Best Plant Gifts for Occasions and Celebrations
Plants are a timeless, meaningful gift that provide a deeper impact than your standard cut flowers. They’re environmentally friendly, thoughtful, and contribute to better air quality and stress relief. Plants can be given as celebratory gifts or gifts to try and cheer your loved one up. Whatever the occasion or whoever the recipient, plant gifts are always appreciated.
In this blog, we will keep it simple, giving our top 3 plant recommendations for every gifting occasion.
With a choice of over 100 flowering, fruiting, and foliage plants, your chosen plant gift will always be delivered beautifully wrapped and boxed with a handwritten card
Birthday Gifts
For birthdays, you generally want to choose a plant that you know the recipient will love. Have they expressed their interest in a certain type of plant, or do you just know they enjoy fresh fruit or herbs? If you’re not sure or want to gift something a little different, here are our top birthday plant recommendations:
Camellias
Happy Birthday Camellias produce pretty winter flowers, making them a great option for autumn and winter birthdays. They’re a low maintenance garden plant that offers dark, glossy foliage throughout the year, with beautiful pink blooms opening in time for the colder months.
Mini Lemon and Gin Gift Sets
For the special person in your life who enjoys a cheeky gin, a citrus tree with gin miniatures is a perfect gift. Lemon Trees are the gift that keeps on giving, offering beautiful citrus fruits that will add a zing to any glass of gin.
Orchids
A classic birthday plant gift that offers plenty of buds and waxy flowers. Known as a symbol of love and luxury, they’re one of the best birthday presents you can buy. Available in white, pink, yellow, and more, they can be suited to any home and any preference and are generally easy to care for.
Mini Lemon and Gin Gift Set
Toast a special occasion with a citrus tree and gin gift set. With the right care, these cute lemon trees will produce fruit for years to come
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Happy Birthday Camellia
A popular choice for a birthday, these Camellia japonicas make a stunning feature in the garden throughout the year
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Moth Orchids
Your plant will be delivered gift wrapped and boxed on the actual birthday, or choose your preferred date on the order form
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New Office Gifts
A plant is the perfect gift for someone who’s just moved into a new office, is building their remote office, or has started a new job. There are many benefits of having plants in the office; they reduce stress, improve aesthetics, and remove harmful toxins from the air. These benefits lead to a happier employee all round! Here are our office plant gift recommendations:
Money Plants
In Feng Shui, Money Plants are associated with wealth and prosperity, making them the ideal plant gift for someone moving to a new office. They’re small, easy to care for, and will thrive even in darker rooms, making them ideal for any office.
Zebra Plants
These funky succulents do well in a range of lighting levels and have little care requirements. This means they’re perfect for gifting to someone who’s joined a new office or is decorating their own home office. Zebra Plants can be placed on a desktop or displayed on a shelf to bring life to the room.
Spider Plants
A Spider Plant is generally easy to care for and thrives in low light as well as sunny rooms. Choosing a Spider Plant in a vibrant pot or trending hanging basket makes the perfect new office gift for smaller offices that need to utilise space effectively.
Spider Plants
Paired with an attractive pot, these Spider Plants will stand out even in low light office spaces
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Zebra Plants
These quirky succulent plants require very little care - perfect for those with busy working schedules
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Money Plants
These cute desktop plants are thought to bring prosperity and good fortune - ideal for a new office!
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New Home Gifts
Plants can turn a house into a home. They add colour, texture, and life to any room, making them the perfect housewarming gift. Because there are so many varieties of plants available, it can be overwhelming choosing one that matches your loved one’s personality and décor the best; however, here are our go-to choices.
Bird's Nest Ferns
Ferns are generally easy to care for and are attractive additions to any home. That means whether the recipient is moving into a modern home or renovating an older house, a Bird’s Nest Fern will fit right in. They never go out of style and can bring life into any room of the house.
Herb Planters
What better way to kick start the kitchen cooking than with some beautifully planted fresh herbs? A Wooden Herb Planter can sit nicely in any cool room or sheltered patio and can make the perfect housewarming gift for cooking enthusiasts.
Tea Plants
Nothing screams ‘welcome to my new home!’ more than a cup of tea, so why not let your friend or family member enjoy the process of making their own home-grown tea? A Tea Plant is a unique housewarming gift that every tea-lover will appreciate, and it’s also an extravagant way to invite yourself round for a cuppa!
Herb Planters
Every new home needs a fresh supply of herbs! Ready for snipping into delicious dishes cooked in a new kitchen
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Tea Plants
Our hardy Tea Plants are delivered gift wrapped with a handwritten greetings card with your personal message
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New Baby Gifts
Whether it’s a birth gift or a christening present, plants are a great way to celebrate a new baby being welcomed into the family. Plants represent new beginnings, growth, and love, and they provide many benefits, such as creating a calm environment, which is important for a mother after birth. Here are our recommendations for new baby gifts:
Orchids
Orchids symbolise new beginnings and the enduring nature of familial love, making them ideal for the birth of babies. Orchids are easy to look after, so don’t require the new parents to dedicate a lot of their time to care.
