Sunday, June 1, 2014

Mother’s Day is a Suitable day for Gifting Flowers


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Flower- a Way to Express Your Feelings
Flower has always been an integral part of human life. From the very dawn of human civilization, flowers have found its place in every socio-cultural event. Flowers are said to be conveying the unspoken words of love, care and emotions. Words which are merely expressed from heart to heart are conveyed through the elegance and fragrance of flowers. People from the ancient times have used the help of flowers in sharing the good feelings with others. By functionality, flower effects reproduction in plants.
But because of the other immense significances, flowers are told to be greatest natural gifts. Apart from humans, bees, butterflies and other insects live on flowers and collect honey from them effecting reproduction in the plants. Flowers are used for other different purposes. People wear flower made ornaments and decorate their houses with flower bouquets and boxes. Flowers along with the plants are put together in the container and placed at a corner in the house to make the house’s ambience more idealistic and vivid. Edible flowers like carnations, corn flowers and sun flowers are used as food. Thus flowers are used in almost every part of life which evidently makes it one of the most used plant part.

Flowers to Express Love
Starting from love proposals, showing respects, wishing for lucks, extending hopes, to worship and even at the time of death to show the last reverence, flowers are used in every stage of life. Every year people enjoy Valentines’ day on 14th February. This day is dedicated to the young couples in love meet with each other and exchange flowers which symbolizes the love, respect, trust, hope and passion one has for the other. The unspoken love words are conveyed through the reddish tinge and elegant scent of the flowers and the lovers fall in love with each other even more. The flowers mostly shared on this day are the roses. The red roses symbolize the heart and as a matter of imagination sharing the roses stands for sharing the hearts to each other. Red is the sign of love and therefore all bright colored flowers are used as valentine gifts. Apart from the Valentines’ day itself the other days in the week also needs sharing of flowers between the lover couples. Rose day itself is dedicated for sharing love and happiness through gifting roses to each other. Chocolate days are equally shared with a bit of delicacy of chocolate and a lot of elegance of flowers.

Mother’s day is a suitable day for gifting flowers
Mother’s day is another day when the child shows respect to the mother for the sacrifice and contributions made by the mother for the sake and better future of her son/daughter. Like the flowers, mothers are serene, beautiful and caring presence in life always. This special day dedicated for the mothers is celebrated by gifting the mother with flowers and delicacies of her choice. This day is at the same time a very nostalgic and emotional day. The bond between the mother and her child is inseparable and the relationship is always said to be the sweetest rapport on earth. Every child remains obliged to his/her mother and so the flowers bring the heartiest respects. The mother finds the day very special when her child offers her with the most exquisite flowers of her choice. The most popular flowers to be shred on this auspicious day are the roses, carnations, Aster flowers, orchids, lilies, daffodils etc.

Enthusiasm is expressed through Flowers
Flowers are also gifted on other various occasions as a mode of extending love, hope and care. On every success parties bright colored flowers are gifted to the person celebrating the event. On birthday parties, the flowers shared are all full of the thoughts and wishes tied with the hope to live longer and spend the life grander. Wedding flowers are specially designed with roses, carnations, sunflowers and daffodils. The bouquet made in the shape of heart is carried by the bride as a symbol of love and hope. Invitees offer the couples with the bouquets full of flowers and wish them the best wishes to spend the rest of their lives together. Yellow roses are offered on the success parties. As a celebration of success, people offer the colors which are symbol of enthusiasm, opened mindedness and above all success.

Brightness symbolizes bright future in the coming days. So, red, orange, yellow colored roses are used as the mode of gifts on these success celebration parties. People offer flowers to the gods with a hope to appease the supreme power. Lotus is considered to be a very sacred flower among the Hindus. During Durga Puja, 108 lotuses are gifted to the goddess as a way of showing respect.
Thus flowers find irreplaceable applications in multiple domains.

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