While you’re at the Florist Mercantile Company new website make sure to check out all their sparkly, glittery, and shiny Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves they have to offer as the fashion world has spoken and sparkle is the must have this year. Check out some of what Floral.today has seen from these collections and then make sure to add them to your shops offerings for your consumers.
From Zuhair Murad Spring Summer Collection to Chanel we are seeing a great variety of sparkle happening in high-end fashion design this year, so why not grab some of these great Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves and stay on top of trends.
Florist Mercantile Company – Event Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves
Zuhair Murad Spring/Summer 2015 Couture An Evocation of Water ( Photo property of SENATUS net)
Chanel Spring/Summer 2015 (Video Property of Chanel)
Florist Mercantile Company – Mixed Glitter, Holographic & Metal Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves
Go check out Florist Mercantile Company’s new website and tell them what you think!
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today social media pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Come show us your skills!
Available Positions at Florist Mercantile Company
All inquires can contact Florist Mercantile Company on their Facebook or at their New Website!
4 Regional Directors
Multiple Reps for Each State
Also Looking For Distributors
Thanks for joining us this #FloralFriday and we hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day week next week!
We have been through every Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve Florist Mercantile Company graciously sent to us and had a hard but fun time cutting them all down to our top 30 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Thank you again to Joe and Daniel of Florist Mercantile Company for the wonderful opportunity of experiencing their new Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. We here at floral.today look forward to all the great products that Florist Mercantile Company has to offer to the industry in the coming months. Don’t forget to check out the link below for contests and giveaways!
Check out our #FloralFriday video to see how to apply these wonderful sleeves again and check out some some designs in a few of our top shrink wrap decorative vase sleeve choices.
Check out all of Floral.today’s top shrink wrap decorative vase sleeves and designs, then tell us what you think below.
Top 30 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve Picks
White Hearts Blue Sky
White Hearts Blue Sky Sleeve
White Hearts Blue Sky Sleeve – Blue Hydrangea – White Midollino – Steel Grass
Red Coral
Red Coral Sleeve
Red Coral Sleeve – Free Spirit Roses – Japanese Spirea
Pop Art Cats
Pop Art Cats Sleeve
Pop Art Cats Sleeve – Free Spirit Roses – Purple Dendrobium Orchids – Steel Grass – Small Monstera
Melrose Blue & Green
Melrose Blue & Green Sleeve
Melrose Blue & Green Sleeve – Bromeliad Plant
Rainbow
Rainbow Sleeve
Rainbow Sleeve – Blue Hydrangea – Free Spirit Roses – Japanese Spirea
Carol FullerKelly Fuller LoganFuller's Floral And Gift Shoppe
Gap, PA
Carol Fuller - "We have received so many more members to our groups do to Joe's wonderful sponsorship for our design contest at Florist to Florist. Joe came forward with this product and it was so innovative, so of corse wanted to be involved. Our goal is to hit the mom and pop stores that want something unique to offer their customers."
Kelly Fuller Logan - "It's the perceived value that the sleeves give the vase. The little customer can feel just as important as the high-end customer with how the sleeves change the look of the vase."
"It is unreal how nice Joe is! He is changing the face of what the floral industry can provided, and we are very please to be involved with this product."
Best Mom Ever
Best Mom Ever Sleeve
Best Mom Ever Sleeve – Blue Hydrangea – Free Spirit Roses – Purple Dendrobiums – Japanese Spirea
Design By Jamie Hindley AIFD, CFD in the Industrial FMC 3026 Vase Sleeve
"I like the natural sleeves because you get the look of an expensive vase without the price."
"One the sleeves are on the glass, they look completely different and really good."
Baby Blue Damask
Baby Blue Damask Sleeve
Baby Blue Damask Sleeve – Blue Hydrangea – Free Spirit Roses – Purple Dendrobiums Orchids – Oasis Mega Beaded WIre
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today social media pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Come show us your skills!
Available Positions at Florist Mercantile Company
All inquires can contact Florist Mercantile Company on their Facebook or at their New Website!
