This Mother’s Day, we hope to inspire you to give Mom something that truly lasts. A flower bouquet is beautiful, but it will fade in a week. Flower seeds will give her the ability to grow a garden full of blooms she can enjoy all season long. You’ll be giving her a long-lasting, meaningful experience that makes memories. From the first tiny sprouts to armfuls of colorful flowers, seeds help to nurture the soul. It doesn’t matter if Mom is an experienced gardener or a complete novice who is just getting her hands in the soil. A packet of seeds is a simple way to give a gift that keeps growing.
Why Seeds Make a Meaningful Mother’s Day Gift
There is something rewarding and nurturing about growing flowers that hits the sweet spot for Mother’s Day. To grow a flower garden, there’s a lot of mindfulness that goes into creating the right environment for them to grow and care for them as they do so. If you are there to help her plant and care for those flowers, even better! She’ll love working in the garden together, and your relationship will grow and flourish. In the end, the beautiful blooms will last longer than a bouquet from the local florist will. If you pick the right varieties, Mom can have colorful flowers from spring through fall. Best of all, each packet of seeds will produce dozens of blooms, making them a very affordable gift that can fit anyone’s budget.
Easy-to-Grow Flowers Mom Will Love
If your Mom isn’t famous for her green thumb, that’s okay! We offer flowers that are easy for anyone to grow.
Here are some beginner-friendly, rewarding varieties that will get Mom’s garden blooming:
- Zinnias - These brightly colored, fast-growing flowers are great for cut-flower arrangements.
- Cosmos - Cosmos are airy, romantic blooms that will thrive in even poor soil.
- Sunflowers - Who doesn’t love sunflowers? These iconic blooms are fun for all ages and have the added bonus of tasty seeds.
- Marigolds - These are hardy, pest-repelling flowers that are great companions to tomato plants and look great in garden borders.
- Nasturtiums - Nasturtiums are colorful and edible, in addition to being very low-maintenance.
These suggestions are annual flowers, meaning they will complete their life cycle within a year. If Mom is more experienced, or just up to more of a challenge, you might want to gift her some perennial flowers. Perennials are plants that will come back year after year from the same roots. They are usually slower growing (you may not even get blooms in the first year), but they only need to be planted once to produce for many years to come. Perennials may take a few extra steps to get started, like cold stratification, but the extra effort will be worth it.
A Few Unique or “Special Touch” Flower Ideas
If you are looking for something a little different for Mom’s flower garden, here are some suggestions that are fun and interesting. They may require a little more effort to get started, but they will be rewarding.
- Red Amaranth - this striking, towering flower has beautiful red foliage and as a bonus produces a nutritious edible grain. It’s super easy to grow, too.
- Sweet Peas - Sweet Peas are a climbing, vining plant that produces fragrant flowers. You should scarify and soak the seeds before planting to enhance germination.
- Tussock Bellflower - Bellflowers are a low-growing perennial that produces an abundance of bell-shaped flowers. They will germinate better if you cold stratify the seeds.
- Hollyhocks - Once they bloom, hollyhocks produce giant 5 to 6 food spikes of blooms. They are a biennial, which means they will bloom in their second year.
Turn Seeds Into a Thoughtful Gift
If you are having a hard time deciding on the perfect seeds for Mom, we’ve put together some curated seed collections that make it easy for you to decide, depending on your Mom’s personality. The Functional Flower Garden collection contains 36 varieties of flowers that do double duty. They are beautiful bloomers and also provide benefits to the garden, pollinators, or have medicinal uses. Our latest addition is the Native Habitat Seed collection that is filled with 24 varieties of flowers and grasses that are native to North America. If she’s into taking care of the planet, she’ll probably love having so many seeds to help restore biodiversity in her own backyard.
If you want to go the extra mile for Mother’s Day, you can take these simple seeds and use them as the starting point to a bigger gift by including some garden gloves or tools. Present the whole bundle in a pretty flower pot or basket. For the most meaningful gift, make Mom smile with an offer to help her plant and tend her new flower garden together.
At the end of the day, the best Mother’s Day gifts aren’t expensive things. The gifts that really make a difference are those that turn into shared memories and have meaning. Flower seeds offer exactly that. With every bloom, Mom will be reminded of the thought behind the gift and the joy of watching something grow. This year, give her more than flowers, give her a garden, a season of beauty, and something to look forward to long after Mother’s Day is a distant memory.
