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Flowers, Florists, and Random Acts of Joy
All florists face the challenge of getting people to visit their shop outside of traditional flower-giving holidays. It's standing room only on Valentine's and Mother's Day, but at other times of the year, manning the counter is akin to running the second most popular hotel in a ghost town. It's not that flowers become any less beautiful, delicate and amazing, it's just that, without the commercialized holidays or traditional events to remind them, people tend to forget. It's not hard to see why. In this world of hurly-burly hustle and bustle, it takes a rare person to stop what they're doing and smell the roses. And yet, that's what is being promoted in a new movement. People are being asked to not only smell the roses, but pass them on to others! The Lonely Bouquet - Spreading The Love of Flowers This movement, with roots sunk deep in the soil of the Netherlands, is called the Lonely Bouquet. The original idea was to leave a bouquet of flowers on a park [...]