Valentine’s Day is getting closer day by day. Among lots of flower gifts for Valentine’s Day, the arrangements featuring roses look outstanding. From the floral designs introduced below, you may recognize that rose is a queen of flowers and it is a lovely flower especially when it is used as a gift expressing your love.
As rose arrangements introduced here are made for floral gifts, the sizes of arrangements are very small. However all of them are pretty cute and attractive due to sophisticated designs and also well balanced color coordination. You can bring these floral gifts when you see your loved one who could be your friend, spouse, parents or other family members and relatives. It is more impressive if you make these floral gifts yourself rather than buying ready-made arrangements at a floral shop. You can express your love by way of giving this valuable gift to your loved one and the recipient of your floral gifts must feel very impressed with your hand made floral gifts.
Among various colors of roses, red rose is the most popular and common as a gift for Valentine’s day.
Since the age of Ancient Roman Empire, it has been the customs of sending red roses as a symbol of love. Therefore if would like to consider the symbolic meaning of sending roses, you can make a choice of red color of roses as a Valentine’s Day gift to show your intention is romantic. On the other hand you can send a yellow color roses as far as you would like to keep a gift recipient just as a friend. If you want to express your feeling to the recipient, you can send white roses which means you are missing him/her.
Sending flowers in the form of floral arrangements that are put in a vase is much more impressive rather than just sending cut flowers as are. If you can see your loved one, you can of course hand over floral gifts. If it is impossible to do so because he/she lives quite far from your location, you can make the best use of flower delivery service provided by professional service providers such as FTD and Teleflora who can deliver your floral gifts in a very sophisticated way on behalf of the sender of the gift (you).
Followings are a few designs of Valentine’s Day floral arrangement gifts featuring roses introduced by Better Homes and Gardens:
(1) Sentimental Favorite
Items prepared:
White roses…………......................4 to 6 pieces
Pink roses………………….…….10 to 12 pieces
Sophisticated container (see below)…….1 piece
If your sweetheart is interested in sophisticated vases, pitchers or bowls, It is a good idea to use one of such items as a container in which floral arrangement gifts are placed so that even a simple rose bouquet is made a sentimental favorite.
(2) Rose Bowl
Items prepared:
Red roses…………………..……….……………….……….8 to 10 pieces
Transparent glass container (see below)……................……..……1 piece
Ribbon (0.5 to 1 inch width and 10 to 12 inch length in purple color)….…..1 piece
Make the floral gift of traditional Valentine's Day bloom in a unique way. Cut rose stems to 6 inches and remove leaves. Pack them tightly in a straight-sided glass hurricane or bowl accented with ribbon. : This is so much easier to transport than a wobbly vase.
(3) Rose Cups
Items prepared:
Pink roses………………………….7 to 8 pieces
Filler flowers (thin)………………..4 to 6 pieces
Julep cup (silver)…………………..1 piece
Silver julep cups are the perfect size to hold small Valentine's Day bouquets. When arranging, cut some of the blooms short enough so they sit on the lip of the vase and insert a few stems of frothy filler flowers for interest.
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