(Okay, it can’t be “big” trouble. Life or death? Try the Mayo Clinic . Bankruptcy? Check out Comedy Central (hey, if you lose your sense of humor . . .). Cheated on your significant other? Talk to Dr. Phil (sorry, we weren’t the ones who cheated . . .)

Still with us? Good. (If we lost you to Dr. Phil, you're way beyond our help.)

On this site, we can help you out with the kinds of things flowers can fix. Saved by the bud.
Get it?

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Girls like flowers. And there are a gazzillion ways a smart guy can use flowers to get his bud (note euphemism) out of a sling or to avoid the sling in the first place. As much as possible, we’ll try to put the flower fix into context, offering some other helpful hints appropriate to the situation. This will not be rocket science. Our goal is to get you through the crisis. (*For Disclosure of who is dispensing this sage advice and why, click here.)

You basically have two main weapons in your arsenal: potted flowers and cut flowers. Potted flowers are, well, in a pot. They are growing. Cut flowers are (yes, you’re getting it) cut. They are no longer officially growing, except tulips, but that’s another story.

Use this site any way you like. You can go directly to the flower information (cut flowers or potted flowers . Or you can look at our Scenarios section, and decide which bud’s right for yours.