I actually felt the same about it as GP (if perhaps not as strongly; I still buy flowers for my mom even if I wouldn't be thrilled to receive them regularly mys

I actually felt the same about it as GP (if perhaps not as strongly; I still buy flowers for my mom even if I wouldn't be thrilled to receive them regularly myself), but didn't yet consider it like this. Thanks for that comment, this makes sense. They're still being grown for this purpose so it's still resources being used, but yeah it's not necessarily just ripping plants out of the ground which is how I (without thinking it through, stupidly) pictured it. I should check how it compares to other gift-type items, perhaps they're not a bad generic gift at all. (Of course a gift that someone wished for and will use for years is always better, but that's far from always possible.)