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Fearless Flowers makes arranging easy

August 7, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

If you have always wanted to learn to arrange flowers for your home but don’t want to take the plunge with formal classes then Fearless Flowers is exactly what is needed.

We came across this site whilst on our web searches and were certainly impressed with the presentation and quality of the videos.

Annie Vanderwalker

Annie Vanderwalker

Fearless Flowers is a virtual flower arranging workshop, the brainchild of Annie Vanderwalker who started the site at the insistence of her husband who appreciated her flower arrangements and thought other people would enjoy seeing them.

Although Annie was initially reluctant, he bought a video camera and filmed her taking a squash blossom and vine that was growing out of a garden refuse pile on their farm. “I curled the vine around a large flat container and set the blossom off to the side. He cut the video together and showed it to me, saying, If you can take flowers out of the trash and make something beautiful out of them, you’ve got a talent that others can appreciate.”

Two years and 130 videos later, the website is in full swing they and will soon have an iPhone app that will help people shop for flowers by showing them arrangements they can do and giving them the recipes. So if alstroemeria is on sale at the supermarket, you can go on your phone and find an alstroemeria arrangement you like, buy the flowers, and go home and do the arrangement.

By visiting fearlessflowers.com you will be able to see a video showing you exactly how to put the arrangement together.

Fearless Flowers offer a very reasonable year’s membership for only $29, half-year for $19 which gives you access to all videos on the site (currently over 70) and downloads of individual videos are $1.99. They also offer a DVD and gift memberships.

Annie says:

“I show you how to go beyond plunking flowers in a vase and do knockout arrangements that won’t cost you a lot of time or money. Pick the level you’re most comfortable with and dive right in. You’ll see how much fun fearless flower arranging can be.”

The Fearless Flowers website is very well written, concise and easy to navigate with many useful features including a section where guys can check out their own videos in ‘For Men Only’.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Annie, Blossom, Brainchild, Buy Flowers, Flower Arrangements, flower arranging, Full Swing, Gift Memberships, Half Year, Insistence, Iphone, Knockout, Plunge, Recipes, Squash, Supermarket, Trash, Vase, Video Camera, Vine, Virtual Flower, Web Searches


Kilcoan Gardens in Northern Ireland

July 27, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Kilcoan Gardens is a recently established business, growing & arranging cut flowers in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Kilcoan mixed jug arrangement

Kilcoan mixed jug arrangement

Cherry Townsend took up gardening as a hobby about 12 years ago, after her son was born.  This hobby soon turned into an obsession and a few years ago Cherry decided that she would like to be able to earn a living from her love of flowers.

Inspired by an article in Country Living magazine about Jane Lindsey at Snapdragon Gardens in Scotland, Cherry set about converting some of her parents land into her dream business and Kilcoan Gardens was born.

Their old shetland pony was swiftly moved from the prime spot and Cherry started planting. She was fortunate to have an extensive mature garden in situ of 2 acres, featuring a wide range of shrubs and perennials.

With plenty of material to propagate from, the gardens soon started to bloom. A mild maritime climate on the peninsula of Islandmagee (but with plenty of wind!) means considerably less frost than inland, so flowers like dahlias continue for several weeks longer than in gardens further from the coast.

Kilcoan Gardens is currently selling at local farmers’ markets and delivering hand tied bouquets to the local area and through the

Kilcoan Gardens are ablaze with summer colour

Kilcoan Gardens are ablaze with summer colour

website, Cherry hopes to be delivering freshly cut, locally grown flowers throughout Northern Ireland very soon.

Everything at Kilcoan Gardens is seasonal and tended by Cherrys’ own hand.  The extensive range includes; annuals, perennials, herbs, roses and cut flower foliage and berries.

Fresh cut flower arrangements, range from hand tied posies to larger bouquets. Kilcoan Gardens also sell organically grown perennials and herbs.

Seasonal Christmas products include; wreaths, table arrangements and narcissus and iris bulbs which have been forced for a beautiful indoor display. Seasonal arrangements are also available for Mother’s Day and Easter.

All enquiries are welcome, with mail order flowers available soon.

Kilcoan Gardens take pride in being environmentally aware and use recycled materials and packaging wherever possible.

More information

Kilcoangardens.com

Country Living Magazine

Filed Under: Features, Industry Focus Tagged With: Christmas Products, Co Antrim, Cut Flower, Cut Flowers, Cutting Garden, Dream Business, Flower Arrangements, Hand Tied Bouquets, Iris Bulbs, Jug, Local Farmers Markets, Mature Garden, Mild Maritime Climate, Narcissus, Northern Ireland, Perennials, Prime Spot, Shetland Pony, Snapdragon, Summer Colour, Table Arrangements


Flower Sponsors Required

February 9, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

The Malta Horticultural Society, a voluntary Society founded in 1903 is the only Horticultural Society in Malta.

Gold medal winning display by Elizabeth Gordon

Once a year in the first weekend of May they organise ‘The Great Spring Show’ in the public gardens of San Anton and in a part of the president of Malta palace in Attard-Malta.

Many Maltese people and tourist visit the show each year.

Two British ladies, Elizabeth Gordon and Elaine Middleton, who won the gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show have been asked to come to this year’s show to showcase the winning flower arrangements.

The Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa a five star Hotel in Attard-Malta are sponsoring accommodation at the hotel and Air Malta are going to sponsor the air tickets.

However, the organisers are still looking for sponsors to provide the flowers for the arrangements.

If you are a grower, distributor or have a general interest in flower arranging and would like to help, please e.mail Gabriel Ebejer.

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Air Malta, Air Tickets, Amp Spa, Attard, British Ladies, Chelsea Flower Show, Corinthia Palace Hotel, E Mail, Elizabeth Gordon, Five Star Hotel, Flower Arrangements, flower arranging, Gold Medal, Gold Medals, Great Spring, Horticultural Society, Organisers, Public Gardens, San Anton, Showcase, Spring Show, Tourist Visit, Two Ladies, Voluntary Society

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