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Originally Posted by Carrington
Why make Carnations the cheapie. Chances are every week you can buy another flower as, if not more, cheaply. If you stock the funky carnation varieties (ie feather edged/bi colour/rippled) they are every bit as sexy as gerbera, just as big and last a lot longer. Is there not a commercial argument to say that actually it's in everyones interest to up the anti on Carnations.
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I agree!!!
We have picked up this trend a (longggg)while back...it took a bit till the 'younger' ones caught on, but now the carnation isn't looked upon as a funeral flower anymore in our shop! Alot of the 'younger' customers are rather surprised when we have a design in the shop with one of the aforementioned carns, saying they didn't know carns could look so good! We can buy them quite cheap and make them look just as good as an Artemis or a Passion, so why sell them so cheap?! Sure, we have the 'cheapie' ones(usually yellow..ugh!) for Grandma, tied up with a bit of gyp
and bärgrass...but Prada sells for 1€ and we had some gorgeous bordeaux ones a few weeks ago, and the customers who bought them are telling me they are still holding up nicely in the arrangement or bq. Hell, we're florists!! We can make a yellow Grandma carnation look like a million bucks if we have to!!
Hey apple, how about making up some carns as you would make up a red rose? Or make up a table (if possible in shop????) with some really 'cool' and 'designer' pieces using only carns? This is the way we went when we were introducing the "NEW" carnation! Just a thought...