Adelaide’s Insight

Flowers

The “Rose” is the flower of the month. The rose has historically been associated with romance and beauty. We are celebrating the rose by bringing in more roses and rose types for your selection. The first 2 weeks of June we will be showcasing spray roses from 2 of our favorite growers. If you haven’t bought spray roses before, this is the time to try them out. Spray roses have a single strong stem with a multitude of smaller roses on their branches. They provide a lot of color and enjoyment for a single stem. The last 2 weeks we will have a larger than usual supply of regular roses, short ones and long stemmed ones.

Our first grower is Eufloria Roses (here’s their link www.eufloriaflowers.com). They grow beautiful spray roses as well as other beautiful roses. Although they are located in Central California, once they cut their roses, they are always in water and even shipped to us in water. Here are some photos.

The second grower is Dramm & Echter (here’s their link www.drammechter.com). They are a local grower and we have been buying flowers from them for over 35 years. We are so fortunate to have them in our backyard.

Have us create a great arrangement using roses for that someone special or “just because”.

Plants:

June is a good month to talk about Hydrangeas. They are a spectacular garden plant as well as an extra special cut flower. We have had beautiful ones here in the store. Now is a good time to plant them in the garden or you can wait until they finish blooming.

Plant the hydrangea in an area where it will get partial shade or morning sun /afternoon shade. Drainage is also important. Moist doesn’t mean wet. Hydrangeas will thrive in rich, moist soils with adequate water.

Do you like pink blooms or blue ones? You can change the color of the blooms by adding different amendments to the soil. For pink blooms, the soil needs to have more lime and for blue blooms, it needs to be more acidic (adding aluminum sulfate). However, white blooms are always white.

Hydrangeas are easy to root from stem cuttings. Take a 6 inch cutting off the plant, remove the leaves on the lower 3 inches and place in water in a bright location. When there are roots on the stem, plant it in soil.

Here’s a great link for more information on hydrangea care http://www.filoli.org/downloads/garden/gardeners-reference-sheets/hydrangea-care.pdf

Specials:

June is the month of our annual inventory reduction sale! We are trying to reduce our giftware before we have to inventory it. The sale starts June 1st for the whole month. Come early for our best selection. Here’s what’s on sale:
Red-tagged items 40% off
50% off selected candles
25% off selected “silk” arrangements
10% off silk stems or free labor on custom silk arrangements
10% off all other gift items.

No flowers or plants will be on sale.