Halloween Floral Design

Fall is a wonderful time of year for floral design. There are so many beautiful flowers in rich fall colors. Halloween arrangements are especially fun. Use fresh flowers and Halloween novelties! The flowers in this design include: Bird of Paradise, Alstromeria, Gerbera, Roses, Chrysanthmums, Carnations, Coppertip (crocosmia), and an orange thistle. The foliage used includes leather leaf, salal, and goldenrod. Cury willow also adds an exciting touch.

To design an arrangement in a pumpkin, first clean out your pumpkin. Sprinkle flower food on the inside, this will help your carved out pumpkin to last longer. You will then want to insert plastic lining in your pumpkin. This arrangement uses floral foam. After saturating your floral foam in warm water, you are ready to begin! For instructions on how to use floral foam, go to the link 1-800 Flowers.com found at the top left of this page. After clicking the link, go to "Floral care and giving," "using floral foam" is found under the "year round" heading.

Some tips for your design:

• You paid for that Bird of Paradise! Make sure you can see it!
• Use the "lid" of your pumpkin as part of your design, attach with wooden peg.
• Add fall leaves to your design.
• To enhance your design, and to make it more suitable for Halloween, put Halloween novelties in it, like ghosts, spiders, cobwebs, or witches!
• Don't forget purple is the new Halloween color. Using purple flowers and foliage can add variety to any seasonal floral arrangement

For more autumn arrangement ideas, click here 1-800-FLORALS and go to the Floral Care and Giving section. To purchase beautiful and fun autumn and Halloween designs, check out the Halloween section at

Carnations for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is a great time of year to get creative with flower arrangements. Have fun arranging fresh cut flowers in cute holiday containers. All your main craft stores have huge selections of holiday gift items, which include perfect flower containers. Use anything like mugs, colored vases, and candy dishes. A flower arrangement in a cute container will make a great gift for your sister, mother, or friend. For your special sweetheart however, stay away from the over-the- top cutesy things and give her a beautiful bouquet or arrangement in a vase. Give your Valentine Flowers this year.


Here are some ideas to get you started.

This is a fun arrangement in a tin container decorated with hearts for Valentine's Day. The flowers used include red, white, and pink carnations, as well as red tulips. The filler flower is baby's breath (gypsophilia). Leather leaf covers the floral foam and is at the base of the design.

This is a simple arrangement in a vase. It includes one red gerbera daisy, one pink snap dragon, and one pink carnation. Aster, myrtle, and salal are also used. Dress up any vase with ribbon.

Simply use carnations for a charming arrangement.

Red roses, accented with a pink snap dragon and carnation,

makes the perfect arrangement for your Valentine.

This small bouquet consists of alstroemeria and red roses. Put it in a decorative container for a charming Valentine's Day arrangement

Roses are great flowers for Valentine's Day.

Arranging Fresh Cut Carnations for Valentine's Day

You don't have to have a sweetheart to give flowers this Valentine's Day. Share flowers with those you love and appreciate. This is a simple flower arrangement that will make a good gift for a family member or friend. It is made of pink, white, and red carnations. Be sure to add flower preservative to the water to extend the life of the flowers.

Rose Color Symbolism

Send the right message this Valentine's Day by sending the right color rose.

Red: Romance, true love
Pink: grace, admiration
Yellow: Friendship; new beginnings, joy and happiness
Lavender/Purple: love at first sight
White: simple elegance, sophistication
Orange: enthusiasm, desire, fascination, energy, warmth

Send flowers online

Traditional Rose Flower Arrangement

When it comes to Valentine's Day flowers or anniversary flowers, you can't go wrong with giving a traditional arrangement of a dozen red roses accented with baby's breath (gypsophilia). The following video gives step by step instructions on how to arrange a dozen roses in a vase.

This video uses red freedom roses, gypsophilia, tree fern (Asparagus), and leather leaf (Rumohra). You can obtain these supplies at your local florist. Grocery stores often have great floral departments where you can also buy these supplies individually.

The cheapest place to buy a glass floral vase is at a thrift store. If you can't find what you're looking for there, try the floral department at your local grocery store, they usually have the best selection this time of year. Another way to obtain nice floral vases is to order flowers online, and include a vase in your order or go to your local florist. Of course, if you have an account with a flower wholesaler, you can also get great deals on vases from them as well.

Proflowers.com often offers a free vase with your order:

FREE vase with your flower purchase. Gifts starting at 19.99!

Small Halloween Basket

How to Make a Halloween Gift Basket

A gift basket with fresh flowers is a great way to say thank you or to give someone a unique gift.

Supplies for creating a Halloween Gift Basket :

• Halloween container or basket


• bud vase


• floral clay


• flower/ bear grass


• tissue paper


• things to fill your basket with, such as candy, treats, candles, cookie cutters...anything Halloween

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month? Did you also know that by sending flowers, you can support research for the cure?

, offers special floral arrangements that donate 10% of the proceeds to Komen for the cure. They have a huge variety of flowers and gift baskets, you are sure to find something you like or you know your friend, mother, or sister will like. Go to Komen Pink Ribbon Collection to help! Prices range from $29.99 to $79.98.

