Last Updated on January 27, 2023 by the Dobies Horticultural Team

Gifts by Post Have Arrived!

We want gifting to your friends and family to be super easy this year and at a click of a finger. The best surprises come in small packages and we can have them wrapped, personalised and delivered all for you!

Are you wondering what to gift friends and family this Christmas? Or in two minds about a well-deserved treat for yourself? Whatever you’re searching for, a pick-me-up, to pamper a friend, a present for a loved one’s birthday or to celebrate Christmas with a pal from a distance, we have a gift by post for everyone and every occasion.

Your Gifts by Post Options

We have hunted high and low and produced a whole range of wonderful gifts by post for you to choose from. There’s something to suit everyone, like a treat for an avid gardener, a fancy wine taster, an exciting day out for you and friend or a gift voucher to spend at home. We can help you with our variety of thoughtful gestures that pass on that special feeling of receiving a gift by post and brighten up that lucky recipient’s day.

Get Your Trees by Post 

Give a Gift boxed Bay, Olive, Fig or Kiwi!

With a choice of four tree-mendous trees to choose from and all delivered straight to the door, treat a loved one this Christmas. All these wonderful Trees by Post come gift-wrapped, gift boxed and with a personalised message, providing elegant packaging at the highest quality with a special touch.

Bay Tree Gift

Bring elegance and style to your garden or patio with this stunning Bay Tree Gift! This variety can be clipped into a formal architectural specimen, providing structure and interest for 12 months of the year, for many years to come! Style into a circle or pyramid or other delightful shapes, the bay tree is a versatile tree for you to cut and prune to your liking. 

Kiwi Plant Gift

Give the gift of an exotic kiwi plant! If you or someone you know loves to grow fruit, then this is the perfect gift. Kiwi fruits are attractive climbers that are surprisingly easy to grow and hardy too. Grow up a trellis, arch or pergola in a warm spot or on a south-facing wall and prune to your desired size.

Issai is an unusual kiwi which, unlike its more well-known cousins, boasts fruit with smooth, edible skin! The little kiwis are delicious oval fruits and are produced in abundance – 1000 kiwis per year is not unusual!

Olive Tree Gift

Treat yourself or someone special to the Olive Tree Gift, and add some extra style to their home or garden. Traditionally used as a symbol of peace and friendship, olive trees make amazing gifts and are famed for their longevity.

It doesn’t get any better than having a garden or patio which demonstrates style and sophistication. The olive trees evergreen leaves will do just the trick and can be trained and clipped into formal architectural specimens. Fancy more, a matching pair either side of a doorway or garden entrance will always create the ‘wow!’ factor.

Fig Tree Gift

Fancy a treat for yourself or someone you know? Then the Fig Tree Gift with Free Sticky Fig Jam is the perfect gift for you. Our Brown Turkey fig tree is the most reliable fig for the UK climate, producing a heavy crop of purple-brown fruits with sweet red flesh in late August to mid-September. Just harvest and enjoy all it has to offer!

Figs will bring a Mediterranean flavour to your garden, combining beautiful foliage with a tasty and bountiful harvest. 

Vines and Wines

It’s Pop and Pour Time!

Flame Grape Vine and Bottle of Red Wine

If you like fine wine and fancy growing your own, try our vine and wine gifts by post. Our Grape Vine with a bottle of red wine is a luxurious gift and turns your backyard into a vineyard. This is one of the most popular varieties of grape, which tastes even better picked straight from the vine.

It’s suitable for outdoor and greenhouse/conservatory growing, is early ripening and disease resistant, and is supplied as a grafted plant in 2 litre pot. It’s best to choose a sunny spot for your plant, and it will provide you with attractive vines, a bountiful crop of delicious grapes and enjoy an excellent bottle of wine while you await your first harvest.

Perlette Grape Vine with White Wine

The best dessert comes with grape vines and wine!

Seedless white grape producing very large bunches of golden-green, delicious dessert grapes. They are vigorous and heavy cropping, and suitable for greenhouses and conservatories. Supplied as a grafted plant in 2 litre pot.

Early ripening and disease-resistant plants. Our varieties will provide you with attractive vines and a bountiful crop of delicious grapes! And they come complete with a lovely bottle of wine too!

Sweet Treats

Personalised Cakes

Reindeer Chocolate Smash Cake

Chocolate lovers please line up! The Reindeer Cake is made with a delicious Belgian chocolate shell, filled inside with all the favourites! Maltesers, Smarties and Chocolate Buttons. Decorated with a cute reindeer face, what isn’t to love! Smash open and enjoy.

Personalised message written in Belgian white chocolate, this cake stays fresh up to 4 months if stored in original packaging.

Terry’s Chocolate Orange Christmas Pudding

This Terry’s Chocolate Orange® is topped with Belgian white chocolate and an edible holly leaf. personalisation with a lovely message or name up to 12 characters and it stays fresh for up to 4 months if stored in original packaging.

Personalised Sweet Trees

The perfect treat for someone with a sweet tooth! Satisfy their taste buds with our stunning personalised trees. Whatever they prefer, we have chewy fruity sweets or indulge in rich cholocate. There’s a naughty evening snack for everyone.

Gin O’Clock!

For someone who loves a tipple of Gin!

Gin Time Clock

Tick tock it’s gin o’clock. The perfect tonic for a hard day, the Gin Time Clock Set makes a great gift for those that enjoy a refreshing G & T no matter what hour of the day.

With gin-related slogans for every hour, this clock gives a whole new meaning to drinking hours and ensures you’ll never be early or late for your G & T – you’ll be bang on time. Easy to assemble, this freestanding clock comes complete with 12 x 5cl bottles of gins – including flavoured and pink varieties.

Experience Days

Our experience days are perfect for those occasions that call for something extra special. There’s something magical about picking a unique experience and making memories together, and our selection has something for everyone.

Take your pick, from a day at visit to Kew Gardens complete with a river cruise, or become a gardener for a day at The Alnwick Garden, and so much more. This is the opportunity to tick one of those items off their bucket list with a gift they’ll never forget!

Gift Vouchers

A great alternative to buying a physical gift!

If you know someone who loves to shop with us, or a friend who is gardening enthusiast, then treat them to one of our special gift vouchers to spend at home.

Dobies have exclusively designed a contemporary and traditional style gift voucher card, especially for that perfect present.

With different options available, choose either our digital eVoucher or a physical Gift Card to spend online on our website, over the phone or by post.

We hope you find the perfect surprise for a loved one with something special in the post, or a fancy gift for you. If you try our gifts by post this Christmas, we will have it all done for you and make this festive season a time to sit back and relax without the shopping stress.