Tag Archives: chris

CSFA Top Ten 2011 in pictures

Catherine and I made our first trip to the California State Floral Association’s annual Top Ten design competition last weekend. Catherine is actually a board member, so she was there running the silent auction. I was officially doing ‘whatever Catherine … Continue reading

Shopping Cart Beta is up and running!

This is very exciting for us: our online shopping cart is up in beta mode! That means you can start shopping online, and we can start sending your items directly to your business. What does ‘Beta’ mode mean? It means … Continue reading

New Halloween and Christmas Merchandise

I don’t know if anyone looks at our webpage more than I do (James is pretty close though). Most of the time I’m cruising around to see if I broke something, or I’m looking at the next section that I … Continue reading

Last look at the Santa Ana Endcaps

Just before we make the switch to Christmas/Thanksgiving/Halloween endcaps, we thought we’d show you how the endcaps look. So here’s a gallery of some of our endcaps on the eve of them heading to the big endcap in the sky. … Continue reading

First endcap of Christmas!

I went out on the floor the other day to catch our designers in the act of setting up a Christmas endcap. One problem: camera was out of batteries. So unfortunately I couldn’t get any pictures of them in the … Continue reading

Try the +1 button!

You might have noticed around the site a +1 button next to the facebook like buttons. The +1 button is Google’s answer to the like button, and is part of their new platform Google+. If you see something you like, … Continue reading

Our poor gate!

If you came into the store today, you might have noticed something a little different. Our poor gate! Due to its extreme brokeness, we could not open it this morning without destroying it. Since we weren’t prepared to do that, … Continue reading

Protea – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

Proteas are far more interesting than I ever could have suspected, and may possibly be the most interesting silk flower stem of the day up to this point. That’s a pretty bold statement considering tulips caused an economic disaster, and … Continue reading

Snowball – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

The Snowball, today’s Silk Flower Stem of the Day, raised a lot more questions than answers for me. First, what is a snowball? If you look up ‘snowball’ in Botanica, somewhere between smithiantha and solandra is … not snowball. That’s … Continue reading

Zinnia – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

Just a short post for today’s silk flower stem of the day, the zinnia. This colorful flower (comes in yellow, orange, red, purple, white, and lilac, which means it pretty much goes with everything). The most well known species, zinnia … Continue reading