On Valentine's Day--or any day, for that matter--you can't go wrong with flowers for your sweetheart. Whether traditional red roses or more imaginative arrangements, fresh flowers deliver delight: fragrance, form, color. And perhaps the ethereal quality of fresh flowers reminds us of love and of life itself.
On Valentine's Day or any day, flowers can lift our spirits and perhaps even improve health.
Dr. Andrew Weil, one of the nation's leading integrative medicine authorities, founded an entire industry that includes Weil Lifestyle and the Weil Foundation. Dr. Weil prescribes fresh flowers. In "Dr. Weil's 8 Week Plan for Optimal Healing Power," the good doctor includes for each of the eight weeks four sections: Projects, Diet, Exercise, and Mental/Spiritual. In the Mental/Spiritual sections for weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8, Dr. Weil advises readers to bring flowers into the home and place them in a prominent place.
In week 8, Dr. Weil advises readers to buy some flowers for somebody else.
So there you have it. As if you needed another reason. Denver greenhouses and even grocery stores are perfumed with fresh flowers for Valentine's Day. Just take your pick. Buy a bouquet for your sweetheart. Or for yourself. Happy Valentine's Day to everybody: Enjoy your fresh flowers.
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Colleen Smith gardens in and writes from a historic neighborhood in central Denver. Her second book, "Laid-Back Skier," was released in September 2011 and is available through FridayJonesPublishing.com or Amazon.com and in bookstores and boutiques.
Colleen Smith's first novel, "Glass Halo," was a finalist for the 2010 Santa Fe Literary Prize.
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