Find Your Local Florist:Everything you want to know about flowers!
Ask The Plant Expert: “Need to identify the plant with green leaves and darker green or purple spots in this dish garden.” – Karen
Flower Shop Network Plant Expert Reply:
In this dish garden, the plant you are referring to is a Prayer Plant, or Maranta leuconeura. There is another type of common houseplant that looks similar to this called Calathea. Both of these are in the Marantaceae family, and are common in dish gardens and as house plants. Hope this helps!
Florists, watch your mailboxes! Flower Shop Network’s Networker just mailed out! The Networker is chocked full of great ideas for florists to use, including: Valentines Day Tips, New Year Resolutions You Should Keep, FSN news and much, much more!
Can’t wait!? Here’s a sneak peak of the FSN Winter Networker 6.1.
Are there topics you would like to see in The Networker?
Email your suggestions to TheNetworker@FlowerShopNetwork.com and we’ll send you a Flower Shop Network tote bag.
Need to send an extra special thank you to someone wonderful in your life? Why not do it with flowers? Flowers never fail to put a smile on someone’s face and a little extra cheer in someone’s heart. So if you need to thank someone for a job well done, or just for being there for you when you needed it, send flowers — it’s the best way to go!
Here are a few Thank You flower arrangements to get you started:
Know someone feeling under the weather? Maybe you have a friend who has been in the hospital recently or just going through a tough situation? Sending Get Well flowers is all about encouragement. [Read more…]
It’s the first Friday Recap of the new year and the majority of our submissions were sympathy tributes. As one of our florists featured in today’s recap explains, “Funeral work is sad yet beautiful.” We hope you enjoy these beautiful memorials, as well as the other types of arrangements.
Heart-shaped funeral flowers by Buds In Bloom, New Albany IN
“Fresh heart we did for a sympathy tribute.”
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Fragrant standing spray by Jerry’s Floral Shop, Greenwood SC
This all-white flower arrangement reminds us of the shades of winter and is perfectly fitting for January. This would be a great arrangement to order for yourself. Why not bring a little bit of winter indoors where it is nice and cozy? White roses, lilies, waxflower, poms and more are used in this lovely little bubble bowl arrangement. It’s compact design is sure to fit on any space.
Know someone who may not be able to get out much during the winter? Why not have a beautiful flower arrangement delivered to their door? This winter-white design would be perfect!
You’ve come to the right place. You can’t go wrong with sending flowers, especially for a special birthday treat! But just what kind of flowers?
First off, the official flower of January is the carnation. But if you are looking for something a little more unique, why not go with the January birthstone color — garnet. Garnet is a dark reddish orange color and there are LOTS of flowers available in this color. The best thing to do is contact your local florist and ask her to create a custom arrangement using all garnet colors, or here are a few to get you started:
Continue reading for even more great January Birthday Ideas!
This all-white flower arrangement reminds us of the shades of winter and is perfectly fitting for January. This would be a great arrangement to order for yourself. Why not bring a little bit of winter indoors where it is nice and cozy? White roses, lilies, waxflower, poms and more are used in this lovely little bubble bowl arrangement. It’s compact design is sure to fit on any space.
Know someone who may not be able to get out much during the winter? Why not have a beautiful flower arrangement delivered to their door? This winter-white design would be perfect!
Remember, always always always use a real local florist when you send flowers. Not only will you receive the best deals, your community also benefits!
With a brand new year on the horizon, we’ve all started thinking about what we can do to make it better than the previous. We all have good intentions when creating New Years’ resolutions, however, most of us never follow through. Why? We tend to make a lot of promises to ourselves we can’t keep — Loose 20 lbs; stop smoking; read a book every month. While these are great goals to have, it can be extremely overwhelming to start these all at once on January 1st.
Choose New Year’s resolutions that aren’t as hard to keep. Instead, make goals to yourself that are broad, fit into your routine and are also fun to do! Instead of focusing on drastically changing your habits, choose resolutions to enhance those aspects of your lifestyle.
Each flower has a meaning that dates back as far as Victorian times. These meanings symbolize anything from ‘love’ to ‘wealth & prosperity.’ This New Years, let flowers symbolize what you want 2013 to mean to you. Symbolic flowers with specific meanings will help you visualize and empower your goals. Order flowers for yourself or to decorate your home for the new year, make it a new tradition. Use the flower meanings tool to find symbols of exactly what you want your new year to be for you and your family.
Best New Year’s Resolutions To KeepHere are a few good flower meanings to get you started: [Read more…]
We just had Christmas and it’s very obvious from this week’s recap! Every single picture shared with us this week is Christmas themed! We’ve got snowmen, Santa, and plenty of RED & GREEN! Let’s get on with the pictures!
Christmas Arrangement by DeVine Designs, Fulton NY
“A vase twist on the Winter Wishes Arrangement! Isn’t it so cute!!!!!”
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White Christmas flowers by A Lovie Creation Floral Design, Gresham OR
“A silver and white holiday mantle bouquet with orchids, white roses, juniper berries, and evergreens.”
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“There’s no point looking at design trends, no one in my area cares.” I never want to hear any of you florists say this! If you care, then there is a point. When your designs capture the imagination and creativity of your audience, they will care and crave your work. How? Just keep reading…
First grab a notebook! Next you need to explore what trends are happening now. This is the fun part! Using the internet, Pinterest, magazines or anything else, you should start by collecting inspirations. These resources don’t have to have anything to do with flowers, they can deal with fashion, homemaking, hairstyles or even fingernail art!
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to collecting inspiration. Create your own process. You might choose to paste collages into your notebook, or if you’re more artsy, sketch them out. Take it a step further and use watercolors to remember the exact hues. If you’re more tech-savvy, consider making a Pinboard for your trendspiration.
Here are a few examples:
Fashion: Look for fashion interesting color or texture combinations. Jot down in your notebook what you like and what you don’t like. List any flowers you can think of that are available in the colors used. Take notes of any interesting shapes that may be used, such as a bow placement or collar style. Is the skirt long or short? How can you make this all come together in flowers?
Homemaking: When you look at a beautifully styled room, what inspiration can you draw from it in flowers? What style is being used? Is it modern, eclectic, sophisticated, high style, etc? What colors or patterns can you translate into flowers? For example: a room’s overall color is a blue with an accent wall covered in a chunky patterned wallpaper. Your floral design could be all blue with a blue vase and a contrasting patterned ribbon accent. Be sure to jot down everything that stands out to you in the room. You may even divide the room into sections of inspiration. It’s all about you!
Start the New Year off with a bang. Do something unexpected for yourself or a friend — buy flowers. Why? Flowers bring happiness and cheer to anyone who receives them. Flowers are the perfect way to make sure you and those you care about enter the New Year in a jolly mood.
Examples of winter & New Years themed flower arrangements.
Did you know most flowers have meanings associated with them? This “Language of Flowers” dates back to Victorian times. Choosing flowers with appropriate meanings is a great way to choose your flower arrangement for New Years. Here are a few examples:
For more on flower meanings and the new year, check out: Let Flowers Symbolize Your New Year.
