The Garden Club of LBI’s Youth Committee recently met to create a flower arrangement for Valentine’s Day. Thirteen children in grades three to six gathered with co-chairs Ginny Scarlatelli and Jeannette Michelson at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City.

Since the color of flowers sent romantic messages in Victorian times, scarlet carnations were chosen for love, pink alstroemerias for happiness and white mini carnations for innocence and purity.