The annual convention of the Texas State Florist’s Association at the San Marcos Embassy Suites Spa and Conference Center this weekend,  will yield some sweet smelling benefits for Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC).

After the convention, dozens of Texas florists will rearrange many of the floral displays at the convention and deliver more than 150 bouquets to the medical center.

The flowers will find new homes in patient rooms, at nurses stations, in common rooms, lobbies, break rooms and cafeterias all around the hospital Monday at 9 a.m., when the flowers will be delivered after the completion of the conference.

Aside from their obvious beauty and lovely fragrance, there is a very good reason to give and send flowers to hospital patients and others. A 2006 study at Harvard University revealed that putting bouquets of flowers in the most used living areas of the home picked up the moods of residents within a week. The study claimed that the good mood actually transferred to the workplace, making the floral display owners happier at work as well. Read more at www.newstreamz.com