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Celebrating Easter in San Diego

Easter is here again, arriving on Sunday, April 16th. This is a special time of year and one of the most religious holidays of all, holding special meaning for many in the Christian faith. Others simply enjoy the family time together, Easter egg hunts, delicious Easter baskets, and wonderful ham dinner or brunch. Whatever you plan on doing, make sure you include some beautiful spring flowers as well as great Easter gifts for loved ones. Our Easter collection is here and available at all of our San Diego flower shops as well as on our flower website. Here are some highlights to give you an idea of how to dress your Easter dinner or buffet table as well as what you can give to loved ones: Hello Spring offers blue hydrangea, lavender and jade roses, and other premium spring flowers. Easter Egg-citing is a spring design with poms, lilies, dianthus, carnations and more in a glass vase that has been filled with plastic Easter eggs in many colors. The Easter lily plant symbolizes the glory of Easter and comes in a decorative basket showing off its pure white blooms. Spring Forward combines yellow tulips with blue hydrangea for a unique floral presentation. It’s the time for centerpieces for your dining or buffet table. The Easter Centerpiece includes a taper candle, plastic Easter egg, Monte Casino, pink carnations and yellow daisies. The Spring Garden Centerpiece is a lush display of hydrangea and other colorful, premium spring flowers. You can also create any custom Easter flower arrangements that fit your style and budget. Be sure to book an apppointment today to work with our floral design team. Don’t forget that we also have plenty of sweet gift baskets with a seemingly endless supply [...]

It’s Prom Season in San Diego!

It’s nearly the end of the school year for kids throughout San Diego County, which means seniors are set to enjoy some of the many activities that are planned to finish their school career out in a memorable way. One of those is prom, a dinner, and dance that adds to the festive finish to high school. It means finding a dress, tux, limo and hair and makeup artists to create the perfect prom experience at your San Diego high school. You’ll also need a prom corsage and prom boutonniere that coordinates with your dress and tux. You’ll also need a prom corsage and prom boutonniere that coordinates with your dress and tux. That’s where we come in. Our San Diego flower shops and floral design center provide the best place to come to match your prom attire with gorgeous and unique prom flower designs that can be customized to your style and budget. Our San Diego flower shops and floral design center provide the best place to come to match your prom attire with gorgeous and unique prom flower designs that can be customized to your style and budget. Of course, we also have a prom flower collection where you can select from our existing prom flower designs that include a wide range of colors, flower varieties like roses and orchids, and accent features like rhinestones and ribbons. You can also choose from prom flowers like calla lilies, carnations, and more. We also offer wrist corsages for prom or the traditional pinned corsage style. Just remember to book your order for prom flowers as early as possible because every year we sell out due to the popularity of our prom corsages and prom boutonnieres. That means starting early on what [...]

flyline content2017-04-03T16:42:07+00:00April 3rd, 2017|Categories: Prom|Tags: prom boutonnieres San Diego, prom corsages San Diego, prom flowers San Diego|Comments Off

After the Proposal Comes the Planning

Today, March 20th, is National Proposal Day, a day that recognizes all those proposals of marriage out there that involved love, thinking, and a few nerves. Now that the engagement is underway, you are starting to think about what to do for your wedding. While you may need to think about the dress, venue, menu and other details, another huge part of any wedding are the wedding flowers – something that adds to the ambiance and feel plus is deeply symbolic. You will want to tie your own preferences and overall design idea for your wedding together with the flowers you select plus you’ll most likely need to stay on budget. That’s why we have a special team in our San Diego flower shops dedicated to handling weddings, working on a one-on-one basis with brides and their families to put together the best flower choices available for a wedding. Our desire to make this special day as memorable as possible is also the reason why we decided to offer a special wedding flower website separately from our regular flower website. It allows us to deliver regularly updated content, including new wedding flower pictures for our gallery plus more tips and recommendations to help you put together the perfect wedding. The site also includes pictures from private and corporate events so you can see even more floral design ideas that might help you decide what you want. When you are ready, we are here to provide you with a free consultation so we can discuss and share ideas, plan and order your flowers, and determine delivery dates and accept any changes along the way. We can’t wait to be a part of your special day!

