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Celebrate Easter with Bold and Pastel Colors

Are you ready for Easter Sunday on April 5th? Allen’s Flowers and Plants is your go-to San Diego florist for Easter flower arrangements, Easter lilies, and Easter centerpieces. From bold and bright colors to pastel hues, our Easter flower collection has something for everyone this Easter. Bold Easter Decorations There are many ways to dress the Easter brunch table if you plan on having people over, including a wide range of Easter centerpieces that reflect your style and fit your budget. Here are some ideas: The Sweetest Blooms Bouquet is a bold and vibrant flower arrangement that features fuchsia roses and yellow Asiatic Lilies along with yellow and white traditional daisies, green button poms and fresh greenery. It is hand arranged in a clear glass vase and accented with a satin hot pink ribbon. Great Gerberas has hot pink and red gerberas, miniature hot pink and orange gerberas and yellow seeded eucalyptus in a stunning vase. Easter Centerpiece is a round centerpiece with a taper candle and an egg as well as yellow daisies, monte casino, and pink carnations. The European Spring Centerpiece features roses, lilies, alstroemeria, poms, waxflower and other spring flowers and seasonal greenery. Pastel Easter Flower Displays and Gifts If you prefer more delicate hues, we also offer many pastel Easter flower arrangements and blooming plants: An Easter Lily is a way to capture the special spiritual message of Easter to enjoy throughout the spring season. We offer them as a single lily plant or a double lily plant. Each comes in a wicker basket with a bow. Easter Egg-citing is a special flower arrangement with lilies, trick green, dianthus, carnations, poms and other spring flowers in a glass vase filled with festive plastic Easter eggs. This is [...]

Create Special Spring Centerpieces for Palm Sunday and Easter

Palm Sunday is March 29th followed a week later by Easter Sunday. This is a special time to reflect on renewal and prepare for new growth during the new season. Flowers serve as a great reminder of this time of renewal and rebirth. They are a beautiful way to decorate your home. One way you can decorate for these two special spring events is to create spring floral centerpieces. Here are some ideas on making some beautiful spring floral centerpieces: Take advantage of all the various types of spring flowers now available as well as utilize greenery or green plants to add depth and interest. Make a row of floral centerpieces in empty eggshells and ceramic egg cups. Use various baskets that you may have around the house to arrange spring flowers. Get creative with your containers, including using a watering can, glass compotes, and various ceramic bowls and dishes. Add Easter motifs like Easter eggs or spring motifs like butterflies to your flower arrangement. There is no hard and fast rules to creating a floral centerpiece. It should just be a reflection of you and your décor so that it enhances the mood and environment during this special spring holiday season. If you do not want to create your own spring floral centerpieces using our flowers in bulk option, you can order a hand arranged spring flower arrangement from any one of our San Diego flower shops. Our daily deals mean that you can get great prices on farm fresh flowers many of which come from sustainable flower farmers throughout San Diego County. You can also stop in and schedule an appointment to work with our floral design team directly on creating custom floral centerpieces or Easter flower centerpieces. This [...]

adminMWL2015-03-23T15:52:00+00:00March 23rd, 2015|Categories: Easter Flowers, Spring Flowers|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego flower delivery, Easter flowers San Diego, San Diego florist, San Diego flower delivery|Comments Off

Celebrating the Arrival of Spring with Farm Fresh Flowers

Spring has officially arrived in San Diego and we are enjoying glorious weather throughout the County. What better way to toast the beginning of this season of renewal than to enjoy some spring flowers? Of course, like every season of the year, this spring is also filled with birthdays, anniversaries, and new babies as well as special events like baby showers, bridal showers, spring parties, and spring weddings all of which can be enhanced by spring flowers and the artistry of our floral design teams at each of our San Diego flower shop locations. We’ve got a whole new fresh collection of flower arrangements for you to enjoy this spring, including those with favorite spring flowers like tulips, hydrangea, roses and more. We feature fresh lilacs from nearby Julian as well as other local flowers from our sustainable flower farm partners. We also offer custom spring flower as well as hydrangea plants and other blooming plants, succulent plants, orchid plants, green plants, and Easter gift baskets. Our flower and gift delivery service includes all of the San Diego area as well as the country and world. Order now to take advantage of great prices and to ensure arrival for that special occasion, including Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. Many of our spring flower arrangements are now on sale, offering you exceptional value and incentivizing you to buy more flowers to give as gifts as well as to decorate your home or office. And just a quick shout out about a recent honor we received. The Downtown San Diego News readers just voted us the best downtown florist. We are honored to receive this award and plan on continuing to live up to that reputation with fresh and exciting floral designs, excellent [...]

