Tag Archives: silk flower stems

Tip of the Day: Silk Flower and Green Care and Maintenance

Here are some simple rules to follow when cleaning silk flowers and greens. Follow these rules and silk flowers, plants, or trees should last for several years. Try to place your silk flowers, plants, and trees in a location that … Continue reading

Silk Flower Stems 25% off 8/22/11 – 8/27/11 with coupon

This week, save 25% on all of your silk flower stems with our weekly coupon. If you’ve ever been to the store, you know we have just a few silk flower stems. Now’s your chance to stock up and save … 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

Chrysanthemum – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

I can write about the Chrsyanthemum today knowing that that is actually the name of this genus of flower. 15 years ago, I would have called them Dendranthema, which isn’t a mum, but a ma. So I guess the category … Continue reading

Ranunculus – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

You might know today’s Silk Flower Stem of the Day better as the buttercup, but on our website, we call it the Ranunculus. While I like the mysterious sounding ranunculus better than buttercup, I agree that ‘Build me up, Ranunculus’, … Continue reading

Dahlia – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

Elegance, treachery, dignity, instability. You might be asking yourself, “how do these words correlate with the Dahlia“, today’s silk flower stem of the day. But no other words could describe it better. Let me explain. The dahlia itself is a very … Continue reading

Tulip – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

Tulips, another favorite of my mom’s front yard, are one of the most interesting flowers we’ll talk about this month. Why? Because tulips were responsible for an economic disaster in the Netherlands, and I’m pretty sure that no other flower … Continue reading

Orchid – Silk Flower of the Day

The first thing I learned about orchids is that you cannot look up orchid in a flower book and get an answer. Orchid is only one part of the story. Wikipedia informs us that there are over 20,000 species of … Continue reading

Rose – Silk Flower Stem of the Day

I don’t have any personal memories of roses, except for a small rose bush that my mom had by the side door of our house. It stood a few feet from where we kept our trash cans, and I thought … Continue reading