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“Just living is not enough…one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” Hans Christian Anderson
Wise words from Hans Christian Anderson. Intuitively we know that flowers make us happy. Scientific research backs that up. Flowers boost our mood, brighten our environment, improve our sleep, decrease our anxiety, increase our productivity and…
Every month has a “birth month flower” associated with it.
February is dominated by one day - Valentine’s Day. And what flower do you automatically think of when you think of Valentine’s Day? The red rose. So naturally you would assume that the flower for …
Having flowers in an interior makes a space more welcoming and has positive benefits on our mental, physical and emotional well-being. This has been scientifically proven. What I’m asked many times is, ‘Will fake flowers have the same benefits as real flowers?’. The answer is….
Flowers are an easy and affordable way to add a splash of colour to your life. Every colour conveys a meaning and an emotion. We’ve already talked about how red creates energy, and orange enthusiasm. The next colour we come to as we travel along the floral rainbow is…
Every month has a specific flower assigned to it – it’s ‘birth month flower’.
January can be a gloomy month. The festivities of the holiday season are over, yet the lightness of spring hasn’t arrived. Thank goodness we have flowers to boost our mood, and nothing does a better job than…
When I started The Floral Prescription, I wondered how I was going to take all the information I have about ‘all things floral’ and organize it in a cohesive way. I decided the common theme in everything I’d learned was flowers have …
Flowers. They’re part of all the big occasions in our lives from birth to death. We recognize the joy they bring us during celebrations, and the comfort they bring us during times of sorrow. But for some reason, when it comes to having flowers in our every day lives, they can be thought of as
A couple of months ago I was in England. One day we decided to visit Stratford-upon-Avon (the birth place of Shakespeare), and it just happened that there was a street fair showcasing local products . One of the vendors was a gin maker, (Pinnock Gin), and one of his gins caught my eye - it was the prettiest shade of purple. It turns out it was
The colour of flowers you choose plays a big role in what mood you create and what emotions you evoke. As we continue our way along the floral rainbow, we come to the colour orange. If red is the colour for energy, orange is the colour for
December 12th is National Poinsettia Day, the perfect opportunity to share with you a Mexican legend that explains why the poinsettia is the flower of Christmas.
There was once a poor, young girl named Pepita, making her way to church on Christmas Eve. She was sad because she didn’t have a gift to present at the nativity to baby Jesus like the other children would. Her cousin reminded her that
Every month has a flower associated with it, known as its “birth month flower”.
November can be cold, grey, and wet. The days are short and the nights are long. With all the dreariness around, people’s spirits can get low. Not only will flowers help lift your mood but there’s a specific flower during this time of year that
I have a special memory of a specific type of red flower. Red carnations. When my husband and I had our first apartment, he would come home every week with half-a-dozen red carnations, put them in glass coke bottles, and place them all around the apartment. Nothing fancy - single stems in recycled bottles - but that simple act created
