Interflora creates bespoke bouquets online

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If you’ve ever tried ordering a bunch of flowers online but can’t find the perfect bunch, then worry no longer as Interflora have come up with a blooming beautiful idea!

The new option on their website will allow consumers to tailor make their own bouquet of flowers by using the new drag and drop feature.  This will result in a virtual display of your bouquet.

The price for your bespoke bouquet starts at £28 and allows customers to choose from 70 flower and foliage species with further options including modifying the creation with vases and ribbons.

Commercial director Helen Quinn said, “Sometimes a man can get overwhelmed when looking at bouquets online, but will generally know the sort of colours and flowers his partner likes.  My Interflora Creation gives him the opportunity not only to pick out blooms that he knows will be appreciated, but also allows him to show just how romantic he can be.”

She added that there is an increasing demand for bespoke gifts and the new technology allows “people to use their creativity to design a unique and thoughtful gift.  By taking time to create a bespoke bouquet – with the design, choice of flowers and colours informed by the recipient’s own taste and personality – we have taken saying it with flowers to a whole new level.”

Snowdrop bulb sells for £725 on eBay

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A single Scottish Elizabeth Harrison Snowdrop bulb sold for a record £725 on eBay yesterday, more than double of the previous record for a Green Tear which sold for £360 just last month.

Snowdrops are becoming increasingly valuable with many collectors of the species hiring security guards or getting tags to protect their rare species.  There is also a significant increase in Snowdrop collectors or galanthopiles who are willing to part with hundreds of pounds for the flowers which first became popular in the mid 19th Century.

Joe Sharman, galanthopile and owner of Monksilver Nursery in Cambridge who also discovered the ‘Grumpy’ snowdrop – galanthus elwesii – said, “There are people who go around stealing snowdrops.  I have to hire in security guards when I hold an event.”

The Scottish Elizabeth Harrison Snowdrop aka galanthus woronowii appeared as a seedling in a Scottish garden a few years ago and is so named after its owner.  It is so rare that it has not been identified anywhere else.

Let’s hope the new buyer doesn’t have a cat or a dog; one chomp and it’s gone.



 

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