Easter Lilies, Some History From Grohe

Hi, I'm Julie Klingaman with Grohe Florist in Rohnert Park. For many of us, Easter evokes memories of egg decorating, gift baskets, chocolate bunnies, local church services, family gatherings, and the Easter lily. I began wondering how and why the Easter lily is associated with this holiday. I'm going to share with you what I found out about this beautiful trumpet-shaped fragrant blossom.

They symbolize purity, hope, and life, and the spiritual essence of Easter and all the promises of spring. Easter lilies are given along with Easter gifts, and they happen to be one of America's largest potted plant crops, and one of America's favorite blooming plants. The Easter lily is found in history, mythology and art, with stories and images that speak of the beauty and majesty of these elegant white flowers.

They're often called the white-robed apostles of hope. Lilies are said to have been found growing in the garden of Gethsemane after Christ's agony. At Easter time, churches bank their altars and surround their crosses with masses of Easter lilies to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and hope of life everlasting. The pure white lily has long been associated with womanhood too. In early paintings, the Angel Gabriel is depicted extending a branch of pure white lilies to the Virgin Mary announcing that she was chosen to be the mother of the Christ child. In other paintings, saints are pictured bringing vases full of white lilies to Mary and the baby Jesus. Tradition has it that when Eve left the garden of Eden, she shed real tears of repentance, and from those remorseful tears sprung up lilies.

The Easter lily has been a mark of purity and grace throughout the ages. The regal white lily is a fitting symbol of greater meaning of Easter. Gracing millions of homes and churches, the flowers embody joy, hope, and life. Whether given as a gift or to be enjoyed in your own home, the Easter lily serves as a beautiful reminder that Easter is a time for rejoicing and celebrating. So when you give Easter baskets to your family, don't stop with the decorated eggs and chocolate rabbits, include a few Easter lilies.

How To Make A Centerpiece For Easter

Hi, my name is Julie Klingaman from Grohe Florists in Rohnert Park. Today, I'm going to demonstrate how to make an Easter centerpiece. Whether it's for brunch, lunch, or dinner, this centerpiece will definitely brighten your table.

First, I chose two different size containers. I have a four by four cube and a six by six cube. I chose a cube because they're low and for a centerpiece you want to make sure to keep it low. I also have a small piece of Styrofoam. If you don't have a piece of Styrofoam, you can find something else that will give you a little bit of lift because you want to be able to put your smaller cube within the larger cube and have it close to the lip of the vase, so that your flowers aren't set too deep in there. 'Cause next, what I'm going to do is I got a bag of jelly beans and I'm going to just fill in the jelly beans around my vase. You've got to keep doing it until you get all the way up to the top.

It looks like I'm probably going to need at least three to four bags of jelly beans. Okay, I chose... You can choose really any type of flower that you'd like to do but I chose tulips because they're a good reminder of spring. And most tulips come in bunches of 10, so I have about 20 tulips here right now, and I'm going to put them... I'm going to cut them and I'm going to stick them down into the vase.

With tulips, a good reason to use them is, you don't really have to design them, they kind of just do their own thing. So, all you have to do is kind of measure the height of the vase, and remember that your vase is shorter in here, so you kind of have to keep that in mind. Then I'm just going to use my clippers and trim this, and I'm not even going to peel back very much of the greenery. I'm going to try to leave it 'cause it's going to help keep all the flowers in place. Then all you have to do is place them in your cube and then from there, you can kind of adjust them a little bit. But that's the fun thing about tulips is they are going to look a little wild and tomorrow when you wake up, they're going to be in a different direction, so you don't have to take too much time fussing with them 'cause they're going to do their own thing. There you go, a fun Easter centerpiece.

Now, if you don't like the crazy wildness of tulips, you can do something like hydrangeas, and they'll make a nice round look over it or roses and what you can do with roses is design them first in your hand to make a nice round shape and put a twist tie around them and then just trim down the edges and just like we did with the tulips, and set it right it. Thank you and I hope you enjoy your own Easter centerpiece.

Independence Day at Grohe Florists!

4th of July Arrangements ready to send out to our Customers!

