Mums are brilliant – so to celebrate, we’re giving away four £25 Marks & Spencer gift vouchers in our very special Mother’s Day competition. To be in with a chance of winning one of these fabulous prizes, we’re asking you to nominate a mum – she can be yours or someone else’s, we don’t mind [...]
They’re bold, bright and beautiful, massively popular and much loved by mums – you really can’t go wrong with primroses when sending plants at Mother’s Day. What’s more, this Mother’s Day, a whole host of new varieties are available, some with colours never seen before – check out the interesting ‘Zebrea Blue’ variety shown here [...]
Throughout the year, not to mention during the big occasions such as Valentine’s Day, Mothering Sunday, weddings and birthdays, we know that flowers will be there to help us express our emotions and show we care. But how does a perishable product such as a fresh flower get into a florist shop in such a [...]
Hot on the heels of one big day in the floristry calendar – Valentine’s Day – comes the next in the form of Mothering Sunday, which this year in the UK takes place on March 18th. Mother’s Day is actually the busiest event in the floristry calendar, with Direct2florist’s professional florists swimming in a sea of [...]
While Valentine’s Day might be behind us for another 12 months, romance is still very much in the air because, of course, 2012 is a leap year. According to tradition, on the last day in February in a leap year, the ‘normal’ order of proposals is reversed and woman can pop the question to men. [...]
Carrying on the theme of the staggering numbers involved with sending Valentine’s Day flowers, we read today that Iberia Cargo and British Airways World Cargo, between them carried approximately 700 hundred tonnes of flowers across the globe for Valentine’s Day. Iberia Cargo has transported more than 356 tonnes of Valentine’s flowers this year from key [...]
To showcase the sheer volume of flowers sent at Valentine’s Day, bear in mind this incredible statistic – if all the flowers grown in Colombia just for this one day were placed end to end, they would stretch around the world a staggering 8 times! More than 500,000,000 Colombian flowers are being shipped to countries [...]
If red roses aren’t your thing for Valentine’s Day, bulb flowers make the perfect alternative. Perfectly in season, packed full of charm and decidedly different, they make wonderful gifts. Be sure to pick the correct bouquet of cut bulb flowers this year and send the perfect message to your Valentine… whoever they may be… Red [...]