flyline content2017-03-20T09:00:15+00:00March 20th, 2017|Categories: Weddings|Tags: wedding bouquets San Diego, wedding florist San Diego, wedding flowers San Diego, wedding venue flowers San Diego|Comments Off

Celebrating the First Day of Spring and International Earth Day

It’s that glorious time of year again where the weather begins to warm and the days extend to be brighter just that much longer. Monday, March 20 Monday, March 20th is the first day of spring as well as serves as International Earth Day. Both holidays are intended to recognize the important role nature plays in our lives and remind us that we need to take care of it. As florists in the San Diego area, we rejoice over these types of special days because there’s no better time to pick up some flowers or plants to recognize the value and beauty nature plays in our lives. Whether you give these as gifts or just simply decorate your home or office, you are bringing a little bit of nature into your life, offering health benefits and providing a beautiful ambiance. Here are some great ideas for how you can celebrate the arrival of spring from our collection of flowers and plants: Mood Changer features green cymbidium orchids, orange mini roses, and hot pink roses along with succulents in a leaf-lined cylinder vase. Pacific Beach Perfection includes hydrangea, orchids, numerous premium flowers and greenery as an accent. Flower Fields of San Diego comes in a glass vase that has been tied with raffia and filled with roses, alstroemeria, lilies, and poms many of which comes from the flower farms in and around San Diego County. Garden Celebration offers lilies, hydrangea, roses, larkspur and lisianthus in shades of hot pink, pink, and purple. It’s a stunning floral display of springtime in a garden design. Calla Me Crazy is a sophisticated spring offering with 20 stems of full-size white calla lilies and foliage contained within a rectangular glass vase. These items and many others [...]

flyline content2017-03-16T22:23:34+00:00March 16th, 2017|Categories: Spring Flowers|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery|Comments Off

Special Spring Days to Celebrate with Flowers During March

March is a special month because it is the springboard into the spring season as the weather slowly begins to change and more flowers appear. With it comes many special days to celebrate, including Plant a Flower Day on March 12th, which happens to coincide with daylight savings this year, and St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th. With it comes our selection of spring flowers, including everyone’s favorite: tulips. Our farm fresh tulips offer a beautiful way to welcome the new season as a special gift for someone else or even to just decorate your own home. Along with tulips, we have other spring flowers that have arrived in our San Diego flower shops. Here’s a preview of some of the special flower arrangements we have on offer for the special spring days in March: Country Chic is a burlap arrangement that features white and green hydrangea, cymbidium orchids, coffee berries, and white tulips. Gaslamp Sensation offers green cymbidium orchids, hot pink and lavender roses, green and pink hydrangea and tulips in a glass cylinder vase. Tulips Together includes three bunches of ten tulips each in red, purple, and yellow that have been tied with bear grass and then displayed in a rectangular glass vase. Go Green is a great pick for St. Patrick’s Day because it’s all about the green – green cymbidium orchids, echeveria succulents, roses, and chrysanthemums, that is! Displayed in a glass, leaf-lined cube vase, it also contains viburnum, bupleurum, and eucalyptus. Del Mar Sunset has roses, lilies, hydrangea, and tulips hand-arranged in a leaf-lined glass vase. La Costa Purple showcases all types of flowers, including tulips, roses, Mokara orchids, hydrangea, spray roses and Asiatic lilies along with aralia leaves and eucalyptus in a pink jewel vase. [...]

flyline content2017-03-09T01:13:29+00:00March 9th, 2017|Categories: Spring Flowers|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego flower delivery, flower delivery San Diego|Comments Off

