Unbeleafable: These Are the 12 Best Tech Gifts for Plant Lovers

This app has everything for the plant lover in your life: an AI-powered plant identifier, a plant doctor for diagnosing problems and helping treat them, a built-in light meter and reminders for watering, fertilizing, pruning and more. A helping hand for any green thumb.

If you have outdoor plants, it’s essential to monitor the weather so you know when to water, fertilize, prepare for frost and protect against pests. With its large color LCD screen and three remote sensors, the Newentor Weather Station can help by displaying the temperature, humidity, customizable alerts, a weather forecast for up to 24 hours and more. It can also be used in the same way for indoor conditions.

In just 72 seconds, this sensor measures your soil moisture content and wirelessly displays it on an easy-to-read LCD screen. It also works for both indoor and outdoor plants, ensuring your plant children are never thirsty.

The name says it all: These easy self-watering planters are designed for those who have trouble remembering to water small or large indoor plants. I’ve always had trouble with larger plants, but this system has kept my fiddle-leaf fig green and healthy for over a year. 

The simple design draws water from a reservoir to keep the soil moist, though you’ll still need to refill it every couple of months, depending on the season.

All of Easyplants' plants come potted in a self-watering planter. Choose from smaller tabletop snake plants, pothos or peperomias, or opt for a large statement plant, such as a bird of paradise or an oversized palm. 

Easyplant also offers lifetime access to plant experts via its online chat. Prices start at $39 for small plants and go up from there, depending on size and plant type.

Delivering fast readings at two times per second, this light meter can light the way in helping you identify the ideal growing environment for all your plants’ sunlight needs. 

If you want more indoor plants in your life but don’t have the sunlight to support them, AeroGarden’s three-armed light can provide multiple plants with full-spectrum LEDs to help them grow. With the app, you can also create a light schedule, sunrise and sunset settings and more.

This isn’t just an incredible humidifier for humans. If you download the app and enter the specific plant species you have, it will tailor the perfect relative humidity to your flora. You can also set schedules and manage the humidifier even when you’re away from home.

CNET’s pick for the “best indoor smart garden for most,” this smart garden utilizes automated watering, light and nutrients to help you grow herbs, greens, fruit and vegetables right on your countertop. It couldn’t be easier thanks to the ready-to-go, pre-seeded plant pods ($3 each), LED grow lights and a water tank that only needs refilling every 2 to 3 weeks.

For fresh herbs within arm's reach, this charming trio of self-watering planters is ideal. The amber glass planters look lovely on a counter or in a windowsill, and the tinted glass hides a lot of the mucky stuff that’s bound to develop in the water below.

The $99 set comes with three planters, each with an herb pod of your choosing, along with a plant fuel drop to supercharge your basil, mint or parsley.

For an extra $50, you can add an LED grow light; however, I had better luck exposing my planters to natural sunlight in my kitchen’s window box.

This starter pack comes with everything you need to automate your plant’s watering: a planter powered by four AI sensors that monitor plant health, a bridge for connecting all your planters to the app and the LeafyPod app. Being a plant parent has never been easier.

Using sonification technology, PlantWave turns your plant’s biorhythms into music. You simply place two electrodes on your plant’s leaves -- then you can groove out while your greenery grows.

Winning CNET’s award for the “best vertical indoor smart garden,” the Original Farmstand can hold between 18 and 36 plants for both indoor and outdoor harvests, but the price increases with more plants (which come with the Farmstand). Also note that the indoor version is more expensive, starting at $973. Both use water mixed with nutrients to automatically water plants, and the indoor version comes with LED ring lights. A handy app provides harvesting alerts and tips. Perfect for the wannabe farmer in your life who doesn’t have space for an entire outdoor garden.