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Indoor Plants

13 January 2012
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Indoor plants are a great way to brighten up a living area, however many people have trouble keeping indoor plants alive. The biggest cause is usually a poor selection of plants to begin with. Most plants need sunlight to grow well; few are suited to the low light conditions indoors, particularly flowering plants. Some of [...]

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Spring Wedding

5 September 2011
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Here is a brides trailing style bouquet (also called a cascade or tear-drop bouquet) and a bridesmaids posy from a recent Spring wedding in Rockingham. The bouquets feature Tulips, Oriental Lilliums, Orchids and Tropical Foliage.

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Brunia

31 March 2011
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Brunia is native to South Africa. Like some Australian native flora the flowers store seeds which are released when the plant dies in a fire. These fascinating flowers flowers look great in a bouquet with groups of other large-form flowers like gerberas and lilliums and are well suited to modern floral designs.

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Summer Wedding

29 December 2010
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Here we have the flowers for the bridal table table and one of the guest table arrangements for a wedding at Munja Gardens in Baldivis on 18th December. The arrangements feature Oriental Lilliums which are great wedding flowers – the large blooms are very showy and the sweet fragrance will remind the bride of her [...]

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Rockingham Wedding Flowers

2 December 2010
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From last weekends wedding here is a trailing style bouquet (picture on the left - also known as a ‘teardrop’ or ‘cascade’) featuring White Oriental Lilliums and Red Roses with White Dendrobium Orchids. The bridesmaids posy (right) has White Oriental Lilliums and White Roses. Sorry – not the best photo’s I’ve taken – but we were [...]

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Florist 911

23 November 2010
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Last Saturday was a very busy day for us with three weddings for that day. To add to the chaos only one of the weddings had been booked in advance! I received a call early Saturday morning saying that the brides bouquet from another florist was the wrong colour – “The bride is crying – [...]

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What is the best value flower gift?

1 October 2010
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There are many factors that can contribute to the perceived value of a flower arrangement or bouquet. While most of our customers prefer the bigger and more showy box arrangements, more and more people are starting to appreciate the elegant style of more compact designs like the one shown above in a quality vase that [...]

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More Submerged Orchids

11 September 2010
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Each week we do two large vase arrangements of Oriental Lilliums and tropical foliage for Pandora jewellers here in Rockingham, however this week they are having a special promotion and wanted to add a little puple to their usual Pandora look. I created the above Orchid Vases for them – Purple Dendrobium Orchids and Bamboo, [...]

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17th July Wedding

29 July 2010
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We  have been very busy here at Hanging Basket Florist Rockingham as I have had some time off due to the birth of my baby girl at St John of God Hospital in Murdoch, so I am a bit late in posting this photo of a beautiful wedding bouquet we did on 17th July for [...]

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Sympathy Flowers

23 June 2010
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Here is a beautiful sympathy flower arrangement created by Ingrid, featuring Oriental Lilliums and Green Dis-bud Chrysanthemums, which we delivered to Bertram last week.

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