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Affordable housewarming gift ideas
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Affordable housewarming gift ideas

Housewarming gifts aren’t necessary but they’re a nice gesture that celebrates a big milestone in a person’s life. If a friend or relative has just bought or rented a new home, celebrate their big move with these six affordable housewarming gift ideas. They’re not only inexpensive to purchase but some are also inexpensive to send

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Celebrate a loved one's birthday with a Gift of Seeds
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Celebrate a loved one’s birthday with a Gift of Seeds

Need a gift for an upcoming birthday? Why not send a Happy Birthday Picnic Gift of Seeds? Specially designed to send cheerful wishes on someone’s special day, this delightful pack with its dreamy illustration of a picnic set in a field of flowers will make anyone’s heart sing. Truly beautiful and unique, this clever gift

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Send cheerful birthday wishes with a Birthday Zinnia Gift of Seeds
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Send cheerful birthday wishes with a Birthday Zinnia Gift of Seeds

It’s a time of the year when most people’s hearts are filled with love more than ever. From the cards sent from their nearest and dearest to the sweet cake adorned with candles and joyful celebrations, there’s so much to love about birthdays. Whether it is a relative’s, friend’s, or colleague’s birthday, celebrate their special

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Surprise a Friend with a Seeds Subscription Gift

Imagine gifting your friend not just a present but a promise of growth, life, and beauty that keeps on giving. It’s time to think beyond the usual chocolates or flowers and consider something truly unique – a seeds subscription. In a world where subscription boxes are all the rage, why not surprise your green-thumbed buddy

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Six symbolic and meaningful flower gifts to send to loved ones

Whether you’re celebrating a graduation or comforting a grieving loved one, there are certain moments in life when you need a gift that says and means so much more. Some flower varieties carry special meanings which make them more symbolic to give when you want to say more than just thank you, congratulations or offer

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A gift to send to someone who is grieving loss

Giving a gift to someone who has lost a loved one is one of the most difficult gifts to give. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Aside from spending time with a grieving person, a gift can provide some comfort during a deeply emotional time. The right gift can show that you’re thinking of them and you care, especially if

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5 thoughtful, sustainable and affordable Mother’s Day gifts
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5 thoughtful, sustainable and affordable Mother’s Day gifts

Mother’s Day doesn’t have to be an extravagant and lavish experience that drains your bank account, sometimes it’s the small, more thoughtful gifts that make the biggest impression. This year, surprise your mum or that special person in your life with any of these five thoughtful but affordable gifts. All gifts cost no more than

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Flowers from Catherine Hamlin’s garden to yours
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Beautiful flowers from Catherine Hamlin’s garden to yours

Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of designing a truly touching custom Gift of Seeds for the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation. Over 60 years ago Catherine Hamlin and her partner Reg embarked on an unexpected journey of a lifetime. They signed a three-year contract to work as obstetrician-gynaecologists and set up a midwifery school

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Christmas shipping cut-off dates

To ensure we can deliver to you before Christmas, please take note of these delivery cut off dates: To Australian Metropolitan areas:  Order by Friday Dec 11 To WA and regional areas: Order by Friday Dec 4 For Express Post parcels, if sending to areas within the Australia Post Express Pot Network, order by Thursday Dec

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Wildflower Children Gift of Seeds
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Wildflower Children Gift of Seeds

Create memories and instill a joy of gardening with our new vintage inspired ‘Secret Garden’ and ‘Wildflowers’ Gifts of Seeds. A greeting card containing a mix of three easy to grow seeds, Secret Garden contains Marigold, Sunflower & Zinnia while Wildflowers contains Californian Poppy, Cosmos & Alyssum. Designed to promote a connection with nature and enjoy simple pleasures, these

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New Pop Up Pot collaboration with Emilio Frank Design

We are so thrilled to have our Pop Up Pots back in stock, but even more excited to present our latest designs! We teamed up with Shana Danon from Emilio Frank Design to create this vibrant, colourful artwork especially for our pots. Shana’s artworks are known for their bold emotive colour and vibrant modernist style,

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Sunflower Design Refresh & Plastic Free
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Sunflower Design Refresh & Plastic Free

A long time favourite Gift of Seeds for being bright and cheerful, we decided it was time for Sunflower to get a design refresh! We are also excited to add Sunflower and Trio of Herbs to our plastic free range. These varieties no longer include a plastic plant label. The plant labels are now incorporated into the recycled kraft packaging

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New Poppy & Sweet Pea, Plastic Free!
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New Poppy & Sweet Pea, Plastic Free!

