Flowers are Blooming

Flowers are really blooming. This is what can be inferred if Mr KS Ramakrishna's business logics are to be believed. Mr KS Ramakrishna is MD, Karuturi Networks in India, which has a diversified product mix of Horticluture, ISP and Project services.
But the main focus of the company is its Horticluture segment from where 84% of the Topline is a result of the Horticlulture Business. Flowers are in demand. “We are mainly concentrating our energies on the flower business, which is more scalable, and there is a huge market out there in Continental Europe and Japan. We see a YoY demand growth as well” say Mr Ramakrishna in an interview with Moneycontrol.
And to dedicatedly work on it, Karuturi Networks has a very aggressive approach towards expansion. One good news that Karuturi would be interested in, I am sure, would be recent research by Rutgers University. Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Ph.D., director of the university’s Human Emotions Lab, Rutgers University, explored of the things which could be revealed just on account of the gift sent by someone. The research explores sending flowers, in comparison to other gifts, is a sign of the sender being a successful, caring and emotionally intelligent person!
Such researches can only be motivating for companies like Karuturi Networks who would only be impressed upon the decisions they have taken for the expansion of horticulture.
To know more about the research, visit “About flowers”
For a full interview with KS Ramakrishna, visit “Money Control”

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Phipps Conservatory's Spring Flower Show.

The Phipps conservatory had a huge display of many exotic species of flowers and bulbs at the 5th Phipps Flower Show. This is a very big event for all flower lovers. This years theme was “Proverbs in Bloom”. A theme based flower arrangement was made like “After every rain, there comes a rainbow” or “Water under the bridge”.

According to Michael, Marketing & Communications Head, the preparations for the show starts at least an year in advance. They have to make sure that bulbs bloom at the right time and all sorts of arrangements starting from selecting a theme and working on it patiently takes time.

This year, the Flower Show used 9 out of 13 conservatory rooms and every room’s name is based on the name of a Flower. The Show had an approximate number of 79,000 bulbs. Of these, 20,000 bulbs are ready for display at any point of time. In addition, there were 16,000 plants.

The show ended 15th April and was a huge success especially the programs that the Show organize at the end. This is like the ‘Used Plants Sale’ where people can buy bulbs. Not that they have been used and are no more good, but they still are fresh and perfect. The program on ‘Getting your Garden ready for spring’ also turned out to be very useful for those who love gardening.

So if you think you missed out on this one. Wait till I tell you about another one coming up soon.

Here is a short video on the same. The Spring Flower Show Video.

Puffy, pink and planted in a rustic and romantic garden urn – what could be prettier than a miniature hydrangea bush, hand-delivered to Mom's front door?
Pink Hydrangea

A Take on Current Flower Delivery Promotions

Like every other Online Florist, 1800flowers.com, too is filled up with new items on Mother's day and Spring Season. This includes the New Organic & Fair Trade products, New Celebrity Gourmet Baskets (from Barefoot Contessa, Steven Raichlen & Paula Deen), New Designer bouquets & luxury items (featuring Preston Bailey & Julie Mulligan), a re-designed 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® Cosmopolitan Happy Hour Bouquet®, PLUS Martha Stewart for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® and much much more.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM is currently promoting one of the two highest converting offers for Mother’s Day and this is on till the 28^th April. So you will have to hurry, if you really need to avail this "Buy 15 Tulips, get 15 FREE + FREE Chocolates & Vase! Shop now."offer.

However, one thing that I really found amazing at 1800flowers is that they have actually categorized Mothers based upon the nature she has. So now, if you really know your Mother’s nature, you can pick up flowers as per her tastes and surprise her! What a great way of promoting a product.

So one question that you need to ask is - What Kind of Flower Matches Your Mom's Style?

And hey! If you know the answer, you can find the Flower that's Right for Your Mom's Personality!

They have published a “Flower Guide” (The 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Mother's Day Gift Guide) that helps you to choose a flower that fits your Mom's true style! That's the way to celebrate Mom for who she is! So there are flowers for the The Red Carpet Mom, The Office Mom, The Gourmet Mom, The Planet Friendly Mom, The Green Thumb Mom, The On-The-Go Mom!!!

While 1800flowers.com is more keen on aggressive Mothers day promotions, Teleflora is being very specific of the days in hand and do not want to lose an opportunity on the upcoming Secretaries Day which starts 20^th April and goes on till 26^th April. With 10% discount on the Secretaries Week, they expect a real boost. Check this out:

Teleflora’s “America’s Favorite Mom” is an ongoing brand promotion activity that surely is expected to boost sales this year.

FTD.com is at par of both the Florists and is offering 10% flat discount on all Flowers and gifts. Here you are for the 10% bestsellers arrangements:

Apart from it, FTD also offers $10 off on Mixed Rose Bouquet and making the price an affordable $19.99!. So you don’t have to think twice before buying a Rose Bouquet for the person you love.

Search my website well to dig all flowers promotional codes for Mother's day.

