Hot August Days

Here at Peacock Florist, we have blooming flowers in hot August days.  Summers are usually slow for regular flower orders, except for weddings and funerals.  I have been lucky enough to be able to use my home grown flowers for some awesome designer's choice flowers.  I have done some gorgeous Flemish designs and Ikebana designs this year.

It helps to have some great vases.  I did a large Flemish design and covered a white urn in lamb's ear leaves so it had a soft green sheen.  It set the whole feeling for the arrangement.  Most of the flowers came from my garden and a friend's garden to showcase some unusual flowers. The other flowers came from the wholesaler.  One person wanted exotic flowers because he liked them...it was a funeral arrangement.  So I did a mix of ginger, bird of paradise, and anthurium and made a Flemish arrangement because she ordered two large arrangements.  They were both striking.  I used a colorful collector's pitcher so that I could use oranges, blues, and reds to highlight the pitcher.

Doing what you love should come first!  The money will follow especially when you love what you do and it shows.  When someone says Designer's Choice, it's my cue to having fun for what I love to do!  Call EdenScapes @ 360-417-0464 for your next order to Port Angeles, Sequim, or Joyce.  We are slowly changing our name to Peacock Florist.  You can put in:  www.peacockflorist.com or www.edenscapes1.com

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May Flowers

April showers bring May flowers.   We had an unusually warm April tricking my vegetable garden and flower garden thinking it was summer.  My kale and brussel sprouts bolted on me.  Well, it's a good thing I don't depend on my flower garden for flowers...all my daffodils and tulips are on their way out. 

In my flower cooler I have tulips, roses, snapdragons, larks spur, geberra daisies, and sweet smelling stock and stargazer lilies.  Not to mention various other flowers and foliages! We can make an arrangement of just foliages.  Just give us a call!

Mother's Day was heavenly with the "Amazing May Bouquet" and "Lavender Luxury".  It's time to start selling $10 bouquets as Mother's Day is today and I don't want to waste flowers just sitting in the cooler!

It's better to over order than to under order!  So stop by and pick up a small bouquet of mixed flowers tomorrow for $10!  Thank You for supporting EdenScapes Peacock Florist and Gifts.  Gifts are 50% off!

Garden

The weather has been great in our area that I have been able to get out and weed.  I am ready for compost.  I planted bulbs and tubers of all kinds and this Spring and Summer, my garden will be in full bloom and gorgeous.  I paid for last year's bulbs and tubers, now to pay for this years flowers through funeral and arrangements. 

Even if I don't, they will be worth having and I will have to have a few BBQ's to show them off.  I have some amazing flowers if they all bloom.  My vegetable gardens will soon be ready to plant as soon as it warms to a steady 50 degrees...but that might be awhile! 

I will set out traps like some oil in a lid to get those earwigs and if I'm lucky, some slugs.  I will try a new thing with cucumbers on foil to keep the bugs out, but not in my vegetable garden.  The body doesn't need aluminum and doesn't produce it and therefore, aluminum creates free radicals and is related to memory loss, Parkinson's, MS, and who knows what else.  Free Radicals cause cancer.  Dairy and eggs and red meat also are related to memory loss.  The body also doesn't need an excess of iron, so cook in a stainless steel pot or pan...go with more fruits and vegetables.  But I digress, the point is to get rid of harmful bugs without harming the good bugs.  Earwigs can be gotten if you lay a rolled up newspaper and then the next morning go and put that in a plastic bag and seal it and toss it!  You can tell when you've got a healthy garden when you have a lot of worms.  Some people like weeds because they aerate the soil.  Worms live under the leaves that give them protection or nutrients.  Microbes eat your kitchen waste and between them and the worms turn it into soil.  So be cautious with the cucumber and aluminum, you don't want to get rid of the good bugs.

My cut flowers from my garden can go back into the garden unlike flowers I get from my wholesaler.  That goes into a separate pile because of pesticides.  It will be filler for my yard dips. Hey, maybe the earwigs will get into that pile :)  So the next time you order flowers, are you ordering from your local florist?  With computers, you can call a florist direct in another city...do not use Teleflora, ProFlowers, or 800 Flowers...they are order takers!  Call the florist direct so she/he gets the money and not the order taker!  the florist still has to use the wholesaler for flowers most of the time because they can't possibly have the variety that the wholesaler can get.

Have fun gardening and growing your own flowers.

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Spring is coming! Spring is coming!

It is getting to be the end of February and I have been busy weeding my garden beds.  Actually, I started in January because we've had such a mild winter.  I have bulbs popping up and my heart was lighten when I visualized all the new colors and textures I would have. 

Being a florist, I can order flowers pretty much all through the year.  If it's out of season, it will be more expensive.  Some things I can't because their season is so short...like Lilies of the Valley.  They are heavenly smelling, dainty,  and have about a two week span. 

I had an order for cut flowers and didn't have those particular flowers.  I suggested a plant instead...upon learning that she was a Master Gardener (and they usually don't do indoor plants).  So I made a Garden Dish with pink hyacinth and colorful tulips.  Then to brighten it up, I put some colorful roses in water tubes.  She was happy and so was I with knowing that the bulbs would have a happy home...I love Spring!

I love creating new arrangements and sometimes getting my husband involved so my mechanics work.  I have grandiose ideas for arrangements, but no place that's suitable to place them.  So, when spring comes with the colors and textures, sizes, and shapes...my creative mind blossoms.  I make rainbows with the different colors melding together.  I make towers of flowers!  So when I see new life sprouting, I want to yell from the rooftop...Spring is Coming!  Spring is Coming!!!!

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