Type of flowers: which are the best to give as gifts?
Type of flowers: which are the best to give as gifts?
Flowers will always be a great gift to celebrate someone we love. Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, a birthday, or a graduation are all great occasions to surprise someone with a bouquet, but what type of flowers are best for each person and occasion?
There are different kinds of flowers that you can choose to communicate different messages and in this blog you will find the best options. But first, you have to learn about flower species.
According to the newspaper La Vanguardia, there are different kinds of flowers to give at a special event, but without a doubt, roses are still favorites. Below you will be able to meet one by one the most requested flower species for special dates
Hydrangeas
Legend says that the French king, Louis XIV, asked his men, who sailed the seas, to bring new varieties of flowers in order to adorn the gardens of his palaces.
On the ship that made the crossing, there was a cabin boy who all the other sailors considered weak and vulnerable because he was thinner and smaller than the rest. In the lands of Brazil they discovered that she was actually a strong and brave woman who had dressed as a man to embark on the ship and fulfill her dream of travelling the world. Upon returning to France, The King learned of their odyssey and baptized the flowers they brought with her real name: Hydrangea.
Since then, this type of flower has been related to femininity and temperance, so it is ideal to give to someone who we deeply admire or who has just achieved a recent achievement, such as a promotion or a degree.
Lilies
A Greek legend tells that this flower was created when the goddess Hera dropped a drop of milk on the ground while nursing her son Hercules.
That is why this type of flower is related to love, life and purity. Undoubtedly, this makes them the ideal gift when a baby has been born, when two people we love decide to join in marriage or in religious celebrations such as baptisms and first communions.
Pompons
According to a Japanese legend, pompoms were born when a two-year-old boy suddenly fell ill. His parents, anguished, asked the old sage of the town for help. The sage asked the mother to go out into the forest to look for a flower and, upon finding it, count its petals. According to the sage, the number of petals of the flower you find will be the number of days that your child will live.
The woman came across a yellow flower in the forest with only four petals. She burst into tears, refusing to lose her son. Then, she had an idea: she broke each of the petals into hundreds of pieces and took them to the wise man. The surprised old man told her that her son will live for many years, that he will have a family and see her and her husband grow old.
When the woman returned home, her little son was healthy and it is believed that, since then, all pompoms stopped having four leaves to bloom into dozens of petals.
Due to this story, pompons are one of the types of flowers in bouquets that are most recommended when we want to send encouragement to a loved one who is ill or who has come out well after surgery.
Carnations
In the 16th century, Isabel of Portugal earned the title of "the Empress of the Carnation", all thanks to her husband, Carlos I of Spain, who, deeply in love with her, ordered the palace gardeners to plant some seeds of Persian flowers as a symbol of the love he professed for his wife. The rare seeds bloomed and turned out to be red carnations that were spread throughout the city.
For this reason, carnations are associated with love, so it is an ideal type of flower to declare our love to someone we like or to give on an anniversary and let our partner know that the feeling is still as alive as the first day.
Roses
Roses are the queens of the house. Legend has it that this type of flower was born from the sea at the same time as the goddess Aphrodite. The beautiful deity always wore a white rose hanging from her chest and in a celebration, the god of wine, Dionysus, poured a little wine on the pale flower, giving rise to red flowers.
This is the reason why roses are the best option for any type of celebration: a birthday, a new job, when receiving an award or recognition will be ideal occasions to give these types of flowers in bouquets.
Finally, remember that at La Florela we have these flowers whose stories we share with you, and that you can visit our website to fall in love more and more with the concept with which we perceive Colombian flowers.