Garden PostCarden postcard

The card is a banal piece of cardboard and often just a formality. After the presentation and reading of greetings her, in the end, sent in a box with other greetings – so this gift brings joy short-lived and quickly forgotten.

But now there is an opportunity to surprise friends and family with garden PostCarden postcard a few days turns into a living mini-garden with a vitamin watercress. Such a gift will please the eye for two to three weeks, and then the harvest can be sent straight to your plate.





London designer Aymi (Aimee) call so your greeting cards with the option of gardening is not accidental — it is a successful fusion of English words Postcard (postcard) and Garden (garden). In the British invention is something from childhood "folding" books: although at first glance it's just a flat box, which with the "front side" depicts the future garden with the other standard mailers and place for the warm words and congratulations. But when you open the compact a parcel, deployed in front of the whole architectural structure. Inside there are instructions, which upon closer examination turns out to be a package of seeds! And that was definitely not boring, the author has thought through several versions of a landscape for landscaping.

Conservatory (Botanical) – all the grandeur of the Victorian Botanical garden in the palm of your hand: under the decorative arches richly green miniature plants.









Soccer (Football) is your personal piece of the field with gates, layout and even the ball. A great gift for sports fans!









City (City) – kind of a poem about the concrete jungle metropolis, which, together with emerald green returns life itself.









In a separate mini-collection "Matchcarden" includes two quintessentially British themes: City street (The City Street) and English village (The English Village) with its traditional details – Church, bicycles and, of course, manicured front gardens – that the owner of the cards and have to grow.

The seeds are grown hydroponically: just collect the cardboard house and set it on the windowsill, and then sprinkling the seeds on the bottom and sprayed them with water. Just a couple of days of growing cress will make itself felt, and in three weeks will turn into lush green patches, which on the background of snow-covered streets will look especially cheerful.





PostCarden is a gift not only decorative, but also useful as cress (Lepidium sativum) has been known as spicy taste and medicinal plant in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. It was used to improve digestion and appetite, lower blood pressure, to treat diseases of the respiratory tract, as an antimicrobial and diuretic. Fresh leaves of this cabbage relative is rich in trace elements (potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, iron, magnesium, sulphur, copper), vitamins of group B, carotene, thiamine, rutin, Riboflavin, ascorbic acid and mustard essential oil. This green tastes like horseradish or radish, tart, somewhat bitter and astringent, therefore is used as seasoning to salads, meat, fish, eggs, gravies and soups.

The kit includes a waterproof tray, cress seeds-salad, and detailed instructions. The dimensions of the live cards — 155 x 18 x 95 mm. Garden PostCarden postcard can become a memorable gift for lovers of nature, home coziness and curious children reaching for the sun delicate green of the palms will not leave anyone indifferent!

 




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