This last weekend saw the horrific killing in Norway of nearly a hundred people, many of them young, whose lives, full of potential, have now been extinguished.

After initial media images of the terrible carnage, we now have the tender photographs of relatives and loved ones laying floral tributes to those who were killed. But, as with all major incidents these days, the tributes have been supplanted with many times more from the public expressing their shock at the event and their empathy as well as sympathy with the families of the victims.

The advertising slogan used to go something like ‘Say it with flowers’ and often, when words can’t quite express what we want to say on occasions such as this, flowers do convey our compassionate thoughts and are there as a semi-permanent reminder both at the scene and in photographs.

Flowers can say so much at happy times too so if you’ve got something you want to say but don’t know how to say it, try flowers from Cosmea Gardens.