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What astonishes everyone about a flower is its fragrance. There are different flower fragrances as there are different flowers. But do you exactly know where flower colours come from? What makes a flower its distinctive colour?

Flower colours of red, pink, blue and purple come mainly from the pigments called anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are water soluble pigments in the class of chemicals called flavanoids, which are phenolics. Anthocyanins are found in the cell vacuoles and are glucosides meaning they contain a sugar molecule. A classic experiment uses the anthocyanins in red cabbage as a pH indicator because anthocyanins change colour depending on the pH. You could do the same thing with flower petals. An easy way is to crush a red rose petal on a white plate with the back of a spoon and add either vinegar (acid) or baking soda (alkali) and note the colour change. A college lab manual has an experiment on chromatography of flower anthocyanins. Flowers may also contain another class of pigments called carotenoids, which are responsible for red in tomato and orange in carrot root.

At www.flowers24hours.co.uk you can place your order for high quality flowers. We offer you a large variety of flowers to choose from – roses, tulips, daisies (gerberas), orchids, lilies, calla lilies, bird-of-paradise (strelitzia) to name a few. You can find pure bouquets in various colours, or mixed artistic creations. Flowers24Hours is a London based flower delivery service providing direct delivery (no middleman) anywhere in London and the UK.

The first autumn flowers are beginning to become available. A few of the popular christmas bloomers are putting up the first buds.

Its a great time of year with late blossoming roses and amaryllis about to be both available at the same time! Gold and red flowers together are a seasonal favourite, giving warmth to a room. Why not call our florists and ask them to make you an arrangement or bouquet with deep dark red velvety roses combined with yellow gold highlights to make a contrast with the grey skies and shorter days of autumn.

FAQ’s are the questions very frequently asked by our customers. These questions are answered according to our product and services displayed at our site. There are several good reasons why you should have properly updated FAQ’s.

• FAQ clears out any confusion your customer might have about buying your product and services. Keep in mind, a confused person always says no.
• FAQ lets the customer grab key information quickly.
• It creates a better impression with your buyers because you’re acknowledging that their time is precious and they must be answered quickly.
• FAQ saves time. The more answer is provide at the website, the less customer emails you’ll get asking the same questions over and over.

Before writing an FAQ, do through some research. Think about your favourite websites and frame some questions you might ask about their products or services. Another useful research technique is to ask some good friends or customers to give their feedback on your products or services. What questions popped into their minds when they visited your website. www.flowers24hours.co.uk is one such website, which provides the customer with satisfactory answers to all their questions asked. We understand the need of all our customers so we have a well maintained FAQ segment and blog section. Simply visit our site or our FAQ section you if ever need any answer to your question.

The purpose of FAQ’s is to provide the internet users with quick and easy references or answers to their queries. Your company provides many product and service to the customers. This product may require lots of instructions to assemble, tips to use efficiently, or simply requires lots of questions to be answered before it can be used. What are the options? Provide a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list on your website, OR write a FAQ Blog. What will a FAQ Blog achieve that a simple FAQ List on your website cannot achieve.

FAQ Blog may be designed to answer one Frequently Asked Question per day in great details and is properly categorised for easy access. Answer may include some other tips and tricks useful for your customers. This approach can help your customers to become power users of your product / service and in turn become your emissary to the prospective customers. We are a UK based online florist and offer a wide variety of fresh flowers like roses, lilies, tulip and gerberas and many others. We deliver flowers anywhere in London and UK within 24 hours. We have a well maintained FAQ segment to answer all your floral related needs. Visit us at www.flowers24hours.co.uk for more information on our FAQ and services.

Growers in the Russian resion of Penza have set up a new rose growing operation with the advice of a Dutchman.

They started eight years ago with two square kilometres of growing area. By the year 2010 it will occupy 300 hectares and the harvest will grow from today’s 30,000 flowers to 200,000 per day.

Russia is looking to the considerable financial gain they can make, due to the enormous profitability of the flower business. Some people will always be buying flowers, with statistics showing they’re spending hundreds of dollars each year on the latest bouquets.

