How to Gift Wrap a Potted Plant

How to Wrap a Plant

I love gifting potted plants, especially at the holidays. This is a gift the recipient can enjoy for a long time to come, and surprisingly nice selections are usually available at your grocery store. The only thing I don’t like is the foil wrapping that  these plants often come in; I prefer to take a few more minutes to personalize my gift plants in some way. This year, I stumbled across an incredibly easy solution for how to wrap plant gifts, just by using some cookie tins I found at the bargain store. Not sure what kind of plants to give? Check out easy-care holiday houseplants.

I liked these tins because they were taller instead of shallow. Most stores have a wide variety of tins available this time of year, so you should be able to find some that work for you.

I left the plants in their original pots and removed the foil wrapping. The small Christmas cactus on the left slid right in.

The bigger poinsettia had a wide lip on the pot that made it a little too big to slide all the way down. I solved that problem in no time by trimming the rim with a pair of scissors. Once I had the plants in the pots, I quickly made up some holiday tags using some wooden stakes I picked up at the craft store last summer, along with some wrapping paper and Mod Podge.

I haven’t decided what to do with the lids from the tins, yet – I may give them to my recipient so they can use the tin for something else along the line if they decide to re-pot the plant eventually.

If you have trouble finding tins you like, there are still plenty of options out there for dressing up your potted plant gifts. Happy gifting!

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