Birthday Flowers for a Friend

Buying birthday flowers for a close friend can seem challenging. With so many options, how do you select the perfect arrangement to brighten their special day? This guide covers key considerations and popular flower choices to inspire your gift purchasing.

Factors When Selecting Birthday Blooms

Several aspects play into choosing floral gifts that wow recipients.

Favorite Color

Identify your friend's preferred hues before perusing bouquets. Most flowers appear in a rainbow of shades so you can likely find an on-theme fit. If their go-to color is red, a stunning ruby rose bouquet could complement an evening birthday dinner. For pals partial to sunny yellow, send a vibrant mixed bouquet of gerbera daisies, sunflowers, and solidago.

Favorite Flower

Pinpointing your friend's top bloom makes selection easy. If they adore fragrant gardenias, locating an arrangement featuring those creamy white petals checks the box. Tulip fans would appreciate a rainbow-hued bundle of their beloved bulb flower. Ask nonchalantly about flower favorites if you do not already know.

Fragrance

Scent can seriously upgrade a birthday flower gift. Sweet peas, lilies, roses, freesia and other fragrants release lovely aroma when displayed. If your celebrant friend enjoys home fragrance, picking perfumed stems adds an extra sensory treat. Just steer clear of heavy scents if they indicate migraines, asthma or allergies.

Size Needs

Arrangement scale ranges widely so consider dimensions that suit your friend’s lifestyle. Someone in a city apartment may better appreciate a petite tabletop vase rather than overflowing florist’s bouquet. But if they host lively dinner parties, bold, statement centerpiece flowers can enhance the mood.

Style Personality

Your friend’s personal aesthetic also guides birthday flower choices. Free spirits might fancy a vibrant, whimsical mixed arrangement. Minimalists could prefer simple white blooms in sleek glass vases. And bohemian types may welcome loose, trailing flowers in eclectic recycled containers. Consider their clothing, home décor and overall vibe when deciding flower personality.

Top Birthday Blossom Options

Beyond favorite considerations, some flowers make particularly perfect birthday gifts. These floral selections promise to put smiles on special day faces.

Long-Lasting Orchids

Orchid plants bloom for months, providing your BFF long-lasting birthday joy. The exotic blooms symbolize affection, prosperity, thoughtfulness and charm too. Select Phalaenopsis orchids if your friend lacks advanced growing skills since they thrive indoors. Or gift a flowering Cymbidium or Miltonia orchid specimen to green thumbs up for caring technique challenges. View our Orchid Flowers.

Cheerful Daisies

Gerbera daisies flowers beam sunshine-y cheer with crepe paper-like petals in every hue. Give a bold bouquet of orange or neon daisies for surge of fun loving energy. Mixed daisy and solidago arrangements ensure longer vase life so your friend can enjoy the birthday gift longer.

Elegant Roses

Red roses might seem cliché but in fact represent timeless affection and make magnificent birthday bouquets. Surprise your leading lady pal with two dozen classic freedom blooms or modernInfinity roses that last up to three years sans water! Garden roses in lush cabbage forms impress true flower connoisseurs.

Sentimental Carnations

Initially viewed as cheap funeral flowers, frilly carnations now conveys fond sentiment perfect for birthdays. Varieties like Sweetheart display ruffled, candy-hued petals. Give pink carnations symbolizing gratitude for an eternally supportive bestie. Or select striped carnations representing regret you cannot celebrate together if geographically apart.

Presenting the Birthday Bouquet

Once you select superb birthday blooms, focus on optimal presentation for best effect.

• Add Personal Touches: Customize arrangements with mementoes showcasing inside jokes or favorite snacks.
• Include Greeting Card: Pen heartfelt birthday messages on nice stationery or cards featuring beloved TV shows and movies.
• Display Creatively: Nestle floral gifts in gift bags, boxes or wrapped in tissue paper with curled ribbons for the full reveal.
• Send Early Enough: Overnight AM delivery helps assure timely arrival in pristine condition.

Year-Round Birthday Blossoms

Luckily most flower types bloom almost any month so stunning birthday arrangements get gifted year-round. But some varieties feature prime seasons worth noting:

• Spring: tulips, sweet peas, lilacs, lilies, narcissus, ranunculus
• Summer: sunflowers, roses, carnations,stocks, alstroemeria
• Fall: chrysanthemums, asters, dahlias, marigolds
• Winter: amaryllis, camellias, anemones, kalanchoe

Seasonal Sensations

Further personalize ordering flowers in season matching your friend’s birthday for optimal impact. Surprise a June baby with peonies or garden roses at peak bloom. Send a fall baby zinnias and asters in autumn hues. Strawberries tucked amid floral gifts nod to February birthdays while sunflowers suit a radiant July celebrant.

So stress no more about selecting perfect birthday flowers for a favorite friend. Prioritize favored colors, flowers, fragrances and aesthetics for ideal arrangements. Add personal touches and cards conveying sentimental birthday messages. Then pick sensational blossoms in season boasting beauty and symbolism to thrill your bestie on their special day. The delivery delights will outshine any ordinary present!

Lily's Florist stocks a lot of different colored flowers but here are just a few:

• Red flowers
• Yellow flowers
• White flowers
• Pink flowers
• Purple flowers
• Mixed flowers

Order Birthday Flowers for Delivery in Advance

Get your friend’s birthday off to a fantastic start by ordering in advance for future flower delivery. Simply select the date you want in our checkout the beautiful blooms to be given to your friend later, and Lily's Florist will make sure they arrive at the right place on the right day. Plus, by ordering birthday flowers for upcoming delivery, you can have the very best of special, seasonal flowers preserved for your friends’ special day.

If you enjoyed learning about the best flowers for friendship and want to dive deeper, Lily's Florist highly recommend reading our full blog post on this topic title Best Flowers For Friendship. We go into much more detail about the symbolic meaning behind popular friendship blooms like yellow roses, sunflowers, alstroemeria, chrysanthemums, and tulips. We also provide helpful tips on how to create the perfect personalized friendship bouquet, including recommended flower color pairings and special touches you can add.