And the winner is....

Well, actually there are 2 winners! Tom aged 5 and Emily aged 4 both guessed 260 eggs, which was the nearest guess to the correct answer of 262!

So they both win a nice large choccie egg to munch on and a bouquet of flowers each (which they may like to keep to make their bedrooms look pretty, or they could be well brought up kids, and donate them to someone they love ;o))

Finn aged 4 came very close with 265, so he has been awarded a wee choccie egg goodie bag.

So well done guys, you are obviously all destined for University having such mathematical skill!


We are closing the shop on Monday so we can recover from eating too many eggs. Hopefully the 'spring snow' will stay away next week unlike earlier on this week, and maybe the sun will shine ...hmm....

Happy Easter to you all!

Eggs Win Prizes!

Another young mind is baffled whilst trying to count how many eggs are in our window!

Count all the eggs, submit your answer and the winning correct entry will win a BIG chocolate egg and a lovely bunch of spring flowers.

So far we've had jostling, shouting and general mischief as the 'young uns' try to psyche each other out and mess up their counts whilst crowding the window and adding up all the eggs.

These kids play hard ball, but it is a BIG egg they've all got their eyes on.

The winner will be announced at 1pm on Friday 2nd of April.

Recession? What recession?!?

Just a quick post to say a huge thank you to the many lovely customers, old and new, that ordered flowers over the weekend.

We had our busiest ever day on Saturday and had a bigger Mothers Day this year than we did the year before.

I know it's hurting a lot of people but we're gratefull that people were still happy to share some of their limited funds with us.

Hope all your Mums had a great day and will be enjoying their flowers for a long time to come.

Banksy it Aint!

We had painted a sandwich board with blackboard paint for a bit of Mothers Day marketing.

It had been out on the street drying for no more than a couple of hours when some dubious prankster christened it.

In the words of Rolf...."Can you tell what it is yet?" (the last word is _oaby)

Answers on a postcard please.

Mothers Day Flowers

It's been a while since our last update, which is bad, but we have been exceptionally busy both in and out of work!

On the horizon next is Mothers Day, the big one, the busiest single weekend of our year. And to be honest, probably my favourite of the big 3. Christmas is good but tends to involve lots of warm colours and cold weather. Valentines is great but has a huge emphasis on roses. Mothers day is fairly non specific in regard to the flowers we send out.

Some opt for fresh spring bouquets full of tulips, hyacinth, rannunculus and freesia. Others like contemporary and unusual creations with orchids, anthuriums, birds of paradise and proteas. Many prefer a more classic bouquets with lisianthus, roses, lilies and veronicas.

The picture here is our 'The one thats for Mum' bouquet from the website. It ranges in price from £30-60 and is available to order now.

Theres plenty more coming along after Sunday 14th but we'll just try to keep our minds on that date for now.

Bye.

Cupid, draw back your bow.....

It's February, and there's a wee man by the name of cupid hovering about getting ready to fire his bow any minute now! - well 11 days from now to be exact. Yes it's Valentines Day soon, and the shop is once again to be filled with an array of reds and pinks and all things lovely.

Red roses have long been a traditional favourite and synonymous with Valentines, and who are we to argue. We will be stocking the sumptuous and velvety deep red Grand Prix roses which are featured on our web sites online shop as 'The Barry White' (half dozen), 'The Mr Darcy' (a dozen) and for the uber romantics (or uber generous!), 'The George Clooney' (2 dozen of the gorgeous blooms).

For those who prefer to go for something different and equally as stunning we have the 'No Roses in Sight (above)', especially for Valentines, as well as other set bouquets or the 'Create Your Own' option. We will be delivering in Edinburgh Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, and elsewhere in the UK Friday 12th. So let cupid flex his love muscles and get ordering now to make your special someone smile!

2010, a fine year for flowers

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!