Does anyone else hate fresh flowers?

Just to be contrary- I bloody love flowers. Mr Pony buys me flowers a lot, because he knows they make me happy. This also means I never have dead flowers hanging around - as soon as they look a bit sad, they go in the compost bin, and a new bouquet arrives.

My exH refused to buy me flowers for the 22 years we were together "because then you'd wonder what I'd been up to, ha ha ha". Frankly, I couldn't have given a shiny shit. I notice he managed to buy flowers for his new gf after we split...apparently it took a while for the message to get through.

I hate receiving them

There's some lovely faux flowers available now!

@EverDecreasingStandards do you what I was given 3 bunches and in the end I was just stuffing them in the vase ! I think I was at least 45mins sorting them out!!

That's it! I've chucked the last 3 bunches had for birthday and Xmas they were driving me to despair and I know I sound very ungrateful, the first bunch had something in that smelt like gone off cat food, found out and chucked those bits, it's been dead flowers petals and manky water over 3 vases for at least 8 days, I can honestly say I agree with all of you but I feel guilty xx

Receive them.
Cut off the ends and remove the lower leaves.
Find a vase and fill with water and flower food.
Keep an eye on them and refresh water if necessary.
Chuck out when dead and wash vase.

I don't mean to sound mean or ungrateful, but receiving flowers is yet just another job for me to do

I second everything said on here, absolutely hate being given flowers, I am also very particular on the flowers I like and when someone presents me with some I hate my heart sinks, if I can’t palm them off they go straight into the recycling bin.

I love cutting flowers from my garden, and I occasionally buy myself flowers I love - the first daffs in spring, some peonies, irises. But generally, I hate getting them from others because they're an extra job. I don't mind if it's my choice, but hate having it foisted on me.

Also I think it’s a waste of money, for the price of a bouquet of flowers I could have something more useful like a pair of slippers or even a nice jumper

A decent bouquet is easily £40...maybe more. You could get some really nice make up, pjs, perfume, even some reasonable quality jewellery...all of which I'd rather have

A hand tied bouquet from a local florist is lovely.

Otherwise:

No lillies. I was brought up on them being for funerals. Plus they are so toxic to cats.

No scented flowers. They may look lovely but my lungs hate them.

No £5 bouquets from the supermarket or petrol station. Basically says you don't really care.

I think it comes with age realising you don’t like something you are supposed to like. My ‘fresh flowers’ is dancing. I hate it with a passion

They always arrive looking less than perfect, did you trim the stems and use tepid water etc?

Absolutely this!! I can’t stand it if someone buys me a bouquet of flowers! The mess and the faff. Even worse if they turn up with a bunch when I’m hosting dinner/lunch - I’m in the middle of cooking why would I want to be looking for a vase and arranging flowers at the same time?!?!,
Also I think it’s a waste of money, for the price of a bouquet of flowers I could have something more useful like a pair of slippers or even a nice jumper

I love flowers, hardly ever get any but l grow lots, and l prefer the wilder more natural looking ones than the stiff carnations and fake looking coloured ones, they have on offer in supermarkets. I feel guilty picking them mind, l mostly just admire them in the garden.

I'm unreasonably pleased to hear all the other people who just think they're a chore.

Most people irl gasp with horror when I say I don't like flowers!

Yeah! So much effort to sort then to get rid of, clean the vase etc few days later. Not a fan at all. Yet buy them for others 🙈

@ManateeFair at least they can fulfil their normal life cycle. Flowers in the garden provide food for insects etc which doesn't happen if they're sitting on a mantelpiece. Potted indoor plants can still survive and thrive as they're rooted in soil.

Well, all flowers shrivel up and die whether you cut them from the plant or not.

I love cut flowers and I also love flowers in gardens. My heart sinks, however, when someone buys me a flowering indoor potted plant.

Agree it's a waste of money...they are really expensive. If someone is going to be so kind as to spend £40+ on me, I'd like something I can actually keep and use. I rarely spend money on myself so having something expensive I don't want given to me feels like such an awful waste.

I don't mind the ones that come in a box already arranged, but my heart sinks if I receive a bunch I've got to mess about with myself.

I'm not overly keen on flowers in the house anyway, I'd much rather have plants - preferably succulents so I don't have to make too much effort to keep them alive!

Yes I hate them, I think they are such a shit gift. Massive waste of money.

I like a few flowers from my own garden, sometimes, but a big bought bouquet looks very 20th century to me.

The environmental impact of driving the bloody things around depresses me.

Am not that fussed about them as a gift - seems too wasteful (airmiles, growing land, plastic wrap etc) but grow them for cutting myself on the allotment and LOVE it when fresh flower season starts. We have vases and vases of fresh flowers from about late Feb (daffs) right up until about December when the first frosts tend to put an end to it.

YUP!!! They'll either get plonked in a vase with the plastic still wrapped round it or they straight in the bin. I don't have time or energy for that crap 😆

Ugh YES. I'm a total grinch about cut flowers. My heart sinks when I am given them - such a waste of time and money!

Also being sent them shows such a lack of thought in terms of gift giving. I'd rather have anything else...a book, perfume, chocolates... literally anything else.