Happy New Year to all our lovely customers!
We had a really amazing Christmas period in the shop, so a big thank you to all that helped make that happen. We've been back after a short break for almost 2 weeks now so it's pretty much business as usual at pollination.
On Monday we celebrated 12 years in business! That seems like a crazy long time to us although not quite long enough to justify having an olde worldy 'Est 1900andoatcake' sign on our shop front.
The risky business of selling chocolate in the shop is paying off - we are amazingly selling more than we are eating! After being asked many times by some of our regular customers to stock chocolate, we have at last sourced a fab company called 'The Chocolate Library' who not only make the chocolate in Scotland and are based in Edinburgh, but the choc tastes yummer too! With slick packaging with messages such as 'This is a Bribe'! and 'Yummy Mummy', its going down a storm, and is proving to be the perfect accompaniment to our flowers.On the flower front there is a definite move from all the reds of Christmas (well for a few weeks till Valentines Day that is!), to lime greens, deep pinks, and an array of spring flowers - yip despite this mad winter weather, spring is on the horizon! Not that we haven't been enjoying the snow, we've been having great fun endlessly lobing snowballs for our dog, and watching snowmen, igloos and even a snow Loch Ness monster pop up in the local park(see pic above). But please can we have some milder, dry weather again!
