When you'd rather not send flowers, but instead pick them yourself (assuming you have a garden or a neighbor away on vacation that has a garden ;) you might want to consider picking flowers and arranging a bouqet in the European hand tied style.

Now its not a big thing to make the arrangement yourself and you can always plunk them down in a vase or something in the house. There was a time in my life when I didn't care much about flowers, but I worked for a company that used to hold a weekly lottery for the flower arrangements that we had on display. So every few weeks someone would walk home with a huge vase load of flowers.

After having great looking flowers around the house for a while, you start to develop a taste or eye or sense of smell for a little more color and beauty in your life.

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