Make Your Relationships Grow: Why Plants Are Great Gifts
In this era of material excess, many people are searching for meaningful, memorable options for personal and business gift giving. Many people are turning away from giving gifts they consider to be impersonal and seek gift ideas that carry a positive message. They want to honor the recipient, but also want to give a gift that reflects their values.
Live plants are long lasting, sustainable, beautiful, and environmentally positive. They symbolize long-lasting best wishes from the giver to the recipient. Givingplants.com offers these reasons why plants make great gifts:
1. Plants Are Long-Lasting
Cut flowers typically last about five days so after the initial display, the recipient is left with a drooping bouquet and the chore of replacing water daily and tossing out spent blooms.
Green plants add long-lasting color, texture and life to any home or office space. Many gift plants are also extremely low maintenance, requiring minimal care and are able to thrive in a variety of conditions.
When is comes to color, live flowering plants deliver like nothing else. Consider giving a live floral plant as a substitute for cut flowers. They typically arrive in bud, and open up to offer a long display of color that lasts for weeks or even months.
2. Plants Promote Positive Memories and Better Relationships
Giving a gift plant is good for your relationships. Giving a gift is a positive exchange between people –goodwill and trust is established and relationships flourish in a positive way.
Unlike cut flowers, which are tossed and forgotten, live plants offer lasting beauty and life. So even when the gift-giving occasion has passed, the plant will continue to deliver your good wishes, offering a wonderful memory of your kind gesture.
3. Plants Are Environmentally Sustainable
Just a little watering and care goes a long way in sustaining the plant. Some plants can even be planted outdoors, where they will continue to grow and bloom in the garden. If not, they can be composted, offering life through soil enrichment.
In addition, unlike flowers or manufactured products, live plants can offset your carbon footprint. Most products, including cut flowers are typically grown or manufactured overseas, flown to a distribution center in The United States and then flown again for local delivery. So many resources used for one gift!
Live plants are grown in The United States, in locations efficiently close to our nursery facility, where they are prepared for delivery to you. As they grow, the plant produces carbon dioxide, cleansing the environment and partially offsetting the environmental stress of delivery.
4. Plants Are Healthy For People and Pets
Through the process of photosynthesis, plants give off oxygen, thus creating even more healthful air to breath. In addition, microscopic pores in the leaves of plants absorb toxins, purifying the environment of harmful gases.
In addition, caring for plants has been proven to have calming, stress-reducing, muscle relaxing and spiritual effects upon people.
5. Plants Are Beautiful
Nature-inspired gifts are in. So why not give the real thing? These unique plant gift ideas are inspiring and stylish.
Elegant and Sophisticated Orchids
An orchid gift is a compliment to the recipient for her good taste appealing to the modern sophisticate and traditionalist alike. Long loved for their arching forms and beautiful blooms, the orchid makes any space more graceful and inviting. They offer all the symbolism of a live plant, yet are decorative and add style to the home or office.
Black Thumb Society
For the person who insists they can only kill plants, these hardy, adaptable plants can thrive in dark corners, with a minimum of watering and care. Offering all the benefits of green plants, they are the perfect way to bring some life into the lives of your most stressed, out, time-crunched friends and associates. Who knows, they might just slow down and smell the green!
Distinguished Yet Sensitive Bonsai
Bosai symbolizes the magnificence of nature on a very small scale. For many a meditation, for others a creative outlet, the bonsai master shapes a plant to highlight its beautiful form. Typically planted in a hand glazed ceramic planter, and ranging in size from 6 inches to 3 feet, Bonsai is the perfect gift for the aficionado of Asian art, modern architecture, or spiritual objects – or for the person who just likes cool stuff.
Country Living
Flowering shrubs thrive indoors and then can be planted outdoors for years of blooming pleasure. Perfect for the garden lovers, your flowering plant will remind her of your thoughtfulness for years to come.
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