Kids’ Favorite TickleMe Plant Seeds, FREE for
Earth Day.
Help Your Child Get Excited About and
Appreciative of Plants and Nature!
Pawling, N.Y.—Earth Day 2008-
The TickleMe Plant Company will send a packet of
TickleMe Plant®
seeds to one hundred people, selected randomly,
who respond to this question, “What are three
or more reasons why plants are important to the
health of Planet Earth and Its Inhabitants?”
Send your email response in the form of words,
pictures, poems, etc to:
customerservice@ticklemeplant.com or
mail a letter to: Earth Day Contest, TickleMe
Plant Company, 60 Hurds Corner Road, Pawling,
N.Y 12564. Be sure to visit
www.TickleMePlant.com to learn about the
TickleMe Plant.
“We are offering this contest because we want
kids to become sensitive to and aware of the
importance of plants. In addition, we love
seeing how excited kids get the first time they
tickle their plant and it moves!” says Larry
Chipkin –President of the TickleMe Plant
Company. Everyone is a winner, as all entries
and letters with email addresses will be emailed
a two dollar discount coupon. Winners will be
informed on or before Earth Day April 22, 2008.
Some responses will be posted on the website.
In addition, The TickleMe Plant Company will
donate 1% of all 2008 profits to The Nature
Conservancy’s program to save the rainforest
called “Adopt an Acre®.”
What is a TickleMe Plant?
Native to Brazil, they can be found there and in
other tropical areas, growing in the wild. The
scientific name for the TickleMe Plant is Mimosa
pudica.
"You simply plant the seeds in one of our
growing kits or a flower pot with soil, water it
and the plants will sprout in days," says Larry
Chipkin. Two weeks later, you can tickle this
very sensitive plant and watch in amazement as
the plant closes its leaves and lowers its
branches. Then, usually within 15 minutes, it
lifts its fernlike branches and re-opens its
leaves. TickleMe Plants can be grown any time of
the year, as an indoor houseplant. They also
can produce pretty pink fluffy flowers!
About The TickleMe Plant Company
Mark Chipkin, Educational Project Director says,
"We want every child (and those young at heart)
to have a positive experience growing plants.
Growing the TickleMe Plant from seeds is
an adventure children (5 to 105) will never
forget."
All TickleMe Plant products are easy to grow, no
green thumb needed! Thousands of teachers and
students (K-Graduate School) have grown their
own TickleMe Plants.
The TickleMe Plant product line includes:
packets of seeds, complete growing kits with
soil pellets and greenhouses with flower pots.
The
seed packets retail for $4.95 plus shipping at
www.TickleMePlant.com
For more information, cool experiments and
activities, visit
www.TickleMePlant.com TickleMe Plant
products are available throughout the
continental United States. They make great gifts
and party favors for all occasions. They can be
found at science museums, nature centers, stores
and catalogs that offer educational products
which excite youngsters about science, gardening
and nature. TickleMe Plants also are sold on
line at web stores, such as Educational
Innovations, Edmund Scientific, and eNasco.
*This contest is for USA residents only
(excluding Hawaii) and is void where prohibited.
All entries become the property of the TickleMe
Plant Company.
NOTE TO EDITORS: High resolution image of my
daughter Rebecca and her TickleMe Plant
attached. You have permission to use high
resolution photos, pricing, videos and text that
are available at
www.TickleMePlant.com or Email
Larry@TickleMePlant.com
with your request. Products are available for
demonstration. Mark and/or Larry Chipkin are
available for an interview.
Date: March 31, 2008
Re: TickleMe Plant Company, Inc.
Contact: Larry Chipkin, (845)350-4800
Larry@ticklemeplant.com
www.TickleMePlant.com
Ever See A Plant MOVE
When You TICKLE It?
September 5, 2007
For immediate release
Patterson, N.Y., September 5, 2007 “Daddy come quickly,
my plant is alive! It just moved its leaves and branches
when I tickled it,” my daughter Rebecca exclaims from
her room. You can imagine the excitement in my house
because my daughter Rebecca had never seen any of our
house or garden plants move, until her own TickleMe
Plant™ surprised her. Not only did Rebecca see her plant
move when she tickled it, but she also discovered that
the leaves closed in the dark or cold temperatures.
Rebecca observed that most often the TickleMe Plant™
returned to its original form in less than an hour, by
lifting its fern-like branches and re-opening its
leaves.
Larry Chipkin, co-owner of the TickleMe Plant Company (www.ticklemeplant.com
) says, “Growing your TickleMe Plant is as easy as
one, two, three! We simply planted the sensitive plant
seed in a flower pot filled with soil, watered it and
placed the flower pot in a bright location. Our plant
sprouted in 5 days! Two weeks later, we tickled our
plant and watched in amazement as the TickleMe Plant™
closed its leaves and lowered its branches.” Now, two
months later, my daughter and I are proud to announce
that our TickleMe Plant™ has produced its first flower
buds. We are excited again, as we await to see the
beautiful, pink, puff ball flowers in bloom!
Don’t be surprised if after growing their own TickleMe
Plants™, your children become more aware of plants and
excited about gardening. TickleMe Plants™ are best grown
year round as house plants and can be placed in a bright
location outside during the warmer months. Bring them in
before it gets cold, because they won’t tolerate the
frost. TickleMe Plants™ can live for a year or more and
grow to one foot or more in height.
The scientific name for the TickleMe Plant™ is Mimosa
pudica. It also has been called shy plant, sensitive
plant and other names, throughout the world.
The TickleMe Plant Company offers seeds and complete
growing kits and educational materials for children,
adults, teachers and students (from 5-105 years of age).
Teachers from kindergarten through graduate school have
used TickleMe Plants™ for their botany lessons. Products
range in price from $4.95 for seeds to $69.99 for a kit
with all the supplies necessary for a class of thirty
students to grow their own plants.
To learn more about growing TickleMe Plants™ or to order
seeds or complete growing kits, go to
www.TickleMePlant.com
. Visit this website for a video of the Tickleme Plant™
in motion, free educational activities, a cartoon,
science teacher developed lesson plan ideas and a 100%
Guarantee. Shipping is available nationwide.
TickleMe Plant growing kits also can be found at The
Museum of Science in Boston, Liberty Science Center in
New Jersey, as well as many other fine stores and online
catalogs such as
www.teachersource.com
and
www.scientificsonline.com
. TickleMe Plants™ are great for science fair projects
and holiday gifts, any time of the year!
Larry Chipkin is Co-Owner of the TickleMe Plant™
Company. Larry says, “My daughter Rebecca and I love our
TickleMe Plants and want every child to have this
positive growing experience.
For more information contact:
Larry Chipkin, TickleMe Plant Company, Inc.
www.TickleMePlant.com
Phone or Fax 845-350-4800
Larry@TickleMePlant.com
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