Live plants for teacher appreciation

[Anonymous]

My child has pollen allergy. Cassroom mom sends out emails related to teacher appreciation week that everyone brings flowers or live plants to teacher. What live plants choice is good that I can easily shop in store? Succulent ? Cactus? Or others?

[Anonymous]

You don’t have to participate, usually just a few do. Maybe just a succulent or a really nice fake plant.

[Anonymous]

That sounds like a hassle for the teacher. She may need to find vases for the flowers, water the plants, find places to put them around the classroom and/or get them all home, water and take care of any live plants, etc, (and she might have allergies, too).

Unless your classroom mom knows that your child’s teacher, specifically, loves plants, I think a better gift would be for your child to write a little note to the teacher about what they like and appreciate about her, maybe with a picture of a flower.

[Anonymous]

Cash in a card.

[Anonymous]

Op here. I am sure that the classroom mom has asked teacher already because she also lists what giftcards she will buy with the donation pool. This is on top of the cash I have venom.

[Anonymous]

Approximately zero of these flowers are going to be wind pollinated, so you aren't going to have to worry about allergies.

[Anonymous]

Claritin, OP.

—Pollen Allergic

[Anonymous]

Pothos is easy to find and hard to kill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Approximately zero of these flowers are going to be wind pollinated, so you aren't going to have to worry about allergies.

Op here. Oh, this is new. Allergist tells me that he has pollen allergy after blood testing. I thought he is not supposed to stay near or touch any flowers (small or big).

[Anonymous]

Good lord. Your kid has seasonal allergies like the VAST majority of the population. Holding a flower is not going to kill them.

Just don't participate. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That sounds like a hassle for the teacher. She may need to find vases for the flowers, water the plants, find places to put them around the classroom and/or get them all home, water and take care of any live plants, etc, (and she might have allergies, too).

Unless your classroom mom knows that your child’s teacher, specifically, loves plants, I think a better gift would be for your child to write a little note to the teacher about what they like and appreciate about her, maybe with a picture of a flower.

Our elementary school did this every year. Every kid brings in a flower or a few and the PTA provided vases for the teachers. Kids that didn't bring one were given a flower (supplied by the PTA) when they walked into school. If they wanted one-they didn't have to take it.

Just don't participate. No one will notice.

[Anonymous]

What a stupid idea. The room parents should collect money for one bouquet. What the hell is a teacher going to do with 20-30 sets of flowers?

I'd have my kid draw a bouquet of flowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That sounds like a hassle for the teacher. She may need to find vases for the flowers, water the plants, find places to put them around the classroom and/or get them all home, water and take care of any live plants, etc, (and she might have allergies, too).

Unless your classroom mom knows that your child’s teacher, specifically, loves plants, I think a better gift would be for your child to write a little note to the teacher about what they like and appreciate about her, maybe with a picture of a flower.

Agree, and most bouquets from the grocery store have Lillies in them. If the teacher has a cat, they go right in the trash! How in the world is going to get them home?

[Anonymous]

Give seed packets for basil, mint, etc. Easy to carry and thoughtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Approximately zero of these flowers are going to be wind pollinated, so you aren't going to have to worry about allergies.

Op here. Oh, this is new. Allergist tells me that he has pollen allergy after blood testing. I thought he is not supposed to stay near or touch any flowers (small or big).

Almost certainly this is not necessary.

The main trigger -- almost exclusively the only trigger -- for pollen allergies is wind-pollinated plants, which have tiny little pollen particles that float through the air and into the sufferer's lungs, where they freak out the immune system.

Insect pollinated (or bird, or bat, or anything besides wind-pollinated) plants have sticky pollen that just sits on the flower, waiting for a pollinator to pick it up and carry it to the next flower.

Nearly everything with an even vaguely showy flower is not going to be wind pollinated, since wind-pollinated plants don't care about the aesthetics. Plants that depend on pollinators invest in flowers that attract them, and many of those are also attractive to us.