For an anytime gift, greeting, thank you, or new business congratulation, think about sending a verdant, living, dish garden. Today's dish gardens are no longer boring affairs comprised of a couple of snake plants and philodendron stuck in an unattractive ceramic trough. Floral designers have gone to the max developing a product which delivers blooms, long lasting beauty and growth. Plants used in dish gardens are those which are notoriously tolerant of indoor growing conditions as well as black thumbs. Some people prefer to eventually take their dish gardens apart and grow the plants individually, while others marvel at the ability of dish garden plants to just keep growing and growing, despite their small container. Dish gardens are gifts with usefulness, and could be used more frequently as centerpieces and certainly in place of artificial decorations, in any location needing a little more loveliness and life! text © by Leigh Fulghum

European Garden Basket

A European dish garden is a dish garden of mixed foliage plants with an African Violet in the composition. With so many blooming plants readily available, a modern day European dish garden is likely to have several bloomers and even some fresh cut flowers held into the arrangement with water-filled floral picks.

This European garden from Aaron's Baby Baskets (clearly a gift shop not just for babies) comes in a round wicker basket, overflowing with greenery and blooms.

1-800-FLOWERS® Fleur Dish Garden

Give this to your favorite French person! A quaint wooden window box, decorated with the word “Fleurs” comes filled with contrasting foliage plants and seasonal fresh blooming plants. The handsome box could later be used to hold this and that, or as a year-round planter or rustic centerpiece for holding an arrangement of cut flowers. Planter measures 10”H x 10”W x 11”L. Dish garden measures overall approximately 12”H.

A White Dish Garden

A green on green or green and white garden is always elegant, and a welcomed gift for the opening of a new business. This white garden features dieffenbachia, fern, ivy and spathiphyllum in a simple round dish. Be careful about placing ceramic or clay dish garden containers directly on wood or tile surfaces without a coaster. Even in pots which have been glazed inside and out, without drainagae holes, condensation will form anyway beneath the planter and its resting surface.Approximately 13" W x 15"

Mixed African Violet Basket

Mixed African Violet Basket

Symbolizing faithfulness and virtue, the velvety African violet conveys enduring admiration.

Tucked into a charming wicker basket and paired with ivy, it's a flowering garden.

Magenta, purple and white African violets, along with ivy, are delivered in a wicker basket with handle.

Approximately 15" W x 10" H

Pink Plant Assortment - JustFlowers.com

Dish Garden with Pinks
Aaron's Baby Baskets