Miss Elles florist recently entered the prestigous Harrogate Flower Show and won!

Miss Elles Winning Piece

1st Place piece and ‘Best in Show’ at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show 2008. The brief was for an arrangement to promote a child’s toy. Different flowers were used to create texture and bright colours to make the piece stand out. Swirls of Flexi Grass was used on the outside edge to give that sense of movement. Flowers used in this design were: Aster, Santini Chrysant, Gerbera, Hydrangea Florets, Brunii and Astrantia.

Florist, Christopher Ablett received 10/10 for workmanship, materials & design skills, organisers commented “it is an outstanding piece of work”

You can contact Miss Elles Florist at:
MISS ELLE’S FLORIST

22A North Bar Without
Beverley East Yorkshire
HU17 7AB

Tel: 01482 860909
Visit Miss Elles Florist Website

Direct2florist members in New Zeland and the UK are now able to use D2F to send orders direct to each other. Although the system is on trial in these 2 countries where D2F has full cover, the early signs show good take up from members, it will shortly be launched in Australia and Europe to other members on the site.

Direct2florist Control Panel Screen Shot

The D2F system is different because it sends orders direct between members, with no middlemen. This presents great savings to florists that currently use services like Interflora or Teleflower or FTD to send orders to each other. These long established traditional services charge florists and customers fees and may present time barriers between florists, especially if the order is international. By using simple internet technology Direct2florist saves time and cuts the traditional middlemen out of the order process. On Direct2florist florists are able to securely send orders to each other, see each others designs, speak to each other and pay each other. The fee is a transaction fee per order which is paid by the customer, making the service free to the florist. In the UK the transaction fee is £3 and in New Zealand the fee is $6 making the service very low cost to the customer.

This new service will help grow the network of real local florists on Direct2florist. The aim is to develop a world wide community of florists all receiving orders from the public and from other florists, all using one simple web based control panel.

Florists that have already used the system say this is great news for the industry as the new system presents great savings to florists and their customers.