The title ‘Earth Laughs in Flowers’ comes from the poem “Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1846), in which flowers articulate nature’s ridicule and contempt for human arrogance in the pretence to dominion over earth. David LaChapelle, an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director and artist, best known for his photography, has [...]
Filed under: Flowers, General on April 29th, 2013 | No Comments »
When I crossed the 2012 London Marathon finish line I declared, “I will NEVER be doing that again”, yet this spring I found myself once again training for the London Marathon. How did that happen? Good question. Having crossed the finish line in 2012 and hobbled home, I found myself watching snippets of the event. [...]
Filed under: General, Good Causes & Charities on April 24th, 2013 | No Comments »
A world without funny TwitPics would be like a world without bacon. Good job it’s not true. Mmmmm delicious bacon. Here for you to enjoy are the 10 most viewed @ArenaFlowers TwitPics ever. Please note that to heighten the excitement, we’ve posted these in reverse order of popularity. Please try to contain yourself. 10. Baby’s [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing, Matters Webby on April 8th, 2013 | No Comments »
No, this is not The Hoff’s cooking blog but an enlightening article on a park that changes according to nature… Keukenhof. Based in Holland, Keukenhof is in fact the world’s most beautiful spring garden with over 32 hectares of flowers. It offers 30 inspiring flower shows, 7 amazing gardens along with 100s of wonderful works [...]
Filed under: General on April 2nd, 2013 | No Comments »
Win a FREE AmazeBox worth up to £19.99 As part of the launch of our new website www.amazebox.co.uk, we have whipped up a fantastic competition. All you have to do is send in a picture of yourself conveying how much you want a FREE AmazeBox, along with your name and email address. We’re not judging [...]
Filed under: AmazeBox, General, Marketing on March 27th, 2013 | No Comments »
Hello. A quick post to say I’m delighted to announce our new website (http://www.amazebox.co.uk) which has been in public beta for a few weeks now. We’ve been thinking about this for some time but haven’t had the time to build it or release it. Well, now we have. We hope you like it. More info below [...]
Filed under: AmazeBox, General, Marketing, Matters Webby, Setting up, Start up on March 14th, 2013 | 2 Comments »
As we grow older so do our Mums, but no matter how old they are there’s always room for them to commit some sort of cringeworthy crime. It’s the law! There have been several instances where you have probably wanted to find the nearest rock and climb under it. We’ve all had them, but how [...]
Filed under: General, Mother's Day on February 28th, 2013 | No Comments »
Dear Friends and Customers, Valentine’s Day is an important time of year for us. We are fiercely proud of our reputation for delivering the freshest flowers and we prepare hard for this busy time of year. So when we experienced a technical supply-chain issue which threatened to slow production just before the big day itself, [...]
Filed under: General on February 28th, 2013 | Comments Off
Dear Friends and Customers, We take great pride in our reputation for delivering the freshest flowers for a great price. That is why I’d like to personally apologise to a small group of our customers today for failing to deliver their bouquets for Valentine’s Day on time. As a result of logistical issues in our supply [...]
Filed under: General on February 14th, 2013 | Comments Off
Competition time! We’re a flower shop (the best!) so obviously for our competition we’re giving away free tickets to, erm, a Zombie Experience. It makes perfect sense! Okay, it doesn’t but zombies are awesome and fun (also: quite deadly, especially the recent spate of fast-running ones) so we’re going to do the competition anyway, courtesy of [...]
Filed under: General, Marketing on October 10th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
