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We’re the flower experts, so we love writing about floristry, gardening, and anything else going on in the flower world. Here, you’ll find lots of useful hints and tips, fascinating video demonstrations and informative "how-to" guides. We’ll also keep you up to date with the latest news on every aspect of our products and services.

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Being the flower experts, we enjoy writing about all the things going on in the world of flowers! We can keep you up-to-date on all the news - you’ll get to hear about what our florists are up to, hints and tips, new products we’ve designed and discovered, what’s going on in the industry and more!

New Year’s Resolutions: a chance to WIN with our survey

by Mark Leech on January 6, 2012

We all have different habits and views when it comes to making resolutions at the start of the year. We’d love to know how you are planning to change your life in 2012, as well as how you did with the resolutions you made at the beginning of last year!

By completing the survey you will be entered into a prize draw to win Interflora flowers worth £45.
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Floral teas and alcoholic drinks: our Top 10

by Charlotte Barnes on January 6, 2012

Everyone enjoys a drink or two on a special occasion in order to toast a loved one or celebrate an achievement. With the same selections of wines, beers and spirits on the supermarket shelves, you may be searching for something a little different for this year’s important occasions. At Interflora, we’ve decided to combine our interest in favourite tipples across the globe with our love for flowers and hereby present our top ten guide to the most unusual drinks -
all of which are made primarily from flowers!
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Flowers to help your health and wellbeing

by Mark Leech on January 4, 2012

Health, fitness and wellbeing are all things we strive to improve and there are a lot of products and fitness regimes available to help. But did you know that flowers can play a part in helping you to become healthier? Belle from flowersandchocos.com has kindly contributed a guest article telling you which flowers are good for what. Enjoy! – Mark
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Merry Christmas from all at Interflora – still time to order!

by Mark Leech on December 23, 2011

It’s almost time to pack up work – if you haven’t already – and start the festive celebrations!

Hopefully you’ll have all your present shopping sorted and will be looking forward to relaxing and indulging over the next few days.

But if you haven’t got all those gifts for family, friends and colleagues then don’t worry – you can still order from the Interflora winter and Christmas floral ranges up until 11am on Christmas Eve for delivery that same day!

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year!

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Our Christmas survey reveals most festive UK regions

by Mark Leech on December 21, 2011

tradition-of-christmasYou may have taken part in the Interflora seasonal survey a few weeks ago. Well, we have the results*!
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Christmas traditions around the world

by Stefania Del Zotto on December 21, 2011

tradition-of-christmasThis time of year is surrounded by tradition and, even here in the UK, the way in which we spend Christmas can vary drastically from family to family. Other countries also interpret the holiday and the religious significance very differently to us. Some even have different versions of Father Christmas delivering their Christmas present.
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Christmas Home Makeover: photos and video

by Mark Leech on December 16, 2011

We ran a competition for one lucky person to have their whole home decked out in festive flowers by one of our expert florists. Thank you to everyone who entered, we had more than 15,000 entries!

Diana Petrie won our festive flower competition and her prize was to have florist Janet Boast decorate her home with beautiful Christmas
arrangements.

Take a look at the video of Diana’s experience and the transformation of her home…
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Christmas centrepieces for your festive table

by Charlotte Barnes on December 16, 2011

Christmas candlesChristmas is fast approaching and with the dinner to prepare, the presents to wrap and the decorations to sort out, you’d be forgiven for letting the festive season creep up on you.

When it suddenly dawns on you that Christmas is just round the corner and you haven’t even started thinking about your Christmas dinner table decorations, don’t panic! Interflora is here to help guide you through the occasion with style and grace. We’ve gathered a selection of our favourite centrepieces and added a few helpful hints for setting your theme around them.
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Christmas flower shop windows: vote for your favourite!

by Mark Leech on December 13, 2011

christmas wreathsAfter the success of our Halloween shop window competition, we thought we’d do another in the run up to Christmas. We have so many talented florists that this seemed like the perfect chance to show off exactly what they could do with Christmas flowers in their windows!

Our florists have been sending their entries in for the last couple of weeks, now we need your help to find a winner!
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Christmas photos: vote for your favourite funny photo!

by Mark Leech on December 12, 2011

To get us all into the festive spirit we launched a competition to win a Taste of Christmas hamper worth £100 and full of seasonal treats including coffee, fudge, wine, port and a Christmas pudding.

To be in with a chance of winning we asked our readers send us a funny picture from a past Christmas.

Thank you for all the entries, we’ve whittled them down to a shortlist, we now need you to help us by voting for your favourite! The winning photo will earn that fabulous hamper for the lucky entrant.
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