Give A Plant For Mother's Day From Give Plants

While giving flowers may seem like a good way to show how much you love your mum, it’s a terrible idea if you care about Mother Earth. The truth is that most flowers are organic only in the truest sense of that word, and many flowers are grown thousands of miles away in production greenhouses in Colombia or Ecuador, and it takes an awful lot of energy and artificial tinkering to keep those flowers fresh.

To preserve the blooms once they’re cut, they’re stored in an energy-guzzling refrigerated warehouse, flown via cargo plane to their destination, taken to yet another refrigerated warehouse to await distribution, and — just to tack on a bit more to the carbon footprint — shipped via refrigerated truck to your mum or to the refrigerated display case at the supermarket or florist.

Sure, in New Zealand most of our flowers are grown locally, but these unsustainable issues still persist. And don’t forget the cellophane wrap, those annoying little plastic stem tubes and the bouquet’s fate a week later, emitting methane in a landfill, and you may have given a gift with a bigger carbon footprint than you ever imagined.

If you want to give someone a gift that will last, and continue to bring them joy, then a Living Flowers gift from Give Plants is the answer. So, this Mother’s Day why not send mum a beautiful living gift, that will last her for many Mother’s Days in the future. For instance, the Crepe Myrtle is a stunning specimen tree that is deciduous, with vibrant pink flowers throughout summer. This a tree that will be admired for years to come.

Or, how about a Chinese Star Jasmine, with its sweet, fragrant flowers? Every mum would love this gift, which is slow growing in the early stages, but will flourish when established. It has a mass of sweet, fragrant starry white flowers, which stand out against the dark green glossy foliage.

All Give Plants’ Living Flowers come in eco-friendly packaging, and come with a gift card personalised with your message, so for more information on

Give Plants’ Mission Statement: “Delivering Living Flowers, plants and plant gifts for those who want to give sustainable and ethical gifts for a brighter future,” so for more information on buying plants online, corporate gifts and giving potted plants please go to http://www.giveplants.co.nz .