adminMWL2015-03-16T15:29:20+00:00March 16th, 2015|Categories: Spring Flowers|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery, Easter flowers San Diego|Comments Off

Share the Beauty of Tulips on Plant a Flower Day

As a florist, we not only love flowers, but we also appreciate where they come and recognize the importance of giving back to make sure there are plenty of flowers for future generations. All of our flower farm partners are committed to sustainable farming practices to minimize the use of natural resources and maintain the delicate balance found in our eco-system. Helping Sustain Flowers You can do your part this Thursday, March 12th on Plant a Flower Day. Whether you work in your own garden, planting seeds and planting flowers or you go volunteer in a community garden found throughout San Diego or you go enjoy the blooms at local parks throughout San Diego, take time on this special day to recognize the value of flowers and the responsibility we have to make sure they are here for future generations to enjoy. Send Farm Fresh Tulips on Plant a Flower Day While there are all kinds of flowers that make a great choice for Plant a Flower Day, such as daffodils, roses, orchids, lilies, and more, we’d like to focus on tulips. They’ve just recently arrived in our San Diego flower shops, signaling the start of spring. Our farm fresh tulips come in an array of colors, including white, yellow, pink, orange, purple and red. They also come in many sizes so you can pick the number of blooms to include. Other flower arrangement options include mixing tulips with other stunning flowers. Of course, you can also come into any of our San Diego flower shops and work with our floral design team on creating a custom flower arrangement with tulips and more. All of our tulip arrangements and tulip bouquets are hand arranged in gorgeous vases and containers and then [...]

adminMWL2015-03-11T01:43:37+00:00March 11th, 2015|Categories: Tulips|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery, San Diego flower delivery, san diego flower design|Comments Off

Flower and Gift Ideas for Employee Appreciation Day and International Working Women’s Day

This week offers two ways to let those talented people in your life know that you appreciate and value their efforts. First, there is Employee Appreciation Day on Friday, March 6th followed by International Working Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8th. These special days honor others and help to motivate and inspire through a positive approach to other people’s contributions to work, life, and society. While it’s nice to tell these special people how great they are, it’s even better to give them something that shows how you feel. To help you celebrate these two special days, here are some floral ideas to get you started on what is available to show your appreciation, including a wide range of styles, colors, sizes, and, of course, prices. La Jolla Elegance comes in a tall glass vase and offers a unique hand arranged variety of white callas, white hydrangea, and green cymbidium orchids. It’s breathtaking! Prestige is a luxurious flower arrangement that includes such premium flowers as tulips, hydrangea, roses, and oncidium orchids. Bronze Calla Lily shines with bold colors as these miniature bronze calla lilies with equisetum stalks are arranged in a square glass vase. Del Mar Sunset offers a stunning combination of roses, tulips, lilies and hydrangea in a leaf-lined glass vase. La Jolla Garden provides a pretty and proper flower arrangement of white hydrangea, stock, lisianthus, pink Oriental lilies, red roses, pink sweet pea, seeded eucalyptus, and hot pink miniature roses. Bromeliad Beauty delivers a stunning red bromeliad plant in a brown cube for something unique. Purple Rain is full of purple flowers like hydrangea and roses along with hot pink spray roses and shite freesia. We can also make custom flower arrangements or deliver special gourmet gift baskets with [...]

adminMWL2015-03-02T20:50:23+00:00March 2nd, 2015|Categories: Employee Appreciation|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery, Best San Diego roses|Comments Off

Fresh Tulips from Holland are Here!

