Archive for January, 2008

Attention Valued Customers:

Please be advised that ALL orders for wholesale flowers for Valentine’s Day must be placed by Friday, February 1st! Please contact our sales department if you have any questions regarding wholesale flowers or wedding flowers for Valentine’s Day.

Best regards,

The Grower’s Box Sales Department

The following is a post from the blog of Elizabeth Anne Designs:

I am by no means advocating DIY floral for your wedding - it’s too stressful and you should be thinking of other things the day before you marry! But, if your budget dictates differently, here is a great option.

Grower’s Box provides a very affordable and easy service called a Wedding-In-A-Box (WIB) package.

You choose the flower type, quantity, and colors you would like, order at least 10 days in advance, and the wholesale flowers are delivered directly to your door for your DIY pleasure. Prices range from $119 (sunflowers and snapdragons) to $750 (400 roses and 350 carnations, plus greenery). If a WIB isn’t your desire, you may also order bunches of a single flower.

The best part? Grower’s Box is the wholesaler, so your flowers are much fresher than if you ordered through a retailer, giving you a bit of extra time for pulling it all together!

E.

Last year we received a catalog from Birds & Blooms (http://www.birdsandblooms.com/) and on the inside cover there is a fun piece of poetry by Bernice Maddux of Weatherford, Texas that reads:

Flowers are more than a feast for our eyes and perfume for the air we breathe. They also mark the milestones of our lives.

Flowers speak a silent language anyone can understand. The value of flowers is without measure; their benefits immediate. How can you place a price on the twinkle of an eye, a heartfelt smile or an uplifted spirit?

Friends and family send flowers to welcome newborns into the world. Parents grip bouquets while watching their children’s recitals, waiting to reward them for their hours of practice. Flowers show their sweet faces at graduation exercises and help celebrate anniversaries.

There are more flowers at weddings than any other happy occasion in our lives. They give brides something to steady their quivering hands, decorate the lapels of solemn grooms, and act as badges of courage for sentimental mothers and fathers.

I can think of no situation or occasion - happy or sad - where flowers can not make things better.

People who have fallen on bad health need flowers like meadows need rain. I have no proof, but believe that flowers are an instrument in the recovery process, especially in the healing of the heart.

And at our final resting place, flowers encircle the spot, marking with beauty the last milestone this side of Heaven.

I think God must have loved flowers. He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

As you move ahead and look forward toward this New Year, we would encourage you to take in the beauty of fresh flowers… whether they are in gardens throughout your neighborhood or in vases displaying wedding flowers. Look for opportunities to lift those around you, whether it be through kind words or the giving of fresh cut wholesale flowers.

White Asiatic Lilies have always ranked among our top sellers for wholesale flowers and wedding flowers. As a result of this high demand, we have created a special listing exclusively for these striking white flowers!

The white Asiatic Lilies are grown at our flower farms in sunny Southern California and are shipped directly to your door! Each stem stands about 24 inches tall and usually boasts at least 3 GORGEOUS blooms per stem! These beautiful fresh cut flowers are shipped in an early blooming stage and can take up to several days to reach full bloom… so we do recommend our customers schedule the flowers to arrive 4 days prior to their event.

These magnificent Asiatic Lilies are available in boxes of either 40 stems, 80 stems, or 160 stems.

Our online wholesale flower catalog is constantly growing, so don’t forget to check out our complete listing of other wholesale flowers and wedding flowers online!

Someone gifted me a miniature (bonsai) orange tree for my birthday… I’ve never seen anything like this before! It arrived right at my work place in very sturdy packaging. The tree looked fantastic right out of the box. I’m a sales rep at Google and the quarter I received it was my best selling quarter since joining Google. This is the perfect gift to send to that person who has it all. Certainly better than lucky bamboo - and luckier too!

-Andrew

The following blog entry is courtesy of http://theclosettherapist.blogspot.com:

Gustavo the Groom helping prepare the flowers. Do you see why I married him?

I see that many people are interested in a do-it-yourself bouquet for their wedding so I wanted to update the information on how I did mine. I chose Grower’s Box to order my flowers. It was $200.00 for 250 roses in four different colors. I got pale pink, ivory, two toned pink and peach, which looked like orange.

I’m not going to tell you that it’s lickety-split, and then you’re done. It is a little bit of work, but if you do it right and have some help, I’d highly recommend it!

You get the flowers delivered fairly early in the morning two-three days before the wedding. My wedding was on Sunday and we had them delivered on Friday. They have to hydrate in spring water for a day. We kept ours in the plastic wrap so the flowers wouldn’t open too quickly. Honestly, they warn you that they will look dehydrated, but mine looked fine except for a few bad ones.

This picture is what 250 roses in a bucket looks like. Oh, but be careful! There are flowers just underneath the flowers. When you cut the stems the first time, you may cut them all the same length and not notice that they are tucked under there. We didn’t notice because they were still wrapped when we made the first cut. For us it didn’t matter because they were still too long.