We have had a whirlwind the last few months starting with Administrative Professionals Week, Easter, Prom, Mother's Day, Graduations and topping it off with the start of Wedding season!!  Whew...we are ready for the long 4th of July weekend!!  We couldn't have this opportunity without the freedom this great nation offers and for that we want to say Thank You to the brave men and women protecting that Freedom and the United States of America. Because of them we have the liberty to live our lives the way we choose which allows us the luxury to celebrate all these special occasions!

 Happy Independence Day!!

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Perfect Prom Flowers in Sonoma County!

Prom Season 2014 has arrived, and we are gearing up to make some beautiful custom corsages and boutonnieres for our customers.  Grohe Florists is your prom florist destination in Sonoma County...we promise you, we have some new accessories and are making corsages and boutonnieres more exciting than ever before.  We have some of the options we are offering on our website http://www.groheflorist.com/category/holidays/prom/display , but for a truly custom corsage come into one of our 2 locations and we can help you pick out the perfect corsage to match you or your date's dress. 
We have a flower shop in Santa Rosa at 1313 McDonald Ave, centrally located between
Santa Rosa High School, Montgomery High School and Maria Carillo High School, but not too far from many of the other Santa Rosa High Schools like Cardinal Newman, Piner and Sonoma Academy. 
We also have a shop in Rohnert Park at 101 Golf Course Dr. Ste. C8 in the Doubletree Plaza, we design Prom flowers for Rancho Cotate High School, Tech High as well as Analy High School, Petaluma High School and Casa Grande High School.
We look forward to helping you pick out the perfect corsage and boutonniere for this special Prom Night 2014!

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Miss Sonoma County pageant flowers

The Miss Sonoma County pageant is tonight at Spreckels Theater in Rohnert Park! We are happy once again to provide a donation of flowers for the smart and talented young ladies that participate in this scholarship based pageant.   We wish them all Good Luck and  congratulations for even being considered!

Post Holiday Valentine Wrap up from a florists POV

Phew!  Valentine's Day is over!!  Many people associate Valentine's Day with flowers and chocolates so you can imagine we had a busy few days last week.
All in all we had a good holiday, like usual most people are last minute so we are rushing around trying to help our customers and design all our beautiful flower arrangements and get them delivered to all those Valentines out there.  Thankfully we have seasonal helpers to keep us from going crazy, getting our flowers cleaned and helping our driver get the routes organized.  
Over the years we have teamed up with our local Cotati/ Rohnert Park Rotary Club, they come in on the 13th and 14th and deliver for us and in return we donated a portion of the delivery fees to their scholarship foundation. 
We are happy for an economy that seems to be recovering a bit and for some of the businesses in Rohnert Park where we had multiple deliveries to Sonoma State University, Graton Casino and to Sonoma Mountain Village off Valley House Drive.
Although it is always a relief when the holiday is over, we are also happy to have Valentine's Day!  So now we get a chance to relax until the next big floral holiday- Mother's Day.

(This blog is written from our Rohnert Park store located at 101 Golf Course Dr.  Rohnert Park, CA-
we also have a second location in Santa Rosa at 1313 McDonald Ave.  Santa Rosa, CA)
Below are pictures from our shop all ready for Valentine deliveries!
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Love is in the air....

We have been getting our Grohe Florists Valentine specials photographed and up on our website for the upcoming Valentine's Day. February 14th is only 3 weeks away! I have been thinking how Valentine's Day is on a Friday this year with a 3 day weekend so I have a few reasons why surprising your Valentine early would be a good idea! So here we go.... 1. Women love getting flowers at work! If you send them early she can enjoy them at her desk all week long! 2. If you are going away for the weekend she won't be able to take in the beauty while she's away. 3. Use the flowers as a surprise invitation as your first step to a wonderful weekend. 4. Due to the high volume of deliveries on Valentine's day you are not guaranteed to get a timed delivery where if you have it delivered early in the week you can ensure your love will have their flowers all day. 5. You have already scored brownie points with flowers so now you can really rack up some more by spoiling her with another Valentine's surprise. I have given you some thinking to do. Visit our website at www.groheflorist.com to decide what flowers fit your Valentine's style. We would like to hear  from you...Let us know what you're planning for Valentine's Day by commenting below.