There is nothing quite like the joy of giving someone a bouquet of flowers for the simple purpose of sharing kindness.
If you’ve ever given away flowers-you know exactly the overwhelming feeling of joy and warmth/contentment/satisfaction.
And if you’ve ever grown a garden of any kind, yo’u’ve experienced first hand the rich rewards of getting outside, getting your hands in the soil, tending and nurturing and watching something grow and flourish.
As an organization, our mission is to help people enter into more of the joy and benefits of both gardening and giving flowers as acts of kindness.
Over and over, we’ve heard from our team members the positive impact that both gardening and giving flowers has brought into their lives.
We started to ask ourselves: what would happen if we could invite others to not only just give flowers but give another the gift of a GARDEN? And then the recipient of that garden would have the opportunity to enjoy gardening and growing flowers and then use the blooms they grew to spread kindness in their communities.
With that goal in mind, we reached out to our incredible community and asked for support: would you give a garden if you could?
The response was heartwarming.
So we launched a giving campaign we called Give a Dahlia Garden. Over two hundred people shared how the gift of a garden would support them and the ways they would use the flowers they grew to spread kindness in their neighborhoods and communities.
And twenty one incredible sponsors stepped forward to support them. During the two weeks we ran this giving campaign, thirty one incredible nominees were awarded the gift of a garden in the form of a dahlia garden kit. Each kit included 10 premium dahlia tubers, perfect for cut flower production, and a set of Growing Kindness Bouquet Tags to help them share blooms this summer.
Kindness truly begats kindness and because of the generosity of the sponsors, 31 people, in communities all across the US will be able to grow and give flowers this summer.
