Sympathy Flowers That Offer Condolence and Interest
It is never an easy decision to decide what to send the grieving family members when a loved one passes away. You want to pay your respects, comfort the grieving and offer a memorable and delightful token of your heartfelt sentiments. When you care enough to send the very best and you want it to stand out from all the rest, there are arrangements and flowered gifts that you can send that will be a lasting reminder of your kindness and consideration. Here are a few different types of sympathy flower arrangements that will get noticed by the mourner and those who come to call. Offering an interesting arrangement can cheer up the recipient and get the family’s mind on something other than the impending mourning events.
Send Green Plant Life Instead a Perishable Flowers
Sending a plant that can stay in the home long after the arrangements are over and the callers stop calling can be a long lasting reminder of your thoughtfulness during times of grief. There are many florists who will be happy to send a live plant for the mourners to enjoy all year. You can send a tropical plant in a decorative planter that can be displayed immediately on an end table or sofa table. You can still send an enclosed card together with your message of condolences with the plant and it is also a more environmentally conscious way to send sympathy flowers and gifts. Your plant gift should still be understated. Avoid sending large tropical plants, especially if you are not aware if the floor space in the mourner's home would be able to accept a large gift. Ferns, lily plants and philodendrons are perfectly acceptable plants to send. Try to send a plant that is forgiving on care, especially during this time. The gift will be appreciated and likely well cared for because you thought to send it during such a hard time.
Orchid plants are beautiful, interesting and decadent live plants to send during times of mourning. Their arching display of beauty and life make these plants a wonderful alternative to sympathy flowers. Who wouldn't enjoy their exotic beauty? They come in a variety of colours so you can have your choice of what to have. Just be sure to avoid any colours that would clash with cultural traditions. Red flowers are unacceptable to send to a Buddhist home. Stick to white if you are not sure of what to send. Many would love to get an orchid plant to enjoy but wouldn't buy it for themselves. This type of gift is sure to bring a smile to the heavy heart.
Offer Food and Fruit Baskets in Lieu of Sympathy Flowers
There are times where the best sympathy flowers are not flowers at all. Many flower and gift companies will have food and fruit basket choices that you can send instead. There are also cultural and religious reasons to send food instead of flowers, such as those of Jewish faith. It is poor form to send a flower arrangement to a Jewish household during their time of mourning, Shiva. Instead, florists will have kosher food offerings such as dried fruit and nut trays to send so that you can offer your heartfelt sentiments and also provide the mourners something to eat for any visitors that come by to sit Shiva with them. Some florists even offer some lovely food displays that can cater to the cultures of the mourners or their personal tastes. One great example of this was the Something To Share food basket from Spearwood Florist. This large basket contains a variety of crackers, tea cookies and treats for the mourners to enjoy or offer to their house guests. Many times, mourning is unexpected and grieving households are caught entertaining visitors without being able to properly offer them any refreshments. Not only is a gift like this thoughtful but it is practical as well.
You can also combine the best of both worlds by including a plant or arrangement of sympathy flowers along with your food or fruit basket. This is a great way to honour the grief of the family members and provide something useful as well for them to partake of. Compassion and thoughtful gestures are always the best ideas for a gift during an occasion like this.
Fruit and Bulb Plants for Planting Offer a Permanent Commemoration
One of the most memorable and interesting ideas that you can consider when you send a gift to those in mourning is a plantable tree or flower arrangement as sympathy flowers. Fruit trees are fantastic and decorative choices for mourning gifts. These trees are planted in the yard of the mourner as a permanent reminder of your love and care. Lemon and orange trees are fragrant reminders of when life was good and the sweet memories of their departed loved one. Apple and cherry trees offer these same sentiments for colder climates as well. Flower arrangements made out of bulb plants can also do the same thing. Tulips and lilies can come as sympathy flowers in a gift box and can later be planted in a garden to be enjoyed for years to come. What better way to offer your sympathies than something that can be reused and multiplied? Bulb plants multiply well in gardens so the love that the mourners had for their loved one can be multiplied by your gift season after season. You can also send a small rose bush as a living flower arrangement. These flowers are the hallmark of love and come in a wide array of colours and types. Tea roses make wonderful rose bush gifts and are hardy plants to take care of.
We want to express love to those who are grieving and a lasting gift can convey our enduring compassion on the mourner. You can be as creative as you want in sending gifts instead of sympathy flowers or in conjunction with them. No matter what, the hardship will be a little less for your effort and sentiment to ease their pain.
