Irish florists are leaving free bouquets around towns to make people smile

Florist hope the initiative will help promote and support independent florists in Ireland, who are in stiff competition with large supermarkets.

Florists in Ireland have rallied together to a bid to make Irish people smile with the first ever National Lonely Bouquet Day, writes Anna O'Donoghue.

On Monday, November 27 florists all over Ireland will be leaving big beautiful bouquets of flowers in random locations around their local cities and villages for a lucky strangers to find and take home.