Yes, that really is a full size elephant made of flowers!
The Haarlem Annual Flower Parade or the Bloemen Corso as it is known locally is a spectacular display of floral wizardry. With a cavalcade of twenty elaborate floats and thirty attractively decorated luxury cars, the event is replete with the vibrant splendour of superskilled floristry. […]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, General on May 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Valentine’s Day is the busiest day of the year at Flowers HQ. We plan and organise the day well in advance to try to minimise hiccups and to ensure we successfully bring lovers together on the big day. It’s not easy, as we do about 20 times more orders than normal on the […]
Filed under: Distribution, Floristry, Flowers, Mega Days, Operations, Valentine's Day on February 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
We often get asked about floristry, how we make our bouquets, what goes into them and so on. So we thought it might be fun to actually show our readers first hand. With Valentine’s Day exactly a month away, we felt that we had to choose the most romantic bouquet of all for […]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, Mega Days, Valentine's Day on January 14th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It has to be said that our florists are some of the jolliest people I have ever met. It’s not difficult to imagine that spending every day with flowers puts a smile on your face so it’s always nice to come in to the office via the warehouse in the morning.
A typical path in […]
Filed under: Christmas Flowers, Distribution, Floristry, Flowers, General, Mega Days on December 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For those that don’t know, sesame snaps are these sort of stick confectionery type things made by coating sesame seeds with caramelised sugar and letting the whole thing set (at least as far as I can tell). They’re probably not that healthy (though sesame seeds are pretty good for you) but by jove they’re […]
Filed under: Floristry, General, Marketing on July 9th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
We just got our copy of the Flower & Plants Association’s annual report through. The F&PA is the UK’s industry body, tasked with supporting and promoting the UK flower and indoor plants industry. There are a couple of interesting statistics in there:
£2.2bn of flowers and £509m of plants were sold in 2006; and
That […]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers on June 9th, 2007 | No Comments »
