We are now on Facebook!
Go to our Facebook page.
I haven’t decided what to do with it, but our current plan is to use it to announce our Specials and news, and also to answer questions.
So if you already have Facebook account, please become a “fan”!
We have expanded our delivery coverage and reduced the delivery fees in many area!
Now our local delivery area ($8.95 delivery charge) includes: Centerport, Cold Spring Harbor, Commack, Dix Hills, Greenlawn, Huntington (Station), Melville, (East) Northport, Oyster Bay, Plainview, Syosset, and Woodbury.
Non-local delivery zone I ($11.95) now includes: Bayville, Deer park, Hicksville, Jericho, Kings Park, Old Bethpage, and Wheatley Heights.
Non-local delivery zone II ($13.95) now includes: Bay Shore, Bethpage, Brentwood, Central Islip, Farmingdale, Hauppauge, Islandia, Locust Valley, Nissequogue, Smithtown, St James, and Wyandach.
Thank you!
Our thanksgiving specials are here!
Thanksgiving centerpieces with candles
Cornucopia fruit-gourmet basket
Order early!
Whatever your opinion on Mr Obama might be, we’ve got to give this man a credit for buying flowers to his wife from a local florist.
For many men, a local florist can be a confusing, intimidating place to go to. They don’t know what they are looking at and have no idea what they should be buying.
Yet, if a guy gives a florist’s bouquet to his wife or girl-friend, she knows the man made efforts for her. She understands that he probably didn’t feel comfortable with going into a florist, and she appreciates it.
Making efforts is what counts here.
Imagine another guy who just picked up a bunch of flowers at a local supermarket and gave it to his wife. She may not say it, but knows right away that he did this because of convenience and price. She wonders: Does he care about me? Am I not even worth the inconvenience of going to a local florist?
Same goes for online flower order. Convenient. Is your wife worth more than a few clicks? Of course she is.
Finally, don’t underestimate the power of flowers as a gift.
According to a national survey conducted by SAF (Society of American Florists), a whopping 92% of women remeber the last time they received flowers.
Here’s other results that might interest you.
Again, please remember that essence of gift-giving is to show your caring. We understand it may be inconvenient for a guy to go to a local florist, order a bouquet, and wait for 10 min. But it’s such a small “price” to pay, if you can make your wife smile, don’t you think?
As in many other traditions, Easter has lost much of its meaning. People used to be all dressed up going to the church on Easter Sunday, many wearing corsages. We had zero corsage orders for Easter in the last three years. People used to enjoy Easter dinner with a nice centerpiece. Not anymore.
I came across a beautiful story of Easter flowers tradition that I would like to share:
“Hello Mioux Florist.”
“Joe, this is Ed.”
“Hi Ed, do you need a Easter bouquet?”
“Yes, I can’t come up to the shop and drop off of my Easter container this year. Could you fix something up and deliver it to my house?”
“Sure, we will take good care of it for you, bye.”Ten minutes later, I call Ed back and say “Hey Ed, can I come up and get that container from you and we will fix it up.” He says ‘yes.’
Twenty minutes later I deliver the little Easter bouquet back to Ed and his wife Margie.
This little ceramic Easter Bunny container has been brought to our shop at Easter every year for 60 years. Ed is in his 90′s and he doesn’t drive anymore.
You read that correctly. We have been making flower arrangements in this little container for over 60 years.
I couldn’t let the tradition cease.
There is nothing particularly unique about the flowers or the design. The special thing is the history of this customer and my family.
This florist, Joe Mioux of Mioux Florist and Greenhouses in Carlysle IL, is a fourth generation florist whose business has been in operation since 1876.
According to a Washington Post article, National Funeral Directors Association is trying to get a chunk of the federal bailout money. From the same article, I quote:
“We recognized that there may be a situation where a lot of folks who were displaced or unemployed might need some help in paying for their funerals,” John Fitch Jr., lobbyist for the National Funeral Directors Association, explained yesterday at the group’s annual gathering, at the Mayflower Hotel. “We had some preliminary discussions about providing some stimulus payments to the states” for funerals, he added.
