Don’t return from holiday to dead flowers – or none!
Well, an extended holiday season is now right upon us and no doubt many of you will be planning to take a well-earned getaway with the family. Invariably this involves some planning before leaving, switching off the geyser, informing the neighbourhood watch, emptying the garbage cans etc. but one thing that’s often forgotten, or simply ignored, is throwing away fresh flowers.
Sometimes for sentimental reasons people just don’t have the heart to throw flowers out and hope to return to flowers that look as good as when they left. The reality however is that they will probably be dead – and that, believe it or not, has consequences.
On the practical side, you certainly don’t want to return to the office to a big meeting and find you have no flowers, or worse still, dead flowers making a mess and stinking the place out. From a hygiene and health point of view, and even psychologically it seems, dead flowers have other downsides too!
Dead flowers are bad vibes
Flowers of any kind, it is said, usually symbolise things like beauty love, and joy but dead flowers are the ‘dead’ opposite and they can represent losing all of these symbols to be replaced with grief, loss and sadness.
Sometimes people think it is right to hold onto dead flowers because they represent an act of kindness but doing this can be bad for you. As one observer put it, ‘’In its simplest definition, Chi is the Feng Shui energy permeating our earthly existence, particularly the structures and design of your home. You want your Chi vibrant, buzzing, and lively. Flowers lose their “Chi” when they dry, draining a home’s vitality with visible death and decay.’’
This may sound a little far-fetched but if you google ‘’are dead flowers dangerous?’’ you may well find that dead flowers are killing your Chi – and a lack of cheerful Chi they say can also affect your productivity and health.
The scientific viewpoint – and the solution
On a more scientific level, if you don’t believe in Feng Shui or Chi, it is a scientific fact that improperly dried dead flowers can attract mildew and that the stagnant water in a vase can carry bacteria. Even if you don’t get sick from it, why have it around when there is a much better solution? – SilkBlume’s silk flowers adorning your home or office is simply a much better idea!
SilkBlume’s stunningly beautiful and incredibly life-like silk flower arrangements are carefully created from quality materials. Almost indistinguishable from real flowers, they liven up any room in which they are displayed and best of all they are designed to last not only for a couple of weeks whilst you’re on leave but even for many years!
Contact us to find out about our SilkBlume subscription plan wherein you get to choose and have a different arrangement delivered to your doorstep every month. This saves costs, gives you variety and also means completely maintenance-free flowers on your part because keeping the arrangements looking stunning is our job, not yours.
Ideal for offices and public areas like Doctor’s rooms and hospitality venues, Silk flowers don’t need water, air or light to survive, making them the perfect solution to ensuring that you don’t return from holiday to dead flowers – or none!
