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March 1, 2025

Selby March Floral Selection


The Bloom Central flower delivery of the month for March in Selby is the Blushing Bouquet

March flower delivery item for Selby

The Blushing Bouquet floral arrangement from Bloom Central is simply delightful. It exudes a sense of elegance and grace that anyone would appreciate. The pink hues and delicate blooms make it the perfect gift for any occasion.

With its stunning array of gerberas, mini carnations, spray roses and button poms, this bouquet captures the essence of beauty in every petal. Each flower is carefully hand-picked to create a harmonious blend of colors that will surely brighten up any room.

The recipient will swoon over the lovely fragrance that fills the air when they receive this stunning arrangement. Its gentle scent brings back memories of blooming gardens on warm summer days, creating an atmosphere of tranquility and serenity.

The Blushing Bouquet's design is both modern and classic at once. The expert florists at Bloom Central have skillfully arranged each stem to create a balanced composition that is pleasing to the eye. Every detail has been meticulously considered, resulting in a masterpiece fit for display in any home or office.

Not only does this elegant bouquet bring joy through its visual appeal, but it also serves as a reminder of love and appreciation whenever seen or admired throughout the day - bringing smiles even during those hectic moments.

Furthermore, ordering from Bloom Central guarantees top-notch quality - ensuring every stem remains fresh upon arrival! What better way to spoil someone than with flowers that are guaranteed to stay vibrant for days?

The Blushing Bouquet from Bloom Central encompasses everything one could desire - beauty, elegance and simplicity.

Selby Florist


We have beautiful floral arrangements and lively green plants that make the perfect gift for an anniversary, birthday, holiday or just to say I'm thinking about you. We can make a flower delivery to anywhere in Selby IL including hospitals, businesses, private homes, places of worship or public venues. Orders may be placed up to a month in advance or as late 1PM on the delivery date if you've procrastinated just a bit.

Two of our most popular floral arrangements are the Stunning Beauty Bouquet (which includes stargazer lilies, purple lisianthus, purple matsumoto asters, red roses, lavender carnations and red Peruvian lilies) and the Simply Sweet Bouquet (which includes yellow roses, lavender daisy chrysanthemums, pink asiatic lilies and light yellow miniature carnations). Either of these or any of our dozens of other special selections can be ready and delivered by your local Selby florist today!

Would you prefer to place your flower order in person rather than online? Here are a few Selby florists you may contact:


Angel's Accents
777 N 3029th Rd
North Utica, IL 61373


Blythe Flowers and Garden Center
1231 La Salle St
Ottawa, IL 61350


Flowers By Julia
811 E Peru St
Princeton, IL 61356


Flowers Plus
216 E Main St
Streator, IL 61364


Johnson's Floral & Gift
37 S Main St
Sandwich, IL 60548


Mann's Floral Shoppe
7200 Old Stage Rd
Morris, IL 60450


The Flower Mart
228 Gooding St
La Salle, IL 61301


Toni's Flower & Gift Shoppe
202 S McCoy St
Granville, IL 61326


Valley Flowers And Gifts
130 E Dakota St
Spring Valley, IL 61362


Valley Flowers
608 3rd St
La Salle, IL 61301


Sending a sympathy floral arrangement is a means of sharing the burden of losing a loved one and also a means of providing support in a difficult time. Whether you will be attending the service or not, be rest assured that Bloom Central will deliver a high quality arrangement that is befitting the occasion. Flower deliveries can be made to any funeral home in the Selby area including:


Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory
2011 S 4th St
DeKalb, IL 60115


