While the cold winds blow and fresh snow coats the ground outside, many people are bundled up under soft blankets, sipping hot beverages by the fireplace, surrounded by loved ones. Embracing these simple moments and finding peace, comfort, ease, connection, gratitude, and presence is also referred to as the Danish tradition called “hygge.” Hygge can be found and experienced in a myriad of ways, from family dinners to brisk afternoon walks and admiring holiday lights to reading our favorite novel. Here at Wishing Well Flowers and Gifts, the top florist in West Linn, our favorite way to experience hygge is through fresh winter blooms and dazzling holiday bouquets. Whether adorning your dining table, brightening your living room, or gifting to loved ones, flowers allow us to feel hygge and admire the season’s beauty from all angles.

Different Ways Hygge Can Come from Flowers

Get Into the Spirit By Decorating With Festive Seasonal Flowers and Greenery

A common way to find hygge during the winter months is by filling your space with fuzzy blankets and squishy pillows, lighting fragrant candles, decorating for the holidays, and playing relaxing music or tunes that put a smile on your face. However, enhancing your environment with Mother Nature’s gifts of colorful flowers and revitalizing plants delights the senses with sweet aromas, delicate petals, and holiday hues.

Gift Flowers to Loved Ones to Deepen Bonds and Spread Joy

It’s quite challenging to find hygge without connecting with others, being present around loved ones, or having quality time with friends. From distance to busy schedules, spending time with everyone we hold dear during the holiday season can feel impossible. Flowers are a beautiful way to hold space for one another or “be there in spirit.” Whether you send a holiday bouquet to someone far away, bring one for your host or hostess, or receive one yourself for the dinner table, this simple gesture is full of charm, splendor, and hygge.

Invite Health, Peace, and Mindfulness into Hectic Holiday Schedules

Time and time again, Mother Nature has proven to be the best medicine for things like stress, anxiety, seasonal depression, and the not-so-cheerful moments the holiday season might bring. If you are struggling to find hygge or hoping to enhance your inner peace, try bringing home a serene and alluring arrangement of winter flowers. Bold red blooms, snowy white petals, and a bed of fresh, luxurious greenery can be the ideal dose of holiday tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle.

Create Comfort in Your Home With Simple Pleasures

Hygge might be a home filled with laughter, an evening with a novel, a cup of tea, and a furry friend lounging by the fireplace, a “hectic” holiday dinner with the biggest floral centerpiece as the star of the show, or a quiet morning admiring a serene snowfall. Whatever the day brings, enhance every moment with seasonal stems. In many ways, they’re the purest form of hygge, offering gifts of presence, peace, care, and beauty in simplicity.

Create New Traditions, But Keep the Old

Traditions are bursting with hygge! These moments create brilliant feelings of abundance, togetherness, engagement, belonging, and presence. This year, allow flowers to inspire some new traditions. Go shopping for lovely poinsettias with a friend, tend to a winter garden with your parent or grandparent, send a seasonal arrangement to those faraway loved ones, or select the perfect holiday centerpiece with a sibling or cousin. However winter blooms feed your creativity and inspiration, you can look forward to these new traditions with friends and family year after year.

Hygge is often defined as “when the ordinary lights up your soul.” Here at Wishing Well Flowers and Gifts in West Linn, our collection of holiday arrangements and winter bouquets is sure to do just that.