*Update March 2021 – All of our Gifts of Seeds are now plastic free with the exception of Love in a Mist, Hooray Zinnia & Swan River Daisy. We are still running down the old stocks of these after which they will be discontinued* Introducing our newly refreshed designs for Poppy & Sweet Pea! It

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We are still Open!
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We are still Open!

Despite a lot of change in the world at the moment, we are still open, still in stock and still shipping orders as usual from our Maleny studio. If you’d like to reach out and connect with an old friend, a family member, a colleague or a member of your community then we’d love to

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A Gift of Thanks, On Us
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A Gift of Thanks, On Us

In light of the bushfires, we wanted to do something a little different to give back and make a small difference. Our Gifts of Seeds are the perfect token of appreciation so we decided to use them for exactly that to make a small difference. Some of the things people are doing are momentous while

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Christmas Delivery Dates
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Christmas Delivery Dates

STANDARD DELIVERY WITHIN AUSTRALIA (free shipping) Order by Tuesday Dec 17 if you are in a metro area. If you are unsure please check with us, or check Australia Post’s delivery times calculator here. We are based in Maleny on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, 4552. STANDARD DELIVERY TO REMOTE LOCATIONS At this stage you

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Sow 'n Sow Pop Up Pots
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Introducing Pop Up Pots!

A designer, portable plant pot that pops! Pop Up Pots are something that I have had in mind for many years. It started as an idea to find a way to easily post a pot. One reason our Gifts of Seeds have done well is that they’re a gift that is so easy to post

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Reducing Plastic One Seed Pack at a time
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Reducing Plastic One Seed Pack at a time

When I started Sow ‘n Sow 9 years ago, being an eco friendly business was at the forefront of my vision. I wanted to produce products in Australia with a low carbon footprint, using recycled materials where possible. Our Gifts of Seeds are printed in Australia on 100% post consumer waste recycled card and we

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Customs Designed Seed Packs
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Seed Packs for Healthier Happier

One of our biggest projects in 2018 was producing a whopping number of these seed packets for the Queensland Government’s Healthier Happier campaign. The custom designed Gifts of Seeds form part of a Kitchen Garden Pack which include an instructions booklet, gardening tips and tasty suggestions. We produced five seed packets for each pack including

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Christmas Shipping & Holiday Closure Dates
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Christmas Shipping & Holiday Closure Dates

The weather is heating up, the Christmas parties have started and the last minute mad rush of gift purchasing has begun! We have received our last delivery of Flower Presses for the year and there is still stock available but it won’t last long so be quick if you would like to secure some. For delivery in time

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Seeds 'n Greetings, A Gift of Seeds
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Seeds ‘n Greetings, A Gift of Seeds

New for Christmas is our Australian summer inspired Gift of Seeds for wishing with a little Aussie humour, ‘Seeds ‘n Greetings’! Containing a mix of seeds to create stunning summer bouquets, with easy to grow white Cosmos, red Zinnia and fragrant Dill as a useful and beautiful filler. Australian made and designed, printed on 100% post consumer waste recycled card and hand packed in our Sunshine Coast studio. Available to

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Mini Flower Presses by Sow 'n Sow
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Mini Flower Presses by Sow ‘n Sow

Sow ‘n Sow are thrilled to introduce our new Mini Flower Presses. Although we have had these for a while now, we have been unable to promote the product due to high demand and not enough stock! These beautiful presses are available in two designs, Golden Wattle or Posy. Beautifully illustrated, each press is hand