Bunches are sent to a number of Russia’s big cities - from Chelyabinsk to Moscow and St Petersburg, and are also sent to the country’s closest neighbours.

But head of sales Svetlana Potyemina says the main aim is to corner the European market.

The world’s current top producers are Ecuador. “First we can squeeze them out of Russia’s markets and then go to conquer their own”, Potyemina says. With so much concern for green sourcing of goods we will be buying from a nearer market and saving pollution.

I enjoy my day working as a driver for Flowers24hours.co.uk It gets me out and about all over London, and sometimes further afield. But there is one less than carefree aspect to the work: parking tickets!

If you feel that these are unfairly issued you can and should contest them.

I have picked up a few parking tickets when I have been on delivery, even with a notice on the windscreen saying “Flower Delivery - back in minutes” and hazard lights flashing, sitting on a single yellow line with no kerb marks.

So what to do then?

Firstly make sure that you reply to the ticket promptly making it clear that you were not parked but on a delivery. Add copies of delivery sheets with times and signatures to back up your case. Keep a copy of everything together in a folder where you can find it. Any emails should be sent with “read acknowledgment” switched on.

Make clear in your representation why you are appealing the ticket (In our case usually because we were delivering and not parked) If the parking restrictions are not clear, perhaps broken up by roadworks or obscured by trees or other signs, you could well have grounds for appeal.

Remember that 68% of appeals are successful!

The scent of flowers may become a thing of the past, say researchers, who suggest pollution is destroying the natural perfume.

As well as swamping the more delicate fragrances, pollution breaks down the natural scents that flowers emit to attract insects. It also reduces the distance the fragrance can travel, meaning that bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects are less likely to be drawn to the flower, says the study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

Pollutants are also absorbed by flowers, this makes them uninviting to the insects needed to pollinate them.

It is said by scientists that this is also the reason for the deterioration of certain plants and insects.

Jose Fuentes, a professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, who led the study said: “The greater the amount of pollutants in the air, the greater the rate of destruction of the flower scents.”

source: Telegraph.co.uk

Gardeners in Beijing are working furiously to plant 40 million flowers throughout the city in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in August.
Workers are expected to plant 5 million pots surrounding venues where the Games will take place, China’s Official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.

Some of the flowers will be sculpted and arranged to exhibit ancient Chinese culture, while the majority of them will be put in the ground, the report said.

Zhou Jianping, an official from Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry, said 100 types of flowers that can withstand humidity and heat were selected to prepare for the possibility of extreme weather.

The flowers should all be planted by July 15, Xinhua said.
Source:upi.com

Once upon a time, a young lady prepared for her prom evening. The dress, the shoes, the hair and the make up were considered individually and with great care. But… What about the flowers?!?

Boutonnières were an essential part of the male’s attire. These typically are made up of a single flower or bud which is pushed through the buttonhole of a jacket. These, however are often omitted these days. Why not revive the tradition?

Wrist Corsages were, in earlier years, an unforgettable aspect of a celebration. The young lady would be offered a wrist corsage by her date who would own a matching boutonnière. These would often consist of a small bouquet of flowers worn at the shoulder, waist or even on the wrist. However, just like the boutonnières, the presence of corsages for proms or balls has been neglected, so why not inaugurate a new fashion right back from the past to your celebration?

White freesia harmonises with lavender grape hyacinth to create a fresh look right out of another century!

For a traditional vibe, do consider red roses and white baby’s breath in a beautiful and breathtaking assemble!

For a more contemporary, bright as well as fresh look, why not choose a corsage composed of a simple pink cymbidium orchid?

Writing this blog allows us to have our say about flowers and to try to be informative and helpful. We hope that we open a window onto our world for all tou flower-lovers out there.
However, I sometimes wonder how many of you see these pages. Drop us a comment now and again and we will try to write on topics that you want to hear about.

You coiuld even suggest new categories, although  don’t expect our driver Nic to write about flower arranging or our florists about cloning new breeds of rose. I am sure that between us we can manage to be helpful on any flower related subject.

So - please leave a comment on these pages or drop us a line to info@flowers24hours.co.uk - we look forward to hearing from you!