Funerals are always a difficult time. But in some traditions, flowers help lighten the pain. The customer asked for an all yellow arrangement.   So we used 42 (three and a half dozen) yellow roses on a standing easel. Continue reading →

Funerals are always a difficult time. But in some traditions, flowers help lighten the pain. The customer asked for an all red standing spray so we used 24 long stem red roses. Continue reading →

Funerals are always a difficult time.   But in some traditions, flowers help lighten the pain.   The customer asked for an all white standing spray.   We used mostly orchids (cymbidium and dendrobium) though we also added lilies and mini- calla lilies. Continue reading →

This particular centerpiece was used by someone celebrating the 50th anniversary of his bar mitzvah.  Some people would use only blue and white.  I have two words to describe a blue and white arrangement: "BOR-ING!"   I like to add yellow to spice it up.   And, in this case... Continue reading →

People like to use rose petals for those special occasions.   Each bag of rose petals has about 125 petals in it. Continue reading →

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1176287545732481Mother Nature at work!   Beautiful! Continue reading →

Some people have this concept that anything Jewish (brit milah, bar mitzvah, Passover or Hanukkah) has to have a blue and white flower arrangement.   I have two words for that: BOR-ING!    So what is a Hanukkah flower arrangement?   We added Hanukkah candles and dreidels (draydles) to the... Continue reading →

There is a style of floral design called "grouping," where similar flowers are placed together in the arrangement instead of mixing them symetrically throughout the arrangement.   This arrangement takes that idea to an extreme where all the roses are grouped together pointing in one direction while the orchids are... Continue reading →

Customers always ask for a bright and cheery arrangement  (do they really think we do dull and depressing flower arrangements????), especially when the recipient is not well.   Yellow is considered the bright and cheery color because it represents the sun and sunlight.   Through the years, we have offered... Continue reading →

Peter Demetreus, the man who built Surf Florist into a floral powerhouse on Miami Beach and from whom I bought the business back in 1988, developed this arrangement based on a German style called Biedermeier.    Here we have adjusted the arrangement using the fall colors, also called Earth Tones:... Continue reading →