Now we have some changes in staff, and are very pleased to welcome a new designer on board. He is wonderful, fun and in addition has 14 years of experience in major flower design shops and studios.

just greens, no roses, tulips or anything flushy......

today

Hi, I would like to get a quote for flowers for the wedding. It's my third wedding, so no point of getting crazy, i would need only 22 table arrangements, 16 bouquets, 16 bouttonniers etc....

i would not mind doing any of your weddings, if this is not crazy, than what is?

Cindy Adams

I love my clients , and people who call for flowers....

Few days ago:

- Hi, my boss would like to send some flowers to Cindy Adams, do you know what flowers does she prefer?

- Excuse me....

- My boss would like to send some flowers to Cindy Adams, do you know which flowers does she prefer?

- Who is Cindy Adams?

- The gossip columnist to New York Post..... Do you know what she likes?

- I can tell you what Rudi Giuliani likes, as we sent flowers to him recently, but i've never heard of Cindy Adams.....

Wedding flowers vs. corporate flowers

It's no surprise that flowers for a wedding cost tons of money..... especially comparing to any corporate events. I would say the price for wedding centerpiece is twice as much ..... because wedding people ( read wedding planners and brides ) piss florists off, while corporate event planners don't.....

Out of 10 appointments ( after 6:00 p.m. - which makes me, a flower studio owner, sit and wait for the bride, meanwhile cancelling or rescheduling all other personal plans i might have had earlier, in order for business to work ) 9 people do not show up, or even call or send email that they will not come.

Corporate - hi, need xx arrangements at yy price, at zz time and location - thank you

Wedding - hi, i would like to meet with you (90% chance they will not come), and even if they will ( 50% chance) they will not work with you, and even if they will, they 'll call many times , increasing the order, meanwhile trying to reduce the price....

i am sure it's the same with catering, djs etc....

... seriously.... i have nothing against brides, and some are very lovely.... but, people, please call if you want to cancell, so your and other people's after you prices will be reasonable and not insane, that you'll have to sell your kidneys to have the wedding...

The Valentine Day.....

is over.... people got their flowers, delivery guys got their blisters, and our phones got their portion of heat......

what's next? baby showers? corporate events? ....

every day i think the same thing - it is hard, but i would not want to go back to banking ..... despite all the fancy and intellectual stimulation..... now i come home and in the evening i can actually read Nietzsche and enjoy it ( and not being a dead eggplant, tired and motionless), because during the day my head is full of absolutely different problems - did the couple got their anniversary flowers on time, where are the 500 red tulips, why are the pink and not red? the customer ordered "classy" again - what the hell is "classy"? it is so different for everyone....

my team is cool - eventually they are getting along and people are working and not just reading myspace all day, somehow creating horrible mess, without even leaving the chair....

it's great to work with young people - fun, creative, and simply pleasant...... but probably tomorrow something will go wrong again, but that's tomorrow, and for now it's good..... and tomorrow we'll fix it all and make customers happy......
we get at least one email/call a week - with thank you for the great service..... while back in a bank ( may be we never gave them great service.....)......

The wedding we have done a month ago - traditional russian style... white roses, candles.....

Fruits maded with flowers

Today we decided to do something really creative. We bought small flowers called pompoms to replicate apples, bananas and strawberries. We also used oasis to make the shapes of the fruits we were using. Then using a square container we placed some other flowers around the actual arrangement. Giving the illusion of a fruit basket. Using red pompoms to bring out the brighter colors, and using dark green pompoms to represent shadows.

Here is an image of another arrangement we completed today.

It's slow in January for us... so we are doing time consuming arrangements for our clients... fruits out of flowers, pave etc....

We have a new person who joined our small enterprise.... Hopefully it will work out.... and for now.... just the quickies roses, pink cymbidium and euc.....

On Sunday we are doing a wedding - a small one, in New Jersey - bouquets (for brides and bridesmaids), boutonnieres, corsages and church decorations.... church pews will be covered with orchids..... hopefully the pictures will come out nice and we'll post them....

Effect for the sake of being red.....

Today we are creating cotton field for Hard Rock Cafe in the Times Square .... Cotton sticks, more cotton sticks.... and earth.....

we like projects like that - different and interesting .... and the gentleman who ordered t from us is very nice and it is always a plus.....

The New Year started!

Orchids, roses, thistle, dusty miller, geranium, geranium and hyacinth..... for any occasion, for everyone... good arrangement for the ones looking forward to spring in this cold New York day...