Pollination has been overtaken by stunning birds this week...unfortunately for Nik they aint the long legged, blond kind, but the long stemmed 'strawberry blond' kind...aka Birds of Paradise aka Strelitzia. We are knee deep in the said birds and white callas for one event, and more birds, red nutens and spikey rodeo gerbera for another.
Talking of long legged blond birds though, we did have a visit from one yesterday, this one was in the form of the lovely Hilary. Hilary used to work for us about 7 (or more) years ago before she ran away to become a teacher. Her and her man are getting hitched and came by to chat about wedding flowers. It was fab to see them both again and have a long overdue catch up, as well as talking business of course!
We recently got in a range of silk flowers to sell in the shop. We never really wanted to get into the whole fake flower thing, but as many of our customers enquire about them, we decided to do a bit of research and found some really gorgeous stuff...even we, who have never been known to 'fake it', were convinced. Low and behold, the old business adage of listening to your customer rang true, and they have been going down a storm. Teamed with some contemporary black glass bowls and vases they really have added a big splash of colour to the shop.
Talking of long legged blond birds though, we did have a visit from one yesterday, this one was in the form of the lovely Hilary. Hilary used to work for us about 7 (or more) years ago before she ran away to become a teacher. Her and her man are getting hitched and came by to chat about wedding flowers. It was fab to see them both again and have a long overdue catch up, as well as talking business of course!
We recently got in a range of silk flowers to sell in the shop. We never really wanted to get into the whole fake flower thing, but as many of our customers enquire about them, we decided to do a bit of research and found some really gorgeous stuff...even we, who have never been known to 'fake it', were convinced. Low and behold, the old business adage of listening to your customer rang true, and they have been going down a storm. Teamed with some contemporary black glass bowls and vases they really have added a big splash of colour to the shop.
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