How would your husband/partner feel if you, or someone else, sent him flowers

[HurdyGurdy19]

Just been talking to my son, whilst arranging some flowers I received for my birthday today. He said that in his group of friends, there is one girl who sends flowers to every other girl in the group when it's her birthday, but wistfully noted that he's never had flowers, even though he likes them - "they look and smell nice". Another of the males in his friendship group also said, ruefully, "I like flowers too, but I never get sent them".

It's honestly never occurred to me to send a man flowers, but now I'm thinking about it, there's no reason why that should be.

My husband wouldn't really appreciate flowers, and would leave them to me to arrange and top up water etc.

Would your husband/partner be happy to receive a bouquet?

Dh would be like, why are you blowing money on that?! He likes flowers. He will cut them from the garden and arrange them on the table if we have guests coming over, but I don’t think he’d see the expense from a florist as a worthwhile one. He does like trees though, like a fruit tree or flowering one, something that doesn’t die in 3 days.

I think this is really lovely and he should tell his friend how he feels. I wouldn’t generally send a man flowers because I’d worry they thought it was too girly. But if I knew a man loved them, I’d be thrilled to. I think that’s great.

Mine likes them, either out of the garden or ones he's bought me or I've bought myself. The shower and blowsy the better - Dahlias, gladioli, peonies.

But I think he'd be bemused if I bought him some.

I have sent flowers to a male friend, but I know he loves them and has been on a flower arranging course and regularly buys himself flowers and arranges them beautifully. He's gay - not to stereotype.

My DH would be bemused (although appreciative). He'd also bring them home for me to stick in a vase. He'd rather have a plant for his garden.

My DP doesn't really appreciate flowers quite enough to warrant the expense and effort of someone sending them to him, but he does always suggest we put a cheap bunch in the trolley when we do our weekly food shop because he thinks they look nice in the house.

Basically, he does like flowers, but is just perfectly happy with a £4 bunch from Sainsbury's and therefore wouldn't quite understand why someone had spent £50 sending him a bouquet. But he'd still think it was nice gesture. He wouldn't think it was weird to send flowers to a man or anything.

My lovely, late father loved flowers and so did my FIL.

My DH doesn’t get it, says it’s a pointless waste of money and doesn’t understand why anyone wants expensive dead flowers. I love them so often buy myself a bunch.

I bought flowers with a thank-you card for my male professional mentor when the training placement ended on the basis that it was the same gift I would have got for a woman in that situation, he contacted me to say thank-you/that he liked them, and that no one had ever bought him flowers before. So yes, I think men probably wouldn’t mind getting flowers, it is just that people don’t send them.

I've been gifted flowers a few times in my life and I've always been delighted.

I buy flowers for DM & sometimes see DF looking a bit wistful so then I tell him the flowers are for him too. DH would probably think it odd if I bought flowers for him. He rarely buys them for me. Generally, I can’t see why a bouquet shouldn’t be for either sex.

DH has been sent flowers as a thank you for specific things he'd done. He was appreciative of the gesture.

I think the flip side of this is assuming that women all like to be sent flowers. I don't dislike them in principle but have no where sensible to put any, and get annoyed by clearing up the mess from dropping leaves etc. So i'd like the people on this thread who are now thinking about sending men flowers to also think about whether women really want them.

The sad fact is that for the huge majority of men the first and only time they get sent flowers is for their funeral 🙁
I get men flowers. A bunch of daffs, a pot of hyacinths etc the same as I’d get female friends.

Last year, my 18 year old son went for a walk with his friend. He came back with some flowers he’d carefully picked for his dad (with permission from friends’ land) as he said he remembered the funeral anecdote and it’s made him determined to spread floral joy 😂