Happy Holidays!

To our extended Boulder Blooms family- a very heartfelt wish for a warm, safe, and happy holiday season for you all. Thank you for another great year in Boulder! Looking forward to another fabulous year full of exciting things- check back in January for more details.

Deck the halls!

We are just unpacking our FRESH holly from it's packaging! Teresa was lucky enough to find a small, locally-owned farm while out in Oregon cutting evergreens that grows holly.

We are extra excited about this grower because it is notoriously difficult to get fresh holly. Growers often start cutting their holly crops months in advance in order to meet the winter season's demand. This means that by the time the holly gets to us retailers, it's already months old. This holly was cut especially for us the same day it was shipped!

Holly, like other cut flowers and greens, can be damaged by the especially cold weather we've been experiencing lately. All of the arrangements we send out of the shop are wrapped (and sometimes double-wrapped!) to protect from the cold. If you are transporting flowers or plants and they will be outside even for a short while, remember to cover them as well as you can to prevent them from freezing! Plants are especially suspect to cold damage- even winter favorites like poinsettias.

Holly adds a wonderfully smooth texture to swags, wreaths, or vases of textural evergreens. The small red berries even add a touch of color! Simple vases or vessels that you might have laying around the house can be transformed into long-lasting seasonal centerpieces by adding even just a few boughs of douglas fir, cedar, and touches of holly.

Christmas Greens Are In!!!

Just came back from four days in Oregon, where I once again got to cut evergreens for the holidays.  It all started four years ago when I went to Oregon visiting family and doing decorations for them.  My sister turned me on to her friend's Christmas Tree farm.  I was so amazed by the quality of the fresh Douglas Fir and cedar that I wanted them for Boulder Blooms.  I've been going out every year since!

So when you order a holiday arrangement from us, know that they are fresh cut by me from Bernardi Farm in Beavercreek, Oregon. Oh yeah, and this year, I discovered a holly farm across the street from the Bernardis:  Beavercreek Holly Farm.  They pick the holly the day they ship.  How fresh is that! Teresa

Our New Delivery Vehicle!!!

Hey everyone! I am Sarah, and I will be writing some of Boulder Blooms blog postings from now on! I am a senior at CU, and being from Louisiana, I love beautiful flowers. One of my favorites that grows in Louisiana is hydrangea, and I love love love when we get them in the store. I've known Claire, who also works at Boulder Blooms, for the past 3 years, and I have worked here since the last June. Working with flowers is so much fun, and it smells delicious! I also love it here because everything we do is done with the environment in mind. As Boulder's eco-friendly florist, we thought we needed an eco-friendly delivery vehicle, so here it is...



Our new bicycle will be used to make flower deliveries to the CU campus and other businesses close to our location. When we use the bike, we love carrying extra flowers with us to give to the lovely people of Boulder. If you see us out on our bike, give us a shout (literally :) and we will give you some beautiful, fresh flowers to take home with you! If you don't see us around town, just give us a call and we will send you home with the freshest thing in Boulder!

Eco-Friendliness at Flower Shop Network

Just a quick update-

Check out this blog post that Flower Shop Network just posted about the crew at Boulder Blooms!

How Boulder Blooms Took Eco-Friendliness by Storm - By Brynn Jackson

Wedding at Lost Antler Ranch, Estes Park

August is here, and find ourselves well into wedding season. The weather has been beautiful and with all of the recent rain, things are looking especially lush.

This is a photo of Shannon setting up our Aspen Chuppa at a new venue- Lost Antler Ranch out in Estes Park. It is beautiful, and the staff there are a joy to work with!

Stephanie chose all locally-grown wildflowers for her wedding. They suited the venue just perfectly.



The below images are courtesy of Susan Pacek Photography. Thanks, Susan!

Eco-Cycling

Well, it seems that we are proud, new owners not only of a brand spankin’ new blog, but of a super shiny frame made of aluminum cans as well!

Boulder Blooms proudly accepted EcoCycle’s “Zero Waste Business of the Year” award in the category of “High Organic Processors” on Earth Day. We’re in good company, too; other businesses that took home awards include REI and Boulder Valley Credit Union.

Boulder Blooms’ history with EcoCycle goes back about five years. We are lucky enough to participate in their business composting Pilot program; they haul off more than 250 gallons of compost for us each WEEK! Yuck.After we were selected as finalists, Erin from EcoCycle came over to the shop to take some photos and learn a bit about us. We had two photo sessions with the folks from EcoCycle and a few interviews. After that, they posted the resulting video on their site for the general public to vote.



While we the votes were being counted, Amanda Long from the Society of American Florists picked up the story and ran an article in their magazine, Floral Management. By entering your name and email address, you can see the article here. We think this is a great way to reach out to an industry that’s been slow to jump on the green bandwagon.

The awards event kicked off a little before 4:00 on April 22nd- Earth Day. Spice of Life hosted the event at their beautiful Event Center. If you’ve never had the pleasure of sampling food prepared by Spice, you’re really missing out. Teresa and I agreed that the Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding hors d’oeuvre was the true unsung hero of the night. We did get down to business eventually, though. We heard some terrific speakers and learned so much- did you know that there is a market for more than 80% of the things we (as Americans) throw away? Someone will actually PAY for that stuff!

After a few awards were presented, it became painfully clear that if we were to win, Teresa and I would have to actually go up to the stage and give a speech. We hadn’t planned quite that far ahead. Fortunately, Teresa accepted our award far more eloquently than I would have- excited as I was!

Next time you're in the area, pop by and see our prize!

Springtime in Boulder!

Last Monday, Memorial Day, the Boulder Blooms crew got motivated and joined the thousands and thousands of people who participated in the Bolder Boulder 10K road race. We're not a terribly athletic bunch, and decided to walk the race... with large floral structures attached to our heads, of course.


We were psyched to learn that we'd be walking in the same wave as a group of "Leapfroggers"- an ambitious bunch who decided to- yup, you guessed it- leapfrog the length of the Bolder Boulder course. We're not sure how far they made it, but they were a fun crew!

Shannon's arrangement was dubbed the 'Veil of Illusion'. I'm fairly certain she'll hold a grudge against me for a while for making her wear twigs in her face.

Claire rocked a fun piece with electric-purple feathers, purple dendrobium orchid florets, bright green Fuji mums, and a spikey palm frond that gained her about a foot in height.

I stabbed myself in the skull repeatedly trying to put my arrangement together, but liked the look in the end.

Thankfully, the rain held out for us until the walk home. Thanks for cheering us on!