Our Finest Gift Ideas for Mother's Day

Gardening tools and accessories

For mums passionate about gardening, gifting ergonomic and stylish tools is an excellent idea. Among the available options:

• A garden labellum: equipped with pockets, it keeps essential tools within easy reach while protecting clothing. It comes in different models: short or long.
• A bucket bag: this is an original accessory that fits around a galvanised steel bucket (included) and also allows you to keep tools handy, thanks to its 6 pockets.
• Gardening gloves : offering good dexterity, they are essential for protecting hands during all garden tasks.
• Beautiful garden labels: very practical for identifying plants, labels can also add a decorative touch to the garden. You could choose, for example, heart-shaped slate labels, to hang with label holders.
• A gardening tool kit: you could gift a set of small tools including a trowel, pruner, garden knife, weeding knife, and gloves… Or gift some of these tools separately, depending on what your mum might need.

Short garden labellum, bucket bag, Rostaing gardening gloves, heart-shaped slate label with its holder, Leborgne steel trowel, and Burgon & Ball weeding knife

Inspiring books

Giving a book is a wonderful way to share a passion, spark curiosity or introduce new skills. Here is a selection of books that make excellent Mother’s Day gifts.

For creating and designing your garden

These books are packed with inspiring advice and ideas for designing your garden:

• Les belles harmonies du jardin: for successful plant combinations and harmonious compositions.
• Guide de la couleur au jardin: this book is perfect for learning how to combine colours in the garden, adding contrast or depth to flower beds.
• Plantes vivaces – Ulmerium: this book features over 2000 perennial plants, with detailed information on their characteristics and cultivation tips.

For dreaming and inspiration

• La Maubrairie – Jardins du Bocage: discover the gardens of Stéphane Marie, presenter of the famous show “Silence, ça pousse!”. To learn more, read Gwenaëlle’s article about this book.
• Jardins Jungle: this book by Michael Le Bret invites us to transform our garden into a lush jungle! Gwenaëlle tells us more in her dedicated article about this book.
• Jardins naturalistes: this book by Piet Oudolf, Henk Gerritsen and Noel Kingsbury presents a selection of the best perennial plants for creating a naturalistic-style garden.

For growing your vegetable garden

• Tous les légumes, pour une autonomie alimentaire retrouvée: this guide by La Ferme de Sainte-Marthe features a wide variety of vegetables, with tips for successful cultivation.
• Le guide Clause du potager: a reference book packed with advice for a successful vegetable garden.
• Un potager productif et naturel: this book teaches us how to design a productive vegetable garden for greater food self-sufficiency.

For healing with plants

Medicinal plants are increasingly appealing to gardeners concerned about their health:

• La pharmacie naturelle: learn how to treat ailments with garden plants.
• Mini-guide des plantes qui soignent: a practical little guide to discovering medicinal plants.

For harvesting and cooking wild or cultivated plants

• Breuvages sauvages: recipes for homemade drinks using local plants.
• Cuisiner les plantes sauvages du jardin : dandelion, salad burnet, ground elder… This book teaches us to identify and cook 21 common edible wild plants!
• Toutes les plantes belles et comestibles: this book invites us to grow plants that are both highly ornamental and edible!

Discover our full range of books

Plants for the garden

Giving a perennial plant or a bush is a lasting gift that your mother can enjoy for years to come. Even if she doesn’t have a large garden, some dwarf bushes or perennial plants adapt perfectly to pot cultivation, brightening up a courtyard, terrace, or balcony. Here are some ideal plant ideas for Mother’s Day:

• A rose bush: among the classics, you could choose ‘Mme A. Meilland’, with large yellow-orange flowers edged in pink, ‘La France’, with fully double pink flowers, or ‘Iceberg’, with white flowers. If you prefer a dwarf rose bush, suitable for pot cultivation, opt for ‘Sweet Dream’ or ‘Bordure Vive’. Also discover the charming miniature rose ‘Cutie Pie’. For a pergola, arch, or trellis, choose a climbing rose like ‘Pierre de Ronsard’, or perhaps a Banks’ rose, which has the advantage of being very vigorous.
• Perennial plants: you could choose sages, catmints, gauras, or hardy geraniums… Feel free to create a composition in a large pot combining several flowering plants with decorative foliage (grasses, ferns…). Also consider the Bleeding Heart, with its lovely heart-shaped flowers, as well as agapanthus.
• Climbing plants with elegant flowering, such as clematis, jasmines, climbing roses… Your mother can train them over an arch or pergola.
• A tree or fruit bush: for example, a fig tree, raspberry bush, currant bush, kiwi, or citrus tree. For something unique, consider a goji plant, mayberry, or persimmon tree.
• A succulent plant: choose agaves, mangaves, aeoniums, sedums, houseleeks, aloes, or kalanchoes. These plants are easy to grow and highly decorative. You can create a stunning gift arrangement by combining several of these plants in a terracotta or ceramic pot with well-draining soil.

Rose bush ‘Iceberg’, Bush sage ‘Violette de Loire’, Bleeding Heart, Clematis ‘Arabella’, Goji, succulent arrangement featuring different species of houseleeks (Sempervivum)

Indoor plants

Nothing beats houseplants to decorate your home and create a soothing green atmosphere. Here are some easy-care plants:

• Ceropegia woodii (String of Hearts): This is a trailing plant with stems bearing small heart-shaped leaves. A lovely, very symbolic plant to give to your mum!

• Hoya (Wax Flower): The Hoya is a plant with decorative foliage and small, fragrant star-shaped flowers.

• Oxalis triangularis (Purple Shamrock): An original bulbous plant with purple shamrock-shaped leaves that close at night. It also produces white to pinkish-white flowers.

• Pothos (Epipremnum aureum): The pothos is a very common and easy-to-grow houseplant, ideal for beginners. It has green or variegated leaves on long trailing stems.

• Anthurium: The Anthurium has large, very graphic leaves and produces stunning flowers, often bright red, sometimes white depending on the variety.

If you’d like more choice, browse our wide range of houseplants, as well as our advice sheet: “The Perfect Houseplants to Give as Gifts”.

Ceropegia woodii, Hoya bella, Oxalis triangularis, Pothos and Anthurium

A gift card

If you’d like to give your mum the freedom to choose what she likes best, consider the promesse de fleurs gift card. You can select the amount of this gift voucher between €25 and €500. She’ll then be able to freely choose from our wide range of plants, books and gardening tools.

Discover all our Mother’s Day gift ideas here!