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St. Patrick’s Day isn’t just another holiday to you, it is a day to be celebrated. Your significant other is Irish and dang proud of it. Regardless if you are Irish or not, you best make sure you acknowledge your significant others pride in their heritage come St. Patrick’s Day. A great way to show that respect is by sending your significant other a beautiful St. Patrick’s Day flower arrangement, a St. Patrick’s Day gift basket, or a St. Patrick’s Day plant.

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You will definitely score the pot of gold and have Irish eyes smiling at you when your significant other receives their St Patrick’s Day flower basket or one of Brant Florists specialty gift baskets for the holiday. Go ahead and put a smile in those Irish eyes this St. Patrick’s Day. You will never regret it.

Many times when picking out a gift for a male friend or loved one, people will shy away from flowers. It is worth noting that many men enjoy floral gifts as much as a female. Flowers are available on our website that are suitable for gifting to a male. A darker color orchid is one available choice. Although the man you care about may be hesitant to admit that he would like flowers, don’t let that deter you from making him smile with a surprise arrangement. He may downplay his enjoyment to the boys, but will get a real kick out of the thoughtful present.

Masculine Flower Arrangements

Here is an article which I found to be very good. Reprinted under terms of fair use:

 http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/flower-power-a-masculine-floral-arrangement-from-williamsburgs-sprout-home/10292

Quote: So the next time you’re going to a guy’s house for a nice dinner party,

Masculine Arrangement

think outside the box when it comes to your gift for the host. Instead of whipping up dessert or buying a bottle of wine, pick up a slick bouquet from a florist that offers unusual plants, or try your hand at your own original design.

Flowers for Dating are a recognized symbol of endearment.They are able to say how considerate the sender is feeling, and even express the degree of their sentiments.The popular slogan, “say it with flowers”, will readily indicate what you are trying to project to your date.

Flowers for Dating

Flowers have a language of their own when trying to convey an unspoken sentiment. They are able to depict your mood, and often the sincerity that you are wishing to tell your date. (more…)

Sunflower arrangements by mere color, structure, and perception are able to evoke positive moods.  Who would not be cheerfully inspired by receiving a beautiful bouquet for instance of bright yellow sunflowers?  The design of the

Sunflowers

sunflower itself is quite symbolic today of the international yellow happy face sign.

Sunflowers as a floral arrangement are immediately recognized as cheerful, representatives of bright smiles, and open faces.   They instinctively radiate a burst of golden joy to the room, or their recipient..

As popular as they have appeared on the North American market, few of the species had ever originated on this continent.  They have been cultivated mainly in Asia, and South or Central America as far back as 1,000 B.C.  As a floral arrangement, blue sunflowers had little value to the American Tribes of centuries ago, since its’ main purpose was utilized as a food source from seed, and extracted oils.

Todays’ florist will creatively incorporate the large burst of a sunflower for a focal point in an arrangement.  In addition, the virtual size of this natures’ happy face, will create an overwhelming display when arranged in a cluster of a dozen or more.

The truly unique composition of the sunflower is actually comprised of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers, joined at a common receptacle.

As complex a structure as it appears, it is effectively a recognized and simple symbol of International joy.    It is quite evident that whether the sunflower is used as a single piece surrounded  by contrasting greenery, or in a cluster of many sunflowers  it transmits joy into any floral arrangement.

This year, Valentines Day is Saturday, Feb 14, 2009.  Time to think about Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for your loved one and for those you admire.  Given the economy and the fact that it is Saturday, think about spending the day and evening at home. Saves a  lot money compared to going out for an expensive Valentines Day dinner or going away for the weekend to a hotel or resort, which is even more expensive. To make your stay at home Valentines vacation, plan on candles, music, wine, order in food and of course flowers.

Valentines Day Flowers include a whole range of choices. Red is the most popular color and roses are the most popular flower.  So the florist will receive more orders for red roses than any other flower or color. But that is traditional and one that most men dare not stray from.  But truth be known, most women prefer pastel colors and they certainly do not consider roses to be the only romantic flower! In fact, most will gush over any gift of flowers and the man that sent them.  So men, try a flower gift that might use  pinks, mauve’s, purples, creams and whites…..not all of those of course but some pleasing combination,  There are many beautiful flower varieties including alstroemeria, lilies, freesia, orchids, snap dragons, iris, daisies, birds of paradise, anthuriums, gerbera, calla lilies, tulips and lisianthus.

Best idea is to order early and ask your florist to make a bouquet with your loved one’s favorite color and favorite flowers.  Hopefully, you know at least one of those, either the color or the flower. But if not, do not despair or worry too much. Your florist will know just what to make for Valentines Day! Flower delivery is also available of course.  Remember that this year Friday, Feb 13th will be the busiest day of the year for the florists. Most office orders will be delivered that day and those have severe time limits.  If you order Valentines Flowers early you will be able to send your Valentine’s Flowers with no problem.

To the lassies, we say, men do love receiving flowers and floral gifts. Any man will be wowed if his lady sends him, Valentine Gifts Men even flowers!  But there are other floral gifts that will carry your Valentine message too.  Plants are very useful and will be very long lasting.  Fruit baskets, Gourmet Baskets and Chocolate baskets will work too………the way to a man’s heart is throigh his tummy!  All of these Valentine gifts can be trimmed for Valentine’s Day.

It is best to have your gift delivered Feb 11 or Feb 12th. Avoid that last minute frantic crunch on Feb 13 and 14th when the florists are rushed off their feet.  And you will be an even bigger hero because the first delivery to any office is highly prized.  You can be the first to show your love to the envy of everyone else in that office. Talk about Brownie Points!

Here is an office flower order gatherer/broker that normally charges a service fee of  $13.99.  For 3 days, they will not charge that and they call it a free service fee. Whoopee!

Why does the public consent to pay this service fee?  Why do they think it is worth $13.99 to order flowers via an office web site that has no flowers, no designers, and no delivery vehicles?  A web site and call center that passes every order to a REAL local florist to actually hand create the design and then deliver it. And they also retain about 30% of the dollars on the order!!  

Why does the public support this scam?  A recent post stated that another similar company had 60 million email addresses on file. Yet they have no flowers, no gifts, no creative staff, and no delivery vans. They simply collect or gather orders via their office web site and call centers to pass on to third party REAL florists who actually fill the order! Their service charge is usually $14.95.  In addition, they also retain about 30% of the order value.

On a typical $50 order, that 30% amounts to $15…….leaving $35 for the REAL florist to make and deliver the order.  With their service fees of $14 or $15, the office order gatherer/broker pockets about $30.

Let’s see…………the florist gets $35 and the office web site gets $30!!   Not hard to do the math. But isthere not something seriously wrong with that?

The public has never figured it out………….they think flowers are expensive. No wonder!! Does the public think these office web sites deserve $30 to find a REAL florist to fill the order?  They seem to……..the 3 biggest order gathering office web sites sucked in well over 15 million orders last year.

That amounts to over $45 million dollars customers wasted on office order gatherers.  Did they get any extra value for all that money?  No, all they can do is brag I ordered a big brand name and paid them lots of money I really did not have to put in their pockets.

The solution?   So simple So easy ……………just Goggle Search “Florist City State”  Place your order directly with the REAL florist who will fill your order anyways! Try that and see which route gives you more flowers and more value for your hard earned dollars.