The Hibiscus Room Florists

A Wonderful Summer!

Hello everyone,

the summer is looking great and weather is lovely!

We have been very busy and summer bouquets have been very popular. Lovely peoni, snap dragon, gorgeous delphinium and of course huge sun flowers have been flying out of the shop.

We have been very fortunate to find some great new florists. Mandy and Tracey have joined us during June. Both girls bring fab skills andnew ideas.

We completed our 3rd Floral Design Day at Broadfield Court on Saturday. The ladies had a great time and each left with over £50 of flowers. The days are great fun and designed to entertain and inspire.

Find out more on our web site, follow this link to our Flower Arranging Course page or call us at the shop on 0800 783 4476.

Our next course is on 1st August and then we will have days in November and December.

Speak soon

Iain

easter weekend florists madness!

Hello everyone

hope you had a great Easter weekend and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine. We had a great weekend in the shop and at home with friends and family. In the shop we are selling spring flowers such as tulips, renunkola and anenome as fast as we can buy them in! Spring flowers are available for such a short time that it seems criminal not to enjoy them when you can!

Our new range of plants for home and gifts is going really well. Lots of nice plants in funky and cute containers and pots. Easy to pick up and go!

Our next Flower Design Day Course at Broadfield Court is next saturday. Again we have sold out which is fab! The feedback from the first day was great, with two lovely ladies travelling all the way from Leeds to join in..... now that's a love of flowers!

For more info on upcoming courses please call us in the shop on 0800 783 4476. They are a great day out and an ideal gift for the Mum who has everything! 

We are planning and inspiration trip to Amsterdam in June this year. We will go for a weekend and visit loads of florists to get summer design inspiration from the masters. Can't wait!!

Thought I would also show you a couple of pictures of our workshop in Rotherwas. These are from Mothers day just before we started delivering........ whoaaaaa.

on that note have a great day

speak soon

iain

A Plant New Day!

Hello everyone

we have decided to get into selling more plants! Now we will always have a lovely selection of 5 or 6 different species of plants, many of which will be in lovely containers and gift wrapped.

We are kicking of this monday with Azaleas, Gardenias, Hyacinth, Narcissi, Calla Lily and Lavender. Get involved!!

An interesting week on the web front with the launch of www.thehibiscusroomflorists.co.uk . This site is aimed at attracting customers on a national level or those customers overseas looking to send flowers in England and Wales. We now have 8 web shops in operation and they are beginning to see sales zoom which is fab.

Lovely to see some warmer weather settling over us which has seen a few more smiles on faces! We have almost finished an extension on our house with a redesign of our garden.... which is almost finished.... but not quite! So every warm evening that comes along I dream of a glass of wine, a chair on the new lawn and lots of happy customers served!!

speak soon

iain

Mothers Day Madness!

Hello everyone

it is Mothering Sunday this week and everything is go,go,go!!!

We are incredibly organised and ready for all the orders. We have 6 florists working for us this year and a seperate workshop based in Rotherwas to handle the evergrowing gaggle of talented and passionate florists!

On Sunday we will have 5 vans on the road and as usual we hope to have every delivery done by 1pm

Our flowers are on their way from holland and on thursday we will be conditioning and preparing the never ending dutch buckets of beautiful blooms.

The web site has been going mad and currently Pink and White for Mum is the most popular bouquet.

We have several other beautifully designed bouquets to choose from so pop through to our Mothers Day Collection and have a look! We also have a wonderful collection of chocolates and champagnes, so go on...... spoil Mum this year!

Any questions please don't hesitate to call Iain, Debbie or Liz at the shop on 0800 783 4476.

Have a great Mothering Sunday

See you soon

Iain

Valentines Day was Awesome!

Thank you all for another amazing Valentines Day! We had to shut on Friday at 2pm because we couldn't keep up with all you romantics!!

We definately didn't sell as many dozen roses this year but that is no bad thing... we doubled our sales on the web and ended up about 20% on last year overall.

On saturday we completed 100 deliveries! Now that is really something!!

Beautiful Whites was a popular choice as was a Red Hot Valentine.

We had a new face helping out this year in Mandy. It was great to find such a talented and hard working florist at a time when we needed one! Sometimes you need a bit of luck!

Next stop Mothering Sunday.

See you soon

Iain

web site almost here!

Hi there

It has certainly taken a little longer than planned but all good things come to those who wait!  We are almost ready to launch and the site is much better than i had dare dream.

We are very excited and we look forward to hearing your feedback.

The next post will be with a live all singing all dancing site,

see you there

Iain

New web site coming soooooooon!

Hello everyone

many apologies for the quiet period, I have been caught up developing our wonderful new web site and preparing for launch.

we are scheduled to launch during September and I can't wait. we will be bringing you a wonderful new range of bouquets and many new gifts ranging from choccies, wines and champagnes to new baby.

so stay tuned and we look forward to seeing you onsite!

cheers

iain

Back to it!

hello everyone,

Last we Debbie and I took our first summer holiday for 5 years! We went away with our little boy and had a fantastic week together.

We left our Hereford florists shop in the more than capable hands of Liz, Dorothy and Lou. They had a great week learning about the management of a business and how everything works. It is this point that I want to talk about today.

Lizzie and I have been working together in order to prepare her for last week. Empowering your employees to take control of your business is a fundamental requirement if you want to develop a stand alone entity. Letting go of your business and allowing someone else to run it for you can be daunting! Employing people with real talent and desire is the first step, the second is working hard to impart your experience upon them and allow them to understand the bigger picture.

While exhausted by the end of the week, the girls learnt so much. They demonstrated that they are really capable florists that not only have fanatastic design and creative skills, but that they compliment these with a deeper understanding of the business operations. 

We are really proud of them!

Thanks guys.

see you soon

Iain

Training is the key

Hello everyone

We have two great young florists training with us. Lizzie and Lou finally finish their two year City and Guilds at Pershore college in Worcestershire in only a couple of weeks and you can see the tension building. They have been on a long journey and it is great to see that after 2 years they have learnt so much and developed their broad base of skills along the way.

Life is most definately a learning experience, while aquiring skills that compliment your interests and abilities is the key to a happy and productive working life. The girls have most definately taken big strides along this path and it is great to see.

the question is what next!?! If anyone has any ideas on further training I would love to hear about them.

have a lovely day

speak soon

Iain

A fab window display

Hello everyone

this week Lizzie decided to wow passer bys with a fab window display. Using an old favourite of tulips twisted around the inside of a bowl with grass, Lizzie stacked the bowls with bright yellow tulips three high with the largest bowl at the bottom moving to the smallest at the top, seperated by mirror tiles.

It always amazes me the effect that putting something out of the ordinary in the window has on people passing by. Each day I have noticed 20 - 30 people stopping and talking about the display, people that would usually look in but keep walking without comment.

The challenge of course for every florist shop is to continually wow people. C'mon Lizzie, keep it up!!!!

speak soon

iain