Does anyone else hate fresh flowers?

[crochetmonkey74]

It strick me today that I hate fresh flowers as a gift.
I like the look of them , and I love a gorgeous garden or a potted tree/arrangement by front doors etc but when I have a bouquet I just hate it. I can never make it look nice, the petals all fall off and they are just a faff
Of course I can never admit this as its something you're meant to love. I'm not ungrateful, and I actually buy them as a gift for others, so this is a bit lighthearted I suppose.

Yes, me.

I love them in gardens though!

I'd rather look at a wild flower meadow than a bunch of cut flowers any day. To me, they're a faff. A nice thought of course, but then they're hanging around drooping and making the water in the vase skanky and have to chucked out, so more bother than they're worth.

Yes, for the reasons you list.

I like choosing my own flowers, I find that people don't tend to buy me bouquets that I actually like.

Yep, hate them. Prefer to see them growing. Large faff, then look like shit after three days and start smelling. I received three bouquets after giving birth - beautiful, but too much work with a newborn.

I never send/give flowers either, they're expensive!

Sorry, such a cut-foower humbug 😆

I've always wanted to be the sort of woman who goes and get a fresh baguette and some lovely flowers for herself in a lovely basket but flowers just leave me cold!

I love them but I’ve noticed in supermarkets they have become over priced and not very well taken care of whilst on display.

Also some bouquets are deceivingly expensive for the content. E.g cheap flowers in seasonal wrapping so £5 more expensive than usual.

Yep. They're going to shrivel up and die. They look better in the ground.

Me. I’d rather have a plant. I ended up with 3 bunches on Christmas Eve. A waste of money.

I don't hate them but I'd much rather have a plant than something that will only last a couple of weeks or less.

I got some postal flowers and I know my friend spent a bit on them . They were rubbish!

Nope I have a cut flower patch in my garden and I am desperately waiting for my bulbs to pop up so I can start cutting!

fresh homegrown flowers are the best!

Yes me too. Mainly because they remind me of all the flowers we got after a traumatic bereavement. They also set DH’s hayfever off and I always leave them too long so they’re shedding everywhere, smell horrible and the water goes all manky. They look nice but practically they’re a pain.

Flowers you buy that are imported and covered in pesticides/herbicides are bloody awful though I’m with you on that one.

I don't like bouquets...but always have fresh flowers in the house. Daffodils, tulips, freesias, flowers from the garden.
Currently got 8 vases of them dotted round the house.

No I love them! And after years of partners never getting them for me, my current husband had sunflowers (my favourite) delivered on our anniversary

Yes, I don't like them.

I've repeatedly told DP (at times when he's not bought me flowers, to be clear, I'm not horrid!) that I don't like flowers. I can never get them to look nice, they've 9/10 got something deadly to the cat in them, they're something to bloody do I've got to find a vase, trim them, usually can't cut through them with scissors either so need to find secateurs from somewhere, then they need checking and water changing so they don't start to smell, I need to find some mythical place to put them where the aforementioned flower chewing cat can't knock them over, they're a pain in the arse. He still just appears with them and hands them to me, as though that's job done. It's basically giving me work. I've asked 'did you put the flowers in water when he's put them in the kitchen - I get a shocked 'no?!'

Don't even get me started on people that give you flowers when you're ill. I can't get myself a drink Marjorie, I'm not up to fucking about climbing on a stool to try to find a vase... 'oh, thank you, they're lovely'

I love having fresh flowers in the house. However I think supermarket flowers bought in bunches of the individual flowers are usually cheaper and also you can then either make a really impactful display of one type of flower or create your own bouquet. Ready made bouquets are usually disappointing and over priced.

I particularly loathe letter box flowers as a gift, from bloom and wild etc. They're shit!! But the one exception is Freddie Flowers who sent instructions on how to arrange etc - they make a lovely bouquet. However I think letter box flowers are often an awful gift as they're a job for the recipient to do, usually sent at a time when they don't need more on their plate. Like when you've just had a baby for example - no I don't really want to stand for 10 mins and arrange some flowers right now actually

Yes. Especially lilies. An ex (and he was already an ex by then, of the creepy stalky variety) sent me an enormous bouquet of white lilies for my birthday a few years ago. Apart from the fact they're associated with funerals and it freaked me the fuck out, especially as he didn't sign his name, they're just awful. I hate the pollen, they stink and they're dangerous to animals.

I recently gave something away on Nextdoor and the woman who came to collect was a bit of a hippy I guess and brought me fresh flowers from her garden and some sort of affirmation card. It was really sweet of her but my god, the flowers stank and were definitely not the variety that were supposed to be put in a vase.

I love them,,but not the kind of weirdly prissy looking bouquet you get from Interflora. I will buy local flowers from a man at the market (which means I will often get an armful of pesticide-free flowers/foliage in season for very little money) and put them in containers myself at home, fairly informally.

We never give flowers to my MIL — she just sticks them, without taking off the tie or trimming them, into the top of a vase by a radiator, or leaves them in the water bag packaging.

My sister is a florist so she often makes me up lovely bouquets which is very kind of her but I just feel like it’s another chore! Find a suitable vase, cut the flowers down to fit, change the water, remove the dead flowers, then when they’ve all died wash the vase up and put it away again. It’s a lovely idea but I’m far too lazy for all that.

Fucking hate them with a passion. “Here, let us display severed plant genitals on our table and watch and smell them slowly decay!!”

And every time I look at them, I think “what better things could have been purchased with that money”.

Flowers are amazing, what's wrong with you all? (Light hearted).

I hate them too

Me! They look fine, but all the admin is a pain!

I’ve taken to telling everyone who might every buy me some very clearly that I don’t like them and I prefer chocolates in that sort of scenario. It’s not my birthday till June, so Hopefully they’ll remember and I don’t get another influx then.