Florist Blogs

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 and we’ve had the privilege of designing and delivering the more than 50 centerpieces for ...

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 and drew more than 50,000 attendees in 2009.The companies and groups represented are ...

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 their menu. They're all great, but one in particular has become an Avante Gardens favorite. It's ...

The last few weeks, the Avante Gardens team has delivered some fun and interesting bouquets in our home town of Anaheim.In September, the City of Anaheim honored the 2008 Olympic gold medal winning U.S. Men’s National Volleyball team at Anaheim’s GardenWalk. [photo:15010]We were proud to provide replicas of the fresh flower bouquets presented to ...

By now, most folks know that So Cal was hit with a 5.4 earthquake yesterday. The shaking started at about a quarter 'til noon, just as I happened to be standing in our walk-in flower cooler - surrounded by three walls of glass windows and a wall of mirrors. Not exactly the best spot in a flower shop, but I got off much more lightly than ...

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 of some of the specialized custom arrangements delivered to the convention center ...

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 Idols Live! tour stop at the Honda Center here in Anaheim and found the ...