2013-11-11 14:17
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2013-11-08 13:55
With only 7 weeks until the end of 2013 and the start of 2014, we thought we'd take a look back over the year at some of our most popular flowers. These flowers have been selected as among o… Read More
2013-11-04 12:45
Sometimes it can be hard select what gift to send a loved one, here at Clare Florist we have hand picked a select range of floral bouquets to send as gifts to your family and friends. Our wi… Read More
2013-11-04 11:23
For centuries Flowers have been used to express our gratitude and show thanks, which is why we here at Clare Florist we have a select range of flowers which we feel are perfect for saying th… Read More
2013-11-04 09:59
One of our popular Flowers, Freesias have the advantage over other flowers as having one of the strongest fragrant scents, helping add a sweet perfume to your room. They are known for their… Read More
2013-11-04 09:46
Wanting to keep your flowers looking fresh for longer this January? Here are our recommended quick top 5 flower care tips and tricks.
Tip 5 - Top up the Water in your Vase Every 2-3 Days… Read More
2013-11-01 10:09
Even though Winter doesn't officially start until December, here in Edinburgh we are already feeling the cold morning chill and our shops are already stocked full of christmas and winter clo… Read More
2013-11-01 08:55
Looking to order Roses but not sure which colour is best? Which such a wide variety of different flower meanings, our Rainbow Roses provide you with a stunning collection of bright, col… Read More
2013-10-30 12:20
In a rush and need flowers delivered today? Perhaps you have a Celebration this evening or you've forgotten its your Anniversary (uh oh!). If that's the case you'll be relieved to know Read More
2013-10-30 10:09
For centuries Roses have been the symbol of love and romance. Whether you are saying congratulations, celebrating an anniversary or simply saying sorry this Winter, sending a rose is the eas… Read More
2013-10-28 16:13
"Bird and Flower" painting is a well known ancient Chinese style. The name comes, obviously enough, from the subject of the pictures. But it is the style of these delicate paintings which… Read More
2013-10-28 14:42
With Halloween only 3 days away you may have found yourself frantically looking online and in stores for different types of table decorations and Halloween ideas for decorating your home. We… Read More
2013-10-28 13:44
Halloween... the season for all things spooky and the perfect excuse to dress up and decorate your home. Whether you have already stocked up on pumpkins, purchased a variety of ghostly Hallo… Read More
2013-10-17 10:36
That's right, there's only a couple of weeks to go now until Samhain, All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en -- whatever you want to call it, Western tradition dictates that this is the spookiest days… Read More
2013-10-15 13:38
Flowers grow in gardens, right? Okay, and hedgerows. And on vines in humid jungles, on cacti in arid deserts, in meadows, by roadsides....okay, we get the picture. You can find flowers prett… Read More
2013-10-10 12:31
A nineteenth-century riddle has been solved!
In 1879, the Australian journalist James Hingsley visited Indonesia. When he returned from his travels, he had many wonderful traveller's tales… Read More
2013-10-08 15:06
Today we're taking a little look at paper. "What, paper?" I hear you cry. "But this is a sight about flowers!"
Well, that's why we're going to talk about....pape Read More
2013-10-03 12:17
Newly discovered fossils have pushed back the origin date of everyone's favourite thing (that's flowers. Obviously.) by up to one hundred million years. Which is a hella long time. To put t… Read More
2013-09-23 15:28
We at the CF Blog might just have a new Favourite Job Ever: our attention has been brought to a fascinating article called Seven Flowers that Shaped the World -- by a flower historian called… Read More
2013-09-20 11:30
Scientists at Harvard have created a robo-bee. As bees around the world suffer from colony collapse disorder, flowers and crops are at risk.
Obviously the most important thing to do here i… Read More
2013-09-17 11:24
Hanging baskets are a staple for making a garden look wonderful. Adding hanging baskets does a lot more than just give you more room for flowers -- it gives you a whole new plane of elevatio… Read More
2013-09-16 16:39
How's this for some explosive photography?
We do like to kepp an eye on floral art arond the globe, and today it's photographer Martin Klimas catching our eye. He makes blooms boo… Read More
2013-09-13 08:33
Check out this remarkable video from Daniel Csobot, posted to Vimeo. By using a simple but powerful combination -- intensely detailed photography and time-lapse -- the video shows s… Read More
2013-09-10 14:12
It's Tuesday, and you know what that means!
Today we've decided to tkae a look at what it's like to be a flower ... from the inside! Or, to put it in a slightly less creepy way, how Read More
2013-09-09 09:03
"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light Read More
2013-09-05 11:56
Every year since time began, summer's heat has faded, the world has spun on, and autumn has begun. And well would you look at that, it's happening again.
