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New Year Flowers 2015/2016

December 23, 2015 by Tanya Giraldo 1 Comment

Start the new year off right with a beautiful floral arrangement. Whether you are throwing a “Great Gatsby” New Year’s Eve party or wanting to surprise a loved one, now is the time to celebrate with flowers!

Glam Decor
This year, you want to ring in the new year with an all out party and a beautiful arrangement can add the finishing touch to your glamorous party. Have your florist add elements of golds and even feathers to give your shindig a little chic style.

A New Year Gift
Want to be the first to make someone smile this new year? Surprise a loved one or a party host with a lovely bouquet for their home. This simple gesture will make this new year feel extra special!

Simple Card Messages
Writer’s block? No worries! Here are some message ideas to pair with your arrangement!

May this new year be filled with more laughter and great memories!

Wave 2015 goodbye, because 2016 is going to be awesome!

Wishing you a most happy new year!

Head to your local florist for a beautiful floral design today! New Year’s Day is Friday, January 1, 2016.

5 Best Reasons To Send Flowers In January ’15

January 1, 2015 by Ed Belly Leave a Comment

January is all about moving beyond the previous year and striding forward with a clean slate. It’s appropriate that snow blankets the world at this time of year. As if Mother Nature is reflecting our sentiments with a visual display. But even in snow you can find flowers, and is there any better way to start a new year than with a bouquet of natural beauty?

Let’s find out all the reasons to send flowers this January!

#1 – New Year’s Day – Jan. 1st

It’s the first day of a new year! Is there any better time to give someone the gift of flowers? Beautiful blooms will convey the love you feel as well as help put a smile on your loved one’s face. And since this day is supposed to be a reflection of what you’ll do all year, who wouldn’t want to always have a handful of fresh flowers?

#2 – Houseplant Appreciation Day – Jan. 10th

A day to appreciate your houseplants? It sounds crazy, but it’s true! If there was ever a better day to give someone a living plant, I certainly don’t know what it would be. Give someone the joy of a lovely plant to keep them company in their office, garage or anywhere else they may be. Plants clean the air and just look fantastic. Everybody deserves one!

#3 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Jan. 19th

A great day to celebrate a great man who struggled to bring peace and equality into a harsh world. Give your friends and loved ones the gift of flowers and a reminder of the honor this day is owed.

#4 – January Birthdays

Birthdays are a great time to receive flowers and plants. Flowers are gorgeous and help make any day brighter while plants will be cherished and cared about for years. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving!

#5 – Beat the Winter Blues

Snow is beautiful, but sometimes all that endless white can start to grate on the nerves. That’s the perfect time to contact your local florist and order up some tropical blooms or other colorful arrangement to break the monotony of winter with a splash of spring!

You never need a reason to buy flowers. They’re great anytime! But it never hurts to have a reminder of all the great things flowers are good for.

Why are you buying flowers this month? Let us know in the comments below!

Filed Under: Gift Ideas Tagged With: Birthday Flowers, Flower Arrangements, Houseplants, New Years, New Years Flowers, Seasonal Flowers

Warm New Year’s Card Messages

December 25, 2014 by Ed Belly Leave a Comment

It’s important to start the new year the right way, and that means flowers. But with every arrangement there’s a blank card just waiting to be filled in. What do you say? If you have trouble finding the right words or just like to read card suggestions, here are some New Year’s card messages sure to help you get things off on the right foot!

Card Messages

May the rest of your year be filled with flowers. Happy New Year!
Let every day see you as happy as you are in this moment. Happy New Year!
A burst of color to start off the year. Happy New Year!
Here are some floral fireworks to start the year off with a bang! Happy New Year!
A little natural beauty to fill your year with happiness. Happy New Year!

Have some card message ideas of your own? Give them to us in the comments below or hit us up on Facebook!

Happy New Year!

Filed Under: Holiday Info Tagged With: New Years, New Years Eve, New Years Flowers

Happy New Year … with Flowers!

