Buying flowers

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When was the last time you bought flowers, and why?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Today, for a friend celebrating her 40 somethingth birthdya,

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

About a month ago for my mom because she was feeling really down. I had them delivered.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Thursday. I buy flowers quite often.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I get flowers (usually roses) once a week, because they make the apartment look nice AND I score points with my wife!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought some tulips about a week ago because someone had given me tulips the week before and they looked really pretty plus my landfriend has the perfect vase in the apartment for tulips. The vase is clear and like a squashed oval; that is to say the opening is wide but narrow so the tulips have enough support to stand up but fan out prettily.

I love tulips. My favorite are the red and yellow parrot tulips with the extreme ruffled petals.

Did you know that if you put some pennies in the vase with tulips, it helps the tulips to stand up straight and not droop?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

But cut flowers DIE.

(I dunno, I feel pretty ambivalent about flowers for that reason. Then again I guess my stance would make more sense if I was a vegetarian.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

no idea, might have got my mum some once at mothers day or something. Plants are better I think.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i love fresh flowers in a vase, but even so, i feel guilty when they die and go all droopy and sad.
mind you, they would also eventually die if they were left in-ground, but i guess then they have done the whole 'bee-pollination thing' so would have served their purpose.
im going around in circles now.
anyway, i think i last bought some early this year when a friend fell off the roof and was in hospital for ages. they do brighten up those dreary hospital rooms and give the inmates something nice to view.

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I love flowers. I don't buy them that often but whenever I pass a florist I annoy whomever I'm with by (...I can't say it... argh... OK) STOPPING TO SMELL THE ROSES.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry Ned, Conrad (?K) Lorenz had the same attitude and he wasn't a vegetarian.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned's right: cut flowers ARE terrible feng shui, but, then again, I don't live in LA anymore :)

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Tuesday night. Just 'cause.

― lol p xx, Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Sunday afternoon, one really big flower actually, cos Isabel liked the look of it.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't done it for a few months, cz of tight expenses, but generally when i go to tescos i get some flowers to go into my various nice vases

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

In February, I think it was, when my own vast stupidity caused a flood in my 2nd floor flat, which soaked the flat below. I bought a bunch of daffs for the (non-affected) houseowner and a big bunch of wintry flowers for the lodger whose stuff got wet.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Last week because I quite often buy flowers for myself. Bedroom is last bastion of feminity in house shared with three boys. I currently have some yellow roses on my window.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i cant remember. i used to work next to a florist so i would grab all the good flowers they tossed in the dumpster and give them to my friend chloe. i want to buy some marigolds for eating purposes

― ron (ron), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ron, you should hit up the Queen Anne Thriftway, they always have a bin of edible flowers.

The last flowers I bought were most likely sunflowers at the market the last Sunday there were some.... which was probably in September. They're so cheap down there (something like 8 huge flowers for $5) so it's hard not to get them. And cut sunflowers last for ages if you take off the lower leaves & change the water every day.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 14 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yesterday, for myself. White carnations. Sometimes I've been able to make them last 2 weeks.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Flowers for cultivating : classic... cut flowers as unimaginative token of attraction and love : dud.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 14 November 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

That said, the former as token of attraction and love if recipient is into that whole thing : classic.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 14 November 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Last week sent some to Mom and Dad for their anniversary.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks lyra, i will try to get up there!

― ron (ron), Friday, 15 November 2002 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple of months ago for my friend, because her parents were in a crash that killed her mother.

But that's depressing so um, I do have an african violet that I bought almost two years ago that sits on my desk at work. It hadn't bloomed at all in that whole time, but just this week there are suddenly two perfect pink flowers on it.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 15 November 2002 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i bought some in vancouver, then again yesterday i bought a bunch of red dogwood, and some white lillies.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 15 November 2002 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

How much are flowers? I have no idea. Can I get a nice arrangement from a proper florist and not just a supermarket for < $20-30?

― caek, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

Tell them how much money you want to spend and they will make you something that costs that.

― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

and they won't laugh at me if I say $20-30?

― caek, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

I'm so impartial to gerbera daisies that when buying the lady friend flowers, I force myself to vary it with others things. Also, between 1-800-flowers, and bodegas, buying flowers is kinda too easy these days.
http://www.flower-pictures-online.com/images/pink-gerbera-daisy-b8735-300.jpg

― Crackhead #2 (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

Gerberas are my favorite flowers.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

$20-$30 is quite reasonable for a florist whose store you walk into. Not so much for the online services.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (libcrypt), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

An idle thought: do florist shops have a problem with shoplifters?

― Aimless, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, bees are a HUGE florist revenue problem.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (libcrypt), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

3-4 years ago, my wife was in Seattle for business during her birthday. Instead of getting flowers online, I called up a couple of local Seattle florists and asked if they could deliver to her hotel. I found one that would do an arrangement to my liking (I think I asked for cala lilies), and they made one for a little over $30.

Just last week, she mentioned that the aforementioned arrangement was one of her favorite flower things ever and that she still has fond memories of it.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (libcrypt), Friday, 2 January 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Well, cala lilies do that to a person.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

They certainly made a big impression on old-tyme Katharine Hepburn impersonators.

― Aimless, Friday, 2 January 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

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