Rainbow Roses make the Daily Mail

These brightly coloured roses have made the daily mail. They have however got their facts completely wrong - but thats nothing new for a newspaper!

According to them, the flowers are dyed using several dyes in the water. Surely they are clever enough to know what if you mix dyes its just going to turn that horrible brown colour? No... they don't seem to think so!
These roses are actually injected with the dyes. Different sections of the stem feed to different petals, giving the range of colours through out.

They are also claiming that they are now available in Britain for the first time ever. Well any of our customers know thats not true as we've been selling them for a couple of years now.

Apparently these roses are very expensive and retail at £24.99 for just one!!! No. thats NOT true. Yes they are expensive but are around the £4/£5 mark. What we would like to know...is why a single rose is £24.99 but a dozen are £65....?

It's column like these in newspaper that are taking part in slowly tearing apart the florist industry. They don't get their facts right, they have been known to slag us for our prices.

Quality flowers are not cheap...as for everything in life you get what you pay for...perhaps thats why newspapers are so cheap ;)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282879/Roses-red-yellow-blue-green-purple---spectacular-rainbow-rose-sold-Britain-time.html

Congratulations!

Congratulations to two very special friend's of Amanda. Kimberly Rosie and Willie Miller were married in Auqamare earlier in the month.
Unfortunately with all the chaos caused by the Icelantic volcano, their families didnt make it out for their big day.

However, friends and family were there on Saturday for a special blessing.

Congratulations to you both on your wedding and also on the lovely news that they are expecting a new member to their family xxx

Weekend with the Designers.

So we told you all about Amanda's amazing experience with the Fusion Flowers Team.
Alison has kindly forwarded some of the pictures of Amanda's work to us. So we thought we would share a couple with you :)

The photo's were taken by Denis Bradely of Fusion Flowers Wedding Magazine.

Charity Masquerade Ball

Here at Amanda's, we are part of a group from the Caithness Chamber of Commerce called "Women in Business".

For the past four months the Women in Business group have been busy organising a charity masquerade ball in aid of ClicSargent Caithness and Enable Caithness. It was held in The Mackays Hotel, Wick.

It was a busy evening with all the tickets being sold out! Business' all through Caithness and as far a field as Perthshire were all very generous with donations and prizes for the auction and the raffle.

Everyone looked absoloutely stunning, the ladies in their gorgeous gowns and the men in their kilts and suits.

We are delighted to say, that the current total, with money still to come in and still to be counted is sitting at £3500!!! An outstanding amount money which will hugely benefit the charities.

Well done to all involved - it was most definitely a night to remember!!

Busy Busy Bee's....

When you think of beehive's you think on two things...
Lots of bee's buzzing around their home busy making yummy honey! OR.... Amy Winehouse's BIG hair!

Flower petals are probably something that you wouldn't expect a bee to be interested in, never mind build a hive from....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126556246&sc=fb&cc=fp