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A gift for Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be classic. Do you always give red roses? Or perhaps your girlfriend or wife can always look forward to a box of fancy chocolates? But have you ever asked her what she really likes? Perhaps that wonderful woman in your life would prefer something a little bit different to the norm?

If you’re looking for a flower arrangement that offers romance, but doesn’t feature the usual red roses or pink carnations, here are some ideas from Eflorist that we think you’re going to really like.

For a truly romantic bouquet with a difference, why not browse through our birthday flowers? February, our Amethyst bouquet,  offers a breathtaking arrangement in blues and violets. This arrangement includes roses, Lisanthus, and chrysanthemums, but you won’t see any red or pink here.

Another more unusual choice for Valentine’s flowers would be our Vibrant Bouquet, also found under birthday flowers. While you will find some pink here, you’ll also see lots of green, with a touch of orange and purple. These gorgeous pink Gerbera, green chrysanthemums, orange roses, and purple Lisianthus are sure to impress any woman who prefers unusual flowers.

These are just a few of many options for Valentine’s flowers. There are no rules, so order whatever you think your lady will like.

Remember, Valentine’s Day flowers don’t have to be the usual. Think outside the box and offer your bride, lover, or sweetheart something as special as she is. She deserves a flower delivery that will sweep her off her feet.

There are many milestones throughout our lives, both ups and downs, and a flower delivery is a considerate way to celebrate these occasions.

A New Baby:
To celebrate the arrival of a newborn consider sending the mother a bouquet of flowers. The baby will likely receive many gifts from friends and relatives so this is a good way to congratulate the mother on her hard work. You might also consider choosing a hamper as an extra treat for the parents.

Celebrations!
This could be a birthday, a new job, a new house, or good exam results but whatever the occasion flowers are a thoughtful way to share in the joy. eFlorist also offers a selection of gift experiences that you can use to treat your loved one.

Bereavement:
Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to express sympathy for a loss, or to offer comfort. When this happens, you can show your emotions through flowers. A note of condolence included with the arrangement can let the recipient know that you’re thinking of them.

Romance:
Whether you’re giving Valentine’s Day flowers, celebrating an anniversary, or you just want to let your partner know that you love them, a flower delivery is a thoughtful way to show how you feel. If it is appropriate, it might be worth considering sending the flowers to your loved one’s place of work as an extra surprise.

If your memory, or diary, is good then you can book your delivery in advance. Don’t worry if you’ve forgotten about one of these milestones, though, as eFlorist offers same day flower delivery nationwide as long as you order before 3 pm Monday to Saturday.

Getting flowers delivered is easy but creating beautiful arrangements is a specialist art-form. The trick lies not only in selecting blooms with colours that match or go well together, but in choosing background foliage and considering the way each individual shape will fit into a harmonious whole. It can take years of experience for a new florist to learn all the tricks of the trade.

Green foliage separates each flower and makes it a focus, rather than allowing them all to merge into one unbroken block of colour. It allows the individual blooms to be better appreciated and also adds a lush, springtime feel to any arrangement. A little added bulk can turn a slim bouquet of small flowers into something truly magnificent, too.

Valentine’s Day flowers are usually roses alone, but you may notice that many of the bouquets on this site contain more than one flower variety in the same colour. Expert florists often use star-shaped lilies with rosebuds and other round flowers to create an interesting mesh of different shapes. The background foliage makes the star and circle shapes even more striking.

All of our partner florists understand how to create the very best bouquets from their stock. We choose our local florists carefully. If you choose flower delivery to Oxford you’ll be sure to get the same high quality you’d receive if you decided to have a floral gift sent to a friend in Wolverhampton. Wherever you want flowers delivered, we can send a bouquet arranged by a real expert.

As a nation, we seem to be pretty good at giving flowers. We know all the right occasions. We give Mothers Day flowers, Valentine’s Day flowers, and Christmas flowers. We give flowers to our friends on their birthdays, and flowers to our relatives when someone dies. But why stop there?

