Set your imagination loose when designing your Growing Gratitude Gifting Garden!
Choose any blend of trees, bushes, perennials, and annuals that will grow well in your location.
If you are new to gardening, learn about your growing zone and conditions before planting.
Below are some ideas, along with welcoming titles that fit the spirit of Growing Gratitude. These considerations are best suited for temperate climates. If you are planning a gifting garden in a tropical area then you will have different creative options!
Sharing Tree
- Agreeable apricots
- Attentive almonds
- Approachable Apples
- Charitable chestnuts
- Charming cherries
- Friendly figs
- High-minded hazelnuts
- Neighbourly nectarines
- Patient pears
- Perceptive peaches
- Praising persimmons
- Promising plums
- Welcoming walnuts
Berry Bounty
- Affable autumn olives
- Bold blackberries
- Big hearted blueberries
- Considerate currants
- Generous gooseberries
- Groovy goji berries
- Gregarious grapes
- Honest honeyberries
- Joyful jostaberries
- Restorative raspberries
- Selfless service berries
- Sociable strawberries
- Supportive sea buckthorn
Pleasing Veggie Plot
- Big-hearted beans
- Bright beets
- Care-free cucumbers
- Comforting caulflower
- Cool-headed celery
- Cuddly cabbage
- Cute carrots
- Reliable radishes
- Selfless squash
- Polite peas
- Tasteful turnips
- Thoughtful tomatoes
- Zealous zucchini
Leafy Green Garden
- Agreeable arugula
- Bold bok choy
- Charming chard
- Generous greens
- Lighthearted lettuce
- Kindly kale
- Mannerly mustard
- Mighty mesclun
- Sensitive spinach
- Willing watercress
Herbal Kitchen Helper
- Beneficial basil
- Charitable chives
- Sociable cilantro
- Easy going green onion
- Magnanimous mint
- Pleasant parsley
- Righteous rosemary
- Trusty thyme
- Supportive sage
Tea Garden
- Big hearted borage
- Considerate catnip
- Contented chamomile
- Helpful anise hyssop
- Lavish lavender
- Liberating lemon balm
- Marvellous mint
- Radiant rose hips
- Sweet strawberry leaves
- Virtuous lemon verbena
Flourishing Edible Flowers
- Charming calendula
- Cheeky Chive blossoms
- Magnanimous marigold
- Nurturing nasturtium
- Regal rose
- Polite pansy
- Volunteering violet
Pets Patch
- Beaming barley grass
- Carefree catnip
- Outgoing oatgrass
- Resilient ryegrass
- Willing wheatgrass
- Most vegetables and fruits that we enjoy dogs will benefit from too, and a there are a few that cats like in small amounts.
- There’s a very small list of foods that dogs shouldn’t eat.
Gifting Guild
- Surround a tree or bush with edible companion plants to create a guild which acts like a mini ecosystem or small food forest.
Fertile Food Forest
- If you have lots of space, create a food forest!
- If you would like to connect with a professional permaculture designer I recommend contacting our affiliate, Food Forest Abundance, for a free consultation.
- Photo courtesy of Mark Lakeman at Communitecture.
Shade Loving Sharing Garden
- Cilantro, parsley, thyme, dill, borage, marjoram, oregano, mint, lemon balm, sorel, lovage, rosemary, summer savory, perilla, dill, chervil, sage, calendula, and more.
Cold Season Bed
- Kale, arugula, lettuce, spinach, chard, sorel, and winter lettuce are good choices for an abundant autumn garden or wonderful winter plot in milder areas.
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