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There’s no better time than during the festive season to fill your home with bright Christmas flowers and bouquets. Whether you intend to have a festive season filled with friends and family, or simply wish to relax and reflect at the end of the year, a colourful Christmas bouquet will add warmth and vibrancy to your home. In South Africa, the festive season takes place during the warm summer months – the perfect time to enjoy some of South Africa’s most attractive blossoms.

A bunch of Christmas flowers is thus an ideal addition to your own home, and also a thoughtful gift for family members, friends and colleagues. Explore the wide range of Christmas hampers and bouquets available online. Attractive and affordable, these Christmas flowers can be sent anywhere in South Africa, or ordered as a special addition to your own home. Order your Christmas flowers now, or read on for Christmas décor ideas.

Christmas flowers enhance your festive season décor

Christmas is often a time of coming together. Family, friends and loved ones gather to celebrate this holiday, and to enjoy each other’s company at the end of a busy year. Are you hosting a Christmas gathering at your home? If so, a bunch of Christmas flowers – or several smaller posies dotted throughout your home – will add cheerful warmth to your home.

Alternatively, presenting your host with a bunch of Christmas flowers is sure to delight – after all, everyone loves flowers! Giving a gift of flowers is a touching way to acknowledge the hospitality of a friend or loved one. Flowers are also a thoughtful gift for someone whom you may not know very well, but who is hosting you in their home over the festive season – think of colleagues, your spouse’s boss, or distant family members. If you’re not sure which flowers to choose, there are a number of traditional and modern flower options you can consider, both for your own home, or as part of a Christmas gift bouquet.

Poinsettia

Traditionally, the poinsettia is the flower associated with the festive season. With its rich red colour and star-shaped leaves, it’s the flower that most often features in Christmas décor. Poinsettias are often includes festive bouquets, their deep hue offset by lush green leaves and ferns. And of course, the combination of red and green is a classic Christmas colour scheme.

Christmas Rose

The Christmas rose is a delicate, creamy-hued bloom that features large buds and a heady scent. The flower is also known also as the Winter Rose, as it grows in the mountains of central Europe during the coldest months of the year. Roses, such as the Christmas Rose, as well as many different varieties, have long been associated with the Christmas season, and are often included in Christmas bouquets.

Proudly South African Christmas Flowers

South Africa boasts many of its own beautiful blossoms, and adding these to your Christmas bouquet adds a proudly South African touch to your bouquet! Gerberas are always popular, their vivid hues and thick, lush petals making them a striking choice. Lilies of various colours, orchids, fragrant roses in yellows and red, and daisies – simple and sweet – are great additions to any Christmas flower bouquet or centrepiece.

Choose Christmas hampers for a dash of sweetness

Choc-full with treats and snacks, Christmas hampers also make wonderful gifts during the festive season. You’ll find plenty of decadent Christmas hampers online, available to order via online florists. Christmas hampers make great gifts for just about anyone, and they can be ordered quickly and easily online. At an online florist, you’ll find wide range of Christmas hampers filled with chocolates, nuts, dried fruit and biscuits – perfect for a bit of festive season indulgence!

Browse the selection of Christmas flowers and hampers available online, and place your order today. Many online florists offer a same-day delivery service for orders placed early, although it’s recommended that you place your order ahead of time during the busy festive season. Add festive cheer with flowers – find the ideal bouquet now.

It’s that time of the year again when the houses are decorated with bells, light, and garlands, the time of the year where people are showered with holiday cheer. Yes, Christmas is on its way as the “ber” months come around. Even as you read this article the countdown is already ticking and when that days draw close to zero you know what you need to do and that is to shop like crazy for your friends and loved ones. Have you ever thought of deviating from the usual gift? Let Flower Gift Philippines help you make that step towards a new approach to gift giving this Christmas season and make flowers the way to go. But what is Flower Gift Philippines? Flower Gift Philippines is the Philippines’ pioneer in online flowers shops, employing the latest in technology to bring you only the freshest flowers all year round, not only that but Flower Gift Philippines is the one and only one-day delivery service around. Flower Gift Philippines gives you all the varieties you’d want in your bouquet whenever you need it and that mean all the flowers you’d want even if it is out of season, Flower Gift Philippines the newest in floral technology to grow only the best quality flowers so you’d never have to settle for less. Flower Gift Philippines with LBC group of companies gives you the one-day delivery service which is light speed compared to the other online flower shops out there. Why settle for less when you can go Flower Gift Philippines? Visit Flower Gift Philippines now at www.flowersexpress.com.ph and make the choice.

This Christmas, light up the life of those who work for you, with a surprise chocolate delivery to their doorstep. Nothing beats a nice package of assorted chocolates in the festive season, all wrapped beautifully, sent from a thoughtful and considerate employer. Chocolate delivery really makes the most cheerful time of the year, all the more wonderful and joyous.

Your employees slog through out the year. After a year of assiduous and meticulous work, this is the time they like to relax, enjoy, spend time with friends and family, connect with loved ones, meet new and old friends and greet them, while exchanging nice gifts and warm wishes. And one of the common and highly preferred gifts during this time is chocolates.