Many flower lovers may be… Read More
2013-09-04 14:30
Today we take a look at one of the most amazing looking -- and best named -- plants we could find: the Buddha's Hand.
This plant is found mostly in northeastern India nd China, helping to… Read More
2013-09-02 17:23
Here's a LITTLE news story that we found just a TINY bit interesting.
Heheh heh. Heh. Heh. What's that? I'm not funny? Get on with it? Oh, FINE then.
The story here Read More
2013-08-30 12:07
Read about the flowers that have been hanging around since the age of the dinosaurs!
This little green herb (pictured below) may not look like much compared to some of the bright and colou… Read More
2013-08-29 12:15
If you had £2.3m to leave the world, how would you want it to be spent?
Well, we're not saying that a beautiful display of flowers is necessarily the best possible way, but we could… Read More
2013-08-23 11:19
One of the stranger televisual trends of recent years has to be the Great British Bake-Off. While most reality television has ramped up the spectacle and the tension to breaking point, using… Read More
2013-08-22 10:03
Today on the CF blog we present a few handy tips to keep your garden free of pets. Well, we say pets. We basically mean dogs. There really isn't much that you can do about a really determine… Read More
2013-08-20 13:20
Solar powered flowers that bloom at night!
But wait a second ...if they're solar powered, how on earth can they bloom at night? The night's notorious for it's lack of sunlight. Lac Read More
2013-08-15 12:05
With medieval buildings and narrow streets winding around its ancient centre, Brussels can already seem like the setting for a fairy-tale to enchanted visitors. But now that impression is to… Read More
2013-08-15 12:05
With medieval buildings and narrow streets winding around its ancient centre, Brussels can already seem like the setting for a fairy-tale to enchanted visitors. But now that impression is to… Read More
2013-08-14 12:47
We've all heard of the corpse flower (and, well, if you haven't, then the CF Blog is here to help! Just click through to this little link here to read our blog on a corpse flower (Dragon Aru… Read More
2013-08-13 12:36
This rare tree in the National Botanic Garden of Wales has flowered for the first time in a quarter of a century.
And what's more: it's a dragon tree.
The tree, native to the Canary Read More
2013-08-05 08:27
Well, flowers FROM space, at least.
Or, what we mean is, flowers that HAVE BEEN TO space, anyway.
....which is still pretty awesome! I mean, I haven't been to space. Read More
2013-08-02 11:14
Beautiful art or morbid meditation? Or both?
Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige has certainly created some visually arresting works of art with his series of amazing "bone sculptures" Read More
2013-08-01 11:01
Here at Clare Florist we would like to make it clear that our bouquets of flowers do not come with a complimentary beetle.
Why do we feel the need to assert this, you ask? Well, afte… Read More
2013-07-31 08:26
It seems like a lot of people are in celebratory mood this week. With the introduction of Prince George of Cambridge to the royal family, commemorative cups and saucers are bound to be… Read More
2013-07-29 07:47
Which European city that you've visited has the best flowers, the loveliest gardens, botanic gardens and hanging baskets? The best-pruned flowerbeds, or the most wildly extravagant mixing of… Read More
2013-07-26 10:36
Today we take a look at Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging. Ikebana literally means "living flowers", and the art is also known as the "way of flowers" Read More
2013-07-24 16:09
Welcome, watchers and woebegones, to Weird and Wonderful Wednesday, where we will wow you with whimsical wonders and whatjimacallits from wherever they wander!
That's quite enough alli Read More
2013-07-23 12:42
Even flowers get jilted, it turns out. If a flower's special bee goes missing, other bees will "cheat" on their own flowers in order to fill the space.
In any given ecosystem Read More
2013-07-23 12:42
Even flowers get jilted, it turns out. If a flower's special bee goes missing, other bees will "cheat" on their own flowers in order to fill the space.
In any given ecosystem, the relationsh… Read More
2013-07-22 15:01
"I never intended to grow vegetables, or any food at all. I was a musician and thought anyone who grew food was quite mad."
So begins a fascinating interview, just published in t Read More
2013-07-18 14:41
Nowadays, it's normal to celebrate many different occasions with a lovely bunch of flowers (such as the gorgeous bouquets on Clareflorist.co.uk -- nudge nudge, wink wink!). But Read More
2013-07-16 13:21
(because sometimes, a headline is too much fun NOT to write...)
Botanists are attempting to create the largest lily pad in the world by cross-pollinating two existing species.
An… Read More
2013-07-12 10:56
Is the hot weather bringing the kleptomaniacs out of doors? AFter yesterday's sad story about a woman who kept having fresh flowers taken from her mother's grave, today we Read More
2013-07-11 14:17
A Burnley woman has been forced to leave notes on her dead mother's grave asking flower thieves to please leave the flowers she places there alone.