We are excited to announce that Holland tulips have arrived in each of our San Diego flower shops. Not only does this mean that we have a beautiful and very popular addition to our fresh flower varieties, but it also signals that spring is nearly here! To get you in the mood for this warmer season and to help you with upcoming birthdays, anniversaries, get wells, or any other occasion, check out some of these incredible floral designs that incorporate tulips: TULIPS TOGETHER This flower arrangement includes a trio of tender tulips, including three bunches of ten tulips each in shades of red, yellow, and purple. Each group of tulips has been tied with bear grass and hand arranged in a modern rectangular glass vase. VIVID TULIPS BUBBLE BOWL This vivid display of fresh Holland tulips has 20 stems that have been artfully arranged in a bubble bowl. Select your colors of choice. AMAZING TULIPS This incredible arrangement includes 40 or 60 tulips that have been grouped together and offer a range of tulip colors now available. The hand-arranged tulips are then placed in a glass bowl for a dramatic effect. TULIPS IN LOVE Fragrant red roses and delicate tulips are accented with a pink bow in a glass vase, sending your message of love to that special someone. SNOW WHITE TULIPS While we have tulips in all types of colors, including red, orange, purple, pink and yellow, we thought we would highlight these unique snow white tulips. Our floral design team bunches them together with colored wire and then places them in a clear rectangular vase that has been lined with river rocks. Of course, we can also create custom tulip arrangements to give as a gift or to use [...]

adminMWL2015-02-25T22:05:27+00:00February 25th, 2015|Categories: Spring Flowers, Tulips|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego flower delivery, San Diego flower delivery|Comments Off

Celebrating a Loved One’s Birthday with Unique Floral Gifts

Birthdays come the whole year round, so it may seem hard to know what to get each year. Flowers are one gift that just about everyone loves because they are beautiful. Often, many people will not buy flowers for themselves so it’s a nice present to receive on a birthday. To help you decide what might make a great floral gift, we have put together some details on some of our most popular flower arrangements in San Diego that make great birthday gifts and that show off the artistry of our incredible floral design team. Check out these great ideas that are sure to make that upcoming birthday extra special! Our Birthday Flower Arrangements Check out these birthday flower arrangements that show the range of prices and styles we have available with our seasonal flower offering: SYMPHONY This impeccable floral collection includes roses, orchids, tulips and hydrangea that have been hand arranged in a curly willow lined glass vase. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TULIPS & BALLOONS Our tulips have just arrived from Holland, so this is a great pick for a birthday wish. It includes tulips in many hues along with a 'Happy Birthday' Mylar balloon. ALLEN'S SPECIAL BIRTHDAY W/ BIRTHDAY MYLAR This stunning birthday flower arrangement contains pink roses, yellow gerberas and daisy spray chrysanthemums, dark pink alstroemeria, light yellow carnations, light pink matsumoto asters and miniature carnations all contained in a stylish vase that comes with a birthday wishes Mylar balloon. BIRTHDAY BLAST BOUQUET WITH BIRTHDAY MYLAR BALLOON This birthday floral bouquet offers a vivid display of vibrant blooms that include stargazer lilies, spray roses, gerbera daisies, alstroemeria and blue hydrangea. A celebratory Mylar balloon is included with the birthday flower arrangement. FLY AWAY BIRTHDAY This vibrant birthday flower arrangement features [...]

adminMWL2015-02-17T16:36:09+00:00February 17th, 2015|Categories: Birthday|Tags: Birthday flowers San Diego, San Diego best florist, San Diego best flower arrangement, San Diego florist, San Diego flower delivery, San Diego flowers|Comments Off

