By CS Ling

Attention Men!
If you have ever complained about "throwing away money" on flowers (especially since you paid an astronomical amount on Valentine's Day a week ago), you will want to make the most of this AMAZING deal !

Attention Women!
If you have ever stopped to admire flower bouquets but walked away after 10 minutes because you could not bring yourself to spending "that much" on fresh cut flowers, I have news for you !

On Sunday, at the northeast corner of Burrard Street and Hastings Street, I discovered that I can buy THREE bunches of fresh, beautiful, healthy tulips for only $ 5 !!!    THREE BUNCHES !! That's a MEGA DEAL !

Can you hear my excitement ?  Can you guess what I will be doing this upcoming week?  And you can be sure that I will be spending more than $5 !

Let's do the math ...  for $15 at a store, I get 15 stems of tulips.  At Niceto Yalan's tulip stand, for the same $15,  I get FORTY-FIVE stems of beautiful, colorful tulips!   Imagine the number of vases I can fill!  Imagine the number of people I can buy flowers for!  (A confession:  When I did the math, I calculated it three times because I could not believe I get FORTY-FIVE stems for only $15!!)

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. ~ Adabella Radici

Written by:  CS Ling
Photos by:  CS Ling
Quote  from www.quotegarden.com/flowers

CS Ling is a humanitarian at heart. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and 2008 USANA Children Champion Award.  CS is an occupational therapist and entrepreneur. Currently she offers her creative services to Boldfish Video Production as New Media Relations. Follow her on Twitter (@CS_Ling).