Flowers as a gift

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Think I’m most definitely BU but can’t help it and wonder if anyone shares my feelings.

I love fresh flowers really but feel a sense of weariness come over me whenever I’m given them as a gift (not very often I should say!). I don’t mean a small petrol station bunch but a great big bouquet which would fill 2 or 3 vases. Had a big birthday recently and received two on the same weekend. Lovely lovely thought but I couldn’t help feeling very lazy about having to cut open the big bag of water (which goes everywhere), find suitable vases, trim the stems (not easy with normal scissors), add the food, worry about the lilies because of the cat and then have to look after them for the following couple of weeks.

Plus I’m not creative at all so they never look the same once they’ve been dismantled. I’m just ungrateful really aren’t I? Or are there any good tips from florists which would allow me to feel overjoyed next time?!

I love flowers. They feel appropriate as a gift when I am unsure about what the recipient may like/want/need, and also, for me, fill the gaps on those occasions when there are no words ...

Certainly that's how I have received and interpreted the intent behind the ones I have been given.

Just buy a few big vases and enjoy them!

I love flowers but hate getting big bouquets like that, I feel it's suck a waste of money, got one from dp once which were so nice but expensive, I told him a supermarket bunch is fine, he happily took that on board 😂

I got flowers from people when I had a miscarriage and absolutely hated them for reasons already stated. Wasn't really feeling up to the effort involved in getting them into vases and then watching flowers gradually dying over the next couple of weeks didn't help my frame of mind. It also spoilt the idea of getting flowers for a nice occasion as getting them after that just brought back sad memories. I realise people meant well but really wish they had just sent a card.

My mil feels like this, thinks it's a waste, I always thought she was odd. Seems it's way more common than I thought

Yabu.

I love getting flowers as a gift and have managed to gently persuade DH over the years that big multi type bouquets or a few unrelated bunches that need to be rearranged in several vases are not my preference: a well designed hand tied one of complementary flowers that can just be slotted into a vase is better as is a generous amount of a single type ie two bunches of lilies is better than a bunch of lilies plus bunch of roses.

I love getting flowers but am totally crap at arranging them. They end up looking like wigwam poles. And don't get me started on tulips!

I like prearranged flowers. Having to arrange them myself isn’t always a pleasure. I do like looking at them after the task is complete, but it can be so messy to do properly.

I love receiving flowers and have fairly recently discovered [[https://www.bloomon.co.uk/?referral=joengland&utm_source=email
Bloomon]] whose bunches last for ages i.e. the one I received a few days before Christmas still has a decent number of stems going strong. Knowing I had no idea of how to arrange flowers, I went along to a workshop locally that was hosted by Bloomon and learned an easy way to arrange flowers. It helped that they used the large vase that I'd received via a promotion they were doing as it means I replicate that technique every time. Having a vase with a wide neck really makes a difference, as does receiving a bunch of flowers that doesn't have many duplicate stems.

My parents once sent me flowers when I had prolonged food poisoning. I lived on the second floor and barely made it down and up again between bathroom visits - bless them!

I agree that they're a bit of an annoying gift sometimes - twice I've received flowers these past couple of months JUST before the receiver knew I was going away!

I love getting flowers as a gift, maybe it’s because I don’t get them often. I feels special and a treat :)

You aren't supposed to 'dismantle' them. The florist has arranged and handtied them. Handtying is quite a skill. They are supposed to stay in the aquapack. The person who has bought you the flowers has paid extra for the arranging and handtying. It is supposed to be more convenient for the recipient. You've missed the point op!

Jesus there are some spoilt curmudgeons here. Someone gives you a present and “ITS THE WRONG ONE”.... you’d like chocolates or bulbs or it’s hard work to empty them in a vase or just leave them in the aqua pack and then recycle them.

My husband has bought me a bouquet every Friday since before we were married. I love a house full of flowers. I really like being given them as a gift.

Oh god, I love getting flowers. It’s very rare though, every 3-4 years Or so, so no time to get pissed off by them I guess. Only had a very expensive bunch once and the prices flashed through my mind once then was replaced by joy everytime I saw/smelled them for many days. Soz, no tips, appart from practice being grateful.

We subscribe to Freddie's Flowers too. Really like them.

I hate them too (although obviously am very grateful for the thought). I know I'm not the only one but did wonder how common it is. I'd love to get vouchers instead (although I know other people hate vouchers as gifts).

I have found my people! I really thought I was the only person whose heart literally sinks when given them, I always thank the person for the lovely gesture but once they have left I donate them to someone else who would appreciate them or they are put outside on the garden table or straight in the green bin.

I've recently had this conversation with me husband. Said that the next time he buys flowers, expensive or not, that he can have them in the vase for me, and get rid of them when they're dead. I love flowers but sometimes, when I get in from work and the 4yr old is all over me and we're getting dinner sorted, there just isn't the extra 10-15 mins to get the flowers sorted. And likewise 7-10 days later when they need to be binned and the vase cleaned out.

I love getting fresh flowers, they can be pricey but I often buy the reduced ones, they perk up quickly when trimmed and arranged. DH always gets me a bunch at Christmas.

I love flowers but I’m more than happy to buy my own from Aldi for £3, I’m not a big fan of them as a gift. To me they’re just a lazy, box ticked gift which I’m bound to like because I’m a woman.

I hate them. I like to look at them but can't be bothered arranging them, replacing water and then throwing away. Any I get go straight round to my elderly mum who loves them. I get at least two lots from my boss a year and I'm going in for an op on Saturday I I expect I will get a bouquet from work that my mum will take home with her.

I quite like them because they aren't clutter, you're meant to throw them out after a week, unlike random thoughtful objects or unwanted toiletries or household items. I prefer chocolate or alcohol, but flowers beat decorative or novelty objects by many miles

Generally gift giving should be more limited though I think, most of it's landfill.

I love getting flowers, though it happens rarely. I send them via Bloom & Wild, not at all expensive. I hate receiving chocolates. Always give away.

Flowers are my favourite, but I love the temporal nature of them. I love nature.