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

The chance of a lifetime..!

Well it has been a very hectic week here at Amanda's. Mostly because Amanda is finding it hard to keep her mind on what she is doing rather than the most inspirational weekend she has ever had.

The Icelandic volcano has caused so much chaos over the past 2 weeks. Planes grounded and people stranded all over the world. It was because of such chaos she got the chance to work with some of the best designers in the floral world.

Many international designers were unable to make it over for the Fusion Flowers magazine's annual photo-thon. It is one of the industries leading magazines, filled with innovative ideas and the most gorgeous designs you will ever see.

Proving that Scotland has talent and that Scottish florist's are up for a challenge, 3, chipped in to lend a hand with designers which had already made it safely to the lovely village of Kippen, near Stirling.

Amanda also offered to "pop" down the road to help in any way that she could.

"Just being there seeing what those designers could do was an experience on its own. These guys are at the top of the game and the bouquets and arrangements they produced were to die for! The concepts, the attention to detail and the work put in can only inspire anyone to push their own boundaries. There are no limitations apart from those that you put on yourself!"

"It was an amazing weekend and I can only thank Alison and Denis Bradley, Sue Phillips, Debbie Gough, John McDonald, Lorna McGuire, Wendy Andrade and John Hosek for taking the chance on a rookie. I have come away with not only completely new out look on the world of flowers but also on myself!" - Amanda.

To have a look at what Fusion Flowers is all about and how it continues to break the boundries of modern floristy take a look at their website.
www.FusionFlowers.com

Using accessories.

Your wedding bouquet should be special to you. It's there in all your photo's. So when you look back in 10 years time, we want you to fall in love with your flowers all over again.

Our tip - make them personal to you. Include something that represents something or someone in your life. Just because these bridal magazines show a bride with one design, doesn't mean that you have to have exactly that. Add bits, change bits, play around!

Here are some of our designs which have those little details...