Smithers Oasis have launched  new colours of stem tape. The new Flower Tape is much like stemtex, with it’s corrugated, high quality feel. This new type of stemtape is available in silver and gold colours. High quality tape that’s used to cover bare wires on buttonholes, corsages and more decoratively in cake decorations and general floral displays.

We’re also now selling Turquoise coloured Midelino sticks. Both products available to buy online for Uk delivery.

Oasis mini deco are used to create small arrangements and features, especially useful in wedding and event floristry. The small domed holder is backed with a peel and stick adhesive backing so it can be easily affixed to a wrapped package, wine bottle, basket, chair, table, mirror, staircase or any flat or smooth surface. Filled with Oasis Max Life Foam for fresh flowers. 5cm diameter, 3cm high. Includes slots on the base for tying onto surfaces which are non stick or unsuitable for self adhesive fixing. Endless possibilities for creative designs. Sold in a box of 12 or a pack of 3.

As ever, we’re adding to our range to keep things fresh, up to date and of interest to our customers.

Wedding Belle bouquet holders are now available to buy in smaller packs. Premium foam for fresh flowers or Dry SEC foam for dried and silk flowers.

Domed, pack of 4 caged wedding bouquet holders. Slender, unobtrusive Ivory coloured handle blends with all colours.

From the Oasis funeral frames range – NANNY Letters Tribute Frame.

Waterproof and ready-to-use, there’s no time-wasting prep to slow you down, making them cost effective too. Naylorbase floral bases offer a strong and durable foundation for elegant arrangements and floral tributes.

Smithers Oasis have now made things really easy for you to make little arrangements in floral cupcake cases. Following on from the national explosion of baking, Oasis have introduced these pretty cupcakes. They’re great for gifts, parties, decorations, window displays, promotional uses and even for using up broken stems as everything you put in there should be cut really, really short.

They come in 2 different sizes: Small (8cm x 6cm) and Large (12cm x 9cm) and in a variety of different colours. The cupcakes are filled with pre-shaped Maxlife Floral Foam in a specially developed cupcake base which is supplied with a decorative skirt. Oasis even have their own facebook page for this product!

Oasis Floral Cupcakes are available from Rays Florist website and are available for Uk delivery. Large Floral Cupcakes Small Floral Cupcakes

Now (hopefully) that the snow has finished we can start thinking about all the wonderful spring flowers available to see and buy.

Whilst there are several species of spring flowers native to the Uk , such as daffodils, primroses and bluebells, these aren’t always commercially available for a florist to buy and use within a flower bouquet or arrangement. Flowers that are considered to be ‘Springlike’, such as freesias and iris are, for the most part, available all year round.

Currently, there are a wealth of Spring flowers available for a florist to use, such as Anemones, hyacinths, tulips and narcissus. March and early April is also peak selling period for Daffodils (although Daffs can be found to buy commercially even as late/early as November). We find that our peak selling season for daffs is Easter week (unless Easter is later on in April when they may be finished).

A great resource for finding information about where to see Spring Flowers in all their glory is the National Trust website.  

For Spring Flowers delivery, please feel free to browse the Spring Flowers 2013 Range at Rays Florist.

Following on from recent revelations regarding Interflora’s problems with Google rankings, the flower relay firm are now suffering from negative press with regards to Mother’s Day flower deliveries (or lack thereof).

Feel free to read the article for yourself….I’ve expressed my feelings before on the need to not only support your local professional florist, who hand craft and hand deliver your bouquet, but more importantly, to give the consumer full order value without having to downgrade the bouquet to cover flower relay charges imposed by the flower relay service.

Read the article at the Daily mail website.

Mothers Day this year comes hot on the heels of Valentines Day and while it’s certainly no warmer, the flower choice is much more varied in our Mothers Day Range. Personally, as professional florists, we always prefer Mothers day for precisely that reason, firstly,  it’s not all red roses, secondly, we can create a much larger range of basket displays, arrangements and hand tied bouquets.

