kneelers will help keep Dad’s knees comfortable and dry whatever the job. Available in ten different colours.
Price: £17.49
Buy Kneelo memory Foam Knee Pads on Amazon
Check out other kneelers in our guide to the best garden kneelers.
Neal’s Yard Citrus Hand Softener
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Neal’s Yard Citrus Hand Softener
This lemon scented organic cream will help keep hard working hands smooth and hydrated.
Price: £16.00
Buy Neal’s Yard Citrus Hand Softener at Neal’s Yard
For more information, take a look at our guide to the best gardening hand creams.
Niwaki GR Pro Secateurs
A BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy winner, these secateurs feel strong and robust with an excellent cutting performance. Designed in the Japanese style, these simple secateurs have hand-forged, carbon steel blades and easy-to-spot yellow handles and come with a two-year warranty.
Price: £84
Buy the Niwaki GR Pro Secateurs from John Lewis
For more information, read our full review, or check out our roundup of the best secateurs.
Burgon and Ball Dutch Hoe
A Gardeners’ World’s Best Buy winner, this elegant horseshoe style hoe will help Dad weed without putting strain on his back.
Price: £38.95
Buy the Burgon and Ball Dutch Hoe from Bents
For more, read the full Burgon and Ball Dutch Hoe review, or take a look at our best garden hoe review.
DeWit Solid Socket Spade
For a gift dad will really – ahem – dig, try this beautiful, handmade spade. Awarded the Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy badge, it has a stainless steel blade with an FSC ash shaft and T handle. It excelled on test, well designed and extremely comfortable to use.
Price: £69.99
Buy the DeWit Solid Socket Spade from Crocus
Read the full DeWit Solid Socket Spade review, or take a look at our tests of the best garden spades.
Spear and Jackson Stainless Steel Select Border Fork
We loved this robust but comfortable border fork. The polypropylene shaft is strong and the socket is double riveted for extra strength, with effective ergonomic grips on its shaft and handle. It excelled at all tasks on test.
Price: £45.17
Buy Spear and Jackson Select Stainless Steel Border Fork from Amazon
Check out the full review, or get the low-down on the best border forks.
Garden Trading Outdoor Barometer
Plan gardening jobs whatever the weather with this outdoor barometer. Choose from powder coated steel in three colours.
Price: £40.00
Buy the Garden Trading Outdoor Barometer at Garden Trading
Lotus Grill Charcoal Barbecue
Get your dad grilling with the Lotus Grill – an intriguing charcoal barbecue assisted by an electric fan. Offering easy, fuss free cooking, this marvel takes up hardly any space, needs only a few minutes to get to temperature, and is completely smokeless.
Price: £172
Buy the LotusGrill on Amazon
Read the full LotusGrill review, or check out our collaboration with BBC Good Food, a test of the best charcoal BBQs. We’ve also recently tested gas BBQs.
Webb Eco WEV20X2LM43B4X 40V cordless mower
Winner of the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy for ease of use 2024, this cordless mower is comfortable and smooth to use even on bumpier lawns. With a long 60 minute run time, it’s ideal for small and medium lawns and is quiet, light and emission free.
Price: £269.99
Buy the Webb Eco mower from Marshalls
For more check out our test of the best cordless lawn mowers.
Solo Stove Pi Prime pizza oven
This neat little oven comes with a protective cover, a heatproof mat and a paddle as standard and cooks 13″ pizzas in just over a minute. the generous opening helps you keep a watchful eye while it’s cooking and is wide enough to also roast a chicken with ease.
Price: £324.99
Buy the Solo Stove Pi Prime pizza oven from Amazon
Spear & Jackson Kew Gardens Collection Cushioned Garden Kneeler
A BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy winner for comfort, this kneeler is ideal for helping to prevent stiff joints when weeding or doing any gardening task that brings you closer to ground level. This kneeler is made from five layers of foam, including memory foam, which helps it to provide the right level of softness and rigidity, so as to be comfortable without being too squishy. Its waterproof cover is easily wiped clean, and its design was inspired by botanical illustrations.
Price: £24.99
Buy the Spear & Jackson Kew Gardens Collection Cushioned Garden Kneeler from Amazon
Rolson 30-Piece Tool Kit
For practical, gardening dads, this tool kit has thirty tools to help them with their gardening DIY projects. Packaged in a handy tool bag, this tool kit also comes with a 200-piece hardware assortment set, including nails, screws and more, so your dad can get started on his next project as soon as he pleases. This would make a good gift for a DIY-interested gardening dad, whose tools need refreshing, or need proper storage.
Price: £29.99
Buy the Rolson 30-piece tool kit from Robert Dyas
This product guide was last updated in June 2024. We apologise if anything has changed in price or availability.
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