Formal french designs for gardens are usually on such a grand scale that modern gardeners struggle to aply them to their own settings. The nature was force.

But when you see the Château de Brécy nature looks as if she has been happily seduced into submission.

Brecy´s house and garden lie on the site of a former monastic seat for Benedictine monks. In the French Revolution the church and its lands were taken over by the villagers, but survived in gentle decay.

Now, here is a formal French garden, with his geometric form and shrubs. Its formal style is a supreme witness to the classic age of French planning but one of its recent initiatives owes a debt to an English designer´s example.

The design of Karen Rogers at the Royal Horticultural Society´s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in London was created to demonstrate that a garden can be both edible and elegant. The garden was a wood-burning stove, around which sat box topiary and raised beds of blue-grey-painted wood that were filled with a mixture of flowers, fruit and vegetables.

Flowers such as roses, echinops and sedum grew among good-looking vegetables and herbs sucha as fennel, round-headed leeks, cabbages…

In these eco-friendly and health-conscious times, plucking food from the backyard instead of buying greens that have been flown in from another continent can help your bodies…and the planet.

There is no reason why vegetables cannot be attractive. Either we mix them with non-edible beautiful plants or we use attractive edibles.

In most countries, the ornate kitchen gardens of the past gave way to unattractive rows of vegetables. In recent decades designers have begun to think differently.

Vegetables can be grown in more formats than we might imagine and it is an exiting design prospect to want them as the backbone of the main garden.

It is Genista aetnensis, the Mount Etna broom, from the hot, volcanic Sicilian mountain. No wonder it likes excessive heat and drought. If you visite Mount Etna, you can understand why this plant is such a survivor. The conditions there are dry but surprisingly friendly to the right types of plant life. Genista etnensis is exactly the right type.

Its thin, wiry leaves lose little water and do not need mucho more.

The plants grow up to 15ft tall and erupt into their shower of yellow flowers when the Sicilian summers are starting to hit the heights of heat. No wonder it likes excessive heat and drought.

Its strong orange-yellow flowers are extremely pretty there in early May, which remind you of a Golden Rain firework. An eruption of yellow.

It is simply a great shrub, ideally suited to a warming world and extraordinarily free with its little yellow flowers. Alternatively it will eventually make a tall, widely branched tree, but never so dense that it blocks out the light.

Internet has grown very quickly, and with it also exposure to online fraud. That´s why we at FloraQueen took the required steps to ensure our customers’ personal data is safe in all phases of the buying process and when communicating with us.

It’s been 2 years since we have passed all tests of the McAfee Secure program, which certifies that our customers details are kept with  bullet proof system against identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

To ensure that we keep up with our good work, FloraQueen’s website is tested and certified daily by the “McAfee Secure” security scan. With this daily check, we can go to bed with the peace of mind that our customers’ data is SAFE. You can see this seal in the header and footer of all our pages.

Besides, our website is PCI compliant. This is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Any online shop (and offline) that processes credit card information has to be registered with this organzation.

Also, we have in our buying process pages the SSL (Secure Server Socket) certified by GeoTrust, a leading digital certificate provider. Our SSL pages have the highest encryption level.

What is SSL? The SSL protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. SSL provides endpoint authentication and communications confidentiality over the Internet using cryptography.

And since FloraQueen was born out of the idea of spreading feelings and smiles across the globe, it has been a few years that we took the steps to ensure this can be done in the most secure way too.

Hello world. And I can say that with the confidence that FloraQueen is really an international company, since we deliver flowers to more than 100 countries. So why am I excited? Well, I can see that the enourmous dedication of the IT team lead by Alex, has brought to you a fantastic website that has helped generating tons of orders: thank you loving people!

So for that reason we’re now recruiting a Web Content manager, and a Search Marketing specialist/paid search to the marketing to keep the momentum going. You can search for those job posts on ww.infojobs.net, or you can leave a comment in this blog if you are intereste in joining the young FloraQueen crew. We’re in the business of making people happy, which is really rewarding.

Ariel.

Here at Floraqueen we pride ourselves for being a flower delivery company that is able to send bouquets of flowers to any corner of the world, no matter what it takes.

For instance, we have our trusted florist in Paris Jean Claude, who usually speaks with our French customer service representative, Janitza. They usually talk about last minute changes to orders. Last week, for instance, we had an order coming in from Ukraine that wanted flowers delivered to Paris. In the message sent, there was a petition for trying the knot to the recipient of the bouquet of 24 roses.

