Martin Luther King's Day Gift Ideas

Good Morning New Yorkers! We're back from our trip to Holland with plenty of new design ideas that we'll be sharing with you during the coming months. Many of the design ideas were for Spring designs, so those will be coming as the weather starts warming up. 

Today I was thinking about what would make a great Martin Luther King's Day gift. Flowers are, of course, always the perfect gift for any occasion...especially from a New York florist, but which arrangements should we be sharing with our friends as ideas. I wanted something that would share the ideals of Dr. King. Hope, tenacity, peace, and fairness were the ideals that stood out to me. For hope, I decided to go with a colorful design of New York flowers that include plenty of bright colors.  

Roses and Blooms' A Perfect Day in Spring has these ideals in it, with hope for all after yesterday's nasty weather for the warm days of Spring to come. Bright, two-tone tulips we import ourselves from Holland are layered with green and white hydrangeas. A few brightly toned leaves are artfully inserted to create more depth. The look is completed by arranging it all in a mouth-blown DutZ pot in a truly Spring inspired color. I love the look of this arrangement and when I look at it, I see hope for better things to come and the brightness and layers always bring a smile to my face.

A Perfect Day in Spring - $120

My second option for a great MLK Day gift idea was the Passion vase. It is also a colorful, Spring-inspired design with cymbidium orchids, pink mini callas, lavender hydrangea, all finished with tropical foliage. It is all inside a uniquely designed DutZ pot to bring a pop to your flowers New York. See the vase below, it is available to our friends for only $99 including Manhattan delivery! 

Passion - $99

To all of your who will have Monday off...enjoy the day and hopefully you'll be able to spend some of the day enjoying the beauty of these or other vases from your preferred florist New York! If you find yourself looking for something to do, feel free to stop by Roses and Blooms at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 or feel free to call us at (212) 758 7673. We are always available, whether it is for the holiday, a party, wedding, or office need...just come to your local florist and we will ensure that you leave happy.

Ready for a Winter Wonderland?

Like it or not, winter is coming. I felt it when I pulled the covers off this morning...it was COLD! Just yesterday, they cut down the tree for Rockefeller Center, a proud New Jersey specimen! Thanksgiving is about a week away. Crazy how time keeps on moving on. 

Today, we have a wonderful arrangement from your New York Florist designed to embrace the essence of winter and pay homage to the beauty that still exists despite the cold. 

Preserved Winter Vase in Ecri Ceramic

This winter arrangement has a very unique benefit to the average vase. Not only is it housed in a glossy white with gold Ecri hand-made ceramic vase, but this arrangement will look just this way in 2 years time. Let me repeat that...it will still be just as beautiful without any watering, pruning, or any other maintenance in TWO YEARS!

To make this masterpiece, we use preserved flowers New York. Not dried, not fake, preserved. These are real flowers that undergo a 100% natural process and are then in a preserved state for 2 years time...after which they begin to dry out. In this arrangement, we use preserved hydrangea and gardenia. Then we use natural tree branches to enhance the look, much like looking at a forest in the colds of winter. The arrangement is placed in a Ecri ceramic vase. This vase is hand-made on the potter's wheel by artisans in the Netherlands and finished with a REAL GOLD finishing. Ecri vases and DutZ are available from our partner, EurDecor.

What do you think of these New York flowers? Do you feel the chills of winter when you see it? To see this and many more exclusive arrangements from the preferred florist New York, visit Roses and Blooms at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 or feel free to give our designers a call at (212) 758 7673. 

Corporations Can be Beautiful Too!

Imagine a typical office in your mind. What do you see? Desks and cubicles with drones typing away at keyboards? Executives in corner offices practicing their putting skills and putting on conference calls? A dark, dreary place where the only source of joy and laughter seems to be the magical water cooler?

Well those days are over! And yes, we at Roses and Blooms are to blame.

Tall, Lobby Style

Please join us in welcoming our newest addition to our corporate arrangement lineup. We have this in both a tall, lobby style vase as well as a shorter, desk-style one. Now not only is this an absolutely gorgeous vase that blends elegance with simplicity, it also has a very practical role.

Shorter, Desk Appropriate Style

For anyone who has ever bought a hydrangea before, this is a flower that is known for drooping and looking old very quickly. Ours, from our Dutch hydrangea breeders at Barthels, are a very different story. Instead of drooping, they simply dry up. At a quick glance, you aren't even able to tell that they have dried, they just keep their shape and continue looking great far beyond the normal lifespan of a hydrangea. 

So what makes these hydrangea so different (other than their GORGEOUS colors of course)? Instead of being grown quickly and cheaply, these are designed to last. Each stem takes at least a year to produce. They grow slowly so they gain strength and nourishment. During that time, they also become enormous. Just look at the size of those heads! 

At this time, we have these exclusive hydrangea available in pink, green, and hot pink. More colors will be coming in the future and we will be ready to use them to their fullest as well. 

Before long, you can expect to see vases with these unique hydrangea in offices throughout New York. We will help the workers of the Big Apple expand beyond their cubes and see that beauty that nature has provided. If you think that your office could benefit from designs such as this on a weekly basis, bi-weekly or even for special events, please be sure to give Roses and Blooms a call at (212) 758 7673 and we will be happy to assist in creating beautiful designs at the appropriate budget for your company. We also do holiday decorating...we know it is early but it's never too early to start planning for the perfect holiday decor! 

To see this New York florist in action visit our store at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 or check out our full online collection of New York flowers at www.rosesandblooms.com. We are here to be your florist New York and we will work tirelessly to bring you the very best in flowers New York.