Diwali is popularly known to be the festival of lights and gifting, and it is definitely the right time to show some appreciation to the people you probably spend the most amount of time with during the day - your colleagues!
But what could possibly be meaningful and worthy enough of being deemed the perfect Diwali gifts for colleagues? Well, we've got the answer and we know you know what's coming... it's plants!
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So, here is a list of 15 plants that make for wonderful presents for office colleagues that you spend a lot of time with.
• 15 Plants Gifts for Colleagues
Office colleagues often tend to be the ones you spend most time with during the week, and very often, some of them easily become great friends. So, for these favorite work friends, here are a few meaningful plants for Diwali gifting:
1. Jade Plant Variegated
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The Jade is often known as one of the best Feng Shui and Vastu plants due to its lucky coin-shaped leaves. This plant symbolizes and is known to attract wealth, abundance, and positivity, making it the ideal gift to a colleague for Diwali.
Additionally, it is super low maintenance as a succulent and does not need your friend to necessarily have a green thumb.
2. Anthurium Red Plant
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The Anthurium Red is a flowering plant known for its attractive foliage and vibrant flowers. This is also known as a wonderful plant, often associated with good health and longevity. Additionally, it is also a popular symbol of love, prosperity, and abundance.
These plants are astonishingly low maintenance and will not demand too much time out of a busy work schedule, also making them the perfect Diwali gifts for office colleagues.
3. Money Plant Golden
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The Money Plant Golden is yet another timeless classic that makes for a wonderful gift to a colleague. Its golden-yellow foliage with heart-shaped leaves is an evergreen stunner indoors and instantly adds a timeless charm to otherwise lifeless spaces.
This plant symbolizes good health, abundance, wealth, and prosperity. In the world of Vastu and Feng Shui, it is also a widely beloved good luck plant, thus often being seen as a focal point in many homes worldwide.
4. Spider Plant
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Another classic, the Spider plant is a common sight in households as well. Its delicate leaves arch outwards with their long reach and lovely colors. Its leaves are a wonderful blend of light green and cream color, and its spiderettes are super easy to propagate once they grow out.
These plants are perfect for home and office environments, often known as symbols of good luck, new beginnings, resilience, and adaptability.
5. Dwarf ZZ
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In every belief and culture, the ZZ plant is known to be a harbinger of good luck and positivity. This plant is a symbol of prosperity and endurance, often know to be like a pillar of stability.
Additionally, it thrives with little care and is completely non-demanding, making it perfect for busy, working individuals. Its low maintenance requirements put together with its wonderful meaning makes it perfect as part of your gift ideas for colleagues this Diwali.
6. Haworthia Cymbiformis
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This stunning succulent is known for being a symbol of peace, resilience, tranquility, and purity. It is easy to care for and needs minimal attention, often being able to thrive through some periods of neglect as well.
A succulent is one of the best gifts to a colleague because of its fuss-free nature and ability to thrive in various environments. Additionally, if your office setting gets a lot of natural light throughout the day, this plant will also do good as a desk plant at work!
7. Money Plant Satin
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You've seen the Money Plant Golden, now you will see the Money Plant Satin! This cousin of the golden plant is an absolute stunner with its velvety leaves and lovely patterns.
The significance of the plant remains the same, allowing it to grow beautifully as a symbol of good luck, health, abundance, and wealth. Additionally, it can grow wonderfully as a hanging plant, desk plant, or a floor plant when given more space to grow bigger.
8. Big Leaf Fittonia
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Have you ever actually sat and noticed the patterns on the leaves of the Fittonia plant? The stunning patterns are known to be inspirational, often said to inspire sensitivity, communication, and connection.
The plant is revered for its endurance and boldness, making it the perfect gift to a colleague during Diwali. Celebrate light over darkness with plants like the Fittonia!
9. Lotus Lucky Bamboo
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The Lucky Bamboo plant by itself is a stunning and beautifully symbolic plant, known for its significance in the world of Feng Shui and Vastu. However, add the shape and growth patterns of a Lotus Lucky Bamboo and you will find a plant that is the perfect all-rounder - whether you're gifting your colleagues or bringing home a plant yourself.
The 5 stalks of this plant are known to be representatives of balance, peace, harmony, and power. This makes the plant just right to give as gifts for colleagues this Diwali.
10. Zebra Haworthia
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This plant is often known to reflect cultural history and harmony of the spiritual being with itself. Naturally, it becomes a beloved symbol of resilience and balance. This meaning makes it the perfect indoor plant for Diwali gifting.
Whether as a desk plant in office or a house partner, the Zebra Haworthia can do it all and easily become your colleague's new favorite. But don't worry, you're still going to be part of the trio!
11. Calathea Orbifolia
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Know a colleague who's a little too dramatic? This Calathea plant will fit in perfectly with and complement their little dramatic flair in the best ways! It is symbolic of new beginning and is perfect to celebrate the victory of light over darkness.
It is relatively easy to care for but will still need some love and attention on demand. So, only give it to a colleague you know loves plants!
12. Dracaena Golden Milky
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Did you know that Dracaena plants are known to have protective abilities that help ward off evil spirits? Due to these abilities, this plant is a symbol of strength, resilience, and good luck. Additionally, it is also said to be a harbinger of peace and joy.
Now, who doesn't need some extra peace and joy in their lives! The Dracaena Golden Milky is one of the best compact and thoughtful plant gifts for colleagues with its many meanings and symbolisms.
13. Euphorbia Hybrid
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When you first look at this plant, you might just feel like it is a regular foliage plant. But what you do not know are its true abilities and what the plant really is like.
The Euphorbia plant is actually a creeping succulent native to subtropical regions of the world, because of which it is very easy to grow and displays a very hardy nature. This also makes these plants the ideal presents for office colleagues with busy daily routines.
14. Elongated Cactus Variegated
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This stunning elongated Cactus variegated is a wonderful variant of the regular cactus. As a plant that stores water in its fleshy leaves, it is a very low maintenance plant that requires little to no care for longer durations of time.
Often, cactus plants are known to ward of negative energy and all kinds of evil, offering great protection to its caretakers. Additionally, it is also a symbol of endurance and resilience, making it perfect for your office colleagues.
15. Golden Sedum
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The Sedum is actually often known as a guardian of nature, with its delicate yet spiky leaves. Additionally, these stunners are also known as revered symbols of prosperity, growth, and abundance, while also being used in various cultural ceremonies around the world.
It is also low maintenance and perfectly fit for all working individuals, making it a thoughtful gift to a colleague during Diwali.
So, out of all these stunning indoor plant with wonderful symbolic significances, which ones will you be choosing for your office colleagues? Whether or not they are plant lovers, they are sure to fall in love with these plants!
