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At Covent garden flowers we ensure that your flowers arrive to the door. Deliveries in and around the Cardiff area. We also deliver to Caerphilly and surrounding area. Fresh flowers are a great gift. Why not say think you to someone special today.
Flowers delivered in Cardiff daily.
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SENDING FLOWERS TO YOUR MOTHER FOR SUNDAY 14th is a click away
Some info on Mothers day…… The modern Mother’s Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, often in May, as a day to honour mothers and motherhood. In some countries, it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday. Father’s Day is a corresponding holiday honoring fathers.
Sending flowers on Mothers Day
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In Europe and the UK there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and the “mother church”. Traditionally the day was marked by the giving of token gifts and the relinquishing of certain traditionally female tasks such as cooking and cleaning to other members of the family as a gesture of appreciation.
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Send flowers in Cardiff for Mothers Day
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It was a Frenchman, Charles, Duke of Orleans who is credited with the Valentine.
During a battle in 1415 he was captured by the English. On Valentine’s Day he sent his wife a rhyming love letter from the tower of London, where he was imprisoned. There are some ideas as to where or how the celebration of Valentine’s Day began.
The Christian Church supposedly had two Saints named Valentine and two other ideas centre around them. The Roman Emperor, Claudius the II forbade young men to marry in 200 A.D. He believed single men made better soldiers, free of family concerns. A priest named Valentine disobeyed the Emperor and married couples in secret. The next Saint Valentine was a lover of children but, was imprisoned when he would not honor other gods. The children missed him and wrote messages of affection to him. They threw their notes through the bars of his cell. This may have been the beginning of exchanging messages. He was executed on February 14, 269 A.D. Pope Gelasius in 496 A.D. named February 14th, Valentine’s Day, after him. The fourth idea concerning the celebration of Valentine’s Day is based on the belief that birds or fowl pick their mates on February 14th. It was believed love birds in particular, chose this day to begin mating.
The modern day celebration of Valentine’s Day seems to have begun in France and England. On Valentines Eve young people would gather and pick names becoming a valentine to whose ever name they chose.
Cupid, Doves, Love Birds, Roses, Hearts and Arrows are all symbols of the Valentine’s Day Holiday.
Fresh flowers daily to our shops and to the public
As we come to the end of 2009 We would like to wish our customers a very merry Christmas and a happy new year from all of the staff at Covent Garden Flowers. 2010 will be an exciting year for us. We have just opened a wholesale Flower unit in Cardiff. There are plans for a flower academy in 2010. The academy will be open for members of the public to learn about floristry. For information please contact us on 02920 750750.
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Deliveries uk wide. Same day deliveries available.
Some flowers that we deliver get sent out while still in bud. This ensures a longer life and of course greater enjoyment for the recipient. Once fully unwrapped and trimmed your fresh flowers should be placed in a clean vase, not metalic, with fresh clean water with flower food if supplied. Display in a cool, shady place away from direct sunlight.
Visit our site at www.coventgardenflowersdirect.com for all your flower requirements.
