Tips for Giving
From America’s Expert Source for Heirloom Flower Bulbs
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Tips for Giving
From America’s Expert Source for Heirloom Flower Bulbs | My Basket |
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| Gifts from Old House Gardens are Easy and Unique! Why give a boring gift when you can give something different, gorgeous, and good for the planet from folks who treat every gift as if we were giving it ourselves? |
| Easiest of All, Our Lovely Gift Certificates Invite your favorite gardeners to open the treasure chest of our catalog with our beautiful, flower-spangled gift certificate cards. Every year at bloomtime, they’ll remember you! (Our gift certificates start at $40 to cover our minimum order of $30 plus shipping.) |
| Or Try a Gift Certificate with an Added Treat For an even nicer presentation, many of our customers send an extra treat with their gift certificates. Books are one great choice — Old-Fashioned Flowers and Spring-Blooming Bulbs, for example, are just $10 each — or how about one of our cool Old House Gardens T-shirts? |
| We Ship Forcing Vases, T-Shirts, Baskets, & Books Year-Round Some of our gifts we can ship year-round. These include our museum-replica Victorian forcing vases, our Old House Gardens T-shirt, our choice selection of books, and our bulb-planting baskets. (Special tip: Tuck some small garden-related gifts into one of our baskets, tie a ribbon around it, and voila - you've got a creative and memorable present! |
| Give Bulbs Anytime — We’ll Ship Them When It’s Time to Plant Bulbs are living things with annual cycles set by Mother Nature. Some are best planted in the spring, others in the fall. And when they’re dormant, freezing temperatures will damage or kill them. So we ship our bulbs for spring planting in April, when temperatures here in Michigan finally climb above freezing, and our bulbs for fall planting in October. You can give them as gifts anytime — and we can send a card announcing your gift anytime (see below) — but please understand that we can’t ship them except in April or October. |
| Our Bulb Samplers Are As Easy and Fun as a Box of Chocolates And certainly less fattening! These specially selected collections of bulbs make gift-giving easier because you don’t have to choose every variety yourself. And gardeners love them because they get to sample many different bulbs. Click here for a full list of our Spring-Planted Samplers or our Fall-Planted Samplers. |
| How to Pick Bulbs That Will Grow Where You’re Sending Them If you decide to send a gift of bulbs, be sure to choose ones that will thrive in the garden you’re sending them to. Hardiness is most important, so please check the recipient’s hardiness zone by zip code at http://www.arborday.org/treeinfo/zonelookup.cfm and then compare that with the range of zones we recommend at the end of every bulb description and in our “Click to compare” charts. Beyond that, most bulbs do best in full sun and well-drained soil. |
| Choosing Your Gift Message When we ship your gift, we’ll be glad to tuck a hand-written gift message inside the box. Please tell us exactly what you’d like it to say, including the greeting and closing. For example, do you want it to start “Dear James” or “Dear Grandpa”? And at the end should it say “Love, Beth” or “Yours truly, Beth and Roger Smith” or — please tell us! |
| Send a Card to Announce “Your Bulbs Will Arrive at Planting Time” If you want to give bulbs for Christmas or a summer birthday or any time we’re not shipping bulbs, no problem! We’d be happy to announce your gift by sending a lovely bulb-flowered card with whatever hand-written greeting you’d like us to add, for a nominal $2.50. Simply request this service in the feedback box towards the end of our online order form, or mention it when you mail, fax, or call in your order. |
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| For our print catalog click here or send $2.00 to Old House Gardens 536 Third St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103. phone: 734-995-1486 fax: 734-995-1687 email: charlie@oldhousegardens.com |  |
For our free email newsletter, “The Friends of Old Bulbs Gazette” with tips, news, history, & special offers, send us an email with “subscribe” in the subject line to newsletter@oldhousegardens.com. |
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