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Every December the garage runs until about one in the morning, and every December the same order comes in around the 22nd: one planter, shipped as fast as we can manage, with a gift note. Somebody has already bought that person a candle. The candle is the backup. The planter is the actual gift, chosen late, by someone who finally remembered what their friend is like.
We would rather you be early. So here is what we would hand people, all of it under $20, none of it scented.
One rule we apply to ourselves: name the person, not the occasion. A gift picked for “a plant lover” is a candle with a different shape.
For the one whose desk is already chaos. The octopus. Eight arms, roughly 5 inches wide, holds a small nursery pot straight in so nobody has to repot anything on their lunch break. $11. Caryn’s has survived three repottings and one very determined cat.
For your mother-in-law, or anyone you are not sure about. The owl. It reads as an object first and a joke second, which is the entire reason it works across generations. About 4 inches, twelve colors, $11. This is the pick when you need the gift to be safe without being boring.
For the friend in the small apartment with no surfaces left. The hanging sloth, $10. He comes with a string and a drainage hole, weighs a third of a pound empty, and solves a space problem rather than adding to one. Tell them to take him down to water him, because gravity is not on their side up there.
For your work spouse. The middle finger trellis. It is a foot tall, it is $6, and a climbing plant grows right up it until the gesture is mostly hidden by leaves, which is somehow funnier than the gesture alone. Give this one to somebody whose sense of humor you have personally verified.
For the teenager who does not want anything from you. The moon planter, $11. Textured like the real thing, comes in fourteen colors, and has the advantage of not looking like it came from a parent.
For the person who gardens outside and has strong opinions about mulch. The boot, $12. Six by six by four inches, which is genuinely useful rather than ornamental, and it sits on a windowsill over the winter holding whatever they dug up before the frost.
For the one who decorates for October on September 1st. The pumpkin planter, $12. It is the only gourd in their house that will still be standing in March.
Our Shelf Squad bundle is any three planters for $33, and it applies itself in the cart, so there is no code to forget at midnight on the 23rd. At that price the math stops being about one gift and starts being about three people, which is how most of December actually works.
One thing worth knowing if you are shopping in December: we print after you order, not before, so nothing is sitting in a warehouse waiting for your click. That is good for you in October and tight in late December. Orders ship in two business days, and the printers do not run faster because the calendar says the 22nd. We have had that conversation with ourselves at midnight more than once.
It is also the honest way to solve the coworker problem. Three small planters, three different personalities, one order. Everything is printed to order in Pennsylvania after you buy it and ships in two business days, and shipping is free over $35, which the bundle clears by two dollars. We did not plan that. We are not going to fix it either.
We offer a live air plant as a $5 add-on on our planters, and whether you want it depends entirely on the recipient.
Add it for anyone who does not already keep plants. An empty pot is a homework assignment, and about half of them never get filled. A tillandsia needs no soil, so the gift arrives finished.
Skip it for the friend with forty plants and a grow light. They have a shelf of cuttings waiting for exactly this and they would rather choose.
Self-watering inserts. Anybody who has kept a plant alive for a year already has a watering habit, and the insert fights it.
Tool sets with tiny rakes. They are adorable and they live in a drawer forever. We have received two.
Anything with no drainage hole, which is most decorative pots sold as gifts. Every pot we print has one, and that is not a design flourish, it is the difference between a plant that lives and a plant that sits in a puddle for a month. Gifting somebody a sealed ceramic cylinder is gifting them a slow problem.
The rest of what we would put under a tree lives on our gift page. If the person you are shopping for is moving instead of celebrating, the argument for a plant in the right pot over another housewarming candle is a different one, and we made it separately. And if your person’s humor runs ruder than an owl, start with the funny plant pots and work down from there, or stay on the sweeter end with the cute planters under $20.
<p>The post Gifts for Plant Lovers Under $20 That Aren’t Another Candle first appeared on Wild Buds 3D Printed Planters.</p>
We would rather you be early. So here is what we would hand people, all of it under $20, none of it scented.
One rule we apply to ourselves: name the person, not the occasion. A gift picked for “a plant lover” is a candle with a different shape.
Seven that work
For the one whose desk is already chaos. The octopus. Eight arms, roughly 5 inches wide, holds a small nursery pot straight in so nobody has to repot anything on their lunch break. $11. Caryn’s has survived three repottings and one very determined cat.
For your mother-in-law, or anyone you are not sure about. The owl. It reads as an object first and a joke second, which is the entire reason it works across generations. About 4 inches, twelve colors, $11. This is the pick when you need the gift to be safe without being boring.
For the friend in the small apartment with no surfaces left. The hanging sloth, $10. He comes with a string and a drainage hole, weighs a third of a pound empty, and solves a space problem rather than adding to one. Tell them to take him down to water him, because gravity is not on their side up there.
For your work spouse. The middle finger trellis. It is a foot tall, it is $6, and a climbing plant grows right up it until the gesture is mostly hidden by leaves, which is somehow funnier than the gesture alone. Give this one to somebody whose sense of humor you have personally verified.
For the teenager who does not want anything from you. The moon planter, $11. Textured like the real thing, comes in fourteen colors, and has the advantage of not looking like it came from a parent.
For the person who gardens outside and has strong opinions about mulch. The boot, $12. Six by six by four inches, which is genuinely useful rather than ornamental, and it sits on a windowsill over the winter holding whatever they dug up before the frost.
For the one who decorates for October on September 1st. The pumpkin planter, $12. It is the only gourd in their house that will still be standing in March.
Three of them costs $33
Our Shelf Squad bundle is any three planters for $33, and it applies itself in the cart, so there is no code to forget at midnight on the 23rd. At that price the math stops being about one gift and starts being about three people, which is how most of December actually works.
One thing worth knowing if you are shopping in December: we print after you order, not before, so nothing is sitting in a warehouse waiting for your click. That is good for you in October and tight in late December. Orders ship in two business days, and the printers do not run faster because the calendar says the 22nd. We have had that conversation with ourselves at midnight more than once.
It is also the honest way to solve the coworker problem. Three small planters, three different personalities, one order. Everything is printed to order in Pennsylvania after you buy it and ships in two business days, and shipping is free over $35, which the bundle clears by two dollars. We did not plan that. We are not going to fix it either.
Should you add the plant?
We offer a live air plant as a $5 add-on on our planters, and whether you want it depends entirely on the recipient.
Add it for anyone who does not already keep plants. An empty pot is a homework assignment, and about half of them never get filled. A tillandsia needs no soil, so the gift arrives finished.
Skip it for the friend with forty plants and a grow light. They have a shelf of cuttings waiting for exactly this and they would rather choose.
What we’d leave on the shelf
Self-watering inserts. Anybody who has kept a plant alive for a year already has a watering habit, and the insert fights it.
Tool sets with tiny rakes. They are adorable and they live in a drawer forever. We have received two.
Anything with no drainage hole, which is most decorative pots sold as gifts. Every pot we print has one, and that is not a design flourish, it is the difference between a plant that lives and a plant that sits in a puddle for a month. Gifting somebody a sealed ceramic cylinder is gifting them a slow problem.
The rest of what we would put under a tree lives on our gift page. If the person you are shopping for is moving instead of celebrating, the argument for a plant in the right pot over another housewarming candle is a different one, and we made it separately. And if your person’s humor runs ruder than an owl, start with the funny plant pots and work down from there, or stay on the sweeter end with the cute planters under $20.
<p>The post Gifts for Plant Lovers Under $20 That Aren’t Another Candle first appeared on Wild Buds 3D Printed Planters.</p>