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30 March 2008
Awesome Blossoms Featured Designer
Awesome Blossoms is an online floral design magazine covering news and trends in flowers, florists and floral event decorating and is published quarterly by leading US floral wholesaler Mayesh . I've had the honor and privilege to be selected as their Read More...
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30 March 2008
Marisa Perring in 'Making it Big'
The Style Network has recently been airing the floral designer episode from Making It Big , a reality show where up-and-coming young professionals vie for opportunities to work with top members of their fields. Shot two years ago, the segment included Read More...
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18 March 2008
Organic and Green Flowers
Anaheim just hosted Expo West , the nation's largest natural, organic, and healthy products trade show and we were please to be selected to provide floral designs for many of the exhibitors and events surrounding the show. Here's just a small sampling Read More...
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18 March 2008
French Tulips!
The last couple weeks we've worked with the most spectacular French tulips I can ever remember. Though available year-round, Spring is truly French tulip season. With 24-30 inch tall, graceful stems and large blossoms, these elegant flowers are spectacular Read More...
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17 March 2008
Del Norte Garden Club Spring Floral Fantasy Luncheon
Placentia's Del Norte Garden Club will be holding a luncheon and fundraiser Saturday, March 29 at 11:30 a.m. and I'm pleased to have been asked to be the featured presenter - designing and demonstrating contemporary Spring flower arrangements and sharing Read More...
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06 February 2008
Fun, Flirty and Sexy Valentine's Day Flowers
It's Sweetheart Season with the approach of Valentine's Day next week. While the classic flower gift of choice for the holiday is a dozen longstem red roses , there are many more fun, flirty and sexy ways to express your Valentine wishes. For just plain Read More...
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18 January 2008
I've Been Nominated for a SEMMY
Well, knock me over with a heliconia . One of my blog posts got nominated for a SEMMY in the category of Local Search and I'm pretty sure to hold the distinction of being the only florist on the list, (although I did try to get Michael Gray to play one). Read More...
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28 October 2007
Halloween Flowers
From subtle and sophisticated to spooky or just plain silly, Halloween gives our Anaheim flower shop lots of opportunities to capture the holiday spirit. Our Halloween flower arrangement special this year features a fresh pumpkin filled with vibrant fall Read More...
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02 August 2007
Saying "thank you for the flowers"
Back in May, we delivered some very large flower arrangements to Melinda Doolittle for the season finale of American Idol and I know the Backups , Melinda's ardent fans who sent the bouquets, wondered what her response was. I recently attended the American Read More...
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02 August 2007
Avante Gardens Wedding Flowers Video
Orange County and Southern California brides and grooms can now view a slide show video of our custom wedding bouquets , ceremony decor and reception centerpieces on YouTube. The presentation features notable local wedding sites including the Richard Read More...
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24 July 2007
Tropical Flowers
One of the many things that's been on my 'to do' list was to get an excerpt of Phil 's video with the Hawaii Tropical Flower Council uploaded to YouTube. With the help of Steve Creel of Faithworks Media Productions, the 'how-to' about creating a contemporary Read More...
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08 July 2007
The Edge of Paradise
We're headed out to Palm Desert, CA today for the AIFD national symposium, The Edge of Paradise . The annually held four-day event is expecting to draw a crowd in excess of 1000 and will feature presentations by luminaries of the floral design and wedding Read More...
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07 June 2007
Top Florists visit Avante Gardens
What a treat to have three renown florists stop by our flower shop for a visit yesterday afternoon. Art Conforti of Sarasota's Beneva Flowers and LocalFlowerShop.com , Walter Knoll of St. Louis' Walter Knoll Florist and Paul Brockway of Alexandria, VA's Read More...
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28 May 2007
Two National Floral Design Competition Finalists!
More great news as we learned this week that two of Avante Gardens' designers, Nid Indravudh Vilailuck and Lenka Dostalova , have been selected among the ten finalists in the 2007 Flowers& Magazine competition. Professional florists from the US and Read More...
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23 May 2007
Flowers for Melinda Doolittle
Melinda Doolittle may not have won this year's American Idol but two things are for sure; she has incredibly loyal and generous fans, and she received a dressing room full of flowers for tonight's season finale. My husband Phil got a call last week from Read More...
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