Plants make wonderful gifts for any occasion. They bring beauty, tranquility, and a touch of nature into any space, making them ideal presents for birthdays, anniversaries, housewarmings, or simply to brighten someone’s day. If you’re considering giving the gift of greenery, here are some of the best plants to gift, along with why they’re special and tips for their care.
Peace Lily
Botanical name: Spathiphyllum
Fragrant flowers and beautiful foliage, the peace lily is a perfect gifting plant for pleasant occasion. The Peace Lily plant symbolizes purity, rebirth, innocence, and tranquility. It is a flowering air purifying plant, and giving a peace lily means you wish them peace and support in the place of plants. Gift peace lily when you want to let someone know that you support them, and when you wish to express sympathy plant.
Lucky Bamboo
Botanical name: Dracaena sanderiana
Lucky bamboo symbolizes wealth, prosperity, luck, longevity, and love. Different layers of the lucky bamboo plant represent different things within the plants. Two layers are for love, Three layers represent for long and happy life, Five Layers represent wealth, Seven layers represent health, Eight layers represent growth, Nine layers represent luck, & Ten layers represent perfection. Gift best lucky bamboo when someone is starting a new chapter in their life.
Jade Plant
Botanical name: Crassula ovata
The long-living jade plant is admired for its thick stems that are covered with fleshy and oval leaves. You can give this plant even a black thumb, as it requires very little care and watering of the plant. The Jade plant takes the appearance of a miniature tree, as it matures. The pink-white flowers of the jade plant also emerge from winter to spring.
Christmas Cactus
Botanical name: Schlumbergera
The drooping branches of the Christmas cactus plant are covered with prickly thrones. The green leaf-like flattened segments on branches are actually modified stems, whereas the spines are modified leaves. The eye-catchy flowers in the shades of yellow, red, pink, white, and even lilac can be relished during Christmas time.