Celebrating Local, National, and International Talent

Today, Friday, March 3rd, we celebrate talent everywhere with Employee Appreciation Day while next Wednesday, March 8th is International Working Women’s Day. Both days recognize the value that skilled workers everywhere have on businesses of all sizes. With more online businesses popping up, more women and men are becoming masters of their own destiny as freelancers and outsource workers. Whatever arrangement you have with these workers, it’s a good idea to take today and next week to thank them for their great ideas, passion, and hard work. We’ve put together a floral gift guide of stunning flowers from our collection that highlights the various sizes and floral designs you have available to send locally to a team member here in San Diego or across the country and world. Check out these gorgeous gift ideas: Vivid Tulips Bubble Bowl comes with 20 beautiful and fresh tulips direct from Holland. It’s that time of year again to enjoy tulips, and these come in a variety of colors hand-arranged in a bubble bowl. Great Gerberas is another bright floral display with locally grown gerbera daisies in an inspiration vase. La Jolla Sunset celebrates this coastal city with bright colors reminiscent of a sunrise and sunset over the ocean with Asiatic lilies, alstroemeria, and roses in shades of orange and yellow in a glass vase. Frais Du Jarden with Roses means “fresh from the garden.” This stunning arrangement has shades of white, hot pink, and lime green with cymbidium orchids, hydrangea, tulips, roses, and ivy in a cylindrical vase filled with river rocks. Pacific Breeze contains calla lilies, orchids, lilies, hydrangea, roses and more in many brilliant colors. Selfie Love has the perfect vase for International Working Women’s Day with eyelashes and lips emblazoned on [...]

flyline content2017-03-03T22:16:54+00:00March 3rd, 2017|Categories: Employee Appreciation|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery, Employee Appreciation Day San Diego, flower delivery San Diego, International Working Women's Day San Diego|Comments Off

Celebrating the Oscars with Luxurious Flower Arrangements

This year, the Oscars are on Sunday, February 26th, which means it’s time to plan your viewing party and think about how you can create a special look and feel that reflects the elegance and glamor of those movie stars you’ll see at the awards show. Whether you want to create custom flower arrangements with our floral design team or you select some of our luxurious flower arrangements, you are sure to add a sophisticated look to your Oscars viewing party with these beauties. Here are some great examples of luxurious flower arrangements that would look great for the big event: California Gold brings together elegance and artisanal beauty with blue and green hydrangeas, roses, and succulents in a burlap-wrapped vase. The Garden Elegance Basket features roses, calla lilies, orchids and other garden flowers in shades of green, pink, and purple. It comes in three sizes. Prestige showcases premium flowers like oncidium orchids, hydrangea, roses, and tulips. It’s a true stunner! Vivacious offers hot pink roses, pastel gerbera daisies, and stargazer lilies in a designer vase. Go with a sophisticated look of all white with Calla Me Crazy, which comes with 20 full-size calla lilies and foliage in a rectangular glass vase, or Snow White Tulips, which are bunched together with wire and arranged in a rectangular glass vase lined with river rocks. These will look great in a foyer, buffet table, coffee table and even outside on the patio if you plan to take the party outside to enjoy a beautiful San Diego sunset on commercial breaks. Remember that you can order by phone, in our San Diego flower shops, or online through our website. For custom orders, you will need to make an appointment to come and work with [...]

flyline content2017-02-23T19:37:55+00:00February 23rd, 2017|Categories: Events|Tags: best florist San Diego, best San Diego florist, best San Diego flower delivery, Best San Diego roses, San Diego best florist|Comments Off

