Florist Blogs

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 about flower choices and includes video demos on choosing, ...

Rich and Kathy of Bloomery posted about the Flower Council of Holland's new interactive site called Read My Mood so I decided to take it for a spin by requesting a flower based on the feelings they sensed from of our blog, too. Here's the result: I wonder if we FloristBloggers will all turn out to be in the same mood? ...

I just happened to tune into the CBS hit The Amazing Race Sunday night and was surprised and delighted to see fellow Orange County florist and owner of Costa Mesa Florist, Rachel Rosales, competing with her partner TK Erwin for the million dollar prize. I phoned her shop today and had a few minutes to ask Rachel about her experience. (Of ...

Seems few customers wanted to use greetings like 'Happy Administrative Professionals Week'' (too stilted?) or ''Happy Secretaries' Day'' (too dated?) on their flower gifts this week. The cards generally expressed thanks for a job well done but one card really stood out. ''You are the glue that keeps everything here together.'' For ...

The A-list bloggers are participating in a cool meme around the theme of 'Why do you blog?'' (It's a fascinating group of posts/relationships and you can follow the paths here.)  Kinda goes without saying that we florists are a bit off the beaten path and unlikely to get tagged (except for maybe Rich Dudley, who straddles ...

Avante Gardens hosted a fun flower arranging class at our Anaheim store yesterday as a fundraiser for the St. Juliana School of Fullerton. [photo:4460] Students began the day learning care and handling tips to maximize enjoyment of both the flowers purchased from florists and the ones cut from their own gardens. They then ...

Having a bad day or week and hoping someone will send flowers to brighten it up? I spotted this clever tip and want to pass it along. “I was having a bad day at work last week. I hoped my husband might send me some flowers to cheer me up but I know he’s busy right now. So I called the florist, ordered a bunch of flowers and had them delivered ...

YouTube has amassed an interesting collection of videos featuring flowers and florists.  Here are a few of our favorites: 'Let Flowers Do the Talking' - A commercial featuring flowers joyously singing. Produced by a Czech floral operation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQ2vSXJ0DI "Gumby Arranging Flowers" ...

Google for 'Virtual Flowers' and you'll basically get pages of lead generator sites for order gatherers (affiliate marketers of florist wire service products).  It seems as if the 'virtual' category has been a spam magnet for order brokers since the birth of search engines; followed closely by 'florist ...