GivePlants Blog

ADD PLANTS - AND HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY - TO YOUR OFFICE

by Give Plants 

A recent study has found that bosses looking to quickly increase productivity should ditch those brainstorming meetings and instead invest in office plants. Let’s fall off our chairs in surprise! This study, led by Cardiff University’s School of Psychology found that adding plants to an otherwise spartan desk boosted a worker’s productivity by 15 per cent, and challenges the ‘lean philosophy’ which holds that stark, uncluttered spaces are best for concentration – hello? Who came up with that brilliant concept? Well, the friendly and innovative team at Give Plants will gladly claim it for themselves! I know which atmosphere would... Read more

The Art of Buying Housewarming Gifts Online

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Moving into a new home - as stressful as it can get sometimes – can also be a very exciting experience, especially when others are eager to see the new house which inevitably leads to hosting a housewarming party. As friends and family of someone who has moved into a new home it can become a challenge trying to decide on what to buy for a new house gift. We try and look for a gift that is useful, lasts, something that someone else isn’t likely to buy, or something they haven’t already got. So where to buy the perfect... Read more

Plant Trends

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With new habits and commitments forming in this day and age around natural foods, products, and home decorations it seems that the use of plants in this sense is becoming increasingly popular. Many cafes are taking up this trend by displaying herb planter boxes or pot plants, interesting plant displays or quirky hanging pot plants, some even going to the efforts of having types of plants, lemons, and herbs in their water jugs. You will often find that these sorts of cafes are small yet always busy with people appreciating the simplicity. It is then no wonder that many people... Read more

Are Flowers Still Relevant?

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In today’s society where we are surrounded by a world of technology and expensive gifts, has the act of giving such simple things in life that often times turn out to be some of the most beautiful and thoughtful things received such as flowers become a thing of the past? In my opinion the relevance of flowers and plants still holds strong. The smile expressed upon ones face when having received flowers or plants such as unexpectedly receiving them at the office shows the true appreciation of having received them. In such a fast paced and changing world flowers and... Read more

GIFT MILEAGE lasting gifts

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Have you ever thought about that ‘well thought out’ gift you last gave to someone and whether they just ‘binned’ it, hid it, or ‘god forgive us’ re-gifted it? (Yes, there are people out there, people, who actually do ‘re gift’ gifts.) Enough already. Now; how to get real mileage out of your ‘well thought out’, relatively expensive gifts. At Give Plants we believe we have the answer. Let’s start with flowers. Flowers are universally seen as the ideal gift – no umbrage can be taken – no one can be affronted by flowers – no feelings can be hurt... Read more

Sympathy and bereavement gifts that help

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This is such a hard one, and, unfortunately (no, not unfortunately, because flowers are lovely), we tend to phone the florist and send a beautiful bunch of flowers to assuage our grief for our loved one, and this is the norm – flowers.  The best way to tell you about our company, Give Plants is to explain why we established it in the first place. What happened was a close family friend passed away and his wife received many beautiful bouquets of flowers, as per the norm. All good, but really?  What a waste! All those beautiful flowers would be... Read more

HELP! FRIEND’S BIRTHDAY COMING UP – WHAT TO GIFT?

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Have you ever been completely stumped as to what to give a friend or family member for their birthday? We all know the pleasure of receiving a great gift, particularly if it has been well thought out and is totally ‘just what you wanted’. But, what about the ‘pleasure of giving?’ We know that there is such a thing, but it isn’t always that easy to achieve. Birthdays are special to the person having one, so I think it’s important to put as much thought into a birthday gift as possible. Luckily, right here in little old NZ we have... Read more

Mother's Day

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Mother’s Day.  We recently ran a poll on Facebook asking what mothers would most like for Mother’s Day. Guess what? Mothers would love a day spent away from their children! We really didn’t need a poll to tell us that. No surprises there then. That is something the husband could do for her – look after the kids for the day while mum has a well-earned rest, maybe catching up with friends for lunch or a coffee. However, what about the rest of us who have a mother living somewhere else, maybe a long way away? We kids have grown... Read more

Beware of plants bearing fruits

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Beware of plants bearing fruits. Shouldn’t that be ‘beware of Greeks bearing gifts?’ Don’t know why Greeks are so dangerous but why beware of a plant bearing fruit? Because when someone sends you something this beautiful and delicious, you could become addicted – which is dangerous! Think big fat green ovoid feijoas, golden aromatic lemons, and shiny green and black and beautiful olives. You could send or receive any of these on any occasion when you visit us at Give Plants. Some friends of ours recently had a baby girl and instead of the usual bunch of flowers they received... Read more

Corporate gifts, a random act of kindness

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A random act of kindness is when a totally unexpected gift arrives out of the blue. A great example of this is when someone purchase's a car, drive of the yard and a few days later a plant gift arrives. We have many corporate clients who use Give Plants to deliver gifts to their customers. These gifts are used to thank the customers for their business. The feedback has been amazing from the end customers and in some cases has resulted directly in further business within the week. This happened for a Bank that used our Money Trees as a... Read more