We're not a temperate climate; however, if we marketed to florists for Valentine's Day, we'd certainly have tulips, narcissus, lilies (just to name a few) nearly in bloom.

Today, this is the best I could do with what I had to work with in our non-temperate outdoorsy environment.
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Trish, your snow man floral arrangement made me laugh. On a day of sadness I really appreciated it. Thanks. Kat

Steve, we always sell Valentines bouguets, since we discovered Amaryllis as a winter cut. We also force early tulips in crates. It depends a lot on the year but some of the other flowers we have used are Hellebore, wild cherry (One particular tree out in the woods tends to bloom mid Feb, but not this year), forced Foysythia, pussy willows Japanese, black and Rubykins), winter honeysuckle (Oh man, what fragrance!), Viburnum Pink Dawn, red dogwood twigs. The Amaryllis flower is the centerpeice and all the others make up the supporting cast.

It was so cold this year we had to wait for the frost to melt before we could put our bouquets out on our outdoor stands. We were worried about the amaryllis, as there was also a cold north wind blowing but they made it through the day just fine.

Hey lizalily-do you have a photo of your valentine bouquets? They sound lovely. Can you provide a hint of where to buy the winter honeysuckle? Have you tried any of the witch hazels?

Most of my woody shrubs were under snow for almost a month and then under water from creek flooding for a few days. It's been quite the memorable winter for an area where we expect mostly rain & a little cold, with a few snow flakes that don't stick to the ground most years.

Glad to see that someone else likes the fragrance of winter honeysuckle. I grow both lonicera fragrantissima and lonicera purpussi and wouldn't consider a garden without one or the other.

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Black pussy willow, hellebore and amaryllis Amigo and Fairy tale.

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Pretty flowers Lizalily! I just have two hellebores in my perennial gardens so I'd hate to cut them. Are you able to leave your glorious Amaryllis in the ground in your zone? Are you in about zone 8? It's too cold here for me to leave them overwinter. :( No wait, since you are cutting them now you obviously must be forcing them in pots indoors, no reason I couldn't do that too! :)

Hey by the way, my arrangement above still looks almost the same a month later! Only the Nandina leaves are starting to brown up. The dried materials of course aren't going to change but impressively the vinca and Santolina continue to look fine too. I pulled a branch of Santolina out of the vase this evening to examine it more closely and I discovered that it had put out a couple of roots and was happily starting to grow in the vase! I guess that's the best kind of cut flower. :)

Hey lizalily~what are the red catkins on the left? are those the black pussy willow? I love pussy willows, they remind me of when I was little.