Here, I noticed that all the Online Florists have a different mode of operations. So while 1800flowers.com is very keen on Mother’s day, Teleflora is being more Niche conscious and is promoting the Secretaries week too. FTD, however, seems to gather all of us irrespective of whether it’s a Mothers day or Secretaries week by offering interesting discounts which are sure to attract many of us to FTD.

In the next post I shall discuss and bring about some Unique gift items that you could send this mother’s day!

Occassions & Flowers

Ever wondered what to send to your loved ones this season? Wait. I know the answer.. You have wondered a lot I know.. But what is something that never goes stale or out of the vogue. Of course, the flowers. You can send all kinds of flowers all the time. As per the occassion, the season, the no-season and anything that you like. This is one good thing with the flowers. Just when you decide to gift something to someone, think what could flowers do for him/her. And you will be surprised to know that everyone of us infact like flowers. So what you do even if you have come up with a gift idea - very unique. O! you may like to add a bouquet to it. What do you think? It will be more attractive and aesthetic.

Its a season for many of us to send and receive flowers. Spring is on and spring flowers are the core attention area for many of the online florists across the world. But still 1800 flowers seem to occupy the top position followed by FTD, Teleflora, proflowers and then many small & big Online florists.

Some occassions are there for ever and flowers could bring about just what you thought to bring to your partner. Like, there are birthday flowers which would always be a part of the florist shop. Again, thank you flowers, just because flowers, new baby flowers, congratulations flowers, anniversary flowers, love and romance flowers and many such ongoing occassions that do not have a fixed date for all in particular. Then there are occassions which are fixed and which will be repeated over the years like Valentines Day on 14th February, Mothers day on 5th May, Rose Day, Fathers Day, Womens Day, Graduation days etc.

While the former keeps an Online florists' business running for the whole year round, the latter ensures that they too have a day for very hard work and celebrate for the exponentially high sales for a particular day.

So with the coming up of the Spring and Mothers day, let me share the exclusive 1800 flowers store with you:

Exclusive collection of Spring flowers - Tulips by Julie Mulligan, French countryside collection, Spring Hyacinth, bountiful baskets and more.......
Check out flowers for Spring 2008 on 1800 Flowers.com

Beautiful Collections for your Mom. Surprise her and make her smile with the colorful flowers along with the Harry London Chocolate, Pleasantly Purple assortment, the beautiful Heirloom by Preston Bailey, Pink Roses and many more....
Check out for Mothers day 2008 Collection on 1800flowers.com

In the next post I shall share some of the beautiful offers from FTD.com too when you are bound to be swiped off your feet.

Floral Ethics .. continued..

Remember what US did to Iraq and on what accounts? Well, all on economic accounts. It was all about Oil and nothing related to terrorism. This is what everyone believes and not alone me.

Whether America did the right thing or not is pretty well have been judged by the masses all across the world with no WMDs found in Iraq till date. But one thing is for sure. This way America, undoubtedly, became an inspiration to a lot of small and big conspiracies which can be masked by the face of Philanthropy. My point here to discuss US-Iraq relations and external affairs policy, is just to prove my point of the Big Hand of Economy behind every single act of most of us. For instance, the interests of Big Businessmen is always considered, before any major step is taken by the Government of any country. Whether it is the building up of new airports or development of SEZs in India, there is this Economic and Monetary background to it. Even charity shows are done to raise money.

Ethical flowers, as Arena flowers tagged it, could be a part of this thrill. Now, there are two countries involved - Holland & Kenya. It would always depend upon the mutual understanding of the two Nations, their bilateral ties and their profits over costs incurred, when an Import/export policy is formulated. Holland, being a closer nation to England and their understanding of the fact that Flowers could help their economy to a great deal, simply ties up with the English government to export all its Flower harvest of the season to them. Now what should they do so that the English companies actually buy from Holland and not from Kenya as Kenya with their long stretch of flower fields was supposed to pose a threat to Holland's cultivation with most of the Market captured by Kenya. Well, it doesnt matter to a businessman where his flowers come from as long as it meets the demand of his customers. Now something had to be done to persuade and teach the customers, rather than the companies, to buy Holland flora.
And lo! they came up with Ethical flowers. Flowers that keep our environment on a priority! So the customers are taught to buy flowers which are grown in an ethical way and hey! they come from Holland, not from Kenya. Imagine the impact that Kenya's poor economy would have to bear, in times to come.

Well, my perception of the monetary eye may be wrong but Kenya's economy is sure to suffer due to all this unless they too start growing flowers in an ethical way which I am pretty sure would involve a lot of cost to the Kenyans.

Well, the economic story ends here but the customer is the king and is the ultimate decision maker.

Friends, mothers day is round the corner and if you are still awaiting to choose a gift for your mother, check out these websites for flowers & gifts on Mother's day.

Well after such a serious article let me break the blues. Click here and you have your Mother's day message.

Have a blessed day.