Rainbow Roses for June

The month of June is very busy when it comes to events in NYC. Not only is the month's birth flower the rose, which is very popular among our clients, it's Pride month!

What better a way to celebrate June than to combine the two?

Don't know what we're talking about? Well how about a visual:




That's right! Rainbow roses! "HOW DO THEY DO IT?" you may be wondering... well, it's complicated and takes time to perfect, but is very doable. You start with a white rose. You clip the end of the stem into several sections. And you dip the ends into different dyes! The dye makes its way up through the stem into the petals and viola! We have the rainbow rose.

For more information, check out the Wikipedia!

Smell Flowers, Not Smoke!

This has been an ongoing battle in NYC and the government finally sided with the flowers, so to speak.

As of May 23rd, smoking is now banned in all public parks. With the heath risks and prices of cigarettes so high, we're surprised smokers still exist in New York anyway! Below is a picture of the sign that has gone up. The use of flowers is a clever marketing tactic used to incite a sentimentality that may not necessarily be related to the issue at hand, but works! What are your thoughts on the matter?

#freedeliveryfriday

We are doing something new around here. To celebrate the coming of the Spring and to help alleviate some of the aggravation our NYC clients have from April and May rain, we are announcing: FREE DELIVERY FRIDAY!

Every third Friday of the month, we will waive delivery charges for orders of $75 or more. So mosey on over to our website where you can browse through our established classics or call in a custom order: 212.308.3794.

Happy Friday! Spread the word on Twitter with our #freedeliveryfriday hash-tag!

Pretty Peonies

Lately, we've been getting a lot of requests for peonies. Of course, we can see why -- they're beautiful Spring flowers. As one of our Twitter friends put it, they are "feminine and gorgeous, classic yet contemporary!" We couldn't have put it better ourselves.

There is a lot of myth and folklore surrounding the peony, too! Records that date back thousands of years give us a few different stories. One legend has it that the peony is named after Paeon, a physician to the gods, who received the flower on Mount Olympus from the mother of Apollo. And another tells the story of that same physician who was “saved” from the fate of dying as other mortals by being turned into the flower we know today as the peony.

Whether your believe one story or the other, you can believe this: these gorgeous flowers are versatile and look lovely both pre-bloom and in bloom:

Wedding Pompadours!

So, who saw Grey's Anatomy last night? It was a great episode! We're so excited for Callie and Arizona (minus Callie's horrible mother.)

But we were most excited about... of course... the flowers! Oh, they were so perfect and elegant! Our favorite part? The pompadours! Last night, we speculated on Twitter that they were made of hydrangea, but on closer inspection they are garden roses!

Unfortunately, that's the only shot that's up online right now, but hopefully they will release a full "wedding album!"

Speaking of May Flowers...

Today on Style.com, there is a poll asking readers to cast a vote for the best floral fashion moment. One big problem! We aren't in the poll! Sure, we're just a little flower shop, but we've done big things. In February, as some of you may know, we participated in NY Couture Fashion Week. We presented three gorgeous dresses made all out of flowers:

And as biased as we may be, ours were way better looking and natural than the tacky 80's floral patterns that the industry is trying to bring back. Plus, our dresses are the most couture of them all; after a day or two, they die. Could real flowers ever be the next fashion trend? We like to think so. Flowers, after all, are as ephemeral as fashion itself.

April Showers...

April showers bring May flowers. But in some places, the flowers are suffering from too much rain. With the changing of the weather, as it becomes more extreme because of (the world ending in 2012, global warming, childhood obesity, whatever), we are seeing more Spring rain than ever. In Portland, it rained 29 out of the 30 days in March -- delaying the annual tulip festival.

Just yesterday, a record tornado pulverized Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and other surrounding towns in Alabama. Rain and destruction is abundant around the areas.

And here in New York? It's rained more than we'd like to think about this month. (It's more difficult than you think to get around in the rain in a walking-city!) In fact, the sky just opened up and began to pour. Again.

So what do we have to look forward to here? Being able to run through a field of tulips isn't exactly the outcome, but we are trying to keep things bright at the flower shop.

And since May is around the corner... MAYbe the rain will cease and give us some flowers. Some sunshine would be nice, too.