Flowertime Florist Website...

Flowertime Florist Ltd website is now back up and running just in time for Spring http://www.flowertimeflorist.co.uk/ .

You can use either http://www.flowertimeflorist.co.uk/ or http://www.wesendflowers.co.uk/ and you will logged on to our updated web site.

If you are getting married in West Cornwall you can fill in and send to us a wedding consulation form, before you make an appointment to discuss your wedding.

You can send Flowers and Floral Items to over 145 Countries around the World from our website.

We also send Trenance Chocolates ( made in Cornwall) from our Site.

If you are a flower club and want your details, meetings and anything of interest that you might be doing please log on to http://www.theflowerclubforum.co.uk/

Look forward to hearing from you all, or give us a call on 01736 757006, or a message at flowertime@btconnect.com

Mark and the Team at Flowertime and http://www.wesendflowers.co.uk/

My Flower of the Month February

Well February is here and my flower for the Month is Tulips.

"Tulips" I here you say Not Roses.

Yes that right Red Tulips are my True flower of St Valentine's Day.

Tulips got their name from the Turkish for turban, after its rounded flower head form.

Botanical name: Tulipa.

Colours: Everything except blue and true black. Companies say they have bred ture blue and black but when you look at them they are not really true.

Availability: November to May is the main season but now available all year in limited colours and supplies.

Origin: Middle East, grown in extensively in Holland and the UK. (tulips from Amsterdam.)

Care Tips: Tulips continue to grow in water and will curve towards the light. Make allowances for this when putting them in a vase or wrap the stems tightly in newspaper and stand them in water directly beneath a light for a few hours. Tulips have a vase life of just over a week, and buy flowers in bud but with colour showing.

Tulips are the third-biggest selling flower in Holland and are also very popular in the UK where many are also grown.

In the Victorian language of flowers red tulips are a declaration of love, making them ideal gifts for Valentine's Day.

History fact from the Flower and Plant association: In the middle ages tulipmania saw bulbs change hands for the equivalent of £4million pounds a bulb!

Just think how much this field would have cost.

My Flower of the Month

Name. Paphiopedilum Orchid , the Slipper Orchid.

Commonly called Lady's Slipper

Origin: Originally from Thailand, Burma and Vietnam, many varieties are now bred mainly in USA and UK. These orchids are terrestrial plants (growing on the floor).
Colour: White, yellow, green, brown,maroon and tan and often spotted or striped.
One or two flowers per stem (sometimes 3 to 4), shaped like slippers with the laces trailing to the sides, available all year round.

Pronounced PAFF-ee-oh PED-e-lum 'Paphos slipper'. Paphos in Cyprus has a temple to Aphrodite, the epitome of woman, and a goddess worshipped by the Greeks. Slipper refers to the shape of the lower petal of the flower.

Over 19,000 hybrid forms of Paphiopedilum have been registered.

Cut Flower Care Tips: They will last for well over a month, but because tthey have hairy stems they should not be placed in deep water.
They like cool air and regular misting, and are sensitive to ethylene gas so keep them away from fruit, vegetables and dying flowers.