After having more than ten flo Read More
2013-07-10 14:34
Who would ever have thought that Metallica could inspire a flower display?
But that's exactly what's happened at the Hampton Court Flower Show, where a garden named "I Read More
2013-07-09 15:25
Ingenious schoolchildren in Leicestershire have put together a flowerbed to commemorate the finding of King Richard III's remains under a Leicester car park.
The kids made a skeleton ( Read More
2013-07-08 14:31
Eighty thousand, six hundred and forty five.
What could this number be? The number of double decker buses it would take to encircle the moon? How many gallons of Lucozade it would take to… Read More
2013-07-03 13:09
Some plants are common. Some plants are rare. And some plants have only TWO specimens in the whole wide world.
In the beautifully-named Cloud Forest of Mauritius… Read More
2013-07-01 13:34
Wait a second, is that ... July? Peeking around the corner with a strange mix of summery haze and spring showers, it's fair to say that -- on first impressions -- this is a July which lack… Read More
2013-06-26 13:23
Hard-working council employees in Lancashire have put in a blooming good effort this week, planting 25,000 flowers in just four days.
While some commenters have understandably sugges… Read More
2013-06-25 17:55
Scientists have made nano-flowers just 25 micrometers across -- that's less than 0.025 millimeters. A quarter of one per cent of a millimeter!
New Scientist magazine explains the scientist… Read More
2013-06-20 15:52
The annual "Battle of Flowers" parade in Jersey is coming. This year there's a change in the organisation -- instead of the floats coming in one at a time, they are all going to be vi Read More
2013-06-19 16:03
This plant flowers only once a century -- and then it dies!
A plant which has been growing patiently at Ventnot Botanic Gardens has flowered, on what is said to be likely to be the hottest… Read More
2013-06-18 15:33
They're known as passion flowers -- or, perhaps even more suggestively, passion vines. The name may be steamy, but the plants themselves have a rather chaste elegance to them Read More
2013-06-17 12:46
Conservation group 'Plantlife', speaking at the Royal Highland Show, have warned that Scottish farming methods may prove dangerous to wild flowers, insects and birds. Read More
2013-06-13 14:18
A sad tale this week; a small tale, but a sad one.
Villagers from Bishops Stortford have reported a heartless flower theft -- of flowers that had been planted by volunteers for the local S… Read More
2013-06-12 16:38
A flower which hasn't been seen in Jersey since before the Second World War has been spotted growing on the island by a group of schoolchildren.
The flower is the Spid Read More
2013-06-11 13:07
The Prince of Wales is known for schemes which can seem a little bit batty. Though full credit needs to go for the man for being such an ardent environmentalist, coming from a class that hav… Read More
2013-06-06 14:58
49 rare queen bees have been released into the wild in Kent in an effort to help stabilise a population of unusual bees.
The new arrivals are from the species 'Bombus subterraneus'… Read More
2013-06-05 14:24
A plant that needs fungi to live -- meet the remarkable snowflower!
This plant, technically known as Sarcodes Sanguinea (the only member of the Sarcodes family), cannot photosy… Read More
2013-06-04 15:43
Scientists in Germany are looking into what sounds like an environmental dream: using fields full of gorgeous yellow flowers to produce energy.
But the plan might not just be gentle whismy… Read More
2013-06-03 15:04
As if carnivorous flowers weren't freaky enough already...
An international team of biologists has discovered something extraordinary while researching the genome of a carnivorous flow Read More
2013-05-30 11:23
Gardening Scotland's annual gardening showcase is about to get underway -- starting tomorrow!
The event will run until this Sunday, June 2nd, at the Royal Highland Centre -- w Read More
2013-05-28 08:43
As featured on these very pages in the past, there are plenty of edible flowers. From decorative salads to infusions for dandelion or chrysanthemum tea, there are plenty of sweet and savoury… Read More
2013-05-27 14:31
When you think of "saying it with flowers", you normally have something pretty pleasant in mind for the "it": saying "thank you", perhaps, or "saying congratulati Read More
2013-05-24 11:10
Have you ever seen a monkey puzzle tree?
Auracaria Aurucana has long been called the monkey puzzle tree, and is so associated with "puzzles" now that one of the UK's le Read More
2013-05-23 11:09
New statistics suggest that bees, wildflowers and and hoverflies may be recovering from the extremely low levels suffered in the 1980s and 1990s.
Leeds University teamed up with the Natura… Read More
2013-05-22 07:02
For the first time in a hundred years, the "best in show" garden award at the RHS' Chelsea Flower Show has been picked up by a team from Australia.
