The yellow rose might be younger than all the other rose colors, but that doesn’t make its history and meaning any less fascinating. Yellow roses were first discovered in the wild at parts of the Middle East during the 18th century. Before its discovery, roses were cultivated in shades of red, pink, and white. Once [...]
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The flower industry, or floriculture, is a dynamic, fast-growing industry happening on a global scale. The countries with the biggest flower-growing industry are The Netherlands, Kenya, Colombia, and Israel, but many other nations such as The Philippines, Malaysia, South Africa, and Ecuador are joining the market and investing in the industry. Although most of them [...]
As customers and diners trickle into your restaurant, they will take a moment to look around and absorb their surroundings, especially while they wait to be seated. If you decorate the place right, your customers will feel the ambiance created by the elegant and stylish elements of your décor.
Fresh flowers that complement your restaurant’s [...]
While our options today are almost bottomless, we somehow manage to go back to flowers when we pick out the perfect gift. As a jeweler residing in the Philippines, I get requests every so often asking me to cast diamonds at the center of flower shaped earrings or make a gold bracelet look like a [...]
All anniversaries are important, yet the occasion of the 1st anniversary is always close to the couple’s heart. Whether you are celebrating a reclusive anniversary or throwing a lavish party, gifting the right gift is very important. It not only shows your love for your spouse, but also reflects your personal taste. 1st Anniversary gifts [...]
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Whether it’s for a special occasion or no occasion at all, receiving a bouquet of flowers always makes us feel good. Unfortunately though, the shelf life of cut flowers is very short; once a flower is cut from its mother plant, it gets cut off from its life support system. Your colorful bouquet will deteriorate [...]
The flower industry works like a simple value chain: growers grow flowers, suppliers obtain them, then the flowers are sold to retailers or to wholesalers before consumers buy them in bunches or bouquets. It sounds really simple, except the people involved come from all over the world. Most of the produce in the flower industry [...]
Flowers should be beautiful. Flowers should be stunning. Flowers should leave you wide-eyed and completely speechless when you receive them unexpectedly. But their visual beauty isn’t everything – flowers are also loved for their scent, their freshness, their quality, and the length of time they live in a vase. That’s why [...]
On their own, flowers are beautiful and colorful enough to pick up the mood in any room, but just think of how everything will look ten times more incredible if you arrange your flowers cleverly. There are no hard and fast rules to flower arranging, but there are a couple of guidelines [...]
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Pink roses are one of the oldest roses known to us and have a rich history that dates back to some of the earliest pieces of visual art. In the Talmud, it is written that pink roses are the only flowers allowed to bloom in Jerusalem; thus, they came to be associated with paradise. Pink [...]
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