Caring For Your Cut Flowers
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011Your Calgary Flower Shop has taken the utmost care to ensure the flowers we deliver to our customers homes and workplaces are as fresh and beautiful as possible. We begin the process by acquiring our flowers from the industries finest flower growers and partnering with only the best FTD retail florists. By doing so we can [...]
Poinsettia Trivia and Fun Facts
Monday, December 6th, 2010Your Calgary Flower Shop would like to share some fun facts about poinsettias. After all it is the Christmas season and nothing says Season’s Greetings like a Christmas poinsettia. Don’t forget to contact your Calgary Florist during the holiday season. The flowers of a poinsettia are the small, cup-like structures called cyathia at the center [...]
Why poinsettias and Christmas?
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are originally native to an area known as Taxco del Alarcon in Southern Mexico. The plant was cultivated by the Aztec Indians who referred to it in their language as Cuitlaxochitl (from cuitlatl=residue, and xochitl=flower) meaning “flower that grows in residues or soil. The colourful bracts were used by the Aztecs to [...]
Chrysanthemum – November’s Birth Month Flower
Monday, November 8th, 2010Why should this flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes? Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, When flowers are in their tombs. These were the opening lines of Thomas Hardy’s famous poem ‘The Last Chrysanthemum’ about the flower which blooms in the fall and brings cheers to people in the colder region [...]
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