When you think of love, have you ever thought of sending flowers to a young couple that has recently announced their love to one another? Young love is great. It is exhilarating and it makes one feel like there is nothing in the world they cannot conquer. It is beautiful and full of promise. A person in love wants to celebrate it daily and shout it out across the world the love they are feeling. They want everyone to know just how great they are feeling. It is easy to acknowledge their happiness with a beautiful flower arrangement like the Love in Bloom Flower Bouquet. It is great to be in love, and great to be able to share that feeling with everyone, and it is even greater when you know others are happy for you. The recipient of the Love in Bloom Flower Bouquet will feel so special receiving this beautiful arrangement knowing that others are sharing in their joy. Love flowers do not need to be sent just to a lover, send them to someone just because they are in love too.

Simplicity in life is probably the purest form of beauty there is. Simplicity is clean, no confusion, just simple clean and clear. Simplicity in flowers can be as simple as a single rose or a flower arrangement that is done with just a single type of flower in a single color. The Simplicity Basket is a clear indication how something as simple as a single flower type of arrangement can be purely beautiful. Not everything in life needs to be flashy and full of color to be stunning.

If you want to show a pure emotion, think about doing it by keeping the message simple with a singular color and type of flower. The simplicity of it all will show the pureness of your thoughts and your feelings.

The Simplicity Basket can be made with your choice of color. The carnations that adorn this flower arrangement come in numerous colors so it will be easy to find just the perfect color to match your feelings you want to relay.

What are you thinking or feeling when you see a delivery person delivering flowers. Do you get excited in anticipation that they might be for you or envy whoever the recipient may be? Surprisingly, this is not abnormal for a man or a woman to feel. Who doesn’t like getting surprised with a gift from someone, feeling appreciated and thought of or loved? Everyone does – it is what makes us human. The enjoyment of receiving gifts is not simply a female thing – everyone loves a surprise gift.

BrantFlorist.com does not just cater to men ordering flowers for delivery to women; rather they get just as much business or women ordering delivery to men. As time passes, more and more women are stepping up to the plate and romancing their men as much as the expect their men to romance them. And what do you think these smart women are finding out? They have found out that by returning the love through affectionate surprise tokens of their love through flower and gift basket deliveries, they are receiving the romance back ten fold over.

There are many flower arrangements that can be done with a masculine feel that any man would appreciate receiving and safe bets are always any planted basket or gourmet candy, fruit, or coffee/tea baskets. But don’t be fooled for a minute in thinking a man wouldn’t secretly love getting a dozen roses. After all, they too love feeling loved.

Stuffed teddy bears are charming on their own, but add a beautiful bunch of flowers with an adorable teddy bear can really charm the heart of anyone. Did you have a favorite stuffed animal as a child? If you did, you know the sentiment it filled you with. Sending a gift of flowers with an adorable and charming teddy bear to that special someone in your life will fill them with that same eternally lasting sentiment. The Roses and Teddy Bear flower gift combination is a perfect way to show that special someone in your life that you want to give them the comfort of a teddy bear and fill their life with beauty such as flowers do. Visit Brant Florist and send the Roses and Teddy Bear flower gift combination to that special someone in your life and reap the benefits of their sentiments.

Did you know there are many things in your kitchen that can make your flower garden perk up and even prevent or cure diseases? Well it is true.. For example, that left over pickle juice in the bottom of the pickle jar when poured at the base of your gardenias stand up and take notice producing even bigger and brighter blooms!

This little tonic will help your roses blooming all summer long beautifully. Just mix a couple tablespoons of instant tea, a tablespoon of dry red wine, half a teaspoon of fish emulsion, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of iron ( you can get it at any garden center) in a gallon of warm water in a bucket and treat your rose bushes to a quart of the mixture every three weeks during the growing center and you will experience roses like you never have before!

Next spring when you start planting your annuals and perennials, give them a healthy energy boost and a great start by making a mixture of 1 cup of sugar, three cups of bone meal, and one cup of Epsom salt in an old bucket. Now, before planting your seedling, just sprinkle a pinch or so in the bottom of the hole and you will between last years plantings and your current flowers when they grow faster and stronger and provide more blooms!

Another cure for black mold I didn’t mention before comes in a cleaning solution mixture of 1 cup of antiseptic mouthwash, one cup of chamomile tea, and one cup of Murphy’s oil soap in a 20 gallon hose end sprayer. Spay down all your treasured beauties and repeat every two weeks through out the growing season and you will have the best looking flower beds around!

Do you have any flower secrets you would like to share with the readers? Feel free to do so here!

It makes you want to cry when you see your prime roses covered with black spots. What on earth is happening to your prize roses you ask. Black spot disease is yet another evil villain of our beloved flowers and another common fungal disease. And roses are its biggest victim.

The disease typically begins as black spots on the foliage. They are most prevalent on upper leaf surfaces, and may be up to ½″ across. The leaves will eventually turn yellow around the spots, then become all yellow and fall off. The spots may also appear on rose canes, appearing first purple and then turning black.

Again, the culprit for this disease is too wet of conditions for too long of a time frame. It only takes seven hours for infection to set in, so when watering your roses be sure to water early in the morning to give ample sun time for drying and avoid watering on known cloudy days. Also, make sure to water from the ground avoiding all foliage and flowers. Use proper spacing so your roses can get good circulation. These things will help to minimize the disease and or prevent it totally.

