March 2016 - Allen's Flowers

Celebrating Easter with Spring Flowers and Plants

This year, Easter is Sunday, March 27th so it’s less than a week away. It often includes both faith-inspiring activities and time for family and friends to enjoy a brunch or dinner and definitely an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Whatever you plan to do, we have you covered with everything from Easter lilies and spring blooming plants to Easter flower arrangements and Easter centerpieces. Check out some of the highlights from our Easter collection: Easter Egg-citing is a sweet floral display of trick greens, carnations, poms, dianthus and lilies in a vase that has been filled with plastic Easter eggs. Spring Garden Centerpiece adds refreshing color to your Easter buffet table or dining table. It contains hydrangea along with numerous spring flowers. The European Spring Centerpiece offers another floral design style for your Easter table. It contains roses, poms, waxflower, alstromeria and lilies. The Easter Lily Plant is the traditional symbol of Easter. Ours offers one white Easter lily in a decorative basket. White Garden is a sophisticated floral arrangement with white calla lilies, roses, and hydrangea combined with greenery and green hypericum in a gem lined crystal vase. Lilac and Tulips offers lilac from the local San Diego community of Julian along with California tulips in a clear glass vase. These are just a few of the examples of Easter flowers and Easter plants we have available that illustrate the wide range of styles, floral designs, and prices we offer you. You can use these as gifts or as decor for your home. We also offer custom Easter flower arrangements and custom Easter centerpieces along with gourmet food baskets, seasonal fruit baskets, and even Easter baskets full of all types of sweet goodies. You'll also enjoy the many [...]

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Celebrate the Arrival of Spring with Bright and Pastel Tulips

Spring means the arrival of many types of beloved flowers. However, one of the most loved flowers is the tulip for its unique shape, range of colors, and long life. With the arrival of spring on Sunday, March 20th, this is the perfect opportunity to pick up some tulips to enjoy in your home or office, use for a spring wedding or spring event, or share with someone special on their birthday, anniversary, or arrival of a baby. Of course, tulips are also great for holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, International Day of Happiness, and Easter all of which fall in the month of March this year. Whether you order online or by phone or you check out our San Diego flower shop displays, you can enjoy many types of tulips in an array of colors and combinations with other treasured flowers. Here are a few examples: We have tulips in colors like pink, yellow, fiery orange, red, purple and even snow white. You can get tulip arrangements in one color in the quantity of your choice or you can mix the colors up into one stunning floral display. Another option is to create a custom tulip arrangement and combine these flowers with other spring flowers or a personal favorite along with the container style of your choice. You can even bring in your own container for our floral design team to hand-arrange your tulips within this special vase or basket. To celebrate the imminent arrival of spring and encourage you to decorate for all these special March holidays or give tulips as gifts to loved ones, we have put our tulips on sale while supplies last. Be sure to visit any of our San Diego flower shops to see more [...]

Plant a Flower Day and Enjoy Lilacs and the Start of Daylight Savings Time

The signs that spring is on its way are brighter mornings and longer days along with more sunshine and the start of warm weather. To kick of the spring celebration, Plant a Flower Day is Saturday, March 20th. This is a chance to give something back to nature whether it is your own yard or a San Diego community garden. Sunday, March 13th is the start of daylight savings time followed by the official start to spring on Sunday, March 20th. With so much going on around spring, it’s the perfect time to enjoy some spring flowers of your own or to give them as a gift to a friend or family member. We are excited that one of our favorite spring flowers – lilacs – have arrived in our San Diego flower shops via our flower farm partner in nearby Julian, California. Besides their beauty and the unique look that lilacs offer, we are also offering a special value price right now to celebrate their arrival. The special pricing is available only while supplies last. Some examples of what we can do with this lovely flower includes these flower arrangements: Lilac and Hydrangea offers green and white hydrangea combined with lilies and purple lisianthus in a clear glass vase. Lilac and Tulips takes two spring favorites and hand arranges them in one clear glass vase. Lovely Lilac proves that you don’t necessarily need to be combined with other flower varieties. This flower arrangement only has a mass of lilac blooms arranged in a leaf-wrapped glass vase. You can order these lilacs and either other flowers by phone, in our San Diego flower shops, or online through our website. We hand deliver throughout San Diego as well as offer many of [...]

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Gift that Special Employee or Entrepreneur with Flowers in March!

This month, there are two special days dedicated to the hardworking, talented individuals that work as employees or those that run their own businesses as entrepreneurs and small business owners. The first special day is Employee Appreciation Day on Friday, March 4th while the second one is a global celebration known as International Working Women’s Day on Tuesday, March 8th. Both days are an opportune time to share a special gift that reflects your appreciation and support of these tireless workers that are keeping local, national, and global economies moving productively. They are the ones coming up with great ideas and disruptive products and services. They are also putting in the hours to keep businesses going. For that, they deserve a lot of recognition and thanks. When you shop with us, you get the convenience of locations throughout San Diego and a convenient website that offers all types of gift ideas by color, flower variety, and price to help you shop from your computer or smartphone. Here are some ideas to get you started as you seek out something special for these two work-related celebrations held only in March: We have lilacs back in our San Diego flower shops. Two special flower arrangements include Lilac and Hydrangea with green and white hydrangea and purple lisianthus as well as Lilac and Tulips with a combination of lilacs and tulips from our California flower farm partners, including our lilac partner in nearby Julian. Extravagance is a stunning floral display of phalaenopsis orchids, hydrangea, roses, calla lilies, hydrangea and succulents in a round glass vase. Tulips Together offers a trio of red, yellow, and purple tulips with each bunch tied with bear grass and arranged in a rectangular glass vase. Special Someone offers a [...]