Flower Seeds for Gifts. Flower seeds for presents and how to package seeds as gifts.

Buying Flower Seeds and gift wrapping them

The way to make a great looking gift from packets of flower seeds will be in the way that you package your gift. If you buy seeds in packets that have a nice design on them then the gift will look more presentable. However in order for the flower seeds gift to be a surprise you will need to find an interesting way to wrap them.

You will need to use an attractive way to package the packets of flower seeds, to make unwrapping the gift more interesting. Here are some ideas for making packets of flower seeds into a gift, which one you choose will probably depend on how much you want to spend on the packaging and also who the gift is for.

Ways to make this gift look good -

• Put the packets of flower seeds in an attractive box, it would be nice to choose a box with a pretty floral theme for a grandma, friend or sister, if you are buying the seeds for a dad or uncle then a plain colored box might be a better choice.

Or you could decorate a plain but nicely colored box by cutting out flower pictures or garden birds and gluing them onto the box to make an attractive design.

• Another way to make the seeds into an attractive gift is to put the packets of seeds into an attractive basket. You could add items to the gift basket like gardening gloves and a note book or journal to record the names of the flower seeds that they will be sowing in their garden.

If you buy a suitable basket and then pack crumpled tissue paper or shredded paper into the base of the basket then arrange the seed packets on top of the tissue. If you use tissue in the gift basket you make want to add a layer of padding beneath it to bring it up to the right level for the seed packets to rest on.

The colour of the tissue can be picked to go with your gardening them. Green tissue paper would look nice against the colours of the seed packets and other gifts you include, or a deep purple tissue paper for seed packets of flowers that are pink, mauve and blue.

Shredded coloured paper is another idea for packing the basket with, both the tissue and the shredded paper can be composted when they are no longer needed.

The gift basket can then be gift wrapped if you wish and then the surprise element of your present will be maintained.

Some packets of flower seeds are packaged in a more attractive ways than others and when you are buying the flower seeds it is a good idea to keep this in mind. The ones with drawings of the flowers on in the botanical illustration style look will look nice to give as a gift or as part of a gift.

If you can use a colour or type of garden theme such as cottage garden flowers, or flowers to grow for cut flowers this may make your selection of seeds more interesting.

Featured here are seeds for a 'fairy' garden which would be ideal for someone who likes fairytale gardens.

Also there is 'grandmother's' style of flowers packet of seeds which would make a wonderful gift for a grandchild to give to its grandmother or as a gift to a new grandparent to say thank you for your help.

Again with a theme there are flower seeds available for people who love to see butterflies visit their garden. The seeds will grow into flowers that the butterflies will be attracted to.

If the person you are buying the gift for likes to see wild birds visit the garden then there is even a packet of seeds to grow for this.

An novel and eco-friendly way to wrap presents is to use fabric and to tie it around the items you wish to give.

This cloth wrap makes a neat way of wrapping most gifts and the fabric can either be re-used or made into something.

A similar idea is to wrap gifts in an attractive scarf, or if the gift is small as flower seed packets are then a new brightly colored handkerchief for the gift wrap may work well.