4 Regional Directors
Multiple Reps for Each State
Also Looking For Distributors
Thanks for joining us this #FloralFriday and a super special thank you to Florist Mercantile Company for bring Floral.today the amazing Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Make sure to go follow the Florist Mercantile Company’s social media as they release more products this year. Share with us your favorites or what you would change about the designs and sleeves from today!
Can you guess what todays blog is about? It’s all about the many Florist Mercantile Company, Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve collections today! With all the sleeves we have experienced here at Floral.today we haven’t even gotten to see all 250. With such a wide variety you can find any style, consumer preference or personal appeal. Enjoy and make sure to share with us what your stand outs are.
Christian Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve Collection
Guardian Angels FMC 3020
Stained Glass Cross FMC 3055
Stained Glass Jesus FMC 3056
Stained Glass Virgin Mary FMC 3057
Tuscan Angel FMC 3062
What do you think?
Now that you have seen a large variety of the Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves what are your thoughts? Of all the collections we have shown you what gets your attention the most? What we have shown you is just a taste of all there is available from the 250 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Make sure to ask Florist Mercantile Company about their School Sleeves!
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today social media pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Come show us your skills!
Join us tomorrow for the Floral.today’s Over-all Top Picks for #FloralFriday.
Mother’s Day is Sunday, March 15th in the UK and Sunday, May 10th this year and you can never be to prepared once Valentines Day is over. How do you or your shop plan to make your Mother’s Day vases stand out? Here are some of Floral.today’s top Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve picks for Mother’s Day from Florist Mercantile Company! Tell us what you think of our picks or what you would choose to use from the 250 Florist Mercantile Company, Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve selection for Mother’s Day.
Our Top Mother’s Day Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves!
We had fun with this collection as with a new generation of moms looking for something more fun and unique versus traditional we think floral.today picked out some great Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves for you! From simple traditional lattice to fun cookie prints you can find almost everything you could ever want.
Top 10 Mother’s Day Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves
We found you our Top 10 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves for mother’s day and hope you are able to find something you like. Floral.today went through all the mom’s close to us and found a vase sleeve for each individual taste and personality. One of the major points floral.today also focused on is the use after the holiday. It never hurts to have a holiday specific vase sleeve but those that can carry into the rest of the year are what we think makes the difference in the success of a sleeve.
Modern Design in Pop Art Cats FMC 3046 Product Used: Free Spirit Roses, Small Monstera Leaves, Steel Grass, Bright Green Dyed Moss, Oasis Foam
Pop Art Cats FMC 3046
Everybody at Floral.today is absolutely in love with Pop Art Cats. As Garrett’s mom now has Toby, her ‘Pet Child’, since his siblings and him have moved out we went straight to this one. This is for the mom that is of a new generation, she is all about the fun and quirky or an animal lover. The great thing about this sleeve is it’s versatility with color, season, or design. What do you think of the Pop Art Cats Sleeve?
Fun Circles FMC 3019
The Fun Circles sleeve made it into the top ten due to it’s versatility again. With the pastel colors but interesting design this sleeve can be used for traditional everyday, multiple holidays, and multiple personalities. Floral.today see this as a quite, traditional mom that enjoys a slightly unique design but still traditional colors so it isn’t to crazy or overwhelming.
Camo Pink FMC 3012
To be completely honest most of us here at floral.today were like hmmmm when first had seen this vase sleeve and then with less than five seconds of discussing it we went straight to Garrett’s sister Kayla and multiple of our floral designers in the industry that love hunting and the sort. Kayla has been in the military and runs a top of the line tactical arms company and as a new mom we instantly new she would love this. The second person we thought of was one of our Floral.today aunts that will be having this pink camo placed throughout her wedding. With the large variety of vases, the Camo Pink sleeve shows you can find about anything for your area or your type of consumers.
Carol Fuller and Kelly Fuller LoganFuller's Floral and Gift Shoppe
Gap, PA
What is your favorite sleeve right now?Carol - "Wood and naturals, those are the ones to me that say class and you can do a nice traditional in them with out them going out of style."
Kelly - "Right now I'm savoring the glitzy, glittery solids, you can do pretty much any design in them."
