Anaheim CA Flowers by Avante Gardens Florist
15 March 2010
Battle of the Flower Designers Competition
It’s been almost 2 decades since I last entered a floral design competition but one of the young designers at FlowerChat.com asked us to be part of a fun March Madness Floral Design Challenge so we agreed… in part to encourage more local florists to show Read More...
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14 March 2010
Organic Center VIP Dinner Flowers
For the third consecutive year, we’re delighted to have been selected by the Organic Center to create the floral designs for their VIP Dinner in conjunction with the Expo West Natural Products Show . Each year the flowers have been donated by OrganicBouquet.com Read More...
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14 March 2010
Flowers for Expo West - the Natural Products Show
One of our favorite trade shows returned to Anaheim this weekend - Natural Products Expo West . The massive show utilizes the entire Anaheim Convention Center and adjacent hotels, features more than 1700 exhibitors of organic, natural and healthy products Read More...
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09 February 2010
Local Florists vs Online Florists
Kudos to Bob Sullivan of MSNBC for his well written article about online flower companies' low-ball flower prices loaded with hidden fees: Online Flower Prices Still Grow and Grow . "If you study hidden fees and price distortions for a living, Valentine's Read More...
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09 February 2010
Valentine's Day Flowers for Anaheim and Orange County
Just a quick reminder that Avante Gardens Florist will be delivering Valentine's Day flowers on both Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14 to Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea, Anaheim Hills, Fullerton, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Orange, Tustin, Villa Park, Read More...
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15 December 2009
We're a Google Favorite Place
The buzz about Google sending out Favorite Places packets with window decals to 100,000 of the “most sought out and researched businesses on Google and Google Maps” began last Monday with an announcement on the Official Google Blog. Actually, I first Read More...
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29 November 2009
Christmas Flowers Hands-On Workshop Dec. 12
Deck your house with boughs of holly and bouquets of flowers this year and immerse yourself in the holiday spirit! We’re pleased to announce our first-ever Christmas flowers hands-on workshop in conjunction with our sister company, the Southern California Read More...
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09 August 2009
Fear the Florist Will Ruin the Surprise?
Like thousands of florists, we request the phone numbers of recipients when flower orders are placed - just in case we need to contact them in the course of making the deliveries. Previous posts about the topic explain why we sometimes call the recipient Read More...
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09 August 2009
Shades of Surprise: When Rose Colors Aren't an Exact Match
If you are a bride combing through images on the web in search of the perfect flower color varieties to match your wedding, here's a quick lesson in rose color variation. Popular sites like SierraFlowerFinder.com display thousands of flower photos by Read More...
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23 June 2009
Google Map of Wedding Flowers and Special Event Decor
A few months ago, Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM.com blogged about the creative use of Google Maps' user-created content feature by Pennsylvania lawn care company WiseGrass . (Great name, BTW.) WiseGrass designed a real-life portfolio of showcase lawns Read More...
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18 June 2009
Luigi's Names a Pizza After Us
Folks who have visited our Anaheim flower shop know we're just four doors down from Luigi's D' Italia restaurant, an OC mecca for family style Italian food lovers. Over the years as neighbors, we've tried nearly every combination of pizza toppings on Read More...
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19 May 2009
It's Fresh Lei Season in Orange County
Graduations have started, with one of the biggest in the area being held at Cal State Fullerton this weekend. Neighboring high school like Katella , Canyon , Anaheim High and many others are just around the corner. Fresh leis, a long-standing gift tradition Read More...
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12 May 2009
Post-Mother's Day Thank You's
Wow. We just had our twenty-fifth Mother's Day here at Avante Gardens. Hard to believe a it's been a quarter century of delivering flowers to happy Moms in Orange County. Many, many thanks are due: -To our customers. Thank you for letting us send smiles Read More...
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03 May 2009
The Real Moms of OC and their Favorite Flowers
Planning the flower menu for our 25th Mother’s Day caused me reflect on the changes in taste of Moms in the OC over the last 2 1/2 decades. Popular flowers and floral design styles, like fashion, ebb and flow so keeping up on the trends is just as import Read More...
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15 April 2009
Memo to OC Businesses: Honor Your Admin Assistants
Next week marks the annual Administrative Professionals Week which honors office workers for their contributions to your companies' successes throughout the year. It's one of the largest workplace observances in the nation. No, it's not a 'Hallmark Holiday' Read More...
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