Marry when June roses grow and over land and sea you’ll go… Although late summer is fast becoming a popular time of the year for matrimonial activity, June is the traditonal month for weddings and anniversaries. This is because June is traditionally considered to be the luckiest month to marry in as it is named [...]
Filed under: Distribution, Floristry, Flowers, General, Operations, Weddings on June 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here at Arena Flowers we get a lot of special orders both large and small – sometimes for a particular birthday where the number of flowers is important or sometimes for the re-creation of a wedding bouquet for an anniversary. We also receive requests for flower stems to be distributed at special events, such as [...]
Filed under: Customers, Distribution, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Operations, Setting up on June 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sam mentioned a new arrival for his family last week, and this week it’s the turn of the Arena family to welcome its own new member: our Dutch language site, ArenaBloemen.nl! Our team spends a huge amount of time and effort securing deals direct with the best growers so that we can ensure great prices, [...]
Filed under: Distribution, Floristry, International Flowers, Marketing, Matters Webby, Operations, Setting up, Start up on June 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My name is Sarah, I work for the Flowers & Plants Association, and I’m here to offer hot tips and advice every few weeks on flower fashion trends, quick arrangement tips, and to answer any questions you may have about flowers or plants – care tips, what to have for your wedding day, what your [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, Guest Posts, Valentine's Day, Weddings on May 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Floristry, Flowers, General on May 2nd, 2008 | 5 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 14th February [...]
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 the demonstration. [...]
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 tasty! [...]
Filed under: Floristry, General, Marketing on July 9th, 2007 | 8 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 »