Flowers can bring a positive message under any circumstances, and saying “I’m sorry” with flowers may be all it takes to bring back a lost friend, or heal a rift between you and your mother.  Here’s how to say “I’m sorry” with flowers.

1.    Carefully choose flowers the person will like.

Make the thought you put into your choice show. What are his or her favourite colours or flowers? Do they have a flower they don’t like? Many of our Thank You Flowers and Valentine’s Day Flowers arrangements would make good “I’m Sorry” flowers as well.

2.    Say you’re sorry in words as well.

It’s really up to you whether you do this before or after the flowers are delivered. You can do it in person, on the phone, or by letter. But it’s often more effective to say you’re sorry in person. Ring them up and say you want to talk, but remember to say that you want to apologize so that they aren’t dreading the meeting.

3.    Let the flowers speak for themselves.

Once you have said you are sorry and the flowers have been delivered, leave your friend or relative to reflect on what you’ve shared. Give them time to decide if they want you back in their life.

The rose is the flower of England. Its significance dates back to the time when York and Lancaster fought for control of the kingdom. The red rose emblem of Lancaster eventually combined with the white rose of York when Henry Tudor married Elizabeth, daughter of the old Yorkist king. Shakespeare mentions roses too. Juliet famously muses that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and there are plenty of other references throughout the plays.

The flowers that Henry Tudor and William Shakespeare knew were very different to the Valentine’s roses sent by lovers today. The many-petalled, dense blooms that we love so much now are actually a relatively recent innovation. The original English roses still exist but they’re quite hard to find in garden centres and they don’t last long as cut blooms. Sadly, old roses are very fragile and the petals fall off much too quickly. On the plus side the plants stand up to frost very well, as you’d expect from a native inhabitant of Britain.

The oldest English rose varieties have just five petals, and although they have an elegance and a beauty of their own, they’re far less spectacular than our modern roses. Walk into Lancaster and York florists today and you’re much likely to find hybrid flowers that have been produced through interbreeding with oriental roses.

Almost all of the rose varieties we see these days are hybrids. England wasn’t the only place where roses grew – almost every continent has a rose of its own and it is the interplay between the different varieties that has brought us the huge variety of colours, shapes, scents and sizes that we now enjoy.

Sending flowers to your man is all about timing. Strike too early and you’ll throw the poor fellow off balance (“But… what are these for? My birthday’s three weeks away? Um… thanks?”); the rougher sex are easily confused by the gift of flowers (“Is she being sarcastic? Was I supposed to buy her some flowers too?!”) Strike too late and…well, “sorry I forgot your…” flowers are always nice actually!

Celebrating an event, particularly a traditional or romantic event loaded with sentiment – the birth of a new baby, marriage, an educational marker, noteworthy promotion etc – with a thoughtful flower delivery is a fantastic idea, and becoming more popular year to year. We’ve noticed a lot of our clients ordering anniversary flowers, get well soon flowers, congratulations flowers, thank you flowers…and Valentine’s Day flowers just for the appreciated, brilliant men in their lives!

Our advice? Steer of fussy feminine arrangements. Opt instead for arrangements plump with dark or earthy colours and foliage – the “Baby Boy Aquapack“might be designed for little boys, but it suits big boys to a tee too! Abundant with dark blue, green and white blooms, this gorgeous bouquet is perfect!

Simple plants and arrangements often go down well with gentleman of all tastes. A simple orchid or stylised bouquet like the chic “Serenity” arrangement (white lilies, roses and lisianthus intertwined with willow twigs and contrasting foliage) would be welcome by any amour…

The most important point to note when choosing Valentine’s Day flowers for men is to keep it simple, personal and stunning.

We all appreciate a fresh, lightly scented bouquet of beautiful flowers, but there is a down side. We’ve all wished that a Valentine’s day flower delivery lasted longer or that our anniversary flowers could still be around for the next year. Cut blooms are by their very nature ephemeral but sometimes it is possible to keep a lasting reminder of a flower gift.

Carnations can be grown from cuttings. Next time you see some of these in your anniversary flowers, pick them out straight away. Often you’ll see small suckers coming off the main stem. You can use these to grow a new carnation plant or cut off a short length from the bottom of the stem. Make it four or five inches long- the rest of the stem and the flower can be put back in the arrangement and enjoyed.

