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A Mother’s Day Gift That is Alive and Growing!
What are your thoughts as Mother’s Day is fast approaching? Are you wondering how best to show your feelings for your mother on Mother’s Day? What is the perfect gift that can convey your genuine love and care for your mother without giving hints of flattery or appeasement?
You might get overwhelmed by the variety of Mother’s Day gifts that are available in the market. If you are like many others, you would want to gift her with flowers, especially if she is someone who loves flowers. Because of the traditional associations made, the first flower that comes to mind might be carnations! The association between Mother’s Day and Carnations is very strongly embedded in our minds. There is even an early Christian legend according to which carnations are the flowers that sprung up when the tears of the mother of Christ fell on the ground as she saw the sufferings of her son.
Flowers are very popular on Mother’s Day and they are almost indispensable as gifts on the occasion. You could easily get carnations, hyacinths, tulips, and daffodils for her.
OK, if not carnations or any of the other three mentioned above, you could give other flowers like roses and orchids. Or a mix of carnations, orchids, and roses. Are you happy with these? Or do you, like me, feel that these flowers do not make such great gifts because they removed from their natural surroundings?
Without completely discarding traditional notions, consider this question with an open mind: ‘are carnations the best plant and flower related gift you could give your mother?’ In other words, can you give something that is fuller and more organic than mere flowers?
That is where my suggestion gets its relevance. Gift your mother with flowering plants. They are better than mere flowers because of many reasons. They are alive, inspiring, and ecologically more meaningful. Moreover, they give your mother a chance to make her garden richer and more beautiful.
That being the main focus, let us start off with some other Mother’s Day gifts!
Simple and homemade gifts for mom
A very simple and telling way of showing your mother that you care is by doing everything for her on Mother’s Day. Let her relax on her most comfortable chair and read her favorite book and watch television. You could cook her favorite seafood dish or prepare her favorite dessert.
Crafts are a popular gift item for Mother’s Day. You can make them using common things such as paper by following simple instructions. Or you could write a genuine and unaffected letter for her. If you are comfortable with the medium of poetry, you could write her a poem that would delight her.
Jewelry pieces such as bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and rings can make excellent Mother’s Day gifts. In the apparel category, there are some interesting modern trends. A popular Mother’s Day gift these days is a nice T-shirt set for both the mother and the child.
Now we will move to the natural gifts category, the one that includes plants and flowers.
Plants and flowers for mom
Flowering plants being more natural and alive, they should logically make great gifts. It is surprising why they haven’t become very popular as yet.
Flowering plants are novel gift items for Mother’s Day. These are likely to be more-than-welcome gift for a mother who has been getting carnations year after year. They can be given in various types of containers. You could consider gifting them in baskets, pots, and metallic containers.
Undoubtedly, these plants are going to matter a lot to mothers who love gardening. They have the extra charm of being living things as compared to flowers, which are, although attractive, placed out of context because they are plucked out of nature.
If your mother is a lover of gardening, one of the best things you could do to her is to gift her with a pot of flowering plants. The longer the time she spends with the plants,the better she would feel about your gift and the good emotions that inspired you to give her that gift.
You could buy planted flowers from a good online florist. If you just go to their site and search for their Mother’s Day catalog, you would come across some nice planted flowers. You might even gather enough audacity to go beyond the usual carnations and buy plants.
You could get some add-ons too, such as wine, chocolates, and soft toys. Based on your mother’s likes and dislikes, you can decide whether it is appropriate or not.
Jobin K. Mathew
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Gift Baskets for Mothers Day
Mother’s Day is coming up very soon, and you know it. You have been puzzling for several weeks about what you could possibly give your mother, the woman who has everything. This is a dilemma that faces many devoted children when it comes to this holiday, but that challenge can turn into a triumph when you consider gift baskets for Mother’s Day. Why gift baskets, you may wonder? Mother’s Day gift baskets can very easily be customized to your specific mother’s wants and desires, so that this year your special gift will really impress her and remind her just how much you care about making her happy.
The best way to start when you are thinking of putting together a Mother’s Day gift is to take a look around your mother’s house or, better yet, in her photo albums. Here you will find a wealth of clues as to what is important to her. You might find items or pictures focused on a hobby that your mother enjoys, for example. These hobbies can then easily become a theme for wonderful personalized mother’s day gifts.
Pictures or souvenirs from happy family holidays spent out of town can also be a starting point for a great gift basket. If you were fortunate, perhaps your family got to travel to the Mediterranean for a holiday when you were growing up. Items centered on the Mediterranean could make wonderful gifts in a sunny Mediterranean-themed gift basket. You could include some foods from the area, such as several delicious varieties of olives for which the different regions are famous. Kalamata, Nicoise, Nyons, and Gaeta are just a few salty, oily olives that come from Europe, and several jars of these tucked into a basket would make your mother very happy. You could also include a bottle of great wine from one of the regions in the Mediterranean, or focus on a grape for which a particular region is famous, such as Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon. With the inclusion of a small flag from her favorite European country and postcards from the area, Mom would be thrilled to open this unique and thoughtful gift from you.
If your mother likes to garden, you could use this hobby as the focus of a delightful gift basket for her. Every gardener can use some new hand tools, including a trowel and a dirt scratcher, as well as a weeding tool. A new sharp pair of hand pruners always comes in handy. Sunglasses and fragrant sunscreen are always welcome, and maybe some knee pads so that she can weed in comfort. Several glorious seed packages featuring unusual varieties, and a good garden journal would make a memorable gift for your mother this year.
Anne Harvester
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