Following on from the recent Google catastrophe for Interflora [1], it’s now easier to find, and buy directly from, a good local florist! Your local florist shop will of course receive the full order value, design your order and hand deliver it, on time, with freshly bought flowers, professionally planned, arranged and executed.….all leading to happy Mums! (You know they deserve it).

Happy Mothering Sunday from all at Rays Florist – we’ll enjoy our Mothers Day, but it’s a 6pm evening meal booking, rather than a 1pm lunchtime meal!

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It’s been proven that throughout Europe, the English (and also, not unsurprisingly the french) spend more on Valentines Day flowers than any other country. Even the flower crazy Dutch, don’t go full out for Valentines Day (probably because flowers are a way of life all year out there).
 
Whilst it’s easier than ever to buy flowers online for the special someone in your life, for Valentines Day, it’s especially important to use your local professional florist to provide the best looking, beautifully arranged, most value for money flowers. The vast majority of consumers have no idea that an order placed online with one of the big flower companies will either end up with their flowers being couriered out from a central location (not arranged by a professional florist) or relayed to a florist who will typically receive only 70% of the order value.

Here, at Rays Florist we pre-order our Red Roses direct from Holland to gain the best price and quality. We’re please to announce that this year, we have two grades of Red roses that we’re making into 12 Red Rose bouquets that are cheaper than last years prices!

Rays Florist are offering two different rose varieties for local delivery only. £39.99 for 12 ‘Burgundy’ Red roses, hand tied with greenery. £54.99 for 12 ‘Red Naomi’ Red roses, hand tied with greenery. Please call us directly to place your order on 0800 0372025 or 01252 311966. Delivery charge applies. Availability is limited, so please order early to avoid disappointment!

Christmas is very nearly upon us (as if you didn’t know!).

Looking for a Christmas flower gift for a loved one? Can’t get to see them for Xmas? Want something lovely to set of your Christmas dinner table?

Then look no further, we have the perfect range of Christmas flowers for local and Uk delivery at Rays Florist.  

As a heads up for buying flowers this Christmas, the majority of big online flower companies use couriers and Royal mail to deliver their flowers. (Who wants a battered up box, full of wilted, damaged flowers delivered this Christmas?). With Christmas Eve falling on a Monday, the majority of these online retailers (I’m not going to call them florists, because they’re not) will NOT be able to guarantee a delivery of flowers on either Sunday 23rd or Christmas Eve itself.

That’s where professional florists come in……we don’t ever post bouquets - all our bouquets and floral gifts are handmade by trained, qualified florists, and in the majority of cases, the flowers are made  on the actual day that they’re going to be delivered!

Rays Florists particular direct delivery area covers all the major local towns in the GU postcode area: Ash, Aldershot, Camberley, Farnham, Farnborough, Fleet, Guildford and Woking (for an exact map please see our delivery areas map).

Even if you require a delivery further afield, we can help. Rays Florist is part of the eFlorist (Formerly Teleflorist) family of professional florists - we all work to the same high standards and we all adher to the same design guide, so what you see on our website can be replicated anywhere in the country.

So far, our best selling design is the Christmas Centrepiece, but we have lots, lots more. Take a look at our Christmas range and make someone happy by giving them a floral gift made by a trained, reputable and professional florist! Merry Christmas from Gareth & all the team at Rays Florist. 

Christmas Centrepiece	Encore
Tinsel Town	Ye Old Christmas Basket

Another email Scammer - vaguely similair to the last one (perhaps they all go to the same backward school?)

Again, if this post stops just one florist getting scammed, it’s worth 5 minutes of my time.

Email is as follows:

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From: Williams Cole <williamscole012@yahoo.com>
Date: 28 November 2012 17:06
To: [Our email address removed]
Subject: Flower Order!!!

Hello this is Williams Cole ,how you doing,i will like to order for 7 big bouquets flowers for my brother Wedding party and i want the price range of $250 per one Approximately 26″ W x 41″ H and the color should be in bright summer color, it will be pick up by a carrier agent on the 19th of December by 3 pm so can i have the total cost today so i can make the full payment with my credit card?/
Williams Cole

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What a loser!!