I had a friend who was instrumental and took charge of the whole process. I would not recommend that the BRIDE be that person. There was so much going on the day before that it is too much to do flowers too. I told them what I liked and they basically just did it for me. I could see how it was going to look by bunching them together. Of course a picture would be best. Since I got married in SC and I live in Texas, I had a hard time remembering everything I had to bring. All my wedding pictures got left at home.

Grower’s Box had instructions on how to care for the flowers and their customer service is wonderful. We had a bunch of vases and picked the flowers to go in each bouquet, then tied them up.

Here are the final boxes of flowers minus my bouquet which we put in a cooler. In total, we did four bridesmaids, my bridal bouquet, the throw away bouquet, 10 bouts, and 8 vases of flowers for the tables. We did them on Saturday afternoon and evening. The truth is we didn’t go to bed until 3:00am! Learn from me, START EARLY!

Here is a photo of how they turned out! I loved my bouquet. It was so fragrant and I adored the ivory roses.

The reason I decided to do my flowers was purely financial. Obviously it would have been easier to have a florist do them and deliver them. Also, I was content to have very simple bouquets for the wedding. If I had wanted a “designer bouquet”, it would have been more costly and difficult. I was quoted $850 for a minimal amount of roses in each bouquet and table flowers. For example, we would have had 6 roses in each bridesmaid, but with two greenery too. We used about 12 when we did it with no greenery.

I have a feeling that using 250 roses with a florist would have cost me a huge amount of money. The florist quoted me $200 for only my bouquet and that was using 25 roses. Anyway, even if you decide to use a florist, there are ways to save. I have considered the bridesmaids only carrying a single flower. Everyone I polled thought this was a very elegant way to go. Even when money isn’t a consideration, brides are choosing to do this because of the simplicity of the look. You can use a rose, lily, or even a gerbera daisy.

What I struggled with the most when planning the flowers or anything else for the wedding was “What should I do?” instead of “What do I want to do?”. I honestly didn’t know what I wanted so I just kept researching and looking through magazines until lit hit me. What did I learn? Go with your first instinct. There are no wrong answers. All flowers are beautiful. in my opinion, don’t spend thousands of dollars on them. Literally, you hold your bouquet for a few moments and that’s it. Another piece of advice, don’t let people “should” on you and don’t “should” on yourself. Again, there are no wrong answers. I got stressed over many details and wanted others to tell me that I made the right choice. If you need that too, I’m telling you that if it is what you think is pretty, then you are making the right choice. There will not be anyone judging the final show!

Other materials that you need: flower tape, floral wire, wire cutters, vases, spring water, and satin ribbon to wrap the bouquets.

You can find this blog and other useful information at http://theclosettherapist.blogspot.com.

Attention Valued Customers:

Please be remember that ALL orders for wholesale flowers or wedding flowers for Valentine’s Day must be placed by February 1st. Take advantage of great deals on wholesale flowers and place your orders early!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service department or sales department by calling 1-888-297-3000.

Thanks!

The Grower’s Box Sales Team

Just in time for Valentine’s Day! The Grower’s Box has added Black Magic Roses to their lineup of online wholesale flowers and wedding flowers! Black Magic Roses are probably the most sought after rose variety in the world!

Black Magic Roses are in fact not black as the name suggests… but rather are a very deep, bold, velvety red. The petals appear thick and rich in texture and range from a deep, strong red in the middle to black tinged tips on the tips of the petals.

The Black Magic Roses are best presented at lengths of 60cms (24 inches), and we offer the Black Magic Roses in boxes of either 100 stems or 200 stems.

I was so satisfied when I received my Christmas Wreath from The Grower’s Box. The price, quality and overall appearance of the wreath was outstanding!

They had wonderful customer service that answered every question that I had. I will definitely be telling all my friends and family members to shop at The Grower’s Box. Thank you again for the beautiful wreath!

- Mary

While thumbing through a ‘Dateline’ publication from the Society of American Florists (SAF), we came across an article that spoke briefly about the benefits of flowers. So we propose to you the following question… Why buy flowers?

Speaking of flowers in the home, the article stated that, “seeing flowers first thing in the morning makes you happier and more energetic.”

When addressing the topic of flowers at work the article said, “studies show that adding something as simple as fresh flowers can enhance… moods, social interaction and workplace energy.”

As we charge ahead through this New Year, we at The Grower’s Box wish you all a prosperous and safe 2008. If your goals include being more productive, having a better attitude, or being more encouraging and logging greater accomplishments in the workplace… consider adding beautiful fresh cut flowers to your daily routine!

The Grower’s Box customer service and sales teams are here to serve you. If you have any questions regarding wholesale flowers or wedding flowers or need some guidance on planning for an upcoming wedding or event, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@growersbox.com or call us at 1-888-297-3000.