Human Flower Project
For the Mother Who Litters
We usually don’t pass along news of trendy floral products but this one is too kooky to ignore. In advance of Mothering Sunday, a mid-Lentan holiday in England honoring mums, Marks and Spencer has introduced Milk Chocolate Praline Butterflies, just the gift for litterbugs.
The winged candies come in a paper bag that’s been “impregnated” with “dozens” of flower seeds. Once Mother has eaten her chocolates, she can bury the whole bag in the garden or scissor it up, putting bits in pots. Fittingly, the wrapper is seeded with candytuft (Iberis umbellata ‘Rose Cardinal’), which we understand is a summer-blooming annual in England and a favorite with butterflies (spring blooming white candytuft was a favorite of ours in Kentucky).
It’ll be interesting to see whether this two-fer marketing strategy succeeds. A Marks and Spencer spokesperson told the Daily Mail that if the seedy promotion works, the company will package other products with flower seed, too.
How about peppermints wrapped with striped dianthus seed, butterscotch with celandine poppies…?
Candytuft (Iberis umbellata ‘Rose Cardinal’)
Photo: Aggie Horticulture
Comments
Thank you for this, dear Ann. Much better to skip the candy, and go straight for the seed via a wonderful card. Will check this out.
And happy birthday to you! I remember you’re a March Pisces but memory fails as to the day. Help me!
Happy birthday to you: today, belated, or this coming week. I’m guessing the 13th?
Love,
Julie
My birthday’s March 6th, same as Michelangelo and David Gilmour among many other notables. Isn’t yours in late February? I remember you were a “double Pisces” and remember your old Saab (or whatever it was) with the Pisces sign painted on the back…
Birthday wishes to you too! Since you didn’t know about the leanin’ tree cards, I’ll pick up one up and mail it to you…
Love
Ann
Dear Ann,
That’s my dad’s birthday! I’ll never forget yours again.
Mine is 2/26 - Fats Domino, Victor Hugo, Johnny Cash and other less savories!
Love and happy sping,
J.
Hi Julie!
There is a company out of Boulder, CO, here in the States called Leanin’ Tree which makes gift cards with seeds impregnated in the card; you plant the card after you’ve finished admiring it. I sent one to my mom for her birthday at the end of February and sent a wedding gift and a “seedy” wedding card to some gardening friends of mine (one’s a judge here in town). Here’s the link:
http://www.leanintree.com/Seed-Cards.html
Happy Belated Birthday to one Piscean from another!