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AIFD San Francisco Flower Market Tour

4 August 2011

At 6:30am we were on a bus trip to the San Francisco Flower Market. Greeted with fresh coffee and donuts, we meandered through  Brannan Street Wholesale Flowers and many other vendors taking in the visual feast. It was the floral equivalent of being a kid in a candy store. Throughout the market J Schwanke AIFD [...]

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San Francisco Touristing

2 August 2011

My second day at the AIFD Symposium was a tourist day. After perusing the ‘must see’ brochures, I decided to take a walking tour of Haight/Ashbury, the hippie mecca of the 60s. Stan, the tour guide was a walking encyclopedia. Everyone we passed seemed to know him, there was a real community feeling in this [...]

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Floral Designs at AIFD Symposium 2011

28 July 2011

At the beginning of July I had the good fortune to attend the AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers) National Symposium in San Francisco, a working vacation you might say. The theme this year was ‘Imagine – Dream, Create, Share.’ When I arrived at the hotel I immediately knew that I was in the right [...]

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Orchid Plants in Tuxedos

4 January 2011

In the flower business, we like to differentiate ourselves from the grocery stores by “dressing” our plants. If you insisted, we would of course sell you an “undressed” plant, but how much better they look in a co-ordinating pot, decorated with ribbon, wire, branches or balls! Have a look at this photo. We had four [...]

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