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As mentioned in our latest post” A Flower garden at home”, floral motifs are the HIT this year.  Floral print decorations are a classic when decorating our homes but this spring and summer floral patterns on clothing will change the side walk into a floral catwalk! The 2011 Spring/ Summer floral collections underline color, humor […]

Pansies’ flowers in a colorful nutritious salad Cooking and garnishing with flowers is trending! Many restaurants, chefs and home cooks garnish their entrees with flower blossoms to give it a special touch.

Spring is here and we start spending more time outside. And it’s not just us- also our cats and dogs enjoy the great outdoors. Spring is a lovely time and if you want to make the best of it, you may want to learn which plants and flowers are safe and which to avoid when taking […]

In just 3 days it will officially be spring. And when its spring we automatically think about Easter celebrations, Mother’s Day and, of course, spring flowers. We all easily recognize one of the most famous flowers – La Tulipa or The Tulip, because this flower is beautiful, vibrant, and fresh. It spreads immediately good feelings.

Flowers are like you and I, they need food and water for proper growth and healthy colour. As you know, here at FloraQueen we like to give you “Do It Yourself” Tips for the simple reason: It’s more fun!

  Martians aren’t the only creatures who come from Mars; men come from Mars, too.  At least that’s what we learn about the red planet from John Gray and his book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus”. Mars was the god of war in ancient Rome and he was the inspiration for the […]

1 -If a man goes on a seven-day trip, he’ll pack five days worth of clothes and will wear some things twice; if a woman goes on a  seven-day trip she’ll pack 21 outfits because she doesn’t know what she’ll feel like wearing each day

It’s such a pleasure to receive a big bouquet of flowers on Valentine’s Day; it shows you how much someone is thinking of you on this special day of love and friendship. Of course, you want to keep the flowers looking radiant in a vase for as long as possible and to do so, you […]

  Tips for Valentine’s Day morning……. It’s the same date every year, just like Christmas. Yet, also like Christmas, this day on the calendar, the 14th of February, always seems to take people by surprise. This year it falls on a Monday – which is worth mentioning, firstly, because it’s even easier to forget at […]

Are you tired of sharing the small space at the greeting card section in your local department store with all the last minute greeting card seeking strangers? Do you feel like I do, when trying to select a card thinking: too boring, too cheesy, too red, too old fashioned or simply “this is just not […]

  Valentine’s Day is thought to have originated as a Roman festival called Lupercalia, a day on which young men drew lots inscribed with girl’s names from where they lived. Each drew only one name, of course, since the men were then apparently able to enjoy themselves with the young ladies pretty much unbridled. Consequently, […]

Would you like to know what flower represents your birth month? And what those flowers mean? Not so fast…… first we need to go over some facts. Flower symbolism began with many ancient religions. During the Renaissance, nature was viewed as a reflection of the divine and in the Victorian times the use of flowers […]

Only a couple more days and it’s that time of the year again. We gather together with our loved one, we eat, we laugh, we hug, we smile and at some point we give and receive in the form of wonderful gift!