Before building this flowers-blog, we offered readers trends and tidbits, which now will be published here.As we expand our blogging skills, it is our intention to be global in scope within our passion for flowers. If you have any news or sites we should know about, please be kind enough to send mail. Going green is all about attitude and just a smidge about color.Going green is all about attitude and just a smidge about color. Permalink -- click for full blog post The global flower industry is an ecosystem of interdependance .The global flower industry expands, reduces, compromises according to what is happening elsewhere. A shift across the world can impact a country's employment levels, even its traditions. Permalink -- click for full blog post Reaching out to one another in emotional response to a need puts flowers at theWe're a small, small business but we respond to many charitable causes to connect to our community. Permalink -- click for full blog post Flowers can Express Sympathy like Nothing Else.Sympathy flowers hold everything sweet and beautiful and transcendent about life. Permalink -- click for full blog post Rose considerations may merit a certain number or colour. Choose carefullyRose considerations take into account the number in a bouquet, the colours, the meanings. And you thought it was the easiest ,most traditional way to send sentiments? Permalink -- click for full blog post Tidbits of flower trends, trivia and industry newsThe latest flower trends and trivia to keep you up-to-date about what people are buying. Permalink -- click for full blog post Flowers Enhance Our Lives Offering Insight to our Own BeautyFlowers enhance our lives with a glimpse into the ethereal , and to ourselves . Permalink -- click for full blog post Begonias in BrusselsEvery two years since 1971, the square is covered with some 700,000 begonias put into place by 100 volunteers to create the design of a floral architect. Flowers, Vancouver.An incomparable floral service for Vancouver or worldwideExotic, unusual and delightful flowers. Discriminating floral gifts. Flower selection is second to none. Creative floral design. Excellence guaranteed. Permalink -- click for full blog post Flower Links Enhance ResearchA page of flower links to help support your quick information search. Permalink -- click for full blog post Flower auction buying gets better flower selection and qualityFlower auction largest in North America is best source of top-grade local flowers Permalink -- click for full blog post Vancouver to Host Rose FestivalThe World Rose Festival,is being hosted by Vancouver June 19 to 21, 2009 with some 15,000 flower enthusiasts expected from throughout the world.Following the event at the Convention Center, the World Rose Convention will be held at the Bayshore, June 18-24,2009, bringing together some 800 rosarians from 40 countries. Flower-Power Comes with KnowledgeMale flower-power comes from knowing a thing or two. Permalink -- click for full blog post Flower questions about care and handling of cut flowers are answered here.Have flower questions? This FAQ page allows you to ask questions about flowers, their season, origins, care and handling or whateer crosses your mind. Permalink -- click for full blog post In the Heart of a Flower, EverythingPure poetry is this Vancouver educator's interaction with flowers and the senuousness of the experience. Was pleased to find this site. "The Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh (1995), calls our interconnectedness with all things “interbeing” (tiep hien). He writes: "When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It “inter-is” with everything else in the universe. (p. 11)" SBI News:The Latest Tools for Website Building and MarketingAn SBI news feed keeps the latest web-building and marketing in plain sight. For all the SBI enthusiasts who know the possibility of this site-building platform, this is a bonus. Permalink -- click for full blog post Singapore Orchids on CoinsSingapore's Vanda Mimi Palmer and Dendrobium Singa Mas orchids will grace the face of a new $5 coin in June 2007. These exotic flowers are serious business in Singapore as the island supplies 15% of the world’s market for cut orchids “valued at $19.7 million in 2005.” The white orchids on tables at Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding banquet were donated by the Singapore government. With ever-mounting competition from India, Thailand, and China, Singapore’s orchid growers circled the wagons and formed a business cluster in May 2003. Their goals were to spot threats to their market position, improve sales, investigate expansion overseas, and develop new “products.” The PR team seems to have been doing a crack job: in 2011 Singapore will host the World Orchid Conference for a second time. Mums and Roses at 2008 OlympicsChinese botanists gathered in Beijing in November to select the flowers that will be used to decorate parts of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. "Experts will select 100 types of flowers from more than 300, which will be able to cope with Beijing's climate," said an official from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry. Chrysanthemums and China roses are already confirmed on the list thanks to their status as "flowers of the city", titles bestowed on them by Beijing residents in 1986. Also on the list include peony and calla. The China Daily reports that “Supporters of the flower argue that it received high praise in ancient Chinese literature and if you gave someone a single Chrysanthemum, it meant you viewed the person as honest." There are six types of chrysanthemum, viewed as a healthful drink in China and Taiwan, good for everyone, especially those who are a bit on the timid side. APEC is Flower-Strewn EventWhen world leaders gathered in Vietnam over the weekend, November 17-19th, workers had already installed thousands of plastic flowers in roadside displays. Apparently the Hanoi Public Works Department spent some US $400,000 to brighten the streets for the event. New Orchid Found in New GuineaWith over 3,000 orchid species in New Guinea--the most species of any country--finding a new one still causes quite a stir. The World Wildlife Federation(WWF)found the orchid and seven other new species from some 300 collected during three expeditions.Some 20 more are still awaiting verification as new varieties. "The island of New Guinea is an incredible gold mine of orchids," Wayne Harris, a WWF researcher and botanist with Australia's Queensland Herbarium said.
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