Nancy Etcoff, a researcher at Harvard has studied the effects of flowers on our happiness. Here is a PR release: article
Looks like we don't have to feel guilty about having flowers around us all the time. In fact, they're therapeutic!
This explains my love of flowers and their therapeutic effects of just being around them. As a child, I kept my own garden of daffodils and bearded iris. I helped maintain the tulips, garlic, roses and crocosmia in our yard. When anything smelled (including the bathroom), I would get my mother's 'Tea Rose' from the Perfumer's Workshop and spray it everywhere so that our house smelled like flowers. :)
Even now, I look at my favorite bi-color yellow/red roses or freesia in photo form to give myself a mood lift. Wouldn't it be lovely if you had a house or room filled with these?
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