Florist News

Has always been a mystery to me about which plants to stock in my shop...anyone have any favourites and why? Best ways of dressing them up? Anything really...must start trying some new things other than kalanchoes, Guzmanias and hydrangeas!

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Exoctics always good bet.....but only if you can buy them in cheap enough. If you've got to compete with DIY shops who can them get bulk and cheap, it's probably not going to be worth it.

We always had our in 'planters'......soiled filled wooden boxes along one wall, it kept them moist and we could display them 'banked'.

Palms, crotons...anything that looks fancy and different.

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My bestsellers at the moment are Gardenias, mini roses, gerberas, jasmine. When they are in season chilli plants fly out. I sell alot of plants including guzmania, orchids, aloes, anthuriums, and then alot of outdoor stuff including tomato, strawberry and herbs and olive trees (bit of a food theme going on there!). Its really hard to know what will sell though. Everything except the outdoor stuff is wrapped or sold in gift bags.

What I bought in Holland today:
Aloe-3 different kinds
Haworthia
Rhipsalis-2 different kinds
Clusia
Beaucarnea (Nolina)
Kentia palm
Mühlenbekia
Hedera-5 different kinds
Senecio-?peas on string?
Ceropegia woodii
Begonia-the ones that don't flower and where the leaves look like snails!
Sanseveria Skyline
Crassula-3 diff kinds
Zamioculca
Asparagus
Pilea depressa
Chlorophytum 'bonnie'-curly leaves
Tradescansia(sp?)

Outdoor
Astilbe
Dahlia-cute little pink ones
Mandevilla (Dipladenia)
Solanum jasmin
Acer-red leaves
Lysimachia-little yellow-green leaves ,for garden, come back each year
Chamaecyparus obtusa nana (yummmmm!)
Delphinium
Campanula addenda
white lobelien
Hosta 'Canadian Blue'(couldn't resist!)
Myrtus communis mini trees!
and one GORGEOUS Olive tree-2m tall...if its still there when I get back from hols its MINE!


...thats along with the 'usual' summer plants we have at the moment like geraniums and sanvitalia etc.
and then my Kangoo exploded!
I love the LOOK of Gardenias but I can not STAND the smell! makes me sneeze all day! Flowering plants for inside...hate the standards like kalanchoes too, usually stick with a green plant and decorate it with alumin. wire etc. We sell alot of plants in pots, if they buy just the plant it usually gets a 'wrap' of fleece-y type of fabric(think its called spider-something-or-other from oasis) wrapped around the plastic pot and some wire and raffia. Lots of orchids at moment...

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Mmmmmnyum MT what a feast. I love haworthia, we do them in long thin zinc thingies, how do you do them?

erm...long zinc thingies...like long-------> that way or up/down long

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Horiztonal long, boat shaped thingies and flat rectangular ones with a wide rim mainly.

hehe, thought you meant those...bought another load today rectangular with about 10 cm wide rim, AND some reaaaallllyy great terrazzo-dark greyish ball-shaped 'thingies' for the sempervivum I forgot to mention

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oooooo i would love to sell nice plants, trendied up but being in a backward pot mum village i dont bother, have had a few bits of nice stuff but it dont go
i will have to come and work for you maple
post some pics please so i can have a skeg

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Our anthurriums seems to be going well...was a bit disappointed about the candle plants' which were lovely, but no one seems to like them...may be its the almost black leaves on them?

Just seems our customers like little things like Kalanchoes and african violets

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