December 28th, 2011 by Georgeann
Our favorite flowers to celebrate the New Year are bright, brilliant white flowers. White New Year’s flowers symbolize a fresh new start filled with positive resolutions and a clear heart and mind, and a New Year’s centerpiece of fresh white flowers is sure to lend your New Year’s Eve party a positive, hopeful, and optimistic aura.
Our winter window display at Big Apple Florist
November 8th, 2011 by Georgeann
Appreciate the Beauties of the Autumn Season
while growing thin
without a reason
the chrysanthemum bud
-Basho
Every autumn, my husband notes that the fastest time of year is the time between Labor Day and Halloween. One day you are sitting in your shorts eating barbequed chicken, and the next school is starting, the nights grow colder, the heat goes on in the building, Christmas decorations go up next to the Halloween candy at the store, and you still haven’t taken your winter clothes down from storage!
To help slow down time and focus on the beautiful but fleeting autumn season, I thought I’d talk about our favorite blossom for fall floral arrangements: the chrysanthemum! [Read more →]
October 27th, 2011 by Georgeann
Halloween is a holiday that gives you permission to let your inner child run wild, whether it means dressing up like a zombie prom-queen or buying giant bags of candy “for the kids.” As adults, we really shouldn’t go door to door begging for candy, but we can treat ourselves to a different treat: gorgeous, ghoulish Halloween flower arrangements!
Frightful Halloween Centerpiece Ideas
Our “Midnight Glow” Halloween flower arrangement creates the look of a haunted forest. It features bright mango callas and deep aubergine, practically black “Schwarzwalder” callas combined with black scabiosas, brown, snake-like fiddleheads (also known as monkey tails – to me, a much more disturbing name), and twigs.
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September 28th, 2011 by Georgeann
Rosh Hashanah: A Holiday of Hope and Abundance
Rosh Hashanah is one of the high holy days in the Jewish faith that is filled with hope. While Rosh Hashanah is a joyful celebration, it is also a deeply spiritual holiday filled with ritual and meaning. It marks the beginning of the “10 Days of Awe” where people reflect on their actions of the past year and seek forgiveness, culminating in “The Day of Atonement,” Yom Kippur.
The Rosh Hashanah festivities are usually accented in a few different ways:
- Symbolic foods that ask for sweetness in the year to come, like dipping apples into honey and eating challah bread made with honey and raisins.
- Eating “new” fruit (fruit just coming into season) such as the pomegranate, which reminds us to appreciate life and the abundance of the earth.
The Perfect Rosh Hashanah Table Decorations and Flowers
Another great way to highlight this special holiday of hope and sweet abundance? With a generous gift of Rosh Hashanah flowers!
A great flower choice for a stunning Rosh Hashanah table decoration is a display of creamy white flowers [Read more →]
August 13th, 2011 by Georgeann
Local sunflowers are now in peak season in New York City. Deliver some confident, powerful sunshine with our “Fun in the Sun” arrangement! Saturate your senses with masses of summer sunflowers arranged in our vibrant yellow layered ceramic vase.
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July 29th, 2011 by Georgeann
When the thermometer goes above 80˚F, I become an insane, rage-filled lunatic. The subway makes me angry. Walking down the street is a test of self control. Understandably, the latest heat wave in the Big Apple has been a real struggle for me, and many New Yorkers share my pain. I find myself longing for a beach day – soft sand, cool water, and a fresh ocean breeze – not to mention a tall, icy cold, potent, tropical drink.
At least as a florist in NYC, I can find a daily escape in vibrant cool color of fresh summer flower bouquets (and a walk-in cooler). Here are some tricks you can use to get the same effect, creating a beach-inspired look for a summer floral centerpiece or a tropical oasis on a corner of your desk to keep the dog days of summer at bay. [Read more →]
This exotic floral table arrangement includes Anthurium, Gloriosa Lilies, and Craspedia. This beautiful flower arrangement has been donned the “Queen of Hearts” because of the sheer presence it has in a room – the tropical flowers in combination with the grand looped leaves make it such an impressive bouquet. This is also a great representation of the work we do for our Weekly Corporate Flowers.
Stay tuned for the next edition of Flower Arrangement of the Month, and check out the rest of our flower arrangements in NYC to see other examples of tropical eye catching floral arrangements.
This bright flower arrangement has been donned “Sunny Day” because the bright contrast of the yellow against the blue is like the bright hot sun against a pure blue sky. June has been quite a rainy month, so we thought it would be a nice touch to make an outrageously bright bouquet available for those of you sending the ever popular “Hope this brightens your day” floral table arrangement.
Stay tuned for the next edition of Flower Arrangement of the Month, and check out the rest of our flower arrangements in NYC to see other examples of colorful and bright flower arrangements for summer!
Big Apple Florist would like to present to you our first edition of Arrangement of the Month. We take so much pride in the floral table arrangements that we create, and we would love to share some of our favorites with you.
We’re kicking things off with a May flower Arrangement of the Month, because there’s no better time for flowers than spring – especially for us New Yorkers who, each year, count down the days until the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming again.
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