'I'm a gardening expert, stop buying your Valentine red roses'

By Holly Kintuka, Reporter

According to the gardnering adept reddish roses could beryllium a awesome of sorrow (Image: Getty)

Valentine's Day is conscionable astir the country and if you're not definite connected what to get your person good you can't spell incorrect with immoderate flowers. In information immoderate mightiness accidental flowers are a must.

However, the reddish roses that person go synonymous with the peculiar juncture mightiness not beryllium the benignant you privation to  acquisition your Valentine this year, due to the fact that according to this expert, red roses spell against everything that Valentine's Day is genuinely about.

Craig Wilson is the laminitis of Gardeners Dream, an online garderning retailer and helium revealed conscionable wherefore you should springiness reddish roses a miss this year.

The gardening adept said: "Believe it oregon not, the angiosperm astir commonly associated with Valentine's Day has rather the other connotation. 

"Roses successful the darkest shadiness of reddish mightiness look sultry and romantic, however, they tin beryllium a awesome of sorrow - which is not the emotion you privation to beryllium portraying to your loved 1 connected the 14th."

Red azaleas are conscionable arsenic romanticist arsenic reddish roses (Image: Getty)

But interest not, it doesn't mean you person to propulsion retired roses arsenic an enactment completely. For those who don't similar change, Craig  Wilson suggests trying retired "roses successful a much vibrant reddish hue."

There are besides galore different flowers that are a large enactment for Valentine's Day. According to the Gardners Dream founder, reddish azaleas are conscionable arsenic large arsenic your classical bouquet of roses.

He said: "Outside oregon roses, reddish azaleas person been our astir fashionable angiosperm successful the lead-up to Valentine's Day and tin marque an arsenic romanticist gift.

"Purchased successful its shrub signifier arsenic a long-lasting acquisition oregon incorprorated into a engaged bouquet, it is not wonderment wherefore this beauteous vibrant reddish angiosperm is expanding successful popularity successful the lead-up to the period of love."

Pink Hydrangea marque a large summation to immoderate bouquet (Image: Getty)

Fancy much options? Pink Hydrangea are besides a proposal arsenic the "big bold, hydrangeas marque for a breathtaking summation to immoderate bouquet."  The gardening adept swears by the flowers arsenic helium adds that hydrangeas successful a bouquet volition surely "wow your loved one."

Another angiosperm that is besides a "beautiful summation to immoderate bouquet" are rhododendrons, which are according to Craig "a must-purchase angiosperm this Valentine's Day."

There are 2 ways you tin spell astir gifting your loved 1 with these flowers, helium said: "You tin either inquire your florist to see them successful a bouquet oregon if you deliberation your Valentine volition cherish a acquisition that keeps connected giving, past you tin acquisition a shrub that tin beryllium planted successful the garden.”