Celebrating National Wedding Month in San Diego

February is National Wedding Month, which means it’s time to think about an engagement, wedding, or wedding planning for the upcoming spring and summer wedding season. Recently expanding our locations with a new spot at Liberty Station and opening our distribution and retail locations provide us with even more options to help you plan that perfect wedding. Plus, we have an extensive floral design team that has worked on all types of weddings and events. Our staff also includes numerous coordinators, which means that you can have a dedicated member of our staff who takes care of you throughout the planning process and coordinates all the wedding flowers, delivery, and set-up so you don’t have to worry about any of it. Instead, you can enjoy your special day. Having served the San Diego area for so long, we’ve been able to partner and get to know all the wedding venues throughout San Diego County for both indoor and outdoor ceremonies and receptions. That means we have a good understanding of how many flowers you need, what works well, and how it can all work within your budget. Having these long-standing relationships with all the wedding venues means that coordination can be seamless, creating a stress-free wedding day for you! We also have a dedicated wedding flower website, which is where we suggest you start your research. It features regularly updated content related to wedding planning tips as well as offers a portfolio of wedding flowers from other weddings that provides you with good ideas and illustrates our floral artistry. The wedding flower website includes numerous examples of wedding bouquets, wedding party flowers, cake flowers, ceremony flowers and reception flowers. Contact us now to reserve your free wedding consultation!

flyline content2017-02-19T21:36:50+00:00February 19th, 2017|Categories: Weddings|Tags: national wedding month, wedding florist San Diego, wedding flowers San Diego|Comments Off

Making Good Use of Our New Central Design Center on Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day was one of our busiest yet in our nearly 40 years of doing business in San Diego. We’ve come a long way from the point where our family was selling roses on the streets of San Diego some 38 years ago. Our family is so proud to see how much we’ve grown and flourished thanks to the loyalty of our customers and their ongoing referrals to their friends, family, and colleagues. We couldn’t do this without you! It’s been a special year already with our opening at Liberty Station. Plus, we opened a central design center that serves as a production and distribution facility. Dubbed “AC/DC” (Allen’s Central Design Center), we were really glad we opened it just before Valentine’s Day because it really helped us satisfy this year’s customer demand. Being the largest provider of flowers in San Diego means we need a lot of space to house and create our one-of-a-kind flower arrangements. We create hundreds of flower arrangements every day. Plus, during the time leading up to and including Valentine’s Day, we did literally thousands of flower arrangements each day. Now, as we recover from Valentine’s Day, we are excited to put our new floral center to work for other occasions, such as the upcoming wedding season, local San Diego events, conventions, and all the special requests from our customers. We were even covered on our local San Diego television news this year. Be sure to check out the video that features our incredible team. You’ll see all the mayhem that defined this year’s preparation for Valentine’s Day!

flyline content2017-02-17T21:16:12+00:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off

Visit Our New Location at Liberty Public Market!

We are excited to share the news that we have opened a new location at Liberty Public Market here in San Diego. On February 1st, we opened the doors to a new flower shop location at this seven-day a week public market and event venue. Located at Liberty Station, 2820 Historic Decatur Road, this is a great marketplace to experience various types of food, beer and wine, produce, desserts, arts and crafts and more. There are spaces for pop-up dining establishments, educational events, and a test kitchen. We chose the location for the unique concept and the fact that it matches our own mission to create special experiences for our customers. We are joined by so many other extraordinary vendors within the market and can’t wait to have you visit to experience this concept for yourself. Like our other San Diego flower shops, we have readied our Liberty Public Market space for Valentine’s Day with fresh flowers and unique designs that are the hallmarks of our florist and what has given us the title of Best Flower Shop in San Diego for the last few years. To get you in the mood for your Valentine’s Day shopping and to tempt you to come see us at our new location, check out these Valentine’s Day flower arrangements from our current collection: Rustic Roses offers red roses and purple cymbidium orchids in a metal container. Lavender Luxury contains purple tulips, purple and green hydrangea, and a succulent. Tulip Romance has red tulips and purple phalaenopsis orchids in a white container. Rustic Garden Romance features gerbera daisies, tulips, garden roses and many more flowers in various shades of pink all arranged in a tin container. We have a wide selection of roses in numerous [...]