Flower Care tips for ProFlowers Arrangements and Flowers

The following link will take you directly to the ProFlowers Flower Care page for instructions and tips for caring for your fresh flowers and helping them to last longer. As their flowers come directly from the field (which makes them last longer), they need some additional care.

These tips apply to all fresh flowers as well. To learn how to care for roses, irises, tulips, Peruvian Lilies (Alstroemeria) and more, visit ProFlowers Flower Care page.

Order flowers online and have them delivered directly to your door.

The Proflower Difference

What makes flowers from Proflower.com stand out? Proflowers sends you flowers straight from the field, which guarantees freshness. Other online florists send the orders to your local florists, who fills the order. The flowers there came from a wholesaler, and then have been sitting in the florists cooler for several days. Flowers ordered from your local florist or other online florists could be weeks old. Flowers from Proflowers will last longer.

While the flowers may last longer, there is one important thing to remember. Flowers that come straight from the field will most likely arrive in bud form. This means that the flowers or blossoms, will be closed and tight, and it will take a few days for them to open up. So it is important that you order the flowers a little bit early, and then take care to put them in warm water with the flower preservative that came with them. The combination of warm water and flower preservative will help the flowers open up and be in their most beautiful stage.

And as the flowers will come delivered in a box, they may need a little help being arranged. If you do ever happen to receive a flowers that aren't quite arranged, ProFlowers offers some helpful tips. This video shows you how to assemble your flowers in a vase.



The important things to remember are: remove outside petals on roses, cut the stems at an angle with a sharp knife or flower cutters, and add flower preservative to the water. The flower preservative is found in a small packet with the flowers. Removing the outside petals of roses is easy. They are tougher than the inside, and often times are a bit bruised or torn, so they are easily identifiable. Just gently pull them down and break them off.

In addition to flowers, Proflowers.com offers a wide variety of gifts and sweets. Shop at ProFlowers and find it all in one place! Enjoy flowers longer from Proflowers.com.

Fresh Flower Ideas

Fresh Flower Ideas.com is a new and exciting website dedicated to fresh flowers and floral design. We offer free floral design tips and ideas with beautiful pictures and step by step instructional videos on how to put together a variety of flower arrangements. Fresh Flower Ideas.com keeps you updated with all the floral holidays of the year and lets you know which flowers go with which holiday. We help you to choose the appropriate flowers to send to loved ones, family members, friends, and coworkers for any occasion, whether it be a holiday, birthday, anniversary, special event or just because. From Fresh Flower Ideas.com, you can find and order floral supplies to make your own flower arrangements. With our resources and links you are sure to find whatever you need to make silk and fresh flower arrangements. We also have available fresh flower arrangements and gifts you can order online and have delivered right to the receiver's door.

What makes us different than other websites about floral design? We offer exclusive discounts on flowers from the top online florists. What can be more fun than sending flowers? Saving money and sending flowers! Check out http://www.FreshFlowerIdeas.com/ soon to find discounts offers on beautiful flower arrangements and gifts.

Sympathy Flowers

What are sympathy flowers and why should you send sympathy flowers? Sympathy flowers are flowers sent at the time of death of a loved one, friend or acquaintance. Flowers are sent to the family of the deceased for a number of reasons. One reason is to honor the deceased. Another reason is to comfort the living. During the time of loss, it can be hard to find the right words of comfort, sending flowers to a grieving family shows that they are being thought about and shows the care of the one sending the flowers.

Fresh flowers are ideal for sympathy flowers. Fresh flowers are fragrant, cheerful and beautiful, they will help cheer up the bereaved. Flowers can be sent through a florist to the funeral home or directly to the family’s home. Flowers can be sent at any time, either for the funeral or to the family afterwards to offer continuing comfort.

There are many options for fresh flower arrangements to send for a funeral. There are easel designs and set pieces. An easel design is used as tribute to be placed near the casket during the funeral services. Easel designs are usually in the form of a spray, or one-sided design without a container. A set piece is a flower arrangement formed in a specific shape. Crosses, hearts, and wreaths are examples of set pieces.

Celebrate the New Year with Flowers!

It's not too late to order holiday flowers. Give flowers to that special someone for New Year's. USAFlorist.com! has a great selection of flowers to Ring in the New Year!

Christmas Small Mug Floral Arrangement

A fun Christmas gift idea is to put a small fresh flower arrangement together in a holiday mug. Use wet floral foam as the base of the design. First cover the foam with leather leaf, none of the floral foam should be showing. Put a few taller pieces towards the back of the mug. Then fill in moving towards the front with smaller pieces of leather, creating a sort of fan shape. The arrangement can either be all the way around or one sided. If it is one sided, you still need to cover the floral foam in the back with the leather leaf.

When no floral foam is showing, begin adding the flowers. Start with three white carnations, all cut at different heights. then add a three white carnations. Use two stems of red pixie carnations. Cut each individual blossom from the stem and insert these in the floral foam around the design. Then add some baby's breath. Again, cut each sprig off the main stem so you have more to work with. Last add some red hypericum berries. You could also add some cedar or other evergreen to the design. Watch this step by step video for complete instructions. This small design is charming and will delight the receiver of such a gift.