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We love Precious Wings
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We love Precious Wings

Just a quick note to put light onto the incredible charity Precious Wings. Sow ‘n Sow has proudly provided our Everlasting Daisy and Forget Me Not Gift of Seeds in support of the charity since 2013, when Kerry first contacted Michelle. Precious Wings is a not-for-profit organisation who’s generosity and compassion is touching the lives of

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A new Gift of Seeds for Mother's Day
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A new Gift of Seeds for Mother’s Day

Introducing Snapdragons! A classic cottage garden annual with bright colourful blooms which are great as a cut flower.  We picked snapdragons because they’re easy to grow and are exactly the kind of flower we would like to give to our Mothers on Mother’s Day. Usually our packets have a brightly coloured top band with a

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Order in time for Christmas
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Order in time for Christmas

The year is drawing to a close and we are counting down for more than one reason this year as Michelle is expecting a new baby around Christmas! Order by this Thursday Dec 14 for delivery before Christmas with standard FREE SHIPPING Australia wide. After this date you can select ‘Express post’ at checkout for a flat rate of just

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Order in time for Christmas
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Introducing the ‘Edibles’ mini Gift of Seeds collection

We are very excited to announce that our gorgeous new ‘Edibles’ mini collection is now available for purchase! It was certainly time for us, 7 years in, to add some more edibles to our collection. And after realising recently that one of our best sellers is our ‘Trio of Herbs’ Gift of Seeds I feel

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Inside A Gift of Seeds

When my green thumbed 87 year old Grandad came to visit the Sow ‘n Sow studio, along with my talented photographer cousin, I knew this was an opportunity for some lovely pics! Luckily cousin Duane was happy to oblige and took lots of beautiful shots. These demonstrate how our packets open and what you get

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Christmas Delivery

We are now closed for holidays. We re-open on Monday the 18th of Jan. Orders placed while we are closed will be shipped on Monday Jan 18.  Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  We ship orders from our studio in Castlemaine, 3450 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For delivery in time for

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Feeling blessed & Free Gifts with Orders

I’m feeling quite warm and fuzzy this week. We met a lot of beautiful customers on the weekend at The Big Design Market where lovely things were said about our products. It’s great to be face to face with customers at one of the only opportunities we get each year. The  organic linen label Oh Mabel

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Seeds for the Silly Season

It’s sowing season and almost Christmas time which means our studio is a hive of activity as we ship lots of eco friendly greetings to grow all over Australia. We are also busy preparing for The Big Design Market and looking forward to seeing lots of customers face to face at the only market event

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    It has been a busy year so far and things just got busier. Last Thursday the 13th of August we moved our studio from Fitzroy North to Castlemaine. It was a little sad leaving the wonderful artist studios that we had been a part of for nearly 3 years, but also super exciting

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A Gift of Seeds for Kids

  Spring has arrived and with it our shiny new Enchanted Garden and Bug Wonderland Gift of Seeds! Designed for creative & adventurous little souls, we decided that gardens aren’t just about pretty flowers but are about all the wonderful bugs, butterflies and little habitats they create in the garden. Some of my fondest memories

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A Gift of Seeds Display Stand

We’re very excited to introduce our new Gift of Seeds display stand! We worked with the wonderful Jeremy at Prototype Laser who created & makes the stand locally in Melbourne using sustainably-sourced bamboo. The stand very cleverly packs flat and can be assembled without glue or tools.   Update: March 2014 – we now also

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Mother’s Day

With Autumn well on it’s way, we are incredibly pleased to announce the arrival of our newest Sow n’ Sow team member, Bonnie! Congratulations Michelle & Bish! Bonnie was born on the 6th of March, 2014, and is already the heart of the Sow n’ Sow studio – she’s a smile maker, and quite possibly

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Australian PlantBank Gifts of Seeds

