Description
Original as a maternity gift or birthday present, our giftcard is produced on 100% recycled paper. Next to that, it is filled with poppy and petunia seeds, so with a little bit of love (and water) you have 2 gifts for the price of 1! How about that. There is a small visual aid on the physical giftcard on how to plant it.

Choose your amount and select if it has to be sent out as a gift: we will then include a short handwritten message and wrap it up nicely.
Otherwise we will send the pyshical giftcard to your listed shipping address so you can gift it at your own convenience.

Spread the Louve!

Materials
Made from the original Dutch Growingpaper:
– 100% recycled
– Biodegradable paper
– Made of two thin layers of paper, with seeds in between, that are glued together with potato starch
– Filled with a bee and butterfly mix of 8 different wild flowers: antirrhinum, godetia, gypsophyla, dorotheanthus, petunia, poppys, alyssum and foxglove.

How to plant

Have you received a Louve giftcard? The fun doesn’t stop after you have ordered something cool with us, because this giftcard is plantable. Here’s how to do it:

Step 1. Moisten your growing paper
First, thoroughly wet the growing paper. And we mean really wet! Only then will the paper dissolve properly whichs allows the seeds te germinate.

Step 2. Place your growing paper on the soil
Place the growing paper inside in a pot or outside on a balcony or in the garden on the earth. Preferably use sowing soil or potting soil for the vegetable garden. The best time to plant outside is from mid-May to October. Indoors in a pot is possible all year round. See below for the best sowing times for the specific seeds in our growing paper.

Step 3. Cover your growing paper with a thin layer of soil
Cover the growing paper with about 1 to max 1.5 cm of soil. This way the seeds get enough nutrients, protection and sun light to germinate. If you cover the paper under a layer of soil that is too thick, the seeds will germinate less quickly or not at all.

Step 4. Water, water and water
Certainly in the beginning we advice to give some water every day, so that the paper remains moist. It is best to use a sprayer with a soft head so that the paper gets the same amount of water everywhere. A watering can or a cup without a nozzle can prevent the paper from getting evenly wet and the seeds from sprouting equally.

Step 5. Sun, warmth and lots of love
In addition, provide a light and warm place. Be careful with a spot in full sun, especially in summer. Then your paper can dry out and the seeds will not germinate. Now you have to be patient! The first plants germinate within a week. Continue to give your plants a lot of love and attention even after germination. You can now give a little less water than in the first week.

Still have questions left? Read it back here:
https://www.growingpaper.nl/about/let-it-sprout/