Flowers, Plants and Food
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Flowers are a very traditional gift for mother's day, but consider giving a plant that can bring enjoyment for years to come with one of the ones we reviewed below. Remember, many dads also love to work on their gardens and landscaping so a plant could be a great gift for them, too! While you may not think of plants as a wedding gift, they could make a unique and fun gift for the newlywed on your list as well.
Everyone enjoys cookies . . . they can be a special treat especially for mom when she doesn't have to be the one to bake them!
Michigan Bulb
Fernleaf
Bleeding Heart
Favorite Features -
arrives with three plants in a package
easy to plant
complete instructions available on-line - easy to follow even for a person without a "green thumb" like me!
Michigan Bulb will send the plants when it is time for you to put them in the ground
a big bonus is they bloom from late spring intermittently until frost
I'm not a gardener, but these are easy to plant! They should be a beautiful, almost "frosted" grey-blue-green leaf with lovely rose-pink heart-shaped pendant flowers. Bleeding Heart flowers should come up again next year, and for years to come, providing a lovely, unique look for your flower garden or anywhere you choose to plant them! Tremendously well done!
3-in-1
Butterfly Bush
Favorite Features -
fragrant lavender, white and magenta flowers on each bush
easy to plant
complete instructions available on-line - easy to follow even for a person without a "green thumb" like me!
Michigan Bulb will send the plant when it is time for you to put them in the ground
a big bonus is they bloom from mid-summer until frost
Butterfly Bush plants arrive in a pot with about 10" to 12" of growth. They should grow to be a beautiful, rounded shrub 6' to 10' tall with slender, arching branches and long leaves and have three colors of flowers on each bush. The flowers will attract butterflies - hence their name! Butterfly bushes should bloom year after year providing a beautiful addition for your flower garden or anywhere you choose to plant them! Tremendously well done!
Black Knight
Butterfly Bush
Favorite Features -
fragrant dark purple flowers with deep green leaves
easy to plant
complete instructions available on-line - easy to follow even for a person without a "green thumb" like me!
Michigan Bulb will send the plant when it is time for you to put them in the ground
a big bonus is they bloom from mid-summer until frost
Butterfly Bush plants arrive in a pot with about 10" to 12" of growth. They should grow to be a beautiful shrub 6' to 10' tall with lilac-like flower spikes up to 10" long at the end of each branch tip. The extremely fragrant flowers will attract butterflies - hence their name! Butterfly bushes should bloom year after year providing a beautiful addition for your flower garden or anywhere you choose to plant them! Tremendously well done!
White Hydrangeas
Favorite Features -
large, white flowers with deep green leaves
easy to plant
complete instructions available on-line - easy to follow even for a person without a "green thumb" like me!
Michigan Bulb will send the plant when it is time for you to put them in the ground
a big bonus is they bloom all summer until frost
Hydrangea plants arrive in a pot with about 10" to 12" of growth. They should grow to be a beautiful shrub 3' to 6' tall with big, round white ball-shaped flowers. Hydrangeas are the perfect plant for "non-gardeners" as they are extremely hardy - just put them in the ground and let them grow! Hydrangea bushes should bloom year after year providing a beautiful addition for your flower garden or anywhere you choose to plant them! Tremendously well done!
Mrs. Fields
Sweet Petals Box
Favorite Features -
Includes 18 bite-sized Nibbler's cookies in a variety of flavors and two frosted cookies in a lovely bow-trimmed box.
Simple and sweet this is a lovely gift for any mother on your list. The cookies are sure to be enjoyed and the lovely pink box with the big white ribbon could be used to store a variety of items after the cookies are eaten. Extremely well done!
More for Mom Tin
Favorite Features -
Includes an assortment of 48 Nibbler's cookies in a silver tin with pink printing "Happy Mother's Day"
Mom will enjoy this nice selection of bite-sized Nibblers and then when they are gone, she will have a tin to use for something else! Nibblers are a very soft and enjoyable cookie available in cinnamon, peanutbutter, semi-sweet chocolate chip, chocolate cookie, macadamia nut. Extremely well done!
Bite-sized
Abundance Basket
Favorite Features -
Includes an assortment of 48 Nibblers
lovely hand-made maple basket with hinged handle
The cookies are enjoyable and when they are gone the basket is sure to be appreciated and used for something special for years to come! This is a gift of sweet function - the cookies are sweet and the basket is very functional! Tremendously well done!
Tasteful Trio & Tray
Favorite Features -
Includes an assortment of 42 Nibblers® bite-sized cookies, 24 Brownie Bites and two frosted daisy cookies - the flower cookies are quite enjoyable!
Three cardboard terracotta-inspired canisters on a decorative tray - a crafty/creative mom will certainly think of something fun to do with these after the cookies are gone
Unique and lovely these sweet treats are sure to be appreciated. The Nibblers come packaged with six cookies to a package - fun to eat and fun to share. Tremendously well done!