Bobby Darin wrote a song with the same name. Pretty great tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDK_R9JVQgc
The song has nothing to do with the topic... just the title. It's about a girl's parents freezing to death.
Artificial Flowers is the perfect title though. While the flowers may be real to the little girl in the song, they're meaningless to everyone else. They're meaning is different however. Rosemary is more herb than flower, but it represents faithfulness and memory. Pansies, for thoughts. At this point they all seem to be concerning the mind. She then says "There's rue for you, and here's some for me; we/ may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. You <must> wear / your rue with a difference" (4.5. 205) At this point the flowers start to gain some meaning; the emotions associated with them are to be displayed. This is why Ophelia is giving them away - Hamlet's madness has caused her not to show or need her emotions anymore, and thus is giving them away.
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