Black spot fungus overwinters in fallen leaves and infected canes. Prune out infections and rake the fallen leaves at the end of the season.

Rose varieties vary greatly in their resistance to black spot, so choose resistant ones. If this information is not indicated on plant labels, you can research the variety online or check with experts at your local nursery. Several of the shrub roses show resistance to black spot—and powdery mildew. Many of the other shrub roses and old-fashioned roses are resistant as well.

To help control black spot disease, dust roses infected with black spot with sulfur powder. Sulfur will not kill the fungus spores, but it will prevent a new generation from germinating. You can also use a spray solution of 1 tsp. baking soda mixed in 1 qt. warm water in the early morning hours on your roses foliage. In addition, when your plants are in the dormant season, spray your roses with a dormant oil or Bordeaux mixture.

Oh, we have all been there – wondering of a certain male likes us the same way we like them. Just as hard as it is for men to figure out women, the same goes for women figuring out men… no matter what the age.

Here is a sure fire way to find out just how that guy you have been eying feels about you – send him flowers!

Yes, you read that right… send a man flowers. His reaction will give you all the answers you need! And the best thing about sending flowers to a male interest is that even if he wasn’t totally into you yet – the gift of flowers could very well be the thing that turns his attention directly on you!

Flowers are fun and they can express whatever you want them to express, but one thing they will always show is you thought of the person and cared enough to express that thought by sending flowers.

If you just want to get a guys attention, flowers are a great ice breaker! Use the power of flowers to flirt and read just what your interest desires are. You cannot ever go wrong sending flowers!

Baskets and Baskets of wicker baskets of flowers can be found on the Brant Florist website. Why, – because who doesn’t like getting big beautiful baskets of flowers. Not only are the flowers such a welcomed gift, but like in the Daisy Dreams Basket by Teleflora pictured above, once the flowers have ran their time, you are left with a beautiful basket to use for whatever you dream.

Giving a basket of flowers is like giving someone a basket full of joy. The Daisy Dreams Basket full of flowers is full of beautiful pink and yellow roses, white daisy spray chrysanthemums and Million Star gypsophila and adorned with a bright pink bow.

This is just one of the many gorgeous baskets of flowers you can send a loved one. Here are just a few more but feel free to browse the BrantFlorist website and see how many basket of flowers you can find!

Planter Basket with Mixed Plants by Brant

Flourishing Garden Flower Basket

Blushing Beauty Basket of Flowers

Flowers are lovely, soft, gentle, passionate, and pure, like a first kiss ever – one you will never forget. That is the power of flowers. Their softness and pureness is what attracts everyone who looks at them. The touch, the feel, the elegance of flowers embrace a soul just like a first kiss.

A gift of flowers is like falling in love without lips never touching but yet can be the very thing that leads to that unforgettable first kiss. If you are looking to initiate that first kiss, begin it with a gift of flowers, the kiss will be just moments away.

School’s out for the summer, accept for those who attend year round school, but the majority of students are running free for the next couple months. Besides being out of school for the summer, there are many things to excite and delight us – cook outs, family reunions, pool or beaches, and the beauty of flowers blooming all around us! Colors are popping out everywhere, flowers in the garden, at special occasions (weddings, baby showers, reunions, parties, etc..) and even possibly around your town as many towns accent corners, parks, etc with flowers. Why, because they are beautiful and appealing and well, they just make a town look friendlier! (Does your town accent with flowers? Feel free to take pictures and share them with us on the Brant Florist Facebook FanPage wall!)

The greatest thing about summer time is the abundance of different flowers that come into bloom! Here is my question to you – What is your TOP TEN FAVORITE FLOWERS of Summer and why.

My list would have to go as follows in no particular order of most favorite (just as I think of them):

Rose: Well I guess the rose because it is June’s flower and also because there are so many varieties and colors. My favorite color of rose would have to be yellow.

Daisies!: Daisies have always been one of my most favorite flowers. I just love the pure innocence they seem to deliver and carefree attitude of them.

Marigolds and Zinnias: I have to pick these two and put them into one because marigolds and zinnias were the first flowers I had ever planted as a child and still to date will always have them somewhere in my garden. It is just a tradition now.

Hydrangeas: One of the first flowering plants I received from my mother (blue hydrangea). I feel madly in love with it!

Sunflowers: Big and small, I love sunflowers. The big ones because I can enjoy their magnificence in the summer and feed the birds in the winter. The smaller sunflowers because they make great cut flowers for floral arrangements for my kitchen!

Dahlias: Have you seen them? They are gorgeous! Need I say more!?

Phlox: All kinds, all colors – phlox just complete a flowerbed! They also make great cut flowers for floral arrangements!

Carnations: Make for terrific cut flowers for arrangements! Can be grown in a large variety of colors, but to be honest, my luck on growing carnations have not been the best so I will leave that to order when I want some for a floral arrangement!

Morning Glory: I love the morning glory for an easy carefree vine to grow. It adds a ton of color to any trellis!

Gladioli: Galdioli’s are one of the longest lasting flowers of the summer flowers so a definite must have in flowerbeds were some flowers die out sooner to keep the color flowing!

I could list a ton more, but thought 10 was a good place to stop. Now it is your turn – list your 10 top favorite flowers and why.