Flowers, like clowns, arrive on special occasions, brighten up a room, and last longer when kept hydrated. Entertain with flowers with today’s Groupon: for $30, you get $60 worth of holiday flowers and gifts at Virginia Beach Florist. Virginia Beach Florist can deliver to Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, but delivery fees are not included in today’s Groupon. This Groupon expires February 10, 2012.
The blossom minders at Virginia Beach Florist have been arranging fresh petals for birthdays, holidays, and other events for 60 years. A Merry amaryllis ($54.95) or classic poinsettia ($44.95) heralds winter’s arrival with a bursts of brilliant red petals that spring out of an arching stem, and a pairing of tulips and white pine acts as a benchmark of verdant beauty to which all Christmas trees should aspire. Customers can send a significant other a dozen red Christmas roses ($69.95) for a romantic gift in a ruby-red vase or pique appetites with a fruit and poinsettia basket, stuffed with apples, pears, bananas, and oranges and crowned with a crimson poinsettia plant ($44.95). Welcome guests with a holiday homecoming basket ($54.95) featuring festive red poinsettia and white cyclamen amid greenery and a taffeta bow, or a hand-painted Christmas carolers tableau by Thomas Kinkade ($82.95) festoons gatherings with an outdoor Christmas scene that lights up and plays “Deck the Halls,” surrounded by a bed of noble fir and holly, red roses, and white-button chrysanthemums that echo both the radiance of a blanket of snow and the sweet scent of antacid tablets.
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The Groupon Guide to: Ice-Cream Flavors
Though unflavored ice cream overwhelmingly remains the most popular, more daring desserters have taken to experimenting with "flavored" ice creams that simulate the taste of other popular foods such as candy or berries. What are some ice-cream flavors worth trying?
• Chocolate and Vanilla: Although officially paired up in the Oxford Dictionary of Medical Opposites, chocolate and vanilla actually have much in common—both are derived from beans (the cacao and vanilla beans, respectively) and both are effective nonsurgical cures for throat hardening.
Frozen Fact: Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, but vanilla in small quantities will allow them to smell the future.
• Spumoni: A tricolor blend, spumoni usually consists of chocolate or vanilla ice cream sandwiched between one pink flavor and one green flavor, often identified by dessert scientists as "watermelon and the green part of the watermelon."
Frozen Fact: Allowing spumoni layers to melt into a single liquid will produce a substance indistinguishable from mercury.
• SpongeBob's Head: Typically served mounted on a miniature wooden plank.
Frozen Fact: The gumballs are just his eyes!
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