Common Names: Anthuthium, tailflower

Description: A tropical flower, anthuriums have strange petals that are red, pink, white or green. The blooms are glossy like patent leather. As a cut flower, anthuriums live two to three weeks.

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Common names: calla, calla lily

Description: Callas are large flowers with thick, waxy petals and solitary 6 to 8 inch flower heads that make excellent cut flowers and blooming plants. Colors include white, yellow, pink, lavender, rose, orange and green. Vase life is seven to 10 days.
Special care: Water frequently and cut stem ends every few […]

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Common names: alstroemeria, Peruvian lily, Inca lily

Description: The main stems of these cut flowers are around 2 to 3 feet long branching into four to six short pedicels; each holding two to four flower buds. Colors include pink, red, mauve, cream, lavender, purple, yellow, apricot, orange, salmon,  white and bi-colors. Alstroemeria typically last one to two […]

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Flowers by McDowell are in the pipe five-by-five and ready for lift-off, a great day for the community with a 3rd Florist joining the network during the first week. This is excellent news as the community now links Edinburgh in Scotland and the Flowers by McDowell flower shop.
Keep watching this space over the next week […]

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They are a UK Based flower shop in the county of Suffolk, a town world famous for the Newmarket Races! Within the next 7 days the blog will go live allowing them to start writing pages and posting information all about the flowers they arrange and deliver locally in Newmarket and the neighbouring areas. Find […]

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On the 8th May 2008 The Florist Blog was launched and with it the communities first member ‘ Rays Florist ‘ Welcome to the world of online blogging! I’ve known Ray’s Florist since first doing business with them in late 2003, launching Ray’s Florist blog feels that extra little bit special knowing that all of these years on […]

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