BloemBox Premieres Hort Fashion Spring Line: Fresh, Flirty Poppies Gift Collection

Readers and fans of Garden Glamour know I adore BloemBox and its artful creations.

The romance and whimsy of horticulture couldn’t be more squeal inducing than in this line of gift-boxed seeds or bulbs that shape-shift as fashion.

In fact, there should be a Botanical Green Carpet! 

Every year brings a newly-designed BloemBox (Dutch for “flower”) collection: from Specialty Wildflower Gardens to Habitat Gardens with bumble bees or butterfly to Mini Hangings to Veggie & Herb Gardens. 

The original creations are confections to give or collect.

Or use as the perfect Spring Holiday tablescape fantasy and gift swag.  

Your dining table will transform to a shimmering garden with eye-popping color – think Pink, Blue, Yellow, Tangerine, and Green: The Color of the Year, don’t forget. 

All BloemBox designs are adorned or accessorized with floral and vegetable garnish or sweet-as-Disney pollinators including hummingbirds, bumble bees, and birds.

An instant conversation starter is to name all the flowers. 

You decide whether to require the flower’s common name or the botanical nomenclature. Ha. 

Choose from this season’s Poppies, or Dogtooth Daisy, Delphinium, French Marigold Cornflower, Maltese Cross, Zinnia’s, Wildflowers, scarlet sage, lemon mint, and edibles such as red and green French lettuce, royal purple Italian Heirloom eggplant or Nantes carrot and herb creations to create a dazzling, irresistible bouquet.

Leave it to a woman to Lean In in just the right – make that, green- way. 

Take that, Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg. 

Wrapped around the BloemBox collections is a woman’s entrepreneurial success story.

In the happy world of BloemBox - founder, product designer and botanist (love that!) Laura Quatrochi, is a visionary and hard working plant lover who cultivated her horticulture roots as a scientist and her creative charm, to produce a collection of glamorous, too-cute seeds or bulbs, discretely sheathed in the chic tissue paper slip, er, biodegradable ribbon sleeve, tucked inside the BloemBox signature lime-green, petite, glossy, hatbox that looks for all the world like it is channeling Lily Pulitzer and those hot Palm Beach colors.

This year, Quatrochi is channeling Mother Nature herself and has introduced the Poppy Collection in homage to the company’s signature flower, the Shirley Poppy, Papaver rhoeas.  

Garden Love

What better romantic suitor is there? BloemBox arrives with flowers, poems, seed “jewels” and love….  How glamorous!

BloemBox is the perfect Hostess Gift, too.

All BloemBox designs come gift wrapped with the corresponding silk flower or vegetable perched atop the preppy green box, 5’ of plantable tissue paper seed sleeve, tied up with a fetching ribbon, care instructions (a gardener can’t be too meticulous), a gift tag and a poetic reference to the flower.

Did I mention that Oprah and Paula Deen are among the celebrity BloemBox fans, having showcased the garden jewels to attract “happiness”?

I double-dare you and your guests not to smile when the look is a glamorous, layered arrangement of color, texture, and blooms - ready to go from BloemBox.

No floral arrangement or gardening resume required...

http://www.bloembox.com

Email: gifts@bloembox.com

Phone: 707-895-3500

Sweet Seeds of Success!

What could be better than being surprised with a Godmother gift on Mother’s Day from my adorable five-year old godchild and niece?

Discovering the delightfully happy gift bag held a charming selection of seeds to attract hummingbirds!  

How thoughtful – and appropriate….

Kudos to Erin and Tara and Donna for selecting such a perfect gift!

And the people at BloemBox (http://www.bloembox.com) should win one of those MacArthur Genius Awards! 

They have designed an irresistible expression of plant love. 

I hope this idea spreads like wildflowers and soon zillions of people will be gifting glamorous seeds to one another J

Look at how sweet this is! 

The preppy green, high-gloss round package looks like a teeny hatbox. 

It’s topped off by double dip of pink hydrangea.  And a pink grosgrain bow. 

And if that wasn’t enough – like a fashionable ticket holder at Ascot racetrack’s Ladies Day – there is a feathered hummingbird perched on top, caught in mid flight.

Opening this tiny treasure I discover several layers of white, cotton-soft “ribbons” coiled around the bottom of the box dotted with – what is this? 

I turn them around a bit and then I get it – the seeds are imbedded in the thin cotton ribbons – each seed discretely placed in its own window bed. 

Wow!  I had to marvel at the care went into this. 

Each seed is like a piece of jewelry on display. 

There is also a little card explaining what plants the seeds will be, along with care instructions. 

A gift card says: "Happiness held is a seed. Happiness shared is the flower"

And the garden art BloemBox offers includes garden poetry in homage to the plant inside. Mine read:

A flash of harmless lightning,

A mist of rainbow dyes,

The burnished sunbeams brightening

From flower to flower he flies.

— John Banister Tabb

I will hate to part with my precious seeds – to take them from their High Society digs.  

On the other hand, we can all enjoy the beauty of my plants:

Pink Annual Phlox, Phlox drummondii, Lemon Mint, Monarda citriodora and Scarlet Sage, Salvia coccinea, as pretty plants – complete with flowers to attract those fascinating and charming hummingbirds! 

That will be another garden story. Stay tuned.

Oh, and my mother received a similar seed box as part of her Mother’s Day gifts.  

Hers was topped with a butterfly and seeds to lure that pretty pollinator.

How glamorous!