So if, during this time, you show that you really care for them, by sending chocolate delivery to their homes, it really touches them and makes them feel special. It makes them feel that you really need them and care for them. This also doubles up the joy of working in the organisation under a good employer.

Chocolates melt in the month, and the rich and smooth taste, melts hearts. Gifted chocolates are shared amongst friends and family members who enjoy the chocolates and appreciate the extra efforts and consideration showed by the one who gifts them. This also benefits an employer, as the good word spreads around.

But today, when time is a big constraint, you may not find the time to personally go and buy chocolates for your employees and staff. In such situations, you can order for Chocolate delivery through the internet. There are quite a few good online flower delivery services, which also takes chocolate delivery orders. Some of the good ones also allow bulk ordering. So go gifting chocolates to your staff, and make their Christmas – the best ever.

A respectful gesture during religious festivals is to send a gift or a card. Sending flowers works incredibly well for any religion.

There are various flowers associated with particular religions which have become a symbol of their beliefs and practices. For example, the flower of Christianity is generally seen as the Madonna lily whilst the symbol of Hinduism and Buddhism is a Lotus flower, yet different religious holidays and festivals make use of many different kinds of flowers.

In South Africa, the predominant religious holidays and festivals when floral gifts are exchanged include Christmas and Easter for Christianity, Pesach, Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah for Judaism, Deepavali for Hinduism and Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha for Islam.

Christmas
Christmas is the most important festival of the Christian calendar as it celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is held on the 25th of December and is celebrated for 12 days through Christmastide until the 5th of January.

Flowers and plants related to the Christmas period are poinsettia, Christmas cactus, holly, ivy, the Christmas rose (which flowers during winter in Europe) and mistletoe. These flowers and plants bloom during the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere and are generally used for decoration. The flowers are also mentioned in Christmas hymns and carols. The tradition of “kissing under the mistletoe” is still very well known and involves the hanging of a sprig of mistletoe in one?s house. If two people stand underneath the hanging sprig at the same time, they are required to kiss.

The poinsettia is a red and green plant which is a popular gift at Christmas and used for decorations. Generally the colours associated with Christmas are red, green, silver and gold and many people choose to send a gift of flowers in these colours which are a perfect decoration to any home celebrating this festival.

Easter
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon, which is the first ecclesiastical full moon in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring over a weekend from a Friday until the Sunday. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified on the cross. The predominant flower associated with Easter is the Easter lily (Lilyum Longiflorum) as well as the daffodil, atamasco, Madonna lily and the Pasque flower.

Rosh Hashanah, Pesach and Chanukah
Rosh Hashanah, Pesach and Chanukah are three religious holidays featuring in the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah is the celebration of the Jewish New Year and is celebrated in September. Chanukah is the “Festival of Lights” and is a commemoration of the re-dedication of the Jerusalem Holy Temple and is celebrated in December.

Pesach is the holy day celebrating the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt in Biblical times. Pesach is celebrated in April.

All of the Jewish festivals use flowers as decorations. The religion is not specific about which flower should be used, but extremely fine and beautiful flower bouquets are the traditional arrangements given on Jewish holidays. Colours associated with the Jewish religion are blue, white, silver and feature in decor such as floral arrangements with candles.

Deepavali
Deepavali or Diwali is a Hindu festival which focuses on the inner light of all things in existence and is celebrated with fireworks, lights, sending flowers, sweets, sweet meats and festivities over five days, beginning mid October.

It is very common to find many jasmine and marigold flowers during the festival, as these flowers are extremely important to the Hindu religion as a symbol of prosperity. They are threaded into garlands with other flowers which are hung for decoration and are worn for the duration of the festival.

Eid-ul-Fitr
Eid-ul-Fitr, otherwise known as “Eid” is the end of the holy month of fasting (Ramadan) in Islam and is celebrated in September. Muslims celebrate the breaking of the fast by wearing their best attire, visiting friends and family and attending prayer services. Muslims also remember the deceased amongst them and visit cemeteries with large collections of unspecific flowers and gift hampers for children and parents.

This time is celebrated by giving to charity and often hampers are sent to charitable organisations.

Eid-ul-Adha
This festival is known as the Festival of Sacrifice and is the Islamic celebration of the strong faith and obedience of Ibrahim, who was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael as God had commanded him to do. However, once God saw his faith and obedience, he provided a ram to be sacrificed instead and spared the child. The festival is celebrated in November. It is a popular tradition to send friends and family a gift of flowers during this festival. Special hampers can be used as Hajj gifts.

Why online florists?
Sending flowers for religious holidays is now a far easier task with online florists and reliable flower delivery services.

Most online florists have an extremely detailed and large catalogue of flowers and gifts available on their website with a handy search function and specific sections dedicated to religious flowers. Safe payment facilities, guaranteed products and traceable orders are just some of the benefits of using an online florist to send flowers for religious holidays.