Brighton, Sussex based Florist - Blooms for Business

Mad about roses

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:43:15 +0000

Roses remain one of the most popular choices for weddings- they originated in China but are now grown in most parts of the world. There are 100s of different varieties and they come in most colours (except true black and blue/purple). Some are scented like a lot of the garden varieties, particularly the David Austin ‘Patience’ ( buttermilk in colour) and ‘Keira’ (vintage pink) but also roses such as ‘Jacaranda’, ‘Sterling Silver,’ ‘Extase,’ ‘Ritz,’ ‘Norma Jean’ and the very popular ‘Margaret Merrill’ spray roses.

Some of my favourite ‘vintage style’ roses are:-

‘Cezanne’ - which is a bi-coloured cream and pink rose.
‘Amnesia’ - a very popular antique, lilac toned rose
‘Carousel’ - large headed cream, green and deep pink edged rose.
‘Peppermint’ - palest pink and light green in colour
‘Vendela’ - champagne coloured rose (cream with a peachy pink blush)
‘Old Dutch’ - antique lilac coloured green under petals
‘Metalina’ - subtly coloured cream/silver with flecks of pink
‘Little Silver’ - vintage lilac/lavender spray roses
‘Miranda’ - rose pink.
‘Juliet’ - peach- stunning!
Hypnose’ - lavender coloured
‘Patience’ - buttermilk.
‘Quick Sand’ - creamy beige.
‘Memory Lane’ - dusky pink with lavender hues.

To obtain the vintage look, mix some of these roses with other English country blooms such as big blousy peonies (they come in lovely shades of pink, buttery cream and apricot), scented garden stocks, phlox, wax flowers or astrantia. Team them with herbs such as rosemary, sage, mint or alchemilla mollis foliage. Ask your florist for unstructured designs with a “just picked” from the garden look.

The best red roses are:

‘Grand Prix’ - deep, rich ruby red with a large flower head and petal count
‘Red Naomi!’ - large flower head and lightly fragrant.
‘Passion’ - medium sized flower head - bright red
‘Freedom’ - pure and clear bright red rose- long lasting
‘Black Baccara’ - darkest red, with velvety petals
‘Black Magic’ - dark garnet red, strong stems.

The best Ivory/white roses are:

‘Avalanche’ - stunning large headed ivory rose with green tinged under petals
‘Akito’ - small headed off white roses ( no rose is pure white)
‘F White’ and ‘Bianca’ - are medium sized ivory/white roses
‘Maroussia’ - medium/large flower heads ivory with a creamy centre.
‘Norma Jean’ - large headed, strong stemmed and scented ivory rose

Spring 2012

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:08:51 +0000

We do many high profile corporate events each year and the University of Brighton is one of our oldest (since 2005.) The graduation event lasts for 3 days in the winter and 5 days in the summer, with award ceremonies held each day. We decorate the theatre stage at Brighton Dome with 10 metres of continuous cascading flowers. This year the first event was themed ‘spring’ and the colours were yellow blue with a touch of white. We used fragrant lilies, blue iris, yellow roses, purple statice and spray chrysanthemums. The university also hosts VIP lunches at the Royal Pavilion where we coordinated the table centres to compliment the main stage flowers. The Founders Room, bar and VIP dressing rooms are also decorated with the same flowers. See photos http://www.bloomsforbusiness.com/corporate-and-contracts-gallery/

We are now well into our wedding season, our first wedding of this year was mid February, again aptly themed ‘spring.’ For this the bride chose blue scented hyacinths, cream spray roses, white tulips, and purple lisianthus, the same flowers were used for her reception table centres and ceremony flowers – see photos at: http://www.bloomsforbusiness.com/weddings-gallery/

Other up and coming spring events include:-

The ‘Open University’ award ceremonies, ‘Martin Associates’ at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, ‘Brett Landscaping’ at South Lodge, Horsham and of course our many weekend weddings.

Bridal bouquet of white calla lilies.

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:53:55 +0000

Contemporary ‘over-arm’ bridal bouquet of ‘Avalanche’ white calla lilies with green anthuriums.

Posy of scented summer flowers

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:13:17 +0000

Posy of scented summer flowers, available in different sizes

Full coffin spray

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:12:38 +0000

Full coffin spray of bold yellow sunflowers, red roses and purple statice.

Large heart of ‘Avalanche’ roses

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:11:37 +0000

Large heart of ‘Avalanche’ roses with a sprinkle of cerise pink spray roses- available in different sizes.

Coffin spray

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:10:51 +0000

Coffin spray in purple yellow and orange with complimenting garland.

Wreath B

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:09:46 +0000

Lovely spring funeral wreath containing roses and orchids teamed with daisies and alstromeria in white and green

Wedding bouquet

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:54:07 +0000

Lilac roses and white calla lilies with pearl detail.

White peonies.

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:53:17 +0000

Bridesmaid’s bouquets of large fluffy white, scented peonies.