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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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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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28 January 2008
Tom Brady's Flowers
Flowers and the Super Bowl run-up merged last week when the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was spotted carrying a gorgeous white bouquet and wearing a boot on the way to girlfriend Gisele Bundchen's home. The Boston Herald's Renee Nadeau covered Read More...
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25 January 2008
Flowers for Guys in Trouble
The Netherland Flower Bulb Information Center has launched a new Web guide, SavedBytheBud.com , geared toward showing guys what they "need to know to use flowers to get, keep, impress or redeem themselves with women." The wittily written site offers advice Read More...
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13 December 2007
Google Products, Affiliates and Local Florists
Last month, Google swapped the 'Video' link for 'Products' and now 'Shopping' on their navigation bar and I've been curious how Google Product Search would handle the sale of fresh flower arrangements being hand-delivered by local florists. Unfortunately, Read More...
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12 November 2007
Real Holiday Flower Tips for Linnea Johansson
Another holiday approaches with yet another top ten list about party planning from 'top experts'. This past Sunday, USA Weekend's list managed to insult 100,000 professional florists with: "Flower arrangements can be a total rip-off," (Linnea) Johansson Read More...
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10 September 2007
Dendrobium Orchids Arrangements
This month, FloristBlogs.com features one of my favorite flowers on our home page: dendrobium orchids. Graceful, long-lasting, exotic and available in fashionable colors, dendrobiums are one of our Anaheim flower shop 's most popular flowers. I previous Read More...
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27 August 2007
NBC's Today Show: Jean Chatzky on buying flowers
In a segment from last Thursday's NBC Today Show, Money Magazine's Jean Chatzky offered consumer tips and advice about getting the best value on a variety of products: "We've all heard the saying “You get what you pay for,” but it's not always so black 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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23 April 2007
Orange County Florists
I created a custom Google Map of Orange County Florists that offer same-day delivery and feature a wealth of original floral designs on their websites. (Nothing wrong with using wire service photos but with all the 'cookie cutter' looks, the same old Read More...
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22 April 2007
Mother's Day Flowers and Mom's Style
According to an article from CNN.com , 72% of the respondents to a BIGResearch survey said they'll be choosing flowers as a gift for Mother's Day. The article also mentions how one-of-a-kind gifts are a popular choice. On such an important day for flower Read More...
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10 April 2007
Hyacinths to feed the ?
As much as I and other florists work to urge shoppers to purchase from local florists, reading tales like the one recounted by Seth Godin leave me shaking my head. Author of six best sellers including Purple Cow (my favorite), Godin got flowers . Great! Read More...
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27 March 2007
Local Search: Users First?
Bravo to Rae Hoffman for taking Merchant Circle to task for "doing their best to rank in the search engines with the sole goal being to charge businesses to control their listings." I blogged about Merchant Circle's fright calls to florists last fall Read More...
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17 March 2007
Compare Flower Prices - Orchids
Everybody likes to get a good value when shopping for flowers. We at Avante Gardens believe our florist offers exceptional value in professionally arranged, hand-delivered flower gifts so we thought our readers might be interested in just how much they Read More...
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08 March 2007
Amy Stewart Visits So Cal
Three of us from Avante Gardens treked up to Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena to attend Amy Stewart's presentation of her New York Times Best Seller, Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers . We were actually Read More...
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