Last chance to send flowers for Mother's Day

Packing perfection
Foliage from distant countries, such as Costa Rica, arrives on our shores in perfect condition enclosed as it now is in sheets of polythene, within strong boxes. The polythene keeps the foliage in the conditions of high humidity that most foliage types prefer. Mimosa also requires high humidity around its fluffy flowers, and is sold in individually sealed bags.
Chrysanthemums are usually enclosed in cellophane sleeves and packed in boxes to prevent movement during transit. The cellophane also slows down the transpiration and evaporation of water from the foliage and flowers, creating a moist and humid atmosphere. Gerberas, with their delicate petals, have an inner sleeve in the box so that each flower head is held quite still during the flower delivery Provanhall process.

Check out this flower - Tulipa
Tulips, a mainstay of spring gardens everywhere, can provide abundant flowers in a wide spectrum of colors from March through May, and many varieties can be enjoyed as house plants in midwinter. Dwarf varieties are excellent in rock gardens, and tall-growing ones are indispensable in borders. Most tulips make excellent cut flowers.
More than 4,000 named varieties of tulips are now in existence; several hundred are available commercially from a Sheldon flower shop. They are grouped into 15 classes, which are subject to almost constant revision.
Garden tulips are classed not only by their ancestry and flowering characteristics, but also by their time of bloom. In Zone 6, for example, so-called early-flowering tulips such as T. kaufmanniana and T. fosteriana bloom in mid- to late April, mid season tulips (Mendel, triumph, Darwin hybrid) bloom in late April to early May, and late-flowering tulips (Darwin, lily-flowered, cottage, Rembrandt, parrot, double late, T. greigii) bloom throughout May. Tulip flowers usually have cups about 2 or 3 inches deep but those that have been developed to bear unusually large flowers may have cups more than 4 inches deep. Some of the species tulips have cups as small as 1 inch deep.

Asymmetrical flower design
These arrangements lack the restriction of perfect symmetry. Asymmetrical balance occurs when unequal visual weight is placed at each side of an imaginary centre line. This design has a simple but strong ‘L’ shape and a visual movement which usually, but not necessarily, moves from left to right.
It is important to remember that to achieve asymmetrical balance, the distribution of flowers and foliage is unequal, with longer, lighter materials, such as bud flowers, fine foliage and lighter colours horizontally placed to one side of the high vertical line, and counter-balanced on the other side with short, bold materials in darker colours.
This style of design has limited use as a commercial arrangement, for it is awkward for florists Eagle Vale to deliver and, unless placed at the end of the recipient’s sideboard, chest or table, looks visually unbalanced. The ideal positions for an asymmetrical arrangement are either in the corner of a church window, where a design can be positioned, facing the congregation, or in matching pairs, perhaps at each end of a buffet table or placed on a mantelpiece.

Be daring
Succumbing to the allure of a rustling armful of grasses, the drama of a naked bough or the curves of an intricately patterned seedpod is, for some people, a daring and unconventional flight of fancy. To others, foliage, twigs and seedpods are every bit as pleasing to the eye as a lavish posy of roses and, moreover, they serve as an intriguing reminder of the wealth of different forms in the plant kingdom.
Working with sculptural plant matter requires a bold hand and eye. Such items usually are at their best with spare, contemporary rooms as a backdrop. By their very nature, after all, bold and sculptural displays are intended to stand out, to demand attention from onlookers. Scale is important. An armful of bare branches may look magnificent, but make sure they don’t impede your progress into a room, or threaten to catch your hair or poke you in the eye. Dramatic arrangements within your flower delivery Yokine require some space around them, and thus are better kept for spacious rooms. In contrast, if twigs, pods or vines are delicate, they need to be displayed where they can be studied — and admired — close up.
Idiosyncratic plant matter appears most striking when breathing space is given to the individual elements, such as nodes, pods, leaf forms or feathery foliage. The choice of container is important, too, for it should b able to hold its own and synchronize with what it embraces, or else the display will appear top-heavy and out of place, no matter where you set it down, be it on a sill, shelf, table or floor.

Love at first sight

Purple roses have long been a symbol of falling in love at first sight. Purple roses are used to express the indescribable and beautiful feeling of falling in love with a stranger, in hopes that this stranger will be somebody very familiar in the near future. In short, a purple rose sends a message to the recipient that he/she is charming and simply irresistible to have captured the heart of the sender at the very first sight. Many people of course do not believe in love at first sight, particularly blind people. But for those of us that do, we will continue to send flowers Levin and hope for the best.

Follow a theme

Matching the flowers to the theme and feel of your wedding is vitally important. Ensure that the flowers match the bride’s bouquet or the colour of the dress. Don’t overdo the hair piece with too many flowers, this can just result in the bride’s face being obscured from view. Use smaller, maybe even unopened flowers to ensure that the arrangement does not overwhelm the bride’s look. It is advisable to go to your hairstylist for a ‘dummy run’ to make sure that the style you end up with is appropriate. There is nothing worse than getting your hair done on the morning of the wedding, only to find that the style doesn’t suit you. It would also make a nice wedding present were someone to donate the flowers for the hair. They could easily organise a flower delivery Wavertree and send them over to your home on the morning of the big day.

Tulips: Cherished Flowers
Years ago, tulips became a mainstay of gentlemen's gardens ev­erywhere. In America, Washington and Jefferson were tulip fanciers. But tulips remained a cherished flower among sim­pler people, and as the Industrial Revolution swept families from country cottages to factory towns, the displaced rural folk took their tulips with them to cheer their dreary urban homes. These cottage tulips became popular among more af­fluent Brooklyn florists around 1880, and during the next decades the development of Darwins and Darwin hybrids, today's favor­ites, gave tulip growing a new impetus that has never abated.

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