Bloom with Love: The Best Plants for Mother's Day Gifts

Searching for the perfect Mother’s Day gift that truly blossoms? This year, give Mom something she’ll actually like: a bare root plant! Plants make for thoughtful gifts that bring lasting joy, and bare root plants can give your gift recipient comfort in knowing that they’re practicing sustainable gardening. If you're looking for a unique, eco-conscious gift option this Mother’s Day, then bare root plants are an ideal choice.

Why Bare Root Plants Make for Wonderful Mother’s Day Presents

A bouquet of cut flowers is beautiful, but a living plant gives lasting beauty. It will also connect your mom to nature (and you!) long after Mother's Day. Choosing bare root plants as gifts for mom adds an extra layer of thoughtfulness. Plus, if you don’t know what to get the mom who has everything, then get her a bare root plant.

Here are some other advantages of giving your loved one a bare root plant this Mother’s Day.

Unique and Thoughtful Gesture 

In a sea of traditional Mother’s Day gifts, bare root plants stand out as a unique, memorable present. It shows you've put thought into selecting something that will grow and flourish, like your appreciation for your mom or mother figure (smooth right?).

Bare Root Plants are Budget-Friendly

Bare root plants are often more cost-effective than potted plants because you're not paying for the soil and container. This allows you to give a more substantial and impressive gift without exceeding your budget.

Gift of Growth and Anticipation

Receiving bare root plants is like receiving the promise of future beauty. Your mom can enjoy the process of bare root planting, nurturing her new arrivals, anticipating the vibrant bloom, or delicious harvests to come.

Eco-Conscious Choice and Eco-Friendly Gift

Bare root plants are eco-friendly gifts because they require less packaging and have a lower carbon footprint for shipping compared to bulky potted plants. This makes them a more sustainable planting option. Also, if you plant native plants for your growing zone, then your bare root plants will help sustain and propagate your region’s native plants and help your region’s local pollinators.

3 Bare Root Plants for Mother’s Day Gifts

Now, you may be excited to send your mom one of her best Mother’s Day gifts yet (a.k.a. bare root plants). But what bare root plants make for good Mother’s Day gifts? We suggest the three options below. Although, you can never go wrong with a bare root native plant for your mom’s plant hardiness region.

Magnolia Jane Tree

A Magnolia Jane tree is a deciduous hybrid magnolia that is suited for hardiness zones 4 to 8.

The Jane tree typically grows to be about ten to fifteen feet high. Its tulip-shaped flowers are usually a blend of purple and white with undertones of red. The excitement of seeing these blooms year after year will give your mom a wonderful gift each spring.

Peony

Their large, luxurious, and fragrant flowers make peonies a spectacular addition to any garden. They thrive in hardiness zones 3 to 9, and they attract pollinators while being deer resistant.

Plant bare root peonies in the spring (perhaps right after Mother’s Day) and they will establish themselves, grow easily, and reward your mom with breathtaking blooms in the years to come. In fact, peonies have been known to live for more than 100 years.

Solomon's Seal

Solomon's Seal is a plant native to North America, and it’s prized for its elegance, arching stems, and shade tolerance. It is also drought-tolerant and suited for hardiness zones 3 to 9.  

Solomon's Seal has variegated leaves and delicate, bell-shaped, white flowers that dangle beneath the foliage, which adds a subtle charm in the spring. Following the blooms, cute blue-black berries develop. Thus, Solomon's Seal supports a healthy ecosystem and brings a unique textural element to gardens.

Give the Gift of Growth with TN Nursery's Plant Subscription

Want to give the gift that keeps on giving? Consider TN Nursery's plant subscription! This is an ideal gift and a fun way to surprise your mom with a selection of healthy plants delivered right to her home each month.

Your plant subscription will gift your mom with surprise, sustainable gardening, and something to look forward to every year. What more could a mother want for Mother’s Day? Well, and a hug. Always give your mom or mother figure a hug. 

Check out our stock of thousands of high-quality bare root plants and feel free to reach out to us at TN Nursery today. We’re a family-owned business and we’ve been raising and selling bare root plants since 1959. We know bare root plants, and we’re ready to bare all of our gardening knowledge so you can be successful in your (or your mom’s!) garden at home.