Interesting. Florists know that non-essential items like flowers and jewelry are the first to cut when money is tight. All the florists are having a hard time now, no doubt. But funerals?
I always thought the funeral industry is recession-proof. It’s not like people stop dying in recession. If anything, the death rate would increase, because people can’t afford health care these days.
Apparently, people no longer spend as much money on funerals as they used to. From the same article, I quote:
Lynch, of Michigan, spoke about the “huge bowl of Bazooka bubble gum” displayed at one visitation. “Didn’t cost a lot of money,” he said. “That’s what we see people doing.”
“Instead of feeding everybody dinner or lunch, we’ve been throwing little, for lack of a better word, cocktail-party type things, cheese and crackers,” added James Olson of Wisconsin. “Also,” he said, “my cremation rate has gone up in the last two years. . . . I’m at 42 percent.”
Lynch turned to the “merchandise” of the funeral. “People, rather than selecting a copper or a bronze casket, may choose a 20-gauge steel casket painted in a copper color,” he said.
Fascinating. We florists keep complaining that people no longer spend money on funeral flowers. We thought part of the reason was the ubiquitous use of ‘in lieu of flowers’ phrase in obituary. Many of us have been lobbying funeral directors to change the wording to a more positive phrase such as “The family suggests memorial contributions be sent to….”
Perhaps we were all wrong. The reason we are seeing the decline of funeral flowers is because people just don’t want to spend money on funerals any more.
I don’t know… it’s kind of sad… Instead of spending money on funerals, funeral flowers, where are they spending money on?
Finally, our Holiday Specials are ready to order. Here’s our lineup this year:
1) Traditional Christmas Centerpiece
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2) FTD “Winter Garden” Centerpiece
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6) Christmas blooming-plant baskets
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7) Boxwood tree
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If you order these products online, you will receive a $5 discount. Please use the promo code that’s “one800sucks” (no space) during checkout. No offense intended. :)
Happy Holidays!!!
We just launched a new product series called “Huntington Village Gourmet Baskets.” I know, I should come up with a sexier name, but being trained as a scientist, I can’t quite get rid of my desire to be accurate and descriptive. :)
Anyway, the idea behind this “Huntington Village Gourmet Baskets” is simple. We want to make a gourmet basket with real meal prepared by local restaurants.
So, here’s our first of this series: Village Gourmet Basket with Soup.
This basket contains a 16-oz cup of soup prepared by a famous mom&pop soup restaurant in Huntington Village. They’ve been making delicious soup for over 40 years! Very good soup, trust me. It comes with a loaf of bread, cheese, and tropical fruits.
There’s a lot of gourmet basket Internet sites. But have you noticed that their baskets don’t really have anything healthy to eat? They just contain crackers, candies, chocolates, and so on. They are not “gourmet” food at all. They are basically a bunch of expensive junk food!
That’s because these companies have to use Fedex to send the basket. They can’t possibly include any real meal. All the ingredients in their baskets must be shippable by Fedex.
Because we hand-deliver each basket, we are not bound by such restriction. So now, first time ever (I’m sure this is the first at least in Long Island) that you have a gourmet basket containing real meal. See left for a picture of yummy Clam Chowder Soup. You see no fancy container here; just a plain old home-made style soup (with popover)!
We plan to expand this product line soon. We will be including home-made sausages, delicious sandwiches, and so on, all made right here in Huntington Village!
(<<– Google AdWord) There’s no way you can get one of those from 1-800-flowers, FTD, ProFlowers. :) This is our EXCLUSIVE.
Don’t forget to check out our Thanksgiving Specials! This year, we offer DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Centerpiece Kit, too!
Economy is bad. People are being laid off left and right. Companies are disappearing. 401(k) is gone.
Remember the good old day when we all got together and celebrate Thanksgiving Day? Most of us don’t do that any more…
I think that now is the time to be thankful for what we still have: families and friends we love. Let’s celebrate Thankgiving Day together.
Do you know that we sponsor Kids’ Days?
Here’s the schedule for Oct – Dec, 2008.
For more information, visit our website: Announcements.
Thank you!
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