The Flowers & Plants Association is the UK’s promotional organisation for all commercially grown cut flowers and indoor plants. The FPA offers expert, unbiased advice on fresh flowers and indoor plants to consumers, press and trade. So we invited Andrea Caldecourt, who runs the Flowers & Plants Association, to write a guest post for us [...]
Filed under: Customers, Flowers, Guest Posts on April 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
There have been three winners with Arena Flowers this month, in various ways. So, in ascending order of importance, we have:
1. £50 Bouquet Newsletter Winner
Every time we send our main newsletter (once a month), someone wins a free order of value up to £50. This month’s lucky winner was Mark S from Worcestershire. [...]
Filed under: Customers, Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
As consumer demand for sustainable and ethical living grows, people are increasingly buying products that boast strong ethical credentials. This trend is equally true in the flowers industry, but consumers can be confused by the numerous different “ethical” standards for flowers, “Fairtrade” and “Fair Flowers Fair Plants” (FFP) being the two most widespread. In [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Flowers, Guest Posts on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
They all begin with an R! Our red roses are typically sent to woo loved ones (sometimes in truly spectacular fashion). Occasionally, however, they get put to a different use. For instance, Rachel, friend of Arena and occasional adviser on matters ethical, had a leaving party not long ago. Everyone came as [...]
Filed under: Customers, Flowers, General on April 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
When out for stroll last weekend, Georgi spotted this lovers’ embrace between two beautiful spring flowers – the eternal favourite the daffodil (aka the narcissus) and some purple tulips. A beautiful image of nature at work. Click to enlarge.
Have a great weekend!
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Filed under: Flowers, General on April 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
We invited Emma Cake from “The Big Bouquet Wedding Photographer” to write a guest post for us. Here is her very helpful post on how to hire a great wedding photographer. Thanks, Emma.
Type in ‘Wedding Photographer’ and your location into Google and take a look at how many results come up on your [...]
Filed under: General, Guest Posts, Weddings on April 8th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We get a lot of compliments about our orchids and they really are the most beautiful, elegant plants. Actually, they are not ordinary plants, they are epiphytic plants; an epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant without taking food from it and our orchids are grown on pieces of bark with the aerial [...]
Filed under: Customers, Flowers on April 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every year we celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, commemorate religious events, honour individuals, and other equally important occasions such as the Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas etc. However, April 1st stands out as a truly bizarre celebration of foolishness and stupidity. While some unsuspecting individuals go about their day in a regular manner and fall to tricks [...]
Filed under: General, Matters Webby on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
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