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How the Practice of Giving Flowers Has Transformed Down the Ages

No tradition helps in expressing human feelings in a better way than giving flowers or bouquets. Flowers and bouquets have acted as great presents for birthdays and anniversaries, and are also useful for making personal gestures like conveying warmest congratulations, making apologies or simply making someone happy.

Some people think that this tradition began way back during ancient times with excavators finding proof of its existence at ancient sites. Flowers have always assumed an important place in ancient Rome and Egypt and in the glorious civilizations of ancient Greece and China whose myths and folklore clearly reflect this tradition. Giving flowers was considered the best way to communicate one’s thoughts in these civilizations. In fact, in ancient Greek mythology, some flowers have even been bestowed with a divine status.

The custom of giving flowers passed down to the Middle Ages, with the French and the English keeping the custom strong. The present custom of giving a specific meaning to each flower was imported to the West from Turkey, from where the French and the British imbibed it and spread it in Europe.

The tradition of flower gifting touched new heights in the Victorian era. Victorians, as we know, never expressed their emotions openly and hence the practice of offering flowers or bouquets was considered a great way to communicate feelings without making use of a lot of words.

This era saw the rolling out of guidelines for gifting flowers or bouquets that we use today. For instance, a bouquet of red roses bought from a florist would generate a rather hostile reaction form your beloved if you gifted it to her upside down. Red roses, that otherwise depict love, can symbolize anger if gifted upside down. In fact, the’th century saw a lot of books written on the subject of language of flowers.

Time has not been able to diminish this tradition, and people in the present times still consider flowers to be the most effective means to express their emotions. Today we have arrived at a point where meaning is assigned to many flowers, and rules and regulations in this custom are more important than they ever were. A beautifully presented bouquet of red roses is believed to express love while lilies symbolize purity and grace. A yellow coloured rose is believed to be a representation of friendship, while grief is best expressed by a single marigold.

Science today has enabled us to grow countless varieties of flowers anywhere across the globe. Any good Singapore flower shop will offer a plethora of flower varieties that are both regional and imported in nature, and are appropriate for communicating your deepest feelings in the classiest manner.

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