Flowers insolita Blog

We will be closed for Labor Day (Sep 4th, Mon) and re-open on Sep 5th Tuesday.  We wish you a happy holiday!

Arby’s new commercial is featuring a florist delivering wrong flowers to a wrong place. It’s so funny. Take a look (you need flash player installed).

A heated debate has been raging among the insiders of the floral industries about “Promotion Order” Initiative.
Basically the idea is to charge a 5% duty on all the flowers imported from abroad (which constitute about ~70% of the flower trade in the US); and use that money, projected to be about 50 million dollars a […]

As you know, we obtain some of our flowers from Holland auction.  We were notified by a wolesaler today that some of our flower shipment from Holland auction (not all of them, but some) was stopped at the US custom inspection.
They discovered some kind of insect in one of the Kenyan Hypericum boxes.  Kenyan bug!  […]

Have you felt that florists’ delivery charge seems a little too much, especially because most Chinese take-out or pizza shops offer “free” deliveries?  We have a FAQ (Frequently Answered Question) entry to address this issue: Why are florists’ delivery charge so expensive?
Please note: our policy is that we cannot discount our delivery charge. This policy […]

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Scroll down to “Awesome florist websites.”  They are so cool.

It would seem that Lori not only yells, but stutters as well! Ha Ha.
Anywhooo. The news really gets my dander up, so to speak (with out cursing, which i usually do!! I’m such a lady you know). Every time there is some kind of change in the weather it is the main topic on all […]

I AM NOT A YELLER OR A SCREAMER NOR DO I USUALLY RANT AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. HOWEVER, I JUST FOUND OUT THAT IF YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPITALS YOU ARE YELLING. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO,  I must stop being lazy and type using the shift key. Which to me is a pain, but at least […]

Yesterday I noticed that our pigeons are back in our backyard.  So I fed them.  This morning, they are back again.  I fed them again…
This is no good.  Wild animals should not be fed.  By feeding them, I’m not only spoiling them, but actually reducing their chance of survival in the wild.  In theory I […]

We are pleased to announce that we have developed a new product called Double Decker.  In this basket arrangement, we use two small baskets in a staggered height, to create an interesting dynamic.
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