The team, called Fleming& Read More
2013-05-21 15:29
Japnese artist Susumu Nishinaga has created a remarkable series of photographs called "The Invisible Beauty of Flowers", using a special scanning microscope to show off some of the beauti… Read More
2013-05-16 12:33
In Japan's Ashikaga Flower Park, an astonishing 10,000-foot wisteria grove is blooming.
Wisteria, which normally grows as a vine or climbing plant, can with careful pruning be ma Read More
2013-05-15 09:10
With Baz Luhrmann's movie of the Great Gatsby just opening at the cinemas, this seemed a fitting time to take a look at the flowers which contribute to the opulence, splendour and luxury of… Read More
2013-05-14 16:16
Prestigious British artist and sculptor Marc Quinn has worked with the Chelsea Flower Show on a scultpure, entitled "the Rush of Nature", to accompany the flower show' Read More
2013-05-09 09:52
There have to be rules, but sometimes the rules could use a little leeway. A bit of give and take. So that beautiful things are allowed to happen.
Sadly, one beautiful thing is no lo… Read More
2013-05-08 15:54
Yes, the title of this blog sounds like the name of a Rudyard Kipling story, but in fact it's the story of a remarkable scientific discovery.
A new study concludes that flowers g Read More
2013-05-07 12:03
We've been trawling around to find some of the best flower-related arts and crafts idas on the web, and one thing we've noticed is that people consistently make some pretty fabulous je Read More
2013-05-02 10:31
May Day was yesterday, so what better time could there be to write all about the flowers associated with this annual holiday?
Well, okay, yes. Yesterday would technically have been better… Read More
2013-05-01 15:06
Today we look at a flower which was considered deeply sacred by some Native American ("Indian") tribes.
Beliefs and practices differed greatly (and still do) between differ Read More
2013-04-30 15:36
The bees have it!
Environmentalists were today celebrating a "victory for bees" as the European Union banned nerve-agent pesticides which have been blamed for killing off bees in Read More
2013-04-29 10:24
Wildflower sales have risen dramatically, with some suggesting that last year's Olympics ahould take credit.
In the wake of the highly successful London Olympic Games, beautiful wildfl Read More
2013-04-26 11:24
Techy gadget-lovers and flower obsessives alike will adore this gadget, created by Parrot, a firm best known for making a remote-controlled helicopter that can be controlled via iPhone. &hell…Read More
2013-04-25 14:26
There's been plenty of moaning going around (including a little bit here in this very blog, we have to admit...) about the extreme lateness of spring and hseer clinginess of winter this ye… Read More
2013-04-24 15:15
We need a sunny-sounding story to cheer us all up today, so how about we have a look at some of the most beautiful tropical areas of the world?
Coral reefs are synonymous with tropical pa… Read More
2013-04-23 12:41
It's St George's Day, so here's a brief look at the history of his favourite flower.
As we mentioned in a previous CF blog -- have a look here -- the reason why the red rose is known as the… Read More
2013-04-18 14:24
Which? magazine has conducted a poll to discover Britain's favourite flowers.
According to the magazine, the answers are as follows:
Top ten annuals/bedding plants Read More
2013-04-17 11:15
Finally, the weather is turning! I mean, us lot here at CF Towers aren't getting too excited, because getting too excited is a shortcut to a month-long downpour with accomp Read More
2013-04-16 15:50
We've hunted down some of YouTube's best flower recycling videos, to give you some great arts and crafts ideas. Perfect to do with the kids this spring -- or if spring STILL isn't Read More
2013-04-15 11:14
Did you know there are frogs that live in flowers?
If you've read Terry Pratchett's kids books, Truckers, Diggers and Wings, then you probably do. Those books use the idea of a frog, l… Read More
2013-04-12 12:01
Check out the Los Angeles hotel which has installed its own flower cart!
Many customer-facing industries are increasingly concerned with letting the customer modify the service to th… Read More
2013-04-11 10:53
Yesterday we showed how Leighton Baines, star Everton footballer, delivered flowers to a fan in need. Today we've discovered another great guy who just loves to brighten people's day with a… Read More
2013-04-10 16:00
Here's an unexpected flower courier!
Premier League football stars aren't exactly known for being generous and kind-hearted, but Everton and England left-back Leighton Baines made Read More
2013-04-05 12:24
Just because flowers look sweet enough to eat, doesn't mean you should always, er ...oh dear.
One little tot got itself in a right royal pickle this week, as it tried to chow down on K Read More
2013-04-04 12:11
Flowers are telling birds to come and eat them - by turning red.
It turns out, that with climate conditions proving a risk to bee populations, some flowers are adapting by asking birds to… Read More
2013-04-03 13:14
We seem to end up writing about bees quite a lot here in the CF blog. But this isn't just because we like their pretty black and yellow stripes -- bees are absolutely vital to the world of… Read More
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