Best Mom Ever FMC 3002
Modern Design in Best Mom Ever FMC 3002 Flowers Used: Free Spirit Roses, Japanese Spirea, Dark Purple Dendrobium Orchids, Blue Hydrangea
For a traditional Mother’s Day sleeve we really enjoy the cookie print Best Mom Ever sleeve. The quality of the image makes you want to touch the cookies. Floral.today likes this sleeve because you can design traditional and non-traditional Mother’s Day very easily. Being that the words are done in cookies makes this sleeve unique and different than anything available for upselling. What would you design in the Best Mom Ever vase sleeve?
What have been your favorite vase sleeve so far from the Florist Mercantile Company? With how quickly you can apply the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves and the quality of the sleeves this is hands down the best new thing to hit the market for your shop to try out today. Make sure to enter into the giveaway and contest for a chance to try out the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves today!
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today social media pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. Come show us your skills!
Get excited as we bring Collections Thursday for those that are waiting for something more reserved and traditional, religious, or even more unique in your Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve styles.
Today Floral.today is going to be bring you a quick blog sharing with you some insight about Florist Mercantile Company, it’s owners and some of their content so far. Florist Mercantile Company is also hiring, so make sure to check that part of the post out if your looking for something more to do in the industry. Then to finish it all off we are going to be ending with the design contest and giveaway information again so you don’t miss out!
Property of Florist Mercantile Company
As of right now Florist Mercantile Company is releasing their Made in America Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve for the 7 1/4″x3 1/4″ cylinder vase. The Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve is patented and has patents pending and you can expect a lot more with the development of the 36″, 48″ and 72″ On Decorative Roll Shrink Wrap for multiple sized vases and containers along with a variety of unique candles coming soon.
These Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve are super easy to apply as you can see below and you can even combined different designs on each other to create your own unique sleeves. The other great thing about Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve is that they have been cooler tested and heat tested so you can trust the product in all coolers and up to 180′ temperatures without the product coming off or having issues at all. The printing is done along the inside so you won’t have to worry about the sleeve tearing, rubbing off or sticking to other vases and ruining your sleeves.
These can be hand-washed and on top of all the other great things about the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves, there are 250 designs to choose from.
How to Apply a Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve
The owners of Florist Mercantile Company and minds behind the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve are Joe Colvin and Daniel Hastings of Houston, TX. After spending 24+ years developing products for the Floral and Home and Garden Industries, Joe and Daniel were sick of the headaches and started their quest to create their own product.
One the quest of creating their own products they focused on some keys aspects to their products and that was as American-Made as possible, something specifically for the floral industry and above all a high quality product to meet the standards of what florist want. With this criteria the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeve has been born after many long hours and we bet many different designs.
Property of Florist Mercantile Company
Both Joe and Daniel have put much on the line to bring you a good quality product. With their personal finances and life tied to this product they have made sure to create you, the floral designer, a product you will want and at a quality and price that you are able to appreciate and sell easily. We have only spoken with Joe multiple time but they go out of their way to make sure their customer service is perfect and you are satisfied.
When Floral.today asked John of JR's Florist and Greenhouse out of Ball, LA
"Could give us a short comment on the company or product"
and
"Which sleeve was your favorite so far"
All he had to say was,
"Fantastic! Wonderful!"
"I don't have a favorite, all of the containers are wonderful and have a purpose."
SOme Mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves
Available Positions at Florist Mercantile Company
All inquires can contact Florist Mercantile Company on their Facebook or at their New Website!
4 Regional Directors
Multiple Reps for Each State
Also Looking For Distributors
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today social media pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 vase wraps. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Vase Wraps. Come show us your skills!
Check back here tomorrow when we show you our top Mother’s Day sleeves!
What better way to start off the week than by bringing you a new industry product, right? We have for you the new Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves from the Florist Mercantile Company all week long for you to experience and hopeful take for a test drive!
Floral.today started off a little apprehensive with the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves when Joe first approached us with them but as this product has been created to entice many different types of personality and taste we and found numerous wraps that we instantly knew we had to have.
Floral.today’s Top Valentine’s Day Picks
These Florist Mercantile Company wraps come in 250+ designs, will soon be able to fit most any size vase, and focuses on being American-Made. With the use of the 7 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ American-Made cylinder vase you can showcase about every kind of design you could ever think of and Florist Mercantile Company is still expanding as you read this to have more sizes available, on the roll for any size or shape projects, and even unique candles.