Send the Best Roses Available for Valentine’s Day

Roses are already a beautiful flower no matter what the variety, but there are some roses that stand out for their size, color, and petal quantities. That’s why all of our San Diego flower shop locations select roses from Ecuador rose farms renowned for these traits. These are the roses that are used in the Miss America pageant, so your loved one will feel like a real winner when they receive these glorious roses this Valentine’s Day. Here are just a few of our favorite rose arrangements still available for Valentine’s Day. RED LONG STEM ROSES BY ALLEN'S FLOWERS Deliver one dozen of the finest premium long-stem red roses available. These beauties come in a clear vase and are 100% guaranteed fresh and long lasting to be enjoyed well after Valentine’s Day is over. RED ROSES ARRANGED WITH BABy’s BREATH Our rose arrangements come with greenery or baby’s breath. This rose arrangement has one dozen of the freshest, premium long-stem roses that have been artistically arranged with fresh gypsophila in a glass vase. ROMANCE AND ROSES Offering a burst of exquisite color, this stunning flower arrangement for Valentine’s Day delivers red, pink, and fuchsia roses that have been accented with greenery and delivered in a clear glass vase. This rose arrangement is available with 12, 18, or 24 roses. FEEL THE LOVE This gorgeous rose arrangement for Valentine’s Day features pink, red, orange and yellow roses that have been accented with beautiful greenery and is displayed in a clear glass vase with 12, 18, or 24 roses. EXQUISITE ROSES This amazing rose arrangement comes with 36 of the finest red 24-inch premium long-stemmed roses that have been arranged atop a bed of white hydrangea blooms and accented with clusters of green [...]

adminMWL2015-02-09T19:54:54+00:00February 9th, 2015|Categories: Valentine's Day|Tags: Valentine's Day flower delivery San Diego, Valentine's Day flowers San Diego, Valentine's Day roses San Diego|Comments Off

Surprise Your Sweetheart with an Early Gift of Valentine’s Day Flowers & Gifts

This year, Valentine’s Day lands on a Saturday, which makes for a very busy day, night, and weekend for activities planned around this holiday of love. That puts the pressure on to make that dinner reservation or get gifts ordered for delivery. Here are some great reasons to consider ordering and delivering your Valentine’s Day flowers and gifts early: You surprise and delight your loved one who is most likely not expecting anything until Valentine’s Day. Your loved one’s co-workers who see a stunning flower arrangement arrive at work and it’s not even Valentine’s Day yet will be in awe and possibly slightly jealous. You can take advantage of some great deals and promotions, leading up to Valentine’s Day plus have the very best selection available. You have a wide open delivery schedule to have your Valentine’s Day flowers and gifts delivered to your loved one’s home or office. You save yourself some last-minute shopping and can relax knowing that Valentine’s Day is taken care of. By delivering your Valentine’s Day flowers and gifts early, you can change up this special holiday by doing something special throughout the week to say how much that special someone means to you. This could include a heart-felt note or romantic dinner for two at home to other gifts you may have planned or a day out where the two of you are alone without any distractions like phones. We have some great Valentine’s Day flowers and gifts waiting for you now that can make the day even better for that special someone in your life: Our premium roses from Ecuador are some of the freshest, most beautiful roses in the world. They were even used in the Miss America Pageant. We have roses in [...]

adminMWL2015-02-03T19:59:21+00:00February 3rd, 2015|Categories: Valentine's Day|Tags: Valentine's Day flower delivery San Diego, Valentine's Day flowers San Diego, Valentine's Day gifts San Diego, Valentine's Day roses San Diego|Comments Off

Reasons to Choose Allen’s Flowers for Valentine’s Flowers and Gifts

We realize there are many places out there that want your business for Valentine’s Day. And, while you could use one of those online services or hit the grocery store for some roses, we would like to share some of the top reasons you should consider shopping with us this Valentine’s Day for flowers and gifts: Not that we like to brag, but we have won a few awards for our quality and service. This includes being selected as San Diego’s number one florist by readers of the San Diego Union-Tribune for the past five years. On a national level, we have also been included as one of the top 100 florists in the United States over the last four years. We are a second-generation family owned and operated flower shop with multiple locations. As a family-run business, we keep it close and personal, focusing on its success to maintain its legacy and reputation. Our floral design team has been recognized for its floral designs, including creativity and artistic flair that makes our flower arrangements different than all the rest out there. We work with the best floral farms in the world, including our Ecuadorian roses that have been featured in floral magazines as well as part of the Miss America pageant. Unlike the online services that deliver flowers in a box or the grocery store, our flower arrangements are hand arranged and hand delivered to make a beautiful first statement that keeps on giving. Plus, your loved one doesn’t have to figure out how to arrange the flowers themselves. We offer same day service for Valentine’s Day for anywhere in the San Diego metropolitan area. This means even if you wait until the last minute, you will still be able [...]