When we lived in Germany I worked in the floral shop on base. My friend and I, both artists, sewers, etc winged the whole thing- we had no idea what we were really doing but hey- we did great and had fun. At Christmas many soldiers had been invited to have dinner at the homes of German families and wanted flowers. We looked around at our tiny stock(the shop was the size of a one car garage) and made bouquets from Red Carnations white dasies and eucalyptus. Lovely boquets and we sold alot. After the fact the shop owner, who was german, came to check on us. We with pride showed how high our sales had been and he asked what we had done to bring them up so high for those few days. When we told him he shock his head. Apparently daisies and carnations were traditional funeral flowers in Germany and were never to be given to a host of a meal. Oops! Well, he must have realized were wernet hopeless we came up with some ideas that quadrupabled his sales above even hi largest shop for valentines day