Our Florists Rock!

The ladies who work in our floral department are busy ladies at this time of year. They create endless amounts of fresh, beautiful arrangements and bouquets for the folks of Port Coquitlam. The next two weeks will bring many an evening engagement for most of us and our florists are here to help! Think of us when you’re heading out the door to dinner with the neighbours or friends. Every hostess appreciates fresh blooms tastefully arranged in chunky vases or simple bouquets ready to drop in her own containers. Our coolers are stuffed with a huge assortment of cut flowers and our staff are always ready to custom create lovely floral orders for you while you wait. You don’t need to go empty handed for dinner as long as we are here!

Fresh Greens

Arriving weekly now are bundles upon bundles of fresh greens and boughs ready for you to transform your homes to festive Christmas wonderlands! Choose from pine, cedar, balsam and fir boughs perfect for stuffing in pots outside or draping across mantles. Pine seems to have the most fragrance while cedar, because of its softer form, is easiest to shape. Also available to tuck in arrangements for added texture and color are blueberry twigs, holly stems and evergreen magnolia branches. It’s easy to combine these greens and create your own winter combinations. Fresh product will last indoors well for about 3 weeks (depending on the room temperature) and outdoors for many, many weeks!

Dormant Spraying

Winter spraying of fruit trees and roses can begin now to prevent overwintering of insect and fungal problems. Dormant Kits are typically used for this purpose. They are a combination of lime sulphur and horticultural oil. It is recommended spraying 3 times over the course of the winter. Space your applications 3-4 weeks apart and be sure to spray on a dry day that is above freezing. This provides a huge advantage to your 2013 growing season.

The Smell of Christmas

Paperwhites are a traditional Christmas flower perfect for adorning dining tables or anywhere else in your home. A variety of highly fragrant indoor narcissus, they come in white or yellow. You can purchase them potted up and ready to bloom or buy them in the bulb form and pot them up yourself to bloom in approximately 6 weeks. The already started varieties are usually the single bloom Paperwhite Inbal and the double bloom Paperwhite Erlicheer. If you would rather pot up your own, we stock Ziva (single white), Erlicheer (double creamy white), Inbal (single white), Chinese Sacred Lily (single white with yellow center) and Grand Soleil D’or (yellow with orange centers). Add these beauties to your indoor spaces for a fragrant touch of Christmas!