Give Plants 3.18

The best way to tell you about the company is to explain why we established Give Plants.
In 2009 a close family-friend passed away. His wife received many bouquets of flowers which led us to thinking:

- What a waste; these flowers will all be gone in two weeks
- The demise of the flowers will mean that she will be confronted with loss
again
- Flowers are short-lived; there will be no enduring memory
- The flowers consumed all available space in the house

We've always given plants instead of flowers because plants last; they're a living gift. After travelling to the funeral and returning home, I went online to purchase a quality plant to be delivered to our friend. I discovered that there were no real on-line solutions available to give plants as gifts in New Zealand. I am not saying that you couldn’t purchase plants on-line at all, but we really wanted to send a quality, good-sized, hardy plant in appropriate packaging that didn’t cost the earth.

My wife Kirsty and I talked about the problem. In her pragmatic style, she said I should either do something about it or stop complaining!

So I did something about it...