Push the bottom of your cutting or sucker into a nice peaty potting mix and water it sparingly. Carnations don’t like too much water and a position in full sun is best. Avoid nitrogen-heavy fertilisers too. As with all cuttings a single one may not survive so try growing half a dozen or so and you’ll probably get a few that take root and survive.

Your baby carnation plants will produce flowers next year. You can then take cuttings from them and grow even more. Don’t worry about getting too many. You can always give them to friends as gifts, but be sure to let the person who sent the first flowers have some of the credit!

Florists in the UK stock plants and cut blooms from species that were once confined to tiny patches of mountain or forest in some exotic location. So many of the beautiful orchids we enjoy today were originally discovered in the forests of South America or East Asia. Adventurous botanists went to great trouble to discover new species and even greater trouble transporting them home to Britain and keeping them alive. On the open market a single specimen of a completely new orchid could be worth a fortune.

Even the roses so commonly given as Valentine’s Day flowers are the product of interbreeding traditional British rose species with Chinese varieties. The camellia plants that provide some of the first park and garden flowers of spring were also brought from the Far East, and as colonists spread across North America they sent all kinds of hitherto unknown plants, flowers, and seeds back across the Atlantic. An early international flower delivery by ship was always much anticipated by collectors, gardeners, and professional botanists.

Kew Gardens in London and the famous Jardin des Plantes in Paris were popular with Victorian tourists keen to see, touch, and smell these new plants that were so unlike anything that normally grew in Western Europe. Today we don’t have to go far to find exotic plants. Almost all florists in the UK have a selection of orchids, for example.

However, new plants are always fascinating. That’s why so many of our bouquets use ferns and eucalyptus in the foliage or feature blooms that you won’t recognise from your garden. The classics are wonderful but it’s fun to experiment, so if you see a flower you don’t recognise, choose that arrangement!

With Valentine’s Day coming up this month, it’s time to start thinking of the best way to let your loved one know how you feel about her. Sending flowers in the form of a beautiful bouquet, whether you are geographically close or not, is a wonderful, traditional way to get your message across and tell your better half how special she is.

She may be partial to the traditional Valentine’s flowers – red roses – or she might prefer a bouquet of her own classic favourites instead, but whatever will put a smile on the face of your beloved, Eflorist can help you to deliver it directly to her, at home, at work, at the other end of the country, all without you visiting a single florists. Our service enables you to send a fresh, locally made bouquet to the door of your special sweetheart – all from our easy-to-use website. If she’s ever accused you of being lazy and unromantic, you can prove that you are not either of these things with a few simple clicks.

For a small added fee, we can combine sending flowers and their personalised greeting with a box of chocolates, making this a complete Valentine’s gift. You can use your personalised card to give your wife a surprise dinner invitation or to ask your girlfriend to marry you. We offer impressively speedy delivery, too, ideal for those who have left it a little on the late side. With our beautiful range, we have Valentine’s flowers totally covered.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and you might be struggling to know what to get your other half. After all, the plethora of potential products available in shops can be confusing and daunting.

And you no doubt want to get something special to show your partner you really care for her. There are few occasions when such great emphasis is placed on romance and it is therefore crucial that you pull out all the stops.

For this reason, you might think that getting flowers is somehow not exceptional enough because so many people do it. This may well be true if you panic and end up buying flowers from the local petrol station at the last minute.

The simple and unimaginative arrangements often seen in such places are not exactly the stuff of dreams and your significant other might be distinctly underwhelmed by such an offering.

However, if you make the effort to organise an online florist delivery, you can take advantage of a fantastic range of bouquets that will really encapsulate your feelings.

For example, by ordering Valentine’s Day flowers here at eFlorist, you can choose between a variety of romantic floral offerings. As well as the traditional roses, there are many more products to make your selection from.

To see if we have anything that fits the bill, simply browse the relevant section of our website. You will not find it hard to find exactly what you are after and this simple process could help you create a February 14th to remember.