DIL GARDEN, GARDEN!
MAKE THIS VALENTINE’S DAY A GREEN ONE WITH THESE GARDEN GIFTING IDEAS THAT ARE NOT ONLY ECOLOGICALLY DRIVEN, BUT MAKE FOR A GIFT THAT ACTUALLY LIVES AND BREATHES!
This Valentine’s Day we have witnessed a rise in a new gifting trend. Moving from bouquets and chocolates to whole gardens itself. “Gifts must be cherished. The maximum one can do with a bouquet is to place it in a vase and it soon dries up, garden gifting allows you to give your loved one a ready to harvest garden that is fresh and can be cared for,” says Mallesh Tigali, CEO of Purna Organics. Gifting a garden is the new and unique way of presenting a living and thriving ecosystem to another. There are different types of gardens that can be gifted, vegetables gardens are the most common. Those in love with flowers opt for flowering gardens and there are terrariums that are little ecosystems of plants created in a glass container.
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Dr Vandana Krishnamurthy, co- founder, Urban Mali has seen a number of individuals and companies that are choosing terrariums as gifts.
“A terrarium is a self- managing system. It does not require much care, and looks beautiful. This is why people go for them as gifting option,” states Vandana. Agreeing to this, Merlyn D’costa, a plantsman says that she has gifted over 50 terrariums to her friends and loved ones as they are easy to maintain and most people prefer them. She makes the terrariums themselves.