A purple flower bouquet made of one flower: 20 or 30 stems of lavender purple stock, all in the same shade, on stems about 16 to 18 inches (40 to 45 cm) long. It comes wrapped in paper with a ribbon and delivered in a glass vase.
It suits Mother's Day or the birthday of someone who loves purple. The scent reaches across a room, which helps when you send it to someone recovering at home.
Stock, an old garden flower once called gillyflower, has a strong clove scent. Each stem is a spike of ruffled double florets that opens from the bottom up, so the green buds at the tips go on opening for days. One flower in one color makes the bouquet read as a single soft purple mass with no gaps. Stock stems spoil water faster than most flowers, so change it every day or two and trim the ends.
For purple next to white, see lavender stock paired with white tulips; for bold color in a box, look at pink orchids and roses in a box.
Twenty stems make a full, round bouquet, and 30 widen it into one you carry in both hands; the glass vase comes with both sizes.
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A purple flower bouquet made of one flower: 20 or 30 stems of lavender purple stock, all in the same shade, on stems about 16 to 18 inches (40 to 45 cm) long. It comes wrapped in paper with a ribbon and delivered in a glass vase.
It suits Mother's Day or the birthday of someone who loves purple. The scent reaches across a room, which helps when you send it to someone recovering at home.
Stock, an old garden flower once called gillyflower, has a strong clove scent. Each stem is a spike of ruffled double florets that opens from the bottom up, so the green buds at the tips go on opening for days. One flower in one color makes the bouquet read as a single soft purple mass with no gaps. Stock stems spoil water faster than most flowers, so change it every day or two and trim the ends.
For purple next to white, see lavender stock paired with white tulips; for bold color in a box, look at pink orchids and roses in a box.
Twenty stems make a full, round bouquet, and 30 widen it into one you carry in both hands; the glass vase comes with both sizes.
_____________POPULAR QUESTIONS ABOUT FRESH FLOWERS ___________