Floral Guides

Valentine’s Day is the quintessential day for lovers. It is a day when couples celebrate their love and life together and remember the special moments they have shared.

This is an occasion when you really can’t attach an ‘I Love You’ to a reduced bunch of flowers from the local petrol station. Nor is it the time to quickly send a last minute token gesture; this has Valentine’s Fail written all over it and let’s face it – hardly romantic is it? Here’s […]

The tradition of celebrating Valentine’s Day is steeped in legend. The most familiar story is about the priest, St. Valentine, who was martyred in the third century for marrying young couples against the emperor’s decree. While stories have changed over the years, the primary colours for flowers have remained the same.

If you really want to impress someone this Valentine’s Day the best way to do this is with flowers. Flowers can speak volumes about how you feel for someone so getting it right is an absolute must.  You can wrap up a lot of sentiment in a bouquet but how you do it is the […]

Let’s be honest, we love flowers. As a matter of fact, everyone likes them and so do men! … Men like flowers too, but it seems that women are the only recipients of flowers especially on Valentine’s Day.

It’s such a pleasure to receive a big bouquet of flowers on Valentine’s Day; it shows you how much someone is thinking of you on this special day of love and friendship. Of course, you want to keep the flowers looking radiant in a vase for as long as possible and to do so, you […]

Tips for Valentine’s Day morning……. It’s the same date every year, just like Christmas. Yet, also like Christmas, this day on the calendar, the 14th of February, always seems to take people by surprise. This year it falls on a Monday – which is worth mentioning, firstly, because it’s even easier to forget at […]

Valentine’s Day is thought to have originated as a Roman festival called Lupercalia, a day on which young men drew lots inscribed with girl’s names from where they lived. Each drew only one name, of course, since the men were then apparently able to enjoy themselves with the young ladies pretty much unbridled. Consequently, […]