Make Someone Smile Week: By the numbers

What’s more magical than a great big smile? At Teleflora, we love seeing the smiles that come from one look at our fresh and cheerful flowers.

Make Someone Smile Week (July 20-26) celebrates the pure exhilaration you get when you give to someone who really needs a smile. Thousands of Teleflora florists work with local wholesalers and growers to secure flower donations for those in need. The sweet and sunny flowers -- daisies and roses to be exact -- arrive in TF’s keepsake Be Happy® Mugs.

“Each year, I am amazed by the overwhelming response and enthusiasm Make Someone Smile® Week receives from our member florists and residents in local communities who volunteer,” says Teleflora’s Rich Salvaggio.

“A simple bouquet of flowers has a strong emotional impact on those who receive them and this program is Teleflora’s way of bringing smiles to those who need it most.”

Besides the donations, consumers can buy Be Happy® bouquets. I’m really looking forward to next week and to surprising some friends with fresh flowers. No major occasion, no big holiday, just a chance to feel good.

Until then, here are a few facts and figures behind the program.

2000: Year the program started

40,000: Expected recipients –– hospital patients, nursing home residents, children living in foster-care facilities. Talk about making someone’s day!

2,500: Expected bouquets delivered by a single florist team.

$46.95: The price for consumers to buy a Be Happy® Bouquet. Just visit: www.teleflora.com/makesomeonesmile and send a smile to someone you love. Someone with a really pretty smile, no doubt. :)

For more information on Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile® Week, and how you can get involved, please visit teleflora.com/makesomeonesmile or call 310.966.8328.

Flower Fact of the Day: Hydrangeas have inspired a love affair. Well, sort of... Read Mar Jennings of Home & Garden TV on his fondness for the flower: marjennings.com/garden/hydrangea.cfm.

Jacqueline - Editor

July 17, 2008

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Mike

It's wonderful how big a difference a simple idea like this can make.

Flowers to the People

That's a great idea! Flowers are an awesome way to cheer up one in need. Its a nice touch placing these flowers in a smiley mug. I love it! If you want any other ideas for crafts or floral design, feel free to visit www.flowerstothepeople.com

zen

oh my gosh!! this is the most fabulous program that i've heard of in a long time!!! my grandma is in a home in chandler, az & when i called her the other day, she went on & on about the beautiful bouquet she had recieved. she started off by having me guess what she was looking at... so sweet, then, when she told me that it was flowers, she went into great detail describing the big smiling mug & she told me of every flower at great length. i was sure that it must have come from my sister (she's very good about sending flowers & treats & such...) but when i asked her, she kept avoiding answering me. just when i was certain that she must have a new man in her life...she told me that it was the teleflora folks-arizona unit who gave it to her. she was so thrilled to have this beautiful gift out of the clear blue sky for seemingly no other reason than someone out there, who she didn't even know, cared about her! it brought me to tears when i hung up the phone & i thot about all of the people that they touched right there in one place & now i'm seeing that they have done this for quite some time now & for so many people, it's just a wonderful thing!! i know what it did to my grandma's day (week, month...) & she's not even a stranger to recieving a beautiful fresh bouquet from time to time...it made me think of all the other people, young & old, who were given the "chance to feel good". what a great bright light you all have carried out to our world! many blessings & much thanks from me & my grammy & all of those folks who cannot say it...i guarantee you that they are feeling it...& smiling!!

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