December 25, 2013 by Ed Belly 1 Comment

It’s almost time to ring in the new year!

Flowers and the New Year

With New Year’s Day fast approaching, you’re probably thinking about how you can structure things to start the year off in the best possible way. You’re picking out your resolution, deciding on the traditional menu items you want to prepare and getting everything ready for the party you’re throwing for loved ones. Make sure that in all the preparations you don’t forget a very important component to starting the new year off right. I’m talking about flowers of course!

Symbolizing Love and Happiness

Everything you do on New Year’s Day has meaning and often stands as a symbol for something larger than itself. Do you eat black-eyed peas and collard greens to ensure wealth and prosperity throughout the year? Maybe you eat pork and cabbage? Each of these traditional foods is consumed to symbolize blessing for the coming year. Shouldn’t flowers be part of your traditional celebration?

Flowers symbolize happiness and love, joy and friendship, embodying everything you want for your loved ones in the upcoming year. This New Year’s Day, make sure you make flowers part of your celebration!

Filed Under: Holiday Info Tagged With: New Years, New Years Flowers, Seasonal Flowers

20 Card Messages Perfect for Your Season’s Greetings!

December 19, 2013 by Juli Jackson Leave a Comment

Flowers are the perfect gift. They are beautiful and one-size-fits-all. They are fun to order and even better to receive. So we have put together some card messages to help you share the love for all kinds of reasons this season. Enjoy!

Seasonal Wishes
Warm greetings perfect for any celebration.

Snow may blow
ice may freeze
but I’ll never find better friends such as these!
Much love to you, my friends.
Joy to the World! And all happiness to you this season.
May peace find you this season and keep you year round.
Wishing you and yours all the magic of the season.
Here’s hoping this joyous season is full of many more surprises!

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
These are some romantic card messages that are sure to keep the home fires burning.

I trust in miracles this season because I found you, my love.
I couldn’t wait for Christmas to tell you how much I love you!
My best memories from this year have all been with you.
Thank you for being such a wonderful part of my life.
You make every day merry and bright.
Peace. Joy. Happiness. I have it all with you dear!

Auld Lang Syne
Here are some sayings to wish someone all the best this new year.

2014 is going to be YOUR year! Live it up!
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. Happy New Year!
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.”
– T.S. Eliot
May your past inform your future this bright and shiny New Year.
We are wishing you all the very best for this New Year with health, wealth and happiness

For The Kwanzaa Celebration
A few phrases to help rejoice in your heritage and share the bounty of the year with loved ones.

Wishing you and yours a joyous Kwanzaa!
Sharing with you the bounty and blessings of the season. Heri za Kwanzaa!
As you observe the Nguza Saba this Kwanzaa, may these colors add to your celebration of past, present and bright future!
From our family to yours, we wish you the joy and light of a festive Kwanzaa.
“…dare to practice the ancient ethical obligation of serudj ta
— to heal, repair, remake and renew the world,
making it more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.”
– Dr. Maulana Karenga

Remember to always use a real local florist for the best flowers and service!

Filed Under: Card Messages Tagged With: Holiday Gift Ideas, Kwanzaa, New Years Flowers

January Flower Arrangement of the Month

January 1, 2013 by Mandy Maxwell Leave a Comment

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!

Filed Under: Floral Design Tagged With: Flower Arrangements, New Years Flowers, White Flowers

Let Flowers Symbolize Your New Year Resolutions

December 31, 2012 by Mandy Maxwell Leave a Comment

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.

How To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions

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.