Something happened between Paris and Odessa in the meantime. When the florist was about to send his delivery person down the Champs Elysees, we received a message from Ukraine:

”Please change the card message from “Would you marry me” to “I miss you”.

So Janitza went straight to the phone, spoke with Jean Claude, who made his flower delivery man return to the flower shop to change the message.

So, all in all, we now have a relieved ukranian customer, and a happy (bride to be?) woman in Paris.

And for international flower deliveries, we have a team at Floraqueen that can speak: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, English and Italian. Luckily, our Ukranian customer spoke English.

Thank you mums for being so great in the past year! Your loved ones have helped our company to increase our sales by so much, that we want to thank you all. Without you, we wouldn’t be here.

Love from sons/daugthers to mums that are apart has travelled more than 800 thousand kilometers. That same distance, is equal to going to the moon and back! That’s why we’re all over the moon with how much love we’ve been able to spread.

Also, a great thank you goes to the hard working Customer Service team at FQ, who worked extra hours to ensure smooth  running of the operation - well done team!

Now, let’s go back to work…

During the whole weekend the customers kept coming back to Floraqueen, to send a high quality, fresh bouqet to their loved mother on the mother’s day.

Yesterday, the 3rd of May, we celebrated our Mother’s Day here in Spain and we are proud that we made a lot of mums all over Spain happy.

“The Mother’s Day is always a great event for Floraqueen - and together with Valentines Day the most important for us.” says the CEO of Floraqueen.
The goals were set high, but we are happy to announce that the whole Mother’s Day Campaign had a great success, yet and still hasn’t ended in all countries we’re delivering too.

Floraqueen is still doing promotion for the Mother’s Day in Germany, as the germans will celebrate with their mothers on next sunday. Join us on our German Website to send flowers to your mother in Germany.

We are thrilled to start in the last “Mothers Day Weeks” and we’re looking forward to celebrate with you and your mother!

The Floraqueen Team

We want to make mums happy, that’s why we offer special prizes for all mothers day flowers. See our different bouquets especially for mothers day and as always prepared by a local florist next to the receivers house.

Floraqueen helps you to surprise your mother for mothers day 2009:
Send some Mother’s Day Cards and poems

More About Mother’s Day

The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother, and it’s now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father’s Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and christian traditions honouring mothers, or with the 16th century celebration of Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother’s Day in the UK.

In most countries the Mother’s Day celebration is a recent holiday derived from the original US celebration. Exceptions are, for example, the Mothering Sunday holiday in the UK.

Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.

One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.

The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day. In addition to Mother’s Day, International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries, most often on March 8.

Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term “mother’s day” shows two primary results, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent, from the British tradition of Mothering Sunday (it is also called ladies day and women’s day), and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.

The extent of the celebrations varies greatly. In some countries, it is potentially offensive to one’s mother not to mark Mother’s Day. In others, it is a little-known festival celebrated mainly by immigrants, or covered by the media as a taste of foreign culture (compare the celebrations of Diwali in the UK and the United States).

Note: Countries that celebrate International Women’s Day are marked with a cross ‘†‘. (Wiki)

As an Online Flower Delivery we have to select our partners wisely to keep up the high quality we guarantee to our customers. Bloomcentral is one of these partners and we are proud to annouce the coorperation between Floraqueen and Bloomendirect. We are sure that both parties will grow together with this collaboration and we are looking forward to announce the good results we are expecting.

What Bloomcentral says:
Through our international flower delivery network of flower shops worldwide you can enjoy fresh flower delivery at discount prices to just about anywhere in the world. We are ready to fill your order no matter what country the flowers are to be delivered to! When you order from FloraQueen international flower delivery, you’re actually ordering from the florist down the street. Your flowers arrive fresh and on time because they are delivered from flower shops next door. You pay for the flowers and not for international deliveries. FloraQueen international flower delivery network is made up of hand-picked florists and flower shops, chosen for their commitment to provide the highest quality, fresh flowers at very competitive prices. Because we know our member flower shops so well, FloraQueen stands behind each and every order with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Every FloraQueen flower delivery is special and we take great care to guarantee the flower shops service for sending flowers that are on time, fresh and fragrant!

BloomenDirect is confident in FloraQueen as we both operate a network of quality-controlled florists designed to ensure a local florist services and delivers your online floral order. As a valued customer of BloomenDirect, you can be confident that your order will not be delivered by mail or some other courier system many miles from the place where you want to send flowers.
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