I love having flowers in the house whenever I possible can. Especially roses. These tulips are pretty too, I’ve never seen ones like these before. They look frilly!
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Tag: Flowers
Roses of Love
So I bought myself some beautiful pink tipped roses yesterday not only because roses are beautiful but also because they make me feel happy and we all deserve to feel happy. So go out and treat yourself to something, anything at all because you work hard, you’re beautiful and you should always appreciate yourself. Love and kisses.
Flowers and Females
As the picture below implies, I like flowers. I really like flowers in fact. So much so that I take pictures of them to share with other people, purely because of how beautiful I find them. To me, that blue orchid is just glorious. The blue dyes slowly grows out with the flower so the colours are always slightly different, ranging from turquoise to indigo. My boyfriend disagrees with me. ‘It’s just blue.’ Typical.
Drew and I are very opposite people in many ways. We have different tastes in music, fashion, decor. We often have opposite opinions on cultural issues, for example the amount of money football players get paid! However, our differing opinions on flowers got me thinking; are flowers and everything that can be pertained to them (buying them, receiving them, growing them) a subjectively feminine thing? For example, I have never known anyone who has bought a man flowers as a gift. I certainly wouldn’t buy any men I know flowers! Well except my uncle who, while being straight, is extremely bohemian and has a fondness for beauty. What do you think? Are flowers only for women and (dare I say it) fabulous gay men who understand the elegance of a well made centre piece?
This also leads me on to the question, why do women enjoy flowers? Would I always have had a fondness for them, or have I simply been subconsciously conditioned to like them because of how women and flowers are presented within society and culture?
For example, everyone in the modern world knows that when a man wants to buy his special lady a gift, flowers are an easy go to. We have grown up seeing this behaviour on television shows and movies, reading about it in books and of course watching it first hand with our parents. We must not forget of course the most common and often comedic form of using flowers as a gift, which is when a man has done something wrong and wants to apologise. Florists have literally named their shops after the past time! ‘How Mad Is She?’ is one shop that I know I have seen on the internet. This makes me wonder, do women really love receiving flowers so much, or do they simply feel as if they are supposed to love it? If your partner does something wrong, is a bouquet of roses really the answer to your relationship problems? Should you forgive a person so readily simply because they brought you over priced flora?
I am by no means bashing the concept. I love getting flowers from anyone, but getting them from my boyfriend is particularly lovely, as he completely abhors the idea. He has never bought me flowers because he has upset me or done anything wrong (he’s a very good boyfriend!) He has only ever gotten me flowers because he knows how much I like them and he wants to make me happy. This makes it all the more sweet, as Drew doesn’t personally have any feelings one way or the other toward flowers, except that he thinks they are a waste of money!
Well, something to think about I suppose. All I wanted to do was post a pretty picture of my mother in laws orchid and instead I dug into a rather pointless social concept! I’m here all week people! Ta-ta.
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Blue Orchid
Beauty Divine
Dotty Blossom 