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The Art Of The Bouquet

A single flower or a huge bouquet may express love, remembrance, apology, support or simply be a thoughtful gesture. Throughout human history, flowers have played a significant role as gestures and gifts. Though specific meanings and traditions may change, flowers remain a part of human connection.

Everyone loves giving and receiving lovely blossoms. However, consumers are sometimes stumped about when it’s appropriate to send flowers, how much to spend, and which ones to buy. Here’s an easy guide to the art of giving floral gifts.

In the nineteenth century, the giving of flowers was a specialized art. Floriography, or the language of flowers, was developed as a way of expressing feelings by coded messages. Each flower was assigned a certain meaning. For example, a person might send Canterbury bells to signal gratitude or purple lilacs to communicate the first blush of love.

Some negative thoughts about flowers still remain with us today. Purity is associated with the white lily and love with the red rose.

Now that the art of making Tussy-Mussies, a type of Victorian bouquet, is coming back into favor, some people are studying floriography once again. For a charming gift, study a list of flower meanings, and select a few blossoms to convey a special message. Since your recipient may or may not be familiar with the language of flowers, enclose a card explaining why you chose these particular stems.

Another creative method for sending flowers is to honor the person’s birth month. Each month in the calendar year has a certain flower associated with it. For example, January’s flowers are carnations or snowdrops. May’s flower is lily-of-the-valley. A Chrysanthemum is the flower for the month of November. For a birthday one can give a birthday bouquet to celebrate the special occasion.
One does not need to buy expensive flowers to bright or cheer up ones life. One beautiful rose or a bunch of cheerful daisies can say as much as the most expensive bouquets. With flowers, it truly is the thought that counts.

An inexpensive, small potted plant is a great way to thank a hostess, welcome someone to the neighborhood, express sympathy, brighten up someone’s sick room, or simply bring a little cheer to someone’s day. If you are gifted at growing certain flowers, such as Christmas cactus, you might even pot slips from your own plants in attractive containers and give those as gifts.

A male would be more acceptable to a potted plant than a flower. Though there are exceptions to every rule, women are generally more enthusiastic about receiving cut flowers or bouquets than men are. Men, however, might appreciate receiving a pot of greenery upon moving into a new apartment, receiving a promotion, or for some other special occasion. Another way to honor a man with flowers is a boutonnière for a special occasion. When wearing a suit is when they are appropriate to have on for men, especially at a wedding or prom. Boutonnière are simple and are generally inexpensive.

If you are giving a corsage to a woman for Mother’s Day, the traditional rule is that you choose a red flower if her mother’s mother is still alive. A white flower indicates that the woman’s own mother has passed away. While you are not limited to giving these colors only, it’s good to understand the rule so that you don’t inadvertently send the wrong message.

Flowers are expected on certain occasions, such as roses on Valentine’s Day or poinsettias at Christmas. However, the ones that people enjoy the most are those given for no other reason than to say, “I’m thinking about you.”

If you have room in your yard, you may want to experiment with a cutting garden. This differs from an ornamental garden, which is enjoyed for its outdoor beauty. Go outside and go into the garden and cut fresh flowers from the area for the house or give them as a gift. Because you are harvesting the flowers through out the year, your flower bed may not look that good compared to a flower bed that was not disturbed. If you are given a large amount of flowers for a gift. The history of flower giving continues to be written. In the United States it might have once seemed inappropriate for a woman to give flowers to a man. Giving a flower is no longer concerned out of the ordinary. Virtual flowers and Internet florists provide new ways to deliver virtual or real flowers anywhere in the world. Because of green houses and technology, one is exposed to a year round blooms of every type of flower. People give flowers to show some sort of sentiment to each other, even if they do not know the reason for giving.

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