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!

6 more sleeps to go!!!

It's getting super close now and we're feeling the pace in the shop.

The orders are coming in faster than the snowstorms and we're already wondering where it's all going to go. Speaking of which, it just got mighty white outside. See picture above for a live action shot of 'Sunny' Shandon!!

Still, not much for it but to keep our heads down and our hands working!

Our first big xmas delivery comes in later today, assuming they make it up the road, so the shop wil be packed out with Ilex, Amaryllis and all flowers red, white and green. As quick as they are turned into bouquets, table flowers and mantlepeice displays the next delivery will be coming in. And as we look at the mountain of flowers and think (once again) 'We've bought too much!', the phone will start ringing, the door will start opening and pretty soon we'll be wondering (once again) 'Why didn't we buy more!'

Such is xmas in a florists, gogogo, eateateat, stressstressstress, sleepsleepsleep...repeat. But we wouldn't have it any other way.

3 weeks and counting!

It's the first week of December and we have been furiously creating Christmas table arrangements in a range of black or red glass round and square bowls. From gold, cones and slices of orange, to Cinnamon sticks, silver skeleton leafs and limes.

Outside the shop is adorned with holly and pine wreaths - natural ones, sparkling ones and cool fruit and berry based ones. One customer bought 4 yesterday!

We've been out installing Christmas flower arrangements in some bars and hotels too in the last few days, and the orders for Christmas deliveries are becoming more frequent.

All we need now is to buy a new Christmas CD and get those tunes blasting......

Walking in a Winter Window Land!

In goes the christmas window, simple and stunning...or so we like to think!

The orders are coming in now and we've got wreaths up on the walls. All we need now is 'thats what I call christmas vol 788' to be dropped into the cd player. I've got mistletoe and wine in my head already, I guess thats one of the reasons that people hate this time of year ;)

Edinburgh is cold cold cold today, but thankfully dry and not too breezy. The shop is busy and lunch is almost cooked.

We'll be back with pics of the wreaths next week!

20% discount on christmas flowers at pollination!

ding dong merrily on high, the berries are a coming. reds and golds, and christmas tunes we are all a humming.

four more saturdays,
30 more shopping days,

till ole santa brings his cheer

hang the mistletoe and the door wreath

and order all your flowers here!

just been taking pics today of a couple of set bouquets in a lurvely christmas stylee which will be appearing on the website very soon. there's a sneak preview above...oh and we will also be offering all you registered users a 20% discount if you order your christmas bouquets before 14th december, so if you have not signed up to the site yet, now is the perfect time. how to make your festive shopping easy(and cheaper!).

Winter Hues

It's that time of year again. After weeks of moaning at other high street shops for bringing out the Tinsel in October we're having to start thinking about the silly season ourselves.

The shop is already filling up with pussy willow, contorted willow, salix and skimmias. Pinks and blues are transforming into deep reds and burnt oranges and Ilex Berry has been spotted on the flower trucks! As much as we hate the cold we love the changing season and the new flowers it brings.

All of us are starting to look a little bulky with extra layers and gloves and even the dog seems reluctant to shed any more hair than she has to - yay!