Best Gifts for Plant Lovers
Our Top Suggestions
Invest in gifts that your friends and family will appreciate and use. These selections represent some of the best gardening tools available. The plant lovers in your life are sure to appreciate them! Here are some of our favorite suggestions.
Blumat Classics
Blumat Classic plant watering stakes automatically water your houseplants while preventing both over and under watering. They are perfect for plant-lovers who need to travel!
Biochar Houseplant "SuperSnacks"
Both a houseplant superfood and a climate change preventer, these "SuperSnacks" hold more moisture and nutrients in your planting mix, help prevent root rot, and - at the same time - reduce CO2 levels by keeping carbon in your soil and out of the air.
Blumat Bottle Adapters
Blumat Bottle Adapters keep your plants happy, decrease your time watering, and help keep plastic bottles out of landfills.
Blumat Digital Moisture Meters
Instead of guessing when and how much water your plants need, let the soil moisture tell you. This super-accurate, professional moisture meter gives precise readings and helps you nurture microbes and other beneficial microorganisms in your soil or potting mix.
Blumat Indoor Kit for Small Plants
This indoor kit takes care of your plants when you’re on vacation and makes watering easier and more effective when you’re at home. It includes 4 regular Blumat Classics and 2 Blumat Classic XL for larger plants.
Blumat Multi-Big-Houseplant Vacation Kit
A kit designed for larger houseplants and for longer times without needing to refill a reservoir, this kit includes a 5 gallon reservoir, a long water line, 12 Blumat Classics, and fittings. You can turn your rooms into jungles with this one!
Blumat Glass Watering Globes
Both beautiful and functional, these hand-blown glass watering globes keep your plants steadily watered while making them look better. They’re a gift that reminds your friends and/or relatives how much they appreciate you!
Copper Plant Mister
Most misters don’t look good, get stored out-of-sight, and become hard-to-find when you need them. This one looks so good it’s like a piece of art - a durable, practical one that increases humidity, cleans dust off leaves, and keeps plants from drying out so fast when space heaters make the air dry on cold days.
A Note from Steve:
I've always loved going to garage sales. Regular shopping felt more like a job - a task to complete. But garage sales were more like an adventure, an exploration into the unknown, you never know what you might find. The range of products goes far beyond what's available in stores limited to recently made goods. Items at garage sales have proven themselves by demonstrating a quality that lasts and a value that made someone think it was worth putting it in a sale rather than in a garbage can.
Plus, it always felt like an important way to recycle.
And the average sale prices were amazing - often only 5-10% of the in-store price just a few months before. I wondered why so many things were new, never opened until a direct link to the last Holiday buying season became apparent.
When we feel an obligation and a time-date urgency to buy someone a present, we easily lose our ability to make the best choice and our gifts often end up in next summer's garage sale. Instead of the intended gratitude, we've only created an unwanted and probably irritating project for our friend or relative.
The environmental consequences magnify these unintended consequences: making our landfill crisis worse, creating more pollution from manufacturing unnecessary products, all the extra fossil fuel use transporting these products to us from around the world and then for taking it to dumps.
Quality as Key
Planned obsolescence creates good profits for corporations but it wastes our money, generates tons of unnecessary pollution, and adds to waste processing and treatment costs. When we first started selling LED lights in the early '90s, they lasted for decades, almost forever. After they went mainstream though, and started filling up mass-merchandising stores, their lifespan dramatically dropped and now they don't even seem to last as long as compact fluorescents. Lower quality often translates into lower short-term cost but a much higher long-term one.
The higher the quality, the more long-term investment benefit there is, for both our cash flow and for the planet.