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Flowers are an important gift item in modern society. They are suitable as gifts on a variety of occasions- Birthday, Graduation Day, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, to name a few. One thing that is worth keeping in mind while presenting or receiving flowers as gifts is the meanings associated with different flowers. These meanings came to be conventionally accepted and seem to vary from culture to culture. In the western culture, there are some standard meanings associated with different flowers. The convention of associating meanings with flowers has been systematized and is now talked of as the language of flowers.

The reason for preferring flowers to convey a message rather than use words is very simple. This way, the communication of the idea becomes more beautiful and subtle. The visual effect seems to make the experience of giving and receiving gifts stick to memory in a more effective way than a mere stream of words.



Flowers in the News

In the Garden: Colorful cut flowers will brighten a home (The Adobe Press)
By definition, a cutting garden provides armloads of flowers for indoor arrangements. But the pleasure begins well before the harvested blooms cross your doorstep. Instead, the most successful cut-flower gardens appear as gigantic bouquets outdoors first.

Wedding Week: Flowers & everything else (KXII Sherman)
We wrap up Wedding Week with a look at how to get great flowers cheap, and everything else to make the wedding of your dreams come true!

Celebration of spring: Valley of Flowers Festival marks 45 years in Florissant (North County Journal)
Tracy Keck has been watching the Florissant Valley of Flowers parade for 36 years, and she's noticed that some things change, while some remain the same.

Montgomery seeking volunteers to plant thousands of flowers (Community Press & Recorder)
MONTGOMERY - The city's Beautification and Tree Commission is looking for volunteers to help plant thousands of flowers in Montgomery's parks and medians Saturday, May 17.

A flood of flowers (The Wenatchee World)
Sara Hein, 18, of Wenatchee, an employee of Flowers to the Brim nursery, arranges flower containers in the indoor section of the newly opened store in East Wenatchee Tuesday morning.

Flowers Foods Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call Webcast (Centre Daily Times)
Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO) will review first quarter earnings of fiscal 2008 and take questions from analysts during the following live webcast. Flowers Foods will release first quarter earnings prior to the webcast on May 22.

Flowers says his career will bloom in S.C. (The Charlotte Observer)
Maurice Flowers was hired as football coach at Chester (S.C.) High Tuesday night and said it felt like a fresh start. In the fall, Flowers had West Charlotte feeling like West Charlotte used to feel, in wins and fans support, before investigations into athletic eligibility led to penalties, suspensions and forfeits, marring a season in which the Lions reached the N.C. 4AA semifinals. The N.C. ...

Thieves Steal Vases From Graves, Leave Flowers (WYFF 4 Greenville)
Thieves stole 245 bronze vases from cemetery plots in Anderson County, but left the flowers behind, investigators said.

May Flowers -- 05/16/08 at Russian Ark (Rocky Mountain News)
May Flowers -- 05/16/08 at Russian Ark

Hundreds to Gather in West Hollywood, Under an Arbour of Flowers, to Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling Tonight, With ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
In response to todays ruling by the California Supreme Court, legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, hundreds of people will gather in West Hollywoodunder an arbour of flowers and with a giant wedding caketo celebrate with wedding cake and champagne!