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July Jubilee!
July is the time to celebrate summer, and what better way to celebrate than with fresh summer flowers! Keep reading for lots of great tips for using summer flowers to enhance your summer get-togethers and other great events happening this season!
FSN’s Favorite Flower Arrangement For July
Send a summer sizzler with this stunning flower arrangement. Brilliant oranges and vivid yellows will put a bright and cheery smile on even the gloomiest of faces.
Looking for a great gift? Don’t sweat it, your local florist has the perfect gift for any of this season’s occasions — sizzling summer flowers! Are you attending a block party or BBQ? Fresh flowers make fantastic hostess gifts! How about summer birthdays? Who wouldn’t instantly perk up with a peak at these bold colors? Maybe you just want to update your home decor; do it with summer flowers!
So, if you’re shopping for hot summer gifts, or looking to give your drab room decor an upgrade, look no further than this summer sizzler!
Flower Ideas For July Birthdays
Sending flowers to someone on their birthday is always a hit! Gazing at beautiful flowers will create birthday memories to hold close to heart, especially if your recipient works at a desk job. There’s nothing better than having your beautiful birthday gift greet you with it’s vibrant colors every morning when you walk into your office. It’s like celebrating a birthday week instead of just a birthday!
Our guide to July birthday flowers shows you the best options for July flowers. Choose your flowers based on the color of the month, flower of the month, color of the birthday week, and more!
Read More About July Birthday Flowers…
Celebrate Tour De France With Flowers For Your Cyclist
The world famous Tour de France 2011 competition is going on NOW! If you, or someone you know is glued to the tube watching race results, this custom flower idea is just the thing for you!
The thing about the Tour de France we love is how they incorporate colors with their award bouquets. For each stage, a new winner is given the appropriate colored jersey (as explained in the article) to wear in the next round, and also a matching bouquet!
We love the idea of using the winning colors to send flowers to your favorite cyclist!
Read more about Sending Flowers To Your Cyclist…
Add A Taste of the Tropics To Your Summer Luau
Summer is finally here! Time for block parties, grilling, BBQs, pool parties and summer luaus. Who doesn’t love to get together with friends and eat food?! Summer luaus are always a huge hit! Don your grass skirt, break out those coconuts, crank up the Hawaiian music and you’ve got yourself a good time!
If you want your summer luau to be talked about for years to come, step up the decor and add some fresh tropical flowers!
Read more about Summer Luaus & Tropical Flowers…
Top Questions About Lucky Bamboo Care Answered
Lucky Bamboo’s popularity has significantly grown over the past few years. It is being used as great gift items and part of Feng Shui. However, some don’t know where to begin when taking care of this plant, or what to do if they notice a change. So, we’ve compiled all of your most asked questions and listed them here as a how-to guide on lucky bamboo.
Read the How-to Guide For Lucky Bamboo
Local Florist Showcases Peru Photography For A Good Cause
Scott Sella of Every Blooming Thing in Akron OH, along with photographer Michael Dunbar, are doing big things in their city to help with an even bigger cause. On July 2nd, Every Blooming Thing will showcase a stunning series of photos by Michael Dunbar, taken on his recent trip to Peru.Continue reading about Florist Helps With Big Causes …
Greet The Summer Sun With Sunflowers
Can you believe summer is already here?! The first day of summer was June 21st! What better way to greet the hot, summer sun than with beautiful golden sunflowers?!
It’s oh-so easy to tell how sunflowers got their name. Their round, disk centers and petal rays give them a gorgeous sun-like appearance. Now you can bring the summer sun into your home with a bundle of beautiful sunflowers.
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Get Out, Get Inspired! Visit Your Local Botanic Garden
If you need a boost of creativity this summer, get out to your local botanic garden. If you’re a florist, or just a flower-lover, there are huge benefits to visiting gardens FULL of summer beauty.
Get In The Mood For Summer – The gardens will definitely put you in the right mood for the season. The vivid colors of the flowers and the incredible variety you will see will certainly set you on a course for inspiration.
Be Impressed – At a botanic garden, you will see dozens, if not hundreds of unique flowers, plants and trees that you probably have never even heard of before. The surprise is, they are actually growing in your area! (It’s always astonishing to me to see just what’s possible in my area with a little love and some hard work.)
Keep Track of Creativity – Most botanic gardens divide their grounds into several themed smaller gardens, such as butterfly gardens, four seasons gardens, Japanese gardens, etc. These can be very inspirational. Carry a journal along with your camera to keep track of color patterns you see, creative use of flower pairs, and anything else than inspires you.
Read More About Visiting Botanical Gardens
FSN Announcement
This may be a little off-topic, but we are so proud of our BRAND NEW look at FSNfuneralhomes.com! We have completely changed the look-and-feel, but also the motivation behind the site.
FSN Funeral Homes was originally created to help florists looking for funeral homes in other cities, but we realized it could serve a greater purpose. We want FSN Funeral Homes to be a complete resource for visitors who have questions or need help with funeral planning.
It’s a good idea to remove flowers from your flower arrangement as they die to prolong the life of other flowers. As the flowers expire, you may want to rearrange the remaining flowers. The best way to do this is to re-cut stems under water using a sharp knife. Also, clean your container with warm water, and use floral preservative when refilling.
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JUST FOR FLORISTS
Tips From The Top With Tim Huckabee (Video)
Jamie from FSN had a great opportunity to interview Tim Huckabee, president of FloralStrategies at the 2011 SAF Growth Solutions Conference in Dallas. FloralStrategies is the only on-site training program in the entire floral industry that teaches critically important customer care skills.
You’ve Got Business! – Effective E-mail Marketing & You
“E-mail is the ‘original social media’ and it is the one platform that, pretty much, everyone still uses today.” explains Dan Zarrella, marketing specialist. E-mail marketing is listed as one of the top three most effective marketing methods. E-mail marketing is the affordable way to keep your customers coming back.
Florist’s Roadside Journal
Florists, do you keep a roadside journal? What is that you ask? A roadside journal is a little notebook you keep that documents local places where and when flowers grow naturally. Often times this might be near a field, around a fence, or growing at the end of a driveway.
The Time is Now! / El Momento es Ahora!
Are you Marketing to the Hispanic community? Speak their language. ¿Estaś Comercializacion a la comunidad Hispana? Habla su lengua a nivel mundial. Be a part of the youngest trend setting markets in the United States. U.S. Latinos tend to “adopt and adapt ” to customs and habits in the U.S. without shedding traditions and values.
SCAM ALERT – New Telephone Scam
Just got word from the Texas Funeral Directors Association of a new scam going around that is perhaps the most sinister scam we’ve seen since telephone and e-mail scams began over 5 years ago.
Social Media Talk @ SAF Growth Solutions 2011 (Video)
Is social media really worth it? FSN’s Jamie Adams talks social media at SAF’s Growth Solutions Conference with two of our favorite social florists, Georgianne Vinicombe of Monday Morning Flower & Balloon Company and Rebecca Redman of Windermere Flowers.
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