Catholic Cemetery Association
7519 N Allen Rd
Peoria, IL 61614


Chicago Pastor
Park Ridge
Chicago, IL 60631


Fairview Park Cemetery Assoc
1600 S 1st St
DeKalb, IL 60115


McFall Monument
1801 W Main St
Galesburg, IL 61401


Merritt Funeral Home
800 Monroe St
Mendota, IL 61342


Norberg Memorial Home, Inc. & Monuments
701 E Thompson St
Princeton, IL 61356


Reiners Memorials
603 E Church St
Sandwich, IL 60548


Schilling-Preston Funeral Home
213 Crawford Ave
Dixon, IL 61021


Seals-Campbell Funeral Home
1009 E Bluff St
Marseilles, IL 61341


Swan Lake Memory Garden Chapel Mausoleum
4601 Route 150
Peoria, IL 61615


Weber-Hurd Funeral Home
1107 N 4th St
Chillicothe, IL 61523


Spotlight on Burgundy Dahlias

Burgundy Dahlias don’t just bloom ... they smolder. Stems like tempered steel hoist blooms so densely petaled they seem less like flowers and more like botanical furnaces, radiating a heat that has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with chromatic intensity. These aren’t your grandmother’s dahlias. They’re velvet revolutions. Each blossom a pom-pom dipped in crushed garnets, a chromatic event that makes the surrounding air vibrate with residual warmth. Other flowers politely occupy vases. Burgundy Dahlias annex them.

Consider the physics of their color. That burgundy isn’t a single hue but a layered argument—merlot at the center bleeding into oxblood at the edges, with undertones of plum and burnt umber that surface depending on the light. Morning sun reveals hidden purples. Twilight deepens them to near-black. Pair them with cream-colored roses, and the roses don’t just pale ... they ignite, their ivory suddenly luminous against the dahlia’s depths. Pair them with chartreuse orchids, and the arrangement becomes a high-wire act—decadence balancing precariously on vibrancy.

Their structure mocks nature’s usual restraint. Hundreds of petals spiral inward with fractal precision, each one slightly cupped, catching light and shadow like miniature satellite dishes. The effect isn’t floral. It’s architectural. A bloom so dense it seems to defy gravity, as if the stem isn’t so much supporting it as tethering it to earth. Touch one, and the petals yield slightly—cool, waxy, resilient—before pushing back with the quiet confidence of something that knows its own worth.

Longevity is their quiet flex. While peonies shed petals like nervous tics and ranunculus collapse after three days, Burgundy Dahlias dig in. Stems drink water with the focus of marathoners, blooms maintaining their structural integrity for weeks. Forget to change the vase water? They’ll forgive you. Leave them in a dim corner? They’ll outlast your interest in the rest of the arrangement. These aren’t delicate divas. They’re stoics in velvet cloaks.

They’re shape-shifters with range. A single bloom in a black vase on a console table is a modernist statement. A dozen crammed into a galvanized bucket? A baroque explosion. Float one in a shallow bowl, and it becomes a meditation on depth. Cluster them with seeded eucalyptus, and the pairing whispers of autumn forests and the precise moment when summer’s lushness begins its turn toward decay.

Scent is negligible. A faint green whisper, nothing more. This isn’t an oversight. It’s strategy. Burgundy Dahlias reject olfactory competition. They’re here for your eyes, your Instagram grid’s moody aspirations, your retinas’ undivided surrender. Let gardenias handle perfume. These blooms deal in visual sonics.

Symbolism clings to them like morning dew. Emblems of dignified passion ... autumnal centerpieces ... floral shorthand for "I appreciate nuance." None of that matters when you’re facing a bloom so magnetically dark it makes the surrounding colors rearrange themselves in deference.

When they finally fade (weeks later, reluctantly), they do it with dignity. Petals crisp at the edges first, colors deepening to vintage wine stains before retreating altogether. Keep them anyway. A dried Burgundy Dahlia in a November window isn’t a corpse ... it’s a fossilized ember. A promise that next season’s fire is already banked beneath the soil.

You could default to red roses, to cheerful zinnias, to flowers that shout their intentions. But why? Burgundy Dahlias refuse to be obvious. They’re the uninvited guests who arrive in tailored suits, rearrange your furniture, and leave you questioning why you ever decorated with anything else. An arrangement with them isn’t décor ... it’s a recalibration. Proof that sometimes, the most memorable beauty doesn’t blaze ... it simmers.