These fully custom designed Gift of Seeds were created for The Australian PlantBank, a new science and research facility for the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. Located at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan, PlantBank officially opened on Friday October 11 2013 and our Gifts of Seeds seeds were a part of the opening

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Sow ‘n Sow’s Spring Celebration Giveaway

We’re just a few days in to spring and the weather here in Melbourne has already become warm and sunny. All we can think of doing is being outside, absorbing the sunshine, picking flowers and sowing lots of seeds! To celebrate the arrival of this glorious season Sow ‘n Sow is offering a selection of

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Custom Design for Audi Australia

A growing gift from Audi Australia. These custom designed seed packets were made for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week. A ‘Trio of Herbs’ was gifted to each guest at the ‘Chiswick’ dinner presented by Matt Moran on Saturday the 17th of August.

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Billy Buttons, a Gift of Seeds for Christmas

I’m excited to announce that our first ever Christmas Gift of Seeds is now available to purchase through our webshop and via our stockists Australia wide. Billy Buttons are a gorgeous Australian Native which flower with beautiful bright yellow balls on long stems, perfect as a unique and stylish cut flower. If I do say

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The Natives

While the Australian Native collection has been available for a few months, I thought it was about time I wrote a little about them. Since launching Sow ‘n Sow about three years ago, the question of native seeds has been asked many times. So late last year I decided to create the Australian Native Gifts

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Custom designed Gifts of Seeds for the City of Sydney

Sydneysiders keep an eye out for the City of Sydney’s Green Villages branded Gifts of Seeds. These will be used as part of the city’s partnership with Grow It Local, encouraging residents to grow their own food and live more sustainably. This is our second custom design for the City of Sydney (see the first

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New from Sow ‘n Sow

 We’re incredibly excited to launch Sow ‘n Sow’s beautiful new Gifts of Seeds and Paper Garden Gift Tag collections! And to do justice to these stunning new ranges, we’ve made some changes to our branding and we’ve created a beautiful new website, where we’re also stocking some of our favourite organic-inspired designer products! A few notes

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Custom Gifts of Seeds for the City of Sydney

  We’re really proud of these custom designed Gifts of Seeds for a few reasons. Firstly because they are part of a fabulous program which celebrates sustainable living and ‘growing your own’, and secondly because we had the opportunity to work with The City of Sydney! We were delighted to hear that the council’s Sustainability

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Custom Gifts of Seeds – The Guest Room Mt Martha

We’ve just completed a custom design for a new Bed and Breakfast on the Mornington Peninsular called The Guest Room Mt Martha. The owner Pauline Eather wanted to have a personalised message printed onto the back of the existing Forget-me-not packets, so that she could leave one on the pillow for guests as a take

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Mothers day at Blue Illusion with Gifts of Seeds

We were delighted to custom design a range of Gifts of Seeds for Blue Illusion, the Australian owned chain of women’s fashion boutiques. Produced especially for Mothers day, the Blue Illusion selection features Basil, Poppy and Sunflower with French poems and Blue Illusion styling. Available now in Blue Illusion stores Australia-wide, they make a gorgeous

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A stunning wedding with Gifts of Seeds

This is the breathtakingly stunning wedding of my dear friend Josephine to her husband Joshua, held in the picturesque McLaren Vale wine region of South Australia on April the 14th 2012. Words cannot describe how enchanted this event was, and it was such an honour to provide custom Gifts of Seeds for the occasion. Designed

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Sow ‘n Sow flyer

Last year we developed a beautifully illustrated flyer with help from our designers, which serves as an info sheet and in-store display poster for our stockists. I just realised that we’ve never shared this through our website! So here it is, the gorgeous Sow ‘n Sow flyer. It’s double sided and folds in a concertina

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Plant Label Spoons

  Our Plant Labels made from repurposed hand-stamped spoons were featured in the February issue of House & Garden magazine! It caught us a little off-guard as we were out of stock after Christmas and the magazine was released before we had returned from holidays, but we’ve managed a quick re-stock and they are now

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