Colleen Oakes, author of the Elly in Bloom series and recently released Queen of Hearts series, was a florist for a number of years before becoming a writer.    She recently wrote, "10 Things You Should Never Tell Your Wedding Florist."   These are real life questions we in the... Continue reading →

I am often asked to "send your prettiest flower arrangement."   There is no such thing as the "prettiest flower arrangement."  Rather, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) has different likes and dislikes when it comes to flowers.  So if you know and... Continue reading →

Funerals are always a difficult time. But in some traditions, flowers help lighten the pain. The customer asked for a bright and cheery arrangement, something that has a WOW factor.   So we used tropical flowers such as birds of paradise, red ginger, red anthurium and orange pin cushion protea... Continue reading →

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 →