A Lesson in Our Eco-Friendly Floral Tools

As you all know, we pride ourselves in being Boulder's eco-friendly florist. There are certain basic tools that we use on a daily basis to create our arrangements: vases, floral clippers, scissors, loppers, compostable wax tissue paper, recyclable BlumeBoxes, and the list can go on and on! Here is a glance at some of our behind-the-scenes, eco-friendly tools that we use.

Sweet Huckleberry Instead of Tape
One of the tools that florists often use is tape. Usually it is used to make a grid like pattern on top of a wide-mouthed vase to make working with flowers easier. This grid pattern makes the flowers stay in place when making the arrangement. At Boulder Blooms we do not use tape for this purpose. Instead, we use Sweet Huckleberry, which comes from the North-West. The branches are very jagged, and they get tangled really easily. We wrap it together and place it inside our vases. When we arrange the flowers, the branches of the Sweet Huckleberry are a great source of tension for the flower stems, so they stay in place. We also love to use Sweet Huckleberry as foliage to give some arrangements a sophisticated, edgy look. Best of all, the Sweet Huckleberry is compostable.

Horsetail Instead of Plastic Pitchforks
When you receive a flower arrangement from most florists, you will usually notice a plastic pitchfork that holds the card with your arrangement. You won't see those in a Boulder Blooms arrangement! We use stems of horsetail as our "pitchforks". Horsetail is a type of grass, and it usually grows along the banks of riverbeds. We have even seen it growing along Boulder Creek! It is sometimes grown in organic gardens to attract dragonflies. We cut a slit in the horsetail and that's where we put our cards. We feel they are better than the plastic pitchforks because they are eco-friendly, compostable, and it blends in with the arrangement.

Reduce, Reuse, Re-vase Tags

At Boulder Blooms, one of our main focuses of being eco-friendly is reusing everything we can. This includes the vases we send to you! So, one of our eco-frindly "tools" is to get the community involved in being green as well. We have a program that allows you to return your cleaned, Boulder Blooms vases and we will give you $5 worth of flowers in return. Pretty cool, huh? We think so! Check out the tag that comes in your arrangement, and feel free to bring us back your vase. We would love to reuse it if we can!