Florist News

Want to become a florist?
Floristry is a fascinating, varied and creative profession, which combines a wide range of skills, techniques and specialist knowledge. Being able to carefully and sensitively advise customers in times of sadness and happiness is one of the florist’s greatest skills. Flowers and foliage, artistically arranged, can be used for many different occasions – to celebrate a birth, mark an anniversary, offer congratulations, or wish someone a happy birthday. Beautiful funeral tributes bring comfort and express respect, whilst any wedding is not complete without an array of flora from your local Watson florist.
The florist’s calendar is filled with special occasions, including the traditional favourites of Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. Other annual celebrations including New Year, Easter, and Halloween can all be celebrated with flowers.

Flower container choices
You will find copper containers very useful for berries, bronze-coloured chrysanthemums and dahlias in the autumn. Glass or silver for roses, cow parsley and gypsophila; these light, delicate flowers show at their best in glass, and are fragile and cool-looking on a summer’s day. Blue and red glass are both most effective, blue filled with delphiniums, red with brilliant, vibrant red colours. A wooden box or bowl looks lovely with bright orange and yellow marigolds and it is also excellent for showing off the subtle tones and hues of dried materials. I usually search the house first for containers before purchasing from the Rosny florist.
Try to make the container part of the arrangement so that it blends with the flowers and does not stick out like a sore thumb. If you have nice porcelain, then picking up the colourings of the pattern of the china can also be very rewarding. A vegetable dish from your dinner service makes an ideal dinner table centre-piece, similarly the soup tureen or a sauce-boat can look superb. They all blend so well together when the table is set with the same china.

The positivity of flowers

Flowers are just flowers right? Well not according to some new research which has found that flowers have a knack of sparking positive emotions in all of us. Some fancy pants academics at The State University of New Jersey now claim that fresh flowers are a simple, cost effective way to improve our emotional health. They’re also a great way of getting us out of the proverbial (am I right guys, mm?). Fresh flowers have the ability to release positive emotions such as happiness, contentment and instil a calming influence. I guess the researchers didn’t interview the poor guy that pays for them.
My suspicion levels start to increase when I hear this kind of thing. Maybe the researchers are being funded by some florist organistaion? Well if this research is to be believed, I’m sure there will be a sharp increase in trade for your average Mount Isa florist.

Flower care 101

Keep your flowers in a cool area, 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Place your flowers out of direct sunlight, heating or cooling vents, and direct drafts from the sides or above. Don’t place your flowers on anything that gives off heat such as TV’s or heating radiators. Avoid leaving your flowers in the car otherwise your Sydney flower delivery Westport could wilt badly.

When your flowers arrive in wet Oasis foam…
Keep the floral foam soaked with water containing floral food. The floral shop should provide and extra packet with your arrangement. Be sure to follow the instructions on the floral food packet.

Dining in the pink
Most festive occasions centre round a meal. And, be it intimate or grand, nothing establishes the tone of that meal more effectively than the table setting. Here, a summery, romantic scheme takes as its basis every shade of pink, from creamy, blush-tinged roses to candy-floss- coloured peonies and fuchsia dendrobium orchids. The overall effect is one of lush extravagance, but it can been achieved with only three or four stems of each type of flower. A large goldfish bowl can make a dramatic centre piece, but this spectacular effect takes only minutes to create, while the flower heads in glasses at each place setting are similarly swift to put together. All of this can be arranged at the time of getting the flowers delivered Westport and need not be a stressful event.

Wildflowers and how to use them
The prospect of wild flowers growing in grass is a thrilling one, but I must sound a note of warning! If you have a large garden and an out of the way place where grass and wild flowers may grow in happy confusion, that is fine. But should your garden be small I would strongly recommend you to move with caution — after the first few weeks of delight the long grass will start to look a mess and very unattractive. It will also be difficult to get it back into shape as a lawn again. I believe Lady Bird Johnson was responsible for having thousands of seeds scattered on the road verges of Washington during her husband’s presidency, and I think that was a lovely thing to do.
If you are thinking of gathering wild flowers from the countryside it is important to have a clear view about conservation. Nowadays with the ever- increasing amount of building it is essential that we watch over our precious native plants. This is especially necessary in rural areas where the rarer species such as orchis, fritillaria, lily of the valley and other delightful flowers are at risk. The sorts of wild flowers you can safely pick are what I call ‘wayside flowers’ — wild flowers that grow along the sides of roads and which will be cut down anyway by the council when the verges are ‘tidied’. You will be surprised how many wild flowers delivered Chislehurst you will find — I have used dog daisies, which spring up in hundreds whenever any waste land is disturbed, sorrel and docks, hemlock, cow parsnip, parsley and carrot (better know in the USA as Queen Anne’s lace), willow herb and grasses of all kinds. They all flourish abundantly and picking them will not worry the conservationists.

Which patio for you?
Patio gardens come in two categories. One is a copy of the old Spanish, or perhaps Italian, courtyard garden where pots are massed together, rather like plants in a garden. And in these Mediterranean countries I am always fascinated to see what they grow in the pots, such unexpected things turn up, like aucuba — what I call the spotted laurel — which appears to be a great favourite, as is bergenia. These seem to me strange pot plants but they thrive and give a lovely feeling of coolness in a blistering hot Spanish sun, and the shade of the courtyards must be like heaven to those who live with that burning heat every day. The last time I had flowers delivered Beddington for this purpose, I included some extra foliage to complement the wonderful colours. The result was quite breath taking!

Flower Power

Women are for more romantic than men on the whole, and men should never underestimate the power of such a simple gesture as giving flowers. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate; you can start with a single red rose. As cheap as you can get roses though, I would certainly buy a dozen for anyone who was really special to me, no need to be mean about it is there? For less than $100 you could get the most amazing bouquet of flowers delivered Kingshurst by your florist to the one you love. Now if that isn't value for money I don't know what is.
When you compare the cost of a floral arrangement to something like a piece of jewellery or dinner for two, the value really starts to show through. Women remember such gestures forever, and you'll certainly be glad that you took the trouble to send her a beautiful bouquet.

Seasonal Flowers
Flowers most often requested by season:
Summer
Foxgloves, sweet peas, roses, snapdragons, lilies and liatris are among the flowers that are associated with this time of year. Cool blues and white are appealing during summer, when the weather is hot and sultry.
Autumn
Russets, warm reds and oranges are the colours that we associate with the cooler temperatures of autumn, chrysanthemums, dahlias, asters and nerines being among the seasonal flowers delivered Streetly regularly at this time.
Winter
Snowdrops, winter-flowering jasmine and viburnums are associated with this bleak time of year, along with evergreens.