Matching Flowers to Your Home Style

Valentine's Day Ideas

Valentine's Day flowers and plants for men

Men love flowers and plants! For Valentine's Day, ask your florist to send the man in your life flowers in vivid colors such as yellow, orange and red, or a flower arrangement with contemporary, linear or natural styles. See Sending Flowers to a Man, too.

Home Decorating

Matching Your Home Style

Matching Flowers to Your Home Style

Just as people have their own personalities, so do their homes. According to the Society of American Florists, popular home decorating personalities tend to fall into five categories. Click the links below to see how flowers can complement and enhance these styles.

American Country

American Country

Casual Easy Living

Casual Easy Living

Classic Traditional

Classic Traditional

Modern Contemporary

Modern Contemporary

Victorian

For more advice on incorporating floral elements into your home, talk with your local florist. He or she will be able to capture just the style you're looking for - with flowers

Flower Meanings

Hydrangea = Perseverance

Flowers

See more Flower Meanings.

Floral Designs

Bedroom Floral Designs

Floral arrangements in soft pink and blue hues create a relaxed bedside feeling.

Aboutflowers.com is the information resource on flowers, florists, plants and gifts.

Aboutflowers.com features photos and images of flowers, floral arrangements, bouquets, floral designs and plants, as well as tips on flower and plant care, a comprehensive list of flower meanings, the latest flower holiday statistics and numbers, flower design trends, sample card messages, flower gift-buying advice and a directory of local florists.

Aboutflowers.com offers flower gift and decorating and entertaining ideas for all occasions, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, Easter, Secretaries Week and Administrative Professionals Week. Brides-to-be will find tips for wedding flowers, including bridal bouquets, ceremony and reception flowers and advice for working with a wedding florist. Sympathy flowers help comfort a relative, friend or associate who has lost a loved one. Aboutflowers.com also features get-well flowers, prom flowers, and tips for ordering flowers and sending flowers to a man, and ideas for flowers for every room of your home.

Florists have always known that flowers make people happy, and now scientific research proves flower power. Aboutflowers.com highlights university research proving the emotional and behavioral benefits of flowers and plants. Rutgers research shows that the presence of flowers triggers happy emotions, heightens feelings of life satisfaction and affects social behavior in a positive manner far beyond what is normally believed. Another Rutgers study demonstrates that flowers ease depression, inspire social networking and refresh memory as we age. A Harvard study reveals that people feel more compassionate toward others, have less worry and anxiety, and feel less depressed when fresh cut flowers are present in the home. And a Texas A&M study demonstrates that workers' idea generation, creative performance and problem-solving skills improve substantially in workplace environments that include flowers and plants.

Aboutflowers.com is hosted by the Society of American Florists, the U.S. floral industry trade association.

Visit www.nationalfloristdirectory.com to find a local SAF member florist to send flowers, roses and gifts for delivery.