Christmas Candle Ring

A candle ring is a very popular floral design piece for the Christmas holidays. A candle ring can be made of several types of greens. Traditionally evergreen, such as pine, is used. But, using a green such as boxwood can be very beautiful. It can be filled out with berries and holly and accented with pine cones. Traditionally a round candle is placed in the center around the ring of evergreen. The candle can either stand alone or be covered with a hurricane glass vase. Of course you can either purchase an artificial candle ring, or purchase a fresh one online, if you do not have time to make one yourself.

Flower Arrangement Ideas for Christmas Gifts

Flowers are a unique and special gift to give for Christmas. There are a variety of floral arrangements available to purchase online, or you can make one yourself. Here are a few ideas: a Christmas centerpiece, small arrangement in a holiday mug or decorative container, gift basket, candle ring, and vase arrangements.

A gift basket is fun to put together and even more fun to give. All you need to do is find a basket or a Christmas container and put a few things in it. This would make a great gift for a coworker, teacher, sibling, or that person who just seems to have everything.

Another fun idea is to put a small arrangement together in a holiday mug. Use floral foam as the base of the design. This small design is charming and will delight the receiver of such a gift.

You could create an arrangement for any size vase, the larger the vase, the more flowers and greens to use. For Christmas time, use red, white and maybe even green flowers (like green button mums). Also choose from a variety of greens and evergreens. Accent a red rose in a bud vase with some baby’s breath and cedar. Deep red alstroemeria are especially beautiful. There are many other fresh flowers that would be perfect to use for Christmas arrangements.

A Christmas centerpiece can be made in several ways. You can either create a simple centerpiece of an arrangement of flowers in a low crystal container or make a long centerpiece in a plastic centerpiece tray with a variety of evergreens. Any of these designs would be perfect to give a friend or family member as a gift or to keep yourself and decorate your home with.

Send Holiday Flowers and Gifts from JustFlowers.com

Christmas is next week, but it's not too late to get great gifts. If you are still struggling to find the perfect gift, consider flowers. Fresh flowers are the perfect gift for just about anyone. JustFlowers.com International Flowers has a wide selection of flowers and gifts this holiday season. Their selection includes, fresh flower arrangements in vases of a variety of shapes and sizes, centerpieces, gift baskets, wreaths, poinsettias, and holiday treats. Christmas Gifts

They have a large variety of centerpieces available to order online. Their selection includes centerpieces made with fresh evergreens, red and white flowers, pine cones, and a variety of shapes, sizes, and number of candles. The gift baskets available range from fruit baskets, to candy and treats. They also have many snowman gifts.

JustFlowers.com International Flowers

Special Holiday Offers Ending Soon

We have also just updated our coupon section at http://www.FreshFlowerIdeas.com/ so check it out to find great gifts for the holidays and discount flowers.

Here is another great offer that expires 12/21/08

Free Shipping on Hugs and Kisses Bouquets

Christmas Gift Basket with Fresh Flowers

Looking for the perfect Christmas present to give this year? A gift basket is fun and easy to put together. All you need to do is find a basket or a Christmas container and put a few things in it. Make it extra special and beautiful by adding a fresh flower. Some things that you could put in the gift basket in addition to a bud vase with a single flower, (such as a red Gerber daisy, rose, or lily), include: a Christmas movie, a Christmas book, Christmas tree ornaments, holiday cookie cutters, and/or treats. You could also do different themed gift baskets. For different themes you could use include: snowmen, gingerbread men/women, Santa Clause, the Nativity, Christmas trees, or Reindeer.

For a snowman themed basket, include a storybook about a snowman, snowman cookie cutters, and snowman shaped cookies and treats. Decorate the basket with blue and white tissue paper. Include a bud vase with a white flower accented with cedar or pine. Maybe also include snowman ornaments, candles, and/or figurines. A snowglobe would be perfect. Be creative! If you are having trouble filling up your gift basket, just go to a store that sells holiday decorations. The items are usually sorted by theme, so all you have to do is put the items you see in your basket.

To assemble the gift basket, first attach the bud vase in the container with floral clay. Then, if you use a wicker basket, use some festive Christmas tissue paper or other pretty paper to line it. Also, there are lots of square and rectangle wicker baskets available at craft and hobby stores that are lined with holiday cloth. Last arrange the gift items in the basket so it looks pretty and appealing. This would make a great gift for a coworker, teacher, sibling, or that person who just seems to have everything.

Christmas Flower Arrangement in a Crystal Vase

Make a small fresh flower arrangement in a holiday crystal container. Use roses and chrysanthemums, or other red and white flowers. A small arrangement like this will be ideal for a centerpiece for a small table or just as home holiday decor.

There are a few ways to assemble such an arrangement. One way is to create a dutch spiral hand bouquet, and then cut the stems very short so the rest just above the rim of the container. Another way to assemble the arrangement is, after cutting the stems short, to place the flowers in the container, in a criss-cross fashion to hold them in place. Don't forget to clean the stems from thorns and leaves. Any leaves in the water will rot.