Let Flowers Symbolize Your New Year

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 Keep

Spend more time with family. (Aster, Lily, Statice)
Go to lunch with friends more often. (Aster, Peony)
Enjoy life more. (Gerbera Daisy, Peony, Statice)
Find time to read more. (Iris, Protea, Heather)
Learn something new. (Iris, Protea)
Join a gym class you’ll actually enjoy. (yoga, dancing?) (Gerbera Daisy, Protea)
Save money. (Iris, Heather, Bells of Ireland)
Find ways to recycle more. (Iris, Aster, Protea)
Cut back on smoking. Find ways to commit to the quit. (Protea, Gerbera Daisy, Aster, Lily)
Devote more time to hobbies and fun. Especially with the family. (Aster, Peony, Statice)
Visit somewhere new. (Protea, Heather, Gerbera Daisy)
Give or volunteer to help those in need. (Aster, Protea, Heather)

Here are a few good flower meanings to get you started: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Flower Meanings, Holiday Info, Seasonal Flowers, Seasonal Ideas Tagged With: Flower Meanings, New Years, New Years Flowers

Give Cheer for the New Year!

December 26, 2012 by Mandy Maxwell Leave a Comment

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.

Flower Meanings + New Years

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:

Gerbera Daisy – purity, strength
White Heather – protection, wishes come true
Iris – wisdom
Lily – happiness
Peony – happy life

For more on flower meanings and the new year, check out: Let Flowers Symbolize Your New Year.

Filed Under: Flower Suggestions, Holiday Info Tagged With: New Years Flowers, Winter Flowers

Year Of The Dragon: Welcome 2012

January 11, 2012 by Mandy Maxwell Leave a Comment

2012 Year of the Dragon

The Chinese New Year is the most celebrated event in Chinese culture. This Year, Chinese New Year starts on January 23rd and lasts 15 days. The festivities end on the 15th day with the Lantern Festival, a celebration of light.

The Chinese calendar is lunar based, so this holiday is often called the Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year’s Eve is known as chú xī (除夕). It literally means “Year-pass Eve,” and is also a festive time just like the New Years Eve we have in the States. 2012 is the year of the dragon according to the Chinese Zodiac.

Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore. In contrast to the ‘evil’ European dragons, Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, hurricane, and floods. The dragon is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck. With this, the Emperor of China usually uses the dragon as a symbol of his imperial power.

龙
Means Dragon.

Red is also very important to the Chinese New Year because of it’s legendary ability to fight off evil. If you’re throwing a Chinese New Year party, use lots of red decorations. Yellow and gold decorations are also used for this celebration because it symbolizes luck and prosperity. A beautiful and easy way to decorate for Chinese New Year is with flowers! Order a variety of unique flowers in bright red and yellow with gold ribbon.

For more party ideas, check out last year’s article filled with great ideas for your Chinese New Years Celebration!

Cascading Splendor, the arrangement above, is our favorite flower arrangement for Chinese New Years, but your local florist will have tons of great ideas for any size occasion. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Flower Suggestions, Holiday Info Tagged With: Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Decorations, Fresh Flower Decorating, New Years Eve, New Years Flowers

Recharge After The Holidays! Time To Treat Yourself!

December 27, 2011 by Mandy Maxwell Leave a Comment

Well, it’s over! After months and months of shopping, decorating, planning and preparing, the hardest part of the holidays is finally over. Now it’s time to settle down, relax and welcome the new year. Whether you’re still amped up on sweets or fighting to stay awake, you need to make a little time for yourself! You worked HARD this weekend, why not treat yourself with a little reward?

The easiest way to reward yourself this week is by ordering winter flowers for yourself, and here’s why:

Flowers are scientifically proven to improve moods.
You can’t help but smile when looking at big, beautiful blooms.
The heavenly smell is an instant pick-me-up!
When you order flowers for yourself, YOU get to pick out the style and colors.
YOU can choose your favorite flowers to really put you on Cloud 9.
Flowers are a treat with no calories. (Something we all could use this time of year!)

But what is the best part of treating yourself with flowers?

They come to you! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Flower Suggestions, Seasonal Flowers Tagged With: New Years, New Years Flowers, Ordering Flowers, Sending Flowers, Winter Flowers

New Year Flowers 2015/2016