Just an added note of a florist and the four Congressional Woman being attacked...............
D.C. Florist Sends A Message Of Support To Congresswomen Targeted In Trump’s Tweets
A D.C. florist is sending encouragement in the form of fresh flowers to the four U.S. Congresswomen targeted in President Donald Trump’s incendiary tweets this week.
Alisa Rabinovich, who owns and operates Nosegay Flowers in D.C. and Galleria Florist in Falls Church, Virginia, said she designed custom flower arrangements to send to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) to show the women support.
“It’s really not about politics for me,” Alisa Rabinovich said in a statement sent to WAMU. “I’m not a terribly political person. It’s about these women being bullied by the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, and standing up for themselves.”
She delivered the flowers on Thursday with a note thanking the Congresswomen.
https://wamu.org/story/19/07/19/d-c-florist-sends-a-message-of-support-to-congresswomen-targeted-in-trumps-tweets/
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Rabinovich immigrated to the U.S. with her family as a child from Russia. She said she identified with the four Congresswomen who received Trump’s taunts.
“I love America, and one of the things I love most about my home is that people here have been able to have civil disagreements, and also look for ways to come together for the common good,” she said. “That seems to be lost on the President sometimes.”
call if you wish to donate:
Nosegay Flowers in D.C. and Galleria Florist in Falls Church, Virginia,
202-338-1146.................. Nosegay Flowers
703-536-0770...................Galleria Florist
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there are so many options available. As you said, masculine arrangements with interesting textures, woods and bamboo, plants, fruit and candy - or - just plain old flowers.
Mr. Maru loves flowers, and I have gotten them for him on many occasions.
'Cause I like him. 
I never received a bouquet of flowers from a loved one, but when I had some disposable income I would occasionally buy a bouquet
of roses from a florist in the lobby where I worked to brighten up my living room. I also made an arrangement of gladiolas from my father's back yard after my mother passed away to remind me of her. They were variegated gladiolas in pink, melon, yellow and deep violet that I arranged to form a teardrop with the violet ones as the iris. A few of the women that saw the bouquet thought that a professional had made the arrangement. 
My father was the gardener in my home as a child. I grew up in a little shoebox of a house, but it was tidy and surrounded by an abundance of peonies, roses, lilies, poppies, lilacs and four o' clocks. Dad was very proud of his flowers and we had fresh bouquets in the house all the time so I didn't grow up thinking of flowers as being tied to a gender.
You should photograph your arrangements sometime - I'd love to see them 
Flowers are such a lovely thing to share.
