Gifts for Plant Dads

The instinct is to buy him a plant. Resist it. He already has more plants than surfaces, he has a specific opinion about where each one should live, and the one you pick will be the wrong one — not because your taste is bad, but because he has been researching a particular cultivar for eleven weeks and you were never going to guess which.

Buy him something that acknowledges the hobby instead of adding to it. The list below is ordered roughly by how well it lands: the self-awarded titles do best, the confessional ones do second best, and the genuinely useful equipment does surprisingly well with anyone who gardens outdoors.