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Celebrating Floral Artistry on Floral Design Day
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Celebrating Floral Artistry on Floral Design Day

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Celebrating Floral Artistry on Floral Design Day

Arranging flowers is an artistic skill that requires training, artistic flair, creativity, and a human touch. It's quite a skill to be able to put flowers together in a certain way and combination to express a feeling, create a mood, or add ambiance at a special event. But, that's exactly what floral designers do and have done for centuries. In 1995, an official special occasion day was created to draw awareness to floral design. Known as Floral Design Day, it is celebrated every February 28th. It offers a way to celebrate the natural beauty of flowers and greenery as well as recognize the talent of floral designers. We have the most experienced floral designers in the Finger Lakes area. Our floral collections highlight their talent at work and showcase their ability to create floral designs for all types of occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, funerals, and more) and across many styles, sizes, colors, and prices. This includes those floral designs in our bestsellers collection. It also includes our Bloom Gal service of beautiful and stunning floral designs that also illustrate what our floral designers can do not to mention our wedding flower designs, which have added to the good memories from many big days. Besides buying and enjoying flowers from our Rochester flower shop or other locations, you can also celebrate Floral Design Day in other ways. This includes sending a message to our floral design team or taking a flower design/arrangement class online or in-person to experience what goes into creating this artwork. You can also add or plant flowers around your home or participate in a community garden. In doing so, you are adding back to nature for everything that it gives us. It also creates beauty around your home and the community. If you are artistic in other [...]

By Blog Team|2021-02-21T22:03:46+00:00February 25th, 2021|Floral Design|0 Comments

Introducing Bloom Gal!
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Introducing Bloom Gal!

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Introducing Bloom Gal!

We are excited to introduce you to our latest endeavor: BloomGal! While we have been voted the best flower shop in Rochester, New York and serve the entire Finger Lakes area, we are always looking to make improvements and offer our customers even more when it comes to variety, value, and service. Here's how BloomGal got started. BloomGal was the idea of Wendy Jones Rockcastle, co-owner of Rockcastle Florist. With the help of her daughter, Mary Ethel Rockcastle, BloomGal was born. It was based on the idea of creating a floral subscription service that was accessible to more people. It seemed like a good idea to launch during COVID-19 with everyone stuck at home and the need to bring more natural beauty and color to all. Besides selling a floral subscription service, however, BloomGal has another higher purpose, which is to encourage others to nominate a BloomGal. In doing so, you are helping to highlight women in the community who inspire us. Each woman nominated will get highlighted in upcoming blog posts. We'd love to hear from you! Now, back to the floral subscription service. You can choose from weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and seasonally for your bouquets. Our subscription bouquets are hand-crafted by a trained floral designer who uses the freshest seasonal flowers available. Every bouquet is different! Add-ons include a vase and shirt. Contactless delivery is free for our floral subscription service. Currently, the service is only available within the Rochester and Canandaigua area. We are hoping to expand the service area in the near future. We also cannot accept orders for same-day delivery for the floral subscriptions. If you chose today’s date in the date selection when placing your order, then your flowers will be delivered the next applicable day. For example, if you place an order for Monday delivery on Monday, your [...]

By Blog Team|2021-01-09T17:42:58+00:00January 4th, 2021|Floral Design|0 Comments

Best-Selling Floral Designs Reflect the Hottest Trends in Floral Design For Rochester
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Best-Selling Floral Designs Reflect the Hottest Trends in Floral Design For Rochester

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Best-Selling Floral Designs Reflect the Hottest Trends in Floral Design For Rochester

Our bestselling flowers reflect the favorites of our local customers here, in and around the Rochester area. These preferred floral designs also highlight some of the larger hot floral trends in design and presentation for flowers as art. Let's look at some of today's floral trends. Unique Containers The floral design is not just about the flowers, accents, and colors. The container becomes part of the overall effect. More customers enjoy the value of receiving a stunning keepsake container that they can use for more flowers or just display like art in their homes. For example, some of our best-sellers have art glass containers or those that looked like stained glass. One of our personal favorites is the Pretty Teatime Bouquet, which comes in a keepsake teacup with saucer. The teacup is filled with yellow spray roses, miniature white carnations, blue delphinium, seeded eucalyptus, and spiral eucalyptus. Botanical Feel There is more mixing of plants and flowers together to provide a naturalistic setting. This includes adding succulents to floral displays as well as using more flowering plants to add color to arrangements. Whimsy Sweet, charming, and petite bouquets offer a sweet message to feature in your home or office as well as serve as a special gift for loved ones. For example, the Edwardian Charm Bouquet is a small floral display with blush-colored flowers like orchids, roses, and hydrangea. The vase is wrapped with a lace accent. Similarly, our Coral Charm Bouquet shows that even small bouquets add a big feel to a room. This bold and colorful arrangement comes in a a brightly colored glass cylinder vase with cork wrap along with coral gerbera daisies, pink hydrangea, orange roses, and peach spray roses. Orders and Deliveries We are accepting online orders or orders placed by phone. We also offer same [...]

By Blog Team|2020-06-05T20:56:03+00:00June 5th, 2020|Floral Design|0 Comments

Celebrate Floral Design Day with Our Bestselling Flower Collection

February 28th is officially known as Floral Design Day across the country. It's a day where florists celebrate artistry and recognize their talented floral designers for creativity and the ingenuity to create floral masterpieces that match what customers are looking for as decor, gifts, events, and weddings. And, it's no different for us here at our Rochester flower shop where we celebrate the talent of our floral design team every day. To give you some examples, here are some floral designs that customers love, which has led to these flower arrangements being featured in our bestseller collection: Beautiful in Blue - A Best Seller This serene floral design combines blue and white flowers to create a special arrangement that is ideal to provide consolation to a loved one who has experienced loss. Excellent Day In Rochester This flower arrangement offers a bright and cheerful design that makes it a great choice for a birthday or