Indoor Planters
An indoor seasonal planter is a fabulous ready planted arrangement delivered in bud and bloom, so is a great gift for babies born any time of the year. A flowering indoor planter is a low maintenance planter that provides instant colour to your home.
Peace Lilies
Peace Lilies do just what their name says; they bring peace to your home, which is needed with a new born baby! Peace Lilies are beautiful flowering plants that thrive in very little light and re-flower every 4-8 weeks after the initial blooms have passed.
Moth Orchids
Orchids require minimal care, making them the ideal gift for busy new parents or the less than green fingered
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Indoor Planters
Featuring a colourful mix of seasonal flowering plants, these Indoor Planters will add an uplifting splash of colour
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Peace Lilies
Delivered gift wrapped and box, this Peace Lily plant will be a welcome surprise for new parents or grandparents
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Anniversary Gifts
Plant gifts are a great way to express your love and gratitude for your partner on your anniversary or to say congratulations on so many years of marriage to your friends or family members. Plants can last years, and there is such a diverse range available to suit every couple. Symbolising growth, resilience, and the recurring nature of life, plants are the gift that keeps on giving, much like a relationship. Here are our top anniversary plant gift recommendations:
Camellias
An Anniversary Camellia makes a fabulous, long-lasting gift for your anniversary. Whether you’re buying for your husband, wife, or a couple on their anniversary, they are a beautiful symbol of love. They have glossy leaves all year round with beautiful flowers adding bursts of colour to brighten up winter days.
Grape Vines
Grape Vines make incredible anniversary gifts that appeal to many couples – the wine lovers, the fruit lovers, and the plant lovers. Grape vines can also be planted all year round in a sheltered, sunny spot, making them a great gift no matter the time of year.
Calamondin Trees
Calamondin Trees make a fabulous anniversary gift, as they aren’t just a beautiful addition to the kitchen windowsill; they are rewarding to grow! They will flower or fruit when placed in a sunny area and are the easiest citrus plant to care for, so they’re great for couples who don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to plant care.
Anniversary Camellias
Available in Silver Wedding, Ruby Wedding, and Golden Wedding anniversary varieties
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Calamondin Trees
Choose from a number of attractive pots to pair with this fruiting citrus tree
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Grapevines
An ideal gift for wine lovers to remind them of this special occasion for years to come
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Wedding Gifts
Finding the perfect wedding gift can be difficult; however, you can’t go wrong with a plant gift! Plants are a meaningful way to celebrate the union of two people as they symbolise the new beginnings. From foliage to fruiting trees, plants make the perfect wedding gifts for your loved ones.
Lemon Trees
Lemon Trees grow particularly well in the UK and will produce plenty of zesty lemons to add into cooking, baking, and drinks – G&T anyone? Lemon Trees brighten up any room in winter and are a lovely feature for patios in the summer. There’s no wonder they are a popular gift for weddings!
Jasmine
Jasmine is a symbol of love and purity. As long-lasting plants with year-round interest, they are great gifts for summer or winter weddings alike. Perfect for the gardening couple or to brighten up a patio, they produce delicate, scented white flowers that make a subtle yet beautiful impact.
Patio Roses
For a wedding gift that’s a little different from traditional presents, why not send the plant most closely associated with love and romance? Patio Roses are available in a choice of colours and symbolic varieties, each delivered with an attractive pot and a handwritten card to wish the newly married couple years of happiness together.
Large Lemon Trees
Available with a choice of stylish and trending pots to give your gift the wow factor
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Christmas Gifts
Christmas is the time for giving, and plants make a unique gift for friends, family, and even colleagues. Christmas plants are a long-lasting gift that can add something fresh to the home over Christmas, and may even last the whole year! Here are our recommendations for the best gifts
Poinsettias
The Poinsettia is the traditional Christmas plant, with its vibrant red flowers and deep green leaves. They make a wonderful addition to Christmas as table centrepieces or as additional festive decoration.
Wreaths
Although not technically a plant, it’s made of plants! A Natural Spruce Wreath is a wonderful, Christmassy plant-themed gift for loved ones. They’re handmade and provide a festive welcome to anyone visiting your home.
Christmas Planters
Christmas Planters look beautiful on any windowsill or table indoors. They’re a truly special Christmas gift that includes a range of beautiful blooms in Christmassy colours, all packaged in a festive planter!
Poinsettias
A classic festive poinsettia is the perfect Christmas gift for friends and loved ones
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Decorated Wreaths
Delivered decorated and ready to adorn front doors and porches for the festive season
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Festive Planters
Festive gifts for indoor table tops and windowsills, these planters bring colour through the darker months
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Looking for Plant Gifts for an Occasion?
At Plants4Presents, we nurture all our beautiful plants at our on-site nursery in Sussex and carefully package and deliver them all around the UK. Our recyclable, plastic free packaging and biomass boiler ensure we remain as environmentally friendly as possible whilst still being able to provide the best care possible for our plants. Whether you’re looking for a birthday, Christmas, or any other celebration, we have the perfect plant gift for you.
