It would surely be a thoughtful deed to send flowers to someone we love or people that are important to us. As we all know flowers are truly special creations themselves and giving them to those people means we acknowledge both of their significance to our lives. Choosing the right flower may seem easy, having to get a picture of that arrangement in our mind or deciding to browse some flower photos from a magazine or the internet. But the truth is, picking the correct flower entails careful consideration of both sides—the person or people and the flowers themselves.

Our Purpose

To begin with, choosing flowers should be based on you goal. You should ask yourself, “What do these flowers serve for?” And you should be able to answer that—whether they’re for gifts, for decors, or just plain beautiful that’s why you love to buy them.  Knowing that goal would keep you on the right track when you buy flowers and won’t get you confounded from the many available floral stuffs in the market.

Good Timing

One important reason why floral arrangements and floral designs boom in the market is the countless demands for flowers to fit the occasion. Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, housewarmings, corporate events, Mother’s Day, and Valentine’s Day, among the many occasion people observe every year give more importance for the purpose of flowers. Because flowers do have their own meaning, florists use this as a basis to make each floral design significant to the event. So, whenever you order pre-arranged or personalized flower arrangements and designs, you should always consider the occasion.

The Depth of Colors

Using colors as your basis for the perfect flower is a good idea. For most of us, we choose flowers because certain colors attract us and they really make the flowers to create a splendid spectacle. It’s typically okay but to make your gift giving more expressive and thoughtful you should also consider the meaning of colors. For a simple background you should know that blue symbolizes serenity, calmness, and peacefulness, a color that’s great for a serene home decor, while it emphasizes your recipient being thoughtful, romantic, and dreamy.

Red – a color that’s all about passion, love, and energy. It reminds us of our animal instincts and kindles the flames of our desire. While it expresses passionate and energetic the person is.

White – it associates with innocence, humility, reverence, and simplicity. It tells how elegant, classic, and sophisticated the person receiving is.

Pink – it reflects grace, gentility, and happiness when used as a decor. While it expresses sweetness, lovingness, femininity, or innocence of the person.

Yellow – a symbol of truth, clarity, and intellect. It also evokes feeling of joy, light-heartedness, and friendliness. The same is true for the person you’re giving to.

Purple – brings an aura of royalty, dignity, pride, and success. While it means the person is romantic, creative, and that he or she makes you proud.

Orange – it means expansion, growth, and warmth, and conveys confidence, satisfaction, and passion for life. The person receiving is passionate, fiery, thoughtful, and sincere.

Green – it tells about the lushness of spring and nature, the renewal, growth, hope, health, and youth.

The Substance of a Bloom

Every flower regardless of its color still possesses a meaning. It’s very important to consider what their nature tells if you want to give weight to your message especially if it strongly deals with your emotions and thoughts. Women always pay attention to that so make double effort to know when you’re dealing with them. When things are better left unsaid, you can always have flowers anyway to get that out of your chest—be it everlasting love, admiration, heartaches, goodbyes, everything.

There are still more ways how to choose the perfect and appropriate flowers like having them in a bouquet or in a vase, with or without fruits, stuffed toys, or chocolates, whether they’d come in bunch or solitary, and last but not the least, always make sure that you order flowers that are fresh to make everything really special, deep, and sincere.