Blue & Yellow - a winning combination?

Well, following on from our last post regarding the choices for what was turning out to be of a 'hung bouquet', the flowers have spoken to us.  The red flowers were just not going to work in the end, they had been in abundance over the last while, but seasons change and so do peoples taste in flowers.

In the end, we opted for blues with some yellow mixed in to lighten the mood of the bouquet.  Who knows if this will work and only time will tell how much money we might make or lose out of it, but we'll live with it for a while and see how the public react.

A hung bouquet.....

We are having a dilema here at Pollination, we have done since Friday.

It all started out straight forward enough, all we had to do was create a bouquet everyone in the country would love, or at least be happy with. Firstly we had to decide on the colours for our design. Would we go for a right old mix of shades of blue, a liberal selection of yellows, or use whatever red flowers we had left in the shop?

We tried the blue flowers first, as we had more of them than anything else, but it just didn't seem to be enough. Then we went for the reds, but there just wasn't as many as there used to be in the shop. We had expected a larger delivery of yellow flowers but were let down at the last minute - seems our suppliers had decided the red and blues were the safer bets to stock up on.

As there wasn't enough yellow stems to do anything substantial with, we first decided to go crazy and mix them up with the blue flowers. This worked on a few levels but the contrast was maybe just too great. Perhaps this would be more to European taste, who knows.

So we thought about the reds mixed up with some yellow, as on paper it would seem like a more natural combination. In reality though some of the red flowers looked a little old and tired and may be past their best...

We are still undecided how we are going to put the bouquet together, perhaps we should go for broke and just proportionally represent all three colours. We don't want to get too hung up about the bouquet, but we will let you know how it turns out.

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.