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Or you could always take her a cup of butter.....

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Originally Posted by smurfalicious (Post 354444)

The best "flowers" I've received are orchids. I have a passion for them. They are unusual, beautiful, have an extremely wide variety of shapes and colors, and the blooms last for weeks, even months, at a time. While you can find cut orchids at a florist, the blooms will not last as long. The orchids at the box stores are alright, but usually not the healthiest. A nursery, especially one that specializes in orchids, is the best place to find them.

Here's an orchid for you. It's in my Dad's kitchen. It smells beautiful.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 354360)

Grant, you're making yourself nuts to do something that won't earn you many more brownie points than other flowers, you know.

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 354393)

not true. In these days of Hallmark et al doing the thinking for you, a little personal touch is worth so much more than any bog-standard bunch or bouquet.

I'm with Monster here - the most beautiful bouquet I ever received was from a manager I helped in a business sense. Huge dark red antique tea roses. With the smell of every romantic night in June. I got them on Valentines Day, but of course they meant nothing (apart from the flowers themselves) but I got envious glances on the Tube from women whose genuinely caring men had simply ordered bog-standard closed scentless buds.

The best flowers I ever got? A bog standard bouquet of closed scentless buds from a man who disagreed with sending flowers on principle but needed a big gesture. He chose badly, but hey - he had no practice. In fact he was a shit, but it was a symbol and that meant everything.

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 354492)

Nuts would be an excellent addition to the bouquet, by the way.

Death with leaves?!

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Originally Posted by smurfalicious (Post 354444)

The best "flowers" I've received are orchids.

Orchids look so dirty. I love them.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 354666)

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I rest my case.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha
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wOOw! Beauty!

Gobsmacked! Unable to comprehend disliking any flower.... does not compute.

We are so fortunate to have a massive amount of floral bliss covering ours and our neighbor's yards. Roses. All Colorado wild roses that grow like mad and have been blooming for 2 weeks, now. Only problem is, the bees like them more than we do, and terrify my little step-son. :(

If anyone feels like sending me flowers, I like hibiscus. :D

Surely, Grant, one of the internet florists carries more unusual types of flowers. ?? (Perhaps that has been suggested and I haven't noticed.)

edit: Oh yeah, and why did you change your name?

I think flowers of any sort are a pretty no-fail gift. I prefer flowers that smell nice, though, and hothouse floral arrangements tend not to.

No one sends me any. :(

Erm.
Errrrrrrrm.

Did I miss a name change thread?
Or have I confused two different threads?

Grant/ Perry Winkle, Perry Winkle/ Grant?

oh, yeah, good catch. How many guys have good attitudes toward menstruation? Can't be that many . . .

Of course, I'm seeing "perry winkie" -- and I think "petite/little winkie" -- so maybe the name needs a bit more thought. :)

Shhhhhh :)

I ended up getting flowers at Safeway. Blech. All the flower shops I went to were closed or out of business.

I'll plan ahead better next time.