By Patricia Dela Roca
Flowers are ideal gifts to give at any time of the year, in particular, Valentine’s Day.Fresh flowers are beautiful with their vibrant colors, delicate appearances, and fragrant aroma, but there are also other types of flowers that would live longer to carry the message of love and affection.
Here are four alternative forms of flowers that manifest everlasting love—because they won’t wilt in a week and will last a lifetime, or almost.
Lego Flowers
15 varieties of flowers and leaves built with Lego (Source: Lego Official Store Website)
Lego recently released the Lego Flower Bouquet that not only Lego fans will enjoy, it can also get couples together to enjoy a different kind of leisure. There will be a different kind of satisfaction once this 756-piece set is completely built, to view a lovely flower bouquet that took hours to complete.
The Lego Flower Bouquet sets start at P3800 and can be purchased at official Lego stores.
Dried Flowers
Source: Flowerpops/Facebook
Dried flowers are one way that can keep the look and feel of fresh flowers without having to worry about them wilting or dying. It’s also a perfect for people who are allergic to pollen.
Flowers that are dried naturally will retain their original colors and shapes.
Crocheted flowers
Crocheted Tulips (Source: Easy Crochet/Website)
Crochet is a form of creating patterned fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of materials using a needled hook. Sounds like a lot of work, but just imagine someone making the effort to crochet you flowers for Valentine’s?
Ribbon flowers
Ribbon Flowers (Source: Bloom Art – Arts and Crafts/Facebook)
Ribbons are apparently underrated materials for crafting. Who even knew you could turn them into bouquets of pretty flowers? If you still have those ribbons that protected your cake boxes from toppling over, gather them up, heat up your glue guns, and start knotting.
Paper flowers
(Source: Tamanna Rumee/Pexels)
Creating flowers out of paper is a great way to express your creativity, as well as an inexpensive and easy way to express your love to someone.