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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
30 March 2009
Flower Fashion Accessories for a Birthday Party
Many of the floral designs we create at Avante Gardens Florist are custom and unique for each event. While our eCommerce site allows shoppers to browse through lots of arrangement choices, we frequently find that fresh flower designs for special events
Read More...
28 March 2009
It's Time for Easter Flowers
Spring is here and the flowers of the season have arrived in abundance. With eye-popping colors and amazing fragrances, they tell us Easter is just around the corner. East Coast and Midwest transplants here in California often miss the Easter flowers
Read More...
17 March 2009
White Wedding Bouquets for the Bride
This past year, we've been seeing a resurgence of Orange County bride's choosing to carry all white or predominantly white flowers for their wedding day. Colorful, seasonal bouquets have been popular for the last several years, but the return to classic
Read More...
15 March 2009
Orange County Wildflowers Spring from the Ashes
Orange County Register photographer Bruce Chambers shot a gorgeous series of California wildflowers for today's edition. Trekking to the formerly burned out hillsides of Chino State Park (scene of last fall's devastating Freeway Complex fire ), Chambers
Read More...
10 February 2009
Valentine's Day Flowers: Celebrating the Week
With Valentine's Day falling on a Saturday this year, many of our customers have pondered when to have their Valentine's Day flowers delivered this week. My favorite quip came from a successful Orange County business man who called to request his wife's
Read More...
17 December 2008
Free Kiss Bait with Christmas Flowers
To add a bit of fun to the holidays, we're offering a free bunch of Kiss Bait (aka mistletoe) with any Christmas flowers order placed online for local Anaheim, Fullerton and North and Central Orange County area delivery. Just use coupon code "XOXO" and
Read More...
14 December 2008
Christmas at the Flower Shop
The Christmas season is in full swing so I thought our readers might like to see a few of the holiday displays from our Anaheim store. We've added groupings of white seed lights across the face of our building and decorated the front window with a large
Read More...
26 November 2008
Bouquets of Thanks
As mentioned in my previous post about being thankful , today I'm giving a personal list of 'thanks'. To Our Customers - who've supported Avante Gardens and trusted us to express their many sentiments through flowers. As we enter our 25th year of business
Read More...
24 November 2008
Being Thankful
As Orange County residents know, the Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills and Brea areas were struck by a raging wildfire which forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 of our neighbors. We first heard about the fire - not from the news - but from one of our drivers
Read More...
More Posts
Next page »
Home
About
Email
Avante Gardens - florals unique, Anaheim, CA - Orange County Florist Since 1984
Commentary about flowers and florists by Catherine Hillen-Rulloda, AAF, AIFD, PFCI.
RSS 2.0
Atom 1.0
Recent Posts
Google Map of Wedding Flowers and Special Event Decor
Luigi's Names a Pizza After Us
It's Fresh Lei Season in Orange County
Post-Mother's Day Thank You's
The Real Moms of OC and their Favorite Flowers
Tags
amazing race
Anaheim
Avante Gardens News
Easter
Floral Industry Issues
florist
Flower Buying Advice
Flower Events
Flower Fun and Humor
Flower Style and Trends
French Tulips
Google Local/Maps
Making It Big
Occasions and Holiday
Orange County
ProFlowers
Spring Flowers
user reviews
Weddings and Special Events
Archives
June 2009 (2)
May 2009 (3)
April 2009 (1)
March 2009 (4)
February 2009 (1)
December 2008 (2)
November 2008 (2)
October 2008 (1)
September 2008 (1)
July 2008 (1)
June 2008 (1)
May 2008 (1)
March 2008 (5)
February 2008 (2)
January 2008 (7)
December 2007 (2)
November 2007 (5)
October 2007 (3)
September 2007 (1)
August 2007 (3)
July 2007 (3)
June 2007 (2)
May 2007 (3)
April 2007 (6)
March 2007 (7)
February 2007 (5)
January 2007 (3)
December 2006 (4)
November 2006 (7)
October 2006 (3)
September 2006 (5)
July 2006 (4)
June 2006 (2)
May 2006 (3)
April 2006 (2)
March 2006 (1)
February 2006 (3)
October 2005 (1)
Search
Go
Navigation
FloristBlogs.com Home
Blogs
Photos
My Reader
Avante Gardens Sites
Our Florist in Anaheim CA
Wedding and Event Flowers Galleries
Blog Arrangement Gallery
Blogs by Florists
Bloomery - Butler, PA
Smith's Flowers - Midland, MI
Flowers from the Rainflorist - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Crighton's Florist - Prospect, PA
Flower Place - Fountain Valley, CA
Flowers Insolita - Huntington, NY
Everyday Flowers - Tustin, CA
The Flower Pot - Montreal, PQ
Bouquet Florale Gigi - Montreal
Bella Fiori - Denver, CO
Bouquets - Denver, CO
Central Square Florist - Cambridge, MA
Nunan Florist & Greenhouses - Georgetown, MA
Butera the Florist - York, PA
Parkway Florist - Pittsburgh, PA
Rose Garden Florist - Barnegat, NJ
bbrooks fine flowers blog
Belvedere Flowers - Philadelphia, PA
Bonnie Doon Garden Company - Santa Cruz, CA
Dragonfly Flowers - Winnipeg, MB
Gammages Flowers - London, ON
Spring City Flowers - New Berlin, WI
Twigs - Yerington, NV
Mocha Rose - Pittsburgh, PA
La Jolla Village Florist - San Diego, CA
Second Street Seasonals - Minnemucca, NV
Avenue Gardens - Wilson, NC
Affordable Elegance - Battle Creek, MI
Posie Shoppe - Prineville, OR
Petal and Bean - Breckenridge, CO
A Vanity Fair Florist - Sacramento, CA
Bloomtastic Florist - Columbus, OH
Bergeron's Flowers & Events - Springfield, VA
For Flower Lovers
Human Flower Project
About Flowers
Florist Community Image Gallery of Ideas
Dirt: a blog by Amy Stewart
For Real Florists
Real Florist Blog
The Florist Detectives
Real Florist Info
FlowerChat Community
Floral Design Blog
AIFD
Society of American Florists
Recommended Reading
My Google Reader Shared Items