Special Valentine's thought from Lily

Valentine’s Day has a really strong power. It is the power to remind people of the joy flowers bring. Many people only give their spouse or partner flowers this one day a year. Yet scratch their heads the rest of the year with what to grab on the way home from work, or how to express the inexpressible. Flowers are so much more a deep experience than can be explored in a single day, once a year. Watching a bouquet of flowers develop and change over a week’s time is an exercise in slowing down this hurried world in which we live. It returns us to wonder, it returns us to the details, to the small picture, to what is happening at our own dining room table. By combining different flower varieties through different seasons, across a year’s time, you build a tapestry of emotion and memory that affects all our senses. It makes you rich.

As sweethearts and families celebrate Valentine’s Day, let’s hope that after the red foil wrappers are tossed and the fancy dinners eaten, that the flower’s enduring natural beauty and the kinetic bliss which they possess will lead to keeping that vase full all year round.