Some of Floral.today’s favorite Valentine’s Day Vase Wraps.
One of Floral.today’s top Valentine’s Day Vase Wrap ‘LOVE’ FMC 3032. The layered hearts give us a fluffy/pillowy feel.
One of Floral.today’s top Valentine’s Day Vase Wrap Cluster Hearts FMC 3118. Each heart gives of a nice metallic sheen on a solid white background.
Of the whole Valentine’s Day collection we only dismissed two out of them all due to simple things such as font choice or for being to busy and in our opinion taking to much away from the overall arrangement. That said you can find so many out of the collection that our personal two we didn’t prefer shouldn’t affect the over all collection or your personal choices.
As of right now the wraps can be purchased in packs but the great thing is you can order them mixed or as a pack of one type. Here is the break down of the pricing.
Pricing
(Contact Joe Colvin at Florist Mercantile Company with any questions at 830-282-9514 9-5ct or visit the Florist Mercantile Company Facebook page)
WholesaleShrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves & Pre-Wrapped Vases Available
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Contact About Pricing Today!
For American Made Vase Information Contact:Libby Glass Company - 419-325-2100
Ask for Local Distributors with the 7 1/4" x 3 1/4" Cylinder Vase.
Dollar Tree - 1-877-530-8733
-Orders can be placed in bulk
- Can be delivered to your shop or picked up in the closest store.
-Glass is of a higher quality than offered in most floral markets. (We were surprised this was true)
Florist Mercantile Company can help you in the best direction also if you have any issues.
Right now if you visit the Florist to Florist Facebook Group, they are hosting the Florist Mercantile Vase Wrap Design Contest with a prize of $500 dollars and 100 vase wraps. Check out all the details to enter for a chance to win the $500 dollars and those 100 Florist Mercantile Company Vase Wraps. Come show us your skills!
One of Floral.today’s favorite Valentine’s Day wrap RED GLITTER HEARTS FMC 3117. We love the depth of the multiple red color hearts alone and then even more with the sparkle.
Free Spirit Roses, Red Tree Fern, Steel Grass, Small Monstera Leaves in one of Floral.todays favorite Vase Wraps, RED GLITTER HEARTS FMC 3117.
Also make sure you check our youtube video to see Floral.today wrap their own vase and show you how easy this product is to use!
**Giveaway**
For those that subscribe to or like any of the Florist Mercantile or Floral.today Social Media Pages you will be entered into a drawing to receive either pre-wrapped Florist Mercantile Company vases and/or mixed Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves. The winners must be located in the US or Canada. The winner will be chosen with a random picker at Random.org to keep the drawing fair.
Check back here tomorrow to get to know the Florist Mercantile Company and it’s owner a bit better and see some of the Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves collections and sets that they offer. We will also have Mother’s Day Vase Wraps on Wednesday and our Must Have at All Time! Shrink Wrap Decorative Vase Sleeves for #FloralFriday. So share with us and Florist Mercantile Company what you think of these wraps and remember to tell us when you try these great wraps out.
Occasion! Founder and CEO Annette Kunz has promised Floral.today and all of you our followers once in a lifetime opportunity with skill and expertise that these designers will be presenting this year. All have graced industry media in some way or have established themselves as some of the very best the industry has to offer. Make sure to check out Occasion! which is one of the leading opportunities to find top international presentations, study abroad programs and workshops in the world.
This Years Occasion! San Francisco Flower and Garden Show Designer Schedule!
Wedding Lecture Demonstration:Dream Flowers
March 22nd, 3:30pm
Price: $40.00 - SFFG show admission not included.
As someone that has personal been to a Björn Kroner class, floral.today can honestly say any of these presenters are going to be a once in a lifetime learning opportunity. You can find all the information at the Occasion! Website for each show. Tickets can be purchased at the Occasion! Website and also the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show Website but get them soon so you don’t miss out on anything! Thank you Occasion! and Annette Kunz for offering this wonderful opportunity and we look forward to the future that Occasion! is offering to our industry.
When was the last time you took the time to sit and evaluate your business? That’s exactly what we did at the 2015 Canadian Florist Business Forum and it was a great day of networking and great business presentations shown in attention grabbing ways.
Most floral business owners usually sigh and avoid business presentations since they instantly think it’s going to be boring and way to unexciting but the Canadian Florist Magazine does a great job providing speakers that can take business programs and have a little fun with it or present it in a way that gets you excited to try their suggestions in your own business. This year had Star Wars and flying oranges all while having amazing business building information being presented. So we hope you enjoy some tidbits from our fun floral adventure to Mississauga, ON for the 2015 Canadian Florist Business Forum!
Attendees during a networking break between speakers.
Farm To Canada wasn’t just showing off their amazing hydrangeas and organic roses but also giving away a box of these amazing hydrangeas to one lucky attendee! Next to the organic roses we were living for the amazing mixed tropical bouquets, especially the tropical bouquet with miniature bananas.
Neville MacKay designed for Smithers-Oasis throughout the breaks and lunch to showcase different Smithers-Oasis products with interesting ways to use or manipulate them.
Neville MacKay took the time to discuss all the Smithers-Oasis products and hand out a few sample for attendees to get familiar with.
One of the amazing pieces from the Staallduinen Floral booth showing off dutch flowers. We enjoyed the depth and texture throughout the whole design.
The Floral Express setting up their booth with some great mixed bouquets.
Floral.today had a great time at this years Canadian Florist Business Forum and truly enjoyed doing our presentation on “SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE BUSY FLOWER SHOP”. We took away a better understand about search engine marketing from Ryan Freeman of Strider Search MarketingandFlorist 2.0‘s fun Star Wars themed presentation, know more about risk management in the work place from the informative talk by Pete Karageorgos from the Insurance Bureau of Canada and got a way better understanding of plant care and maintenance all while catching oranges if you answered a question correctly (Mr. Daum is from Florida) with Steven Daum of Floralife and Superflor Technologies. Once we have it done for the website we will post our presentation from the forum so watch for it and make sure to plan to be at this fantastic and though provoking event that is the Canadian Florist Business Forum.
Thank you to the Canadian Florist Magazine and their staff for including Floral.today’s Garrett as one of their speakers for this awesome event. Also a huge thank you to Floral.today follower Rita Quayle of Flower Workshop for taking me on a floral adventure to the flower auction, her wonderful wholesaler and her shop. A super thank you also to Rita and her staff for creating me flowers to wear for my presentation as we are flower people and should take every opportunity to wear them when we can. My last thank you is to Joseph Delarge for showing us the beautiful city of Toronto and his amazing shop Eco|Stems. Check the Floral.today Facebook for all the photos from our adventures!
What a week for starting off the new year with amazing inspiration! Check out some of these fantastic youtube videos filled with floral inspiration, education and great design goal makers.
Who couldn’t love all the amazing designs done at the 2015 Rose Bowl Parade? For those that didn’t have friends working on the floats, luckily you have J Schwanke of UBloom.com to take you on an up-close and personal tour of the Kit Cat’s American Grown float this year!
Some our favorite things we took away from the video.
– The amount of people willing to volunteer at an event such as this.
– The unwavering support that American companies can show to each other.
– Large-scale design doesn’t just have to be big ball arrangements or tons of product just thrown on top of each other en masse.
Who doesn’t get excited when they see the words Hitomi Gilliam along with Mechanics and Techniques? Hitomi has us follow along as on her journey of transparency with florals. We are learning a unique way of creating an armature with flow, depth and texture using a limited amount of product in an very high impacting way.
Our favorite parts!
– “Let it happen naturally” Being someone that doesn’t love the mass design or ball of flowers, this is will be on repeat in our heads when it comes to our designs now.
– Using flowers and not just willow or branches for the armature structure creates more interest and tests the limits of a flower’s ability.
– Proper proportions to create the illusion of designing in stones.
– Enhancing florals that have hardier blooms such as crespedia to create greater interest.
– Knowing proper elements and principles of designs to elevate your designs into something above the basic everyday design.
What a start for the 2015 Mayesh Design StarBeth O’Reilly! Nothing is better than a fresh take on a mass design and Beth gives the anything-but-interesting mass design a fun and intriguing upgrade with this 2-D floral framed sculpture.
What we learned the most.
– The importance of depth and texture, especially in a 2-D design.
– Some older mechanics such as chicken wire are still the best and you can’t go very far without good mechanics.
– Using high quality product is key to a successful design such as the Mayesh Awesome Blossoms.
– Don’t fear going to the hardware store and being inspired with new tools and hardgoods.
– Schedule to attend the Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition next year for inspiration and even more floral exploration!
– Don’t be afraid to take a few cuttings from the plants in your shop.
– Using proper and professional design terms and names elevates your design and creates a higher valued design.
– Find value in your foliages and use them as more than a foam cover.
What has already inspired you in the new year? Make sure to share your thoughts with us about these videos and tell us what inspired you. Also make sure to go show all these designers your support and subscribe to their channels to be updated when they post more amazing videos. We here at Floral.today hope your year is starting off with a bang and you are working hard towards your floral resolutions!
What are their goals and hopes for the future of their products?
How does this change the playing field for floral foam and organic floral products for the future?
We had the pleasure to attend the Floral Soil Solutions Webinar December 9th with the CEO/Founder Mikey Blake and moderated by Outdoor Living Expert, Debra Prinzing. It was great to be invited to see where this product is going and what their future plans are for the floral industry and organic, natural products. Floral Soil Solution is the new kid on the block that is developing 100% natural plant based floral soil, hard foam and containers. This is not the first time that someone has brought a product such as this to the industry but this is the first time it’s near perfect.
Floral Soil
Nontoxic
100% Plant Based
USDA Certified Organic & Biobased
100% Traceable
Able to Propagate Seed and Plant
Goals
Safe enough to eat
Nontoxic
Bio Based
Biodegradable
Grow Seed
Hold Water
Design for the next life first
Restorative after disposal
Circular Life Cycle
What That All Means
Nontoxic– Human, Environmental and Global recognized to only contain plant products.
100% Plant Based –Created out of coconut husk and renewable plant extracts
USDA Certified Organic and Biobased–100% Naturally based, Meets all EPA requirements
100% Traceable – You can follow the life the produce from start to finish to start again with a Circular Life Cycle or a IERE Life Cycle Assessment from start of product extraction to recycling and waste management.
Propragatable – Seeds and plants can be planted into the product and grow from it.
Under Development
Natural Dry Flower Foam – To create silk, artificial and permanent botanical arrangements. Mickey and her team are working on this product to be 100% naturally based and on the same lines of their new floral soil.
100% Plant Containers US & EU Certified Biodegradable & Compostable Containers – The title says it all, a container that floral.today thinks is going to be able to fit the Circular Life Cycle and most definitely the IERE Life Cycle. A plant based container line that will be 100% natural plant material and if your customer tosses it, the container will not take 100% to break down.
Our Final Thoughts
Competition – In a part of the industry that has a strong floral foam oligopoly, it’s refreshing to see a new kid on the block bring something new to the stage of floral containers and foam. I will always use Smithers-Oasis and Chrysal because they have other great products but as the world is always looking for the next best thing I think it’s time for this new floral soil to come into the industry and impress us.
Organic and Biobased – Knowing florists that have respiratory issues and other major health issues, the use of Black Carbons, Barium Sulfates, and Formaldehyde on any level used in floral foams makes us weary. Not only does it give the industry a healthier option, it also pushes the other floral industry providers to up their game in make our industry cleaner and healthier.
What’s Not to Love – Floral Soil Solutions has a Design Competition running right now to showcase you the designers and to let the industry not just experience this new product but also play with it to help them find what you the designer think needs to be changed or adjusted. We can’t wait to get our paws on some here at floral today to see what it’s like! This product can also be used in the industry for more than just designing, so you can try planting in them to see how your willow or seeds grow.
So what do you think of this new soil? You can always check out the Floral Soil Solutions website to see floral designs and a ton more information on what this interesting company is up to. We look forward to trying the soil out and are intrigued by their under-development containers. Are you looking forward to what Floral Soil Solutions is doing?
Till Next Time,
