Tis The Season...To Get Wed!

This years weddings are in full swing now, shame the sunny weather isn't!

We have created flowers for our lovely brides and grooms at many stunning venues so far this year, some of which include Glencorse House, Merchants Hall, Edinburgh Zoo and The Royal College of Physicians

There is a definite theme going on so far this year, with most of the brides looking for a more natural, country garden or vintage and seasonal look.  Roses, dill, snowball verburnum and ranunculus are proving very popular - and rightly so, they are gorgeous flowers! Here are a few photos of some of the bouquets -

Tea Cups and Talented Kids at Mother's Day

This year for Mother's Day, we decided to fill our window with some very pretty vintage tea cups filled with some equally pretty flowers

All the tea cup arrangements are for sale, so if you fancy treating your mum (or yourself!) to one just call or pop in. 

As gorgeous as the window looked though, we thought it needed a bit more colour.  So we asked the children at our local Primary School, Craiglockhart to draw their mums a Mother's Day card which we would display in our window.  What an amazing response we had! Our window, wall and front shop door are covered in the most colourful, imaginative and sweet cards we've ever seen.  Take a look at a (small) selection:

We are going to choose 3 shortly that we think are the best, and ask everyone to vote for their favourite on our Facebook page - www.facebook.com/pollinationtheflowershop 

The winner will receive a gorgeous bouquet of flowers for their mum (or whoever they'd like to give it to), and a goody bag full of sugary sweet things for the artist.

Don't forget your mum on Sunday 18th!

Pollination on Facebook and Twitter

We are not, as has often been mentioned, been the most prolific of bloggers!

This is not necessarily a bad thing as nobody wants to be bombarded by daily blogs that really have nothing to say :)

However, we do feel that we can be a little more active in our online duties but perhaps this is not the best medium to do it.

For a while now we have been using Twitter and Facebook as we feel we can be a lot more concise with what we say, post single pictures and also engage more freely with our 'fans'.

Please come and visit us to be kept up to date with whats going on and ask us anything thats on your mind - preferably flower related but not exclusively so :)

At present we are running a monthly competition on FB where one of our fans will win a lovely bouquet of flowers. The first draw will be made early next week so don't miss out.

We will continue to post blogs when we feel we have something that needs more than a picture or a few lines of text to convey.

Love Love Love

Is your love like a red red rose....or a fragrant lily....or an exotic bird of paradise.....or a flouncy rununculous...or even a spiky thistle??

Whatever they are like, they'll love you if you send them a gorgeous bouquet from www.pollination.co.uk
February 14th - a week tomorrow! 

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 Here are some photos from the lovely Jen and Matts wedding last year. They got a sunny day, as all our brides do, down in Longniddry and North Berwick.

Jen's bouquet is a cascade of white and black calla lilies and her bridesmaids are carrying a tight posy of white hydrangea.

Although calla lilies are a very popular flower choice not too many brides opt to show them off to their full potential in a shower bouquet.

This year we have a definite hydrangea trend going on through the summer for our weddings - as there should be since they are gorgeous. We'll have more pictures up soon to amaze and inspire you :)

New Year, New Stock....

Happy New Year - can you still say that on the 23rd of January...?

This year has started out pretty much the same as the last one; we are rested after a xmas break, we have a fairly large number of weddings booked in for 2012 already and we are still not millionaires. The only major difference is that the baby is outside and not inside his mum.

One thing we are doing differently this year is carrying a larger and better range of gifts and home ware for our customers. We now have a good selection of Sagaform products and ranges that compliment them. We may look to sell these online as well but for now they are only available from the shop.

We have added a few new wedding shots to our online gallery and there will be more to follow. These are mostly from the last few months of 2011 and a few from the first wedding of this year - a lovely, wintery day at Dundas Castle back on the 7th of this month.

Wedding Flowers

Hi,

We've been meaning to post a few wedding photos for a while now so here we go

the beautiful bride

the beautiful flowers!

the marquee at Glencorse

our fav cake of 2011

These photos were from Emma and Simons wedding earlier in the year at Glencorse House which is one of our favourite venues. Emma very graciously passed on some of her shots for us to use on our website and her mother gave us one of the nicest thank you letters we have ever received.