Make Someone Smile Week

Make Someone Smile Week launches July 20th! Send a smile with our Be Happy Mug by Teleflora. Only $34.95 plus delivery and applicable taxes, two yellow roses nestled among the ever popular white and yellow daisies in a ceramic happy face keepsake mug. Make someone smile- call or go online today!
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Best Florist 2008

Thank you to all of the readers of the Daily Times for voting us 2008 "Best Florist" in Eastern Delaware County! We appreciate your business and enjoy seeing all of your familiar faces and hearing your voices over the phone. We hope that everyone is enjoying our website and that you find it an easy place to do business. We wish you a very happy and safe summer!

So You Say Its Your Birthday

July Birthdays Will Love This Flower

A long standing garden favorite that grows tall and strong. Comes in a variety of colors- purple, blue, white, pink and lavender. Means lightness and levity. Blooms between the months of June and September. Comes from the Greek "delphis" or dolphin because of the dolphin-shaped flowers. The delphinium or larkspur (which is often referred to as delphinium) is the birthday flower for July.

Happy Birthday to all of the July Birthdays!!
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A member of the iris family and originally from the Middle East and south Africa, this flower is the August birthday flower. It has 255 species and comes in every color except blue. Its meaning is beauty and strength of character. This flower's nickname is "sword lily" because of the weapon-shaped leaves. The gladiolus flower is the birthday flower for August.

Happy Birthday (a month early) to the August birthdays!!

Pennsylvania State Flower
The Mountain Laurel is a flowering plant that is native to the Eastern United States. It was first recorded in America in 1624. Not only is it our state flower but Connecticut also hails it as theirs. Mountain Laurel grows as an evergreen shrub that has star-shaped flowers that vary in color from red to pink to white. Don't get too close, all parts of this plant are poisonous to several animals. The mountain laurel is naturally found on rocky slopes and mountainous areas. It is a wildflower that is often considered the most beautiful of all American shrubs.

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Flower Care For the Dog Days of Summer

A few quick tips to keep your fresh cut flowers lasting longer and looking beautiful this summer.

1. Keep the vase filled with room temperature water or if you have a container filled with floral foam keep it filled with water.

2. Fresh cut flowers DO NOT need to be in the sun, in fact the sunlight will be too hot and burn the flowers. Always keep flowers in a cool area with no direct sunlight and away from all heat sources. i.e. television sets, windows- which will magnify the sunlight, underneath ceiling fans- which will dry them out and anything else that gives off a heat source.

3. Just like flowers don't like it too hot they also don't like it too cold. Do not put flowers in front of window air conditioning units, the flowers will freeze and die.

4. If you do have a fresh vase of flowers, change the water with clean fresh water and re-cut the stems on an angle every few days.

5. Most of all enjoy the beauty that flowers bring into your home.

Fun Fourth of July Facts

Facts you may or may not already know!

* Estimated number of hot dogs eaten by Americans on the 4th of July, 150 million
* Bristol, RI is noted as having the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration in the U.S.- since 1785
* Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President was born on July 4, 1873
* The Fourth of July was first observed in Philadelphia in 1776, it marked the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. The Liberty Bell was rung to summon the citizens for the reading.
* In July 1776 there were 2.5 million living in the newly independent nation- in 2008 it is estimated 304 million people live in the United States.
* The Fourth of July was not declared a legal holiday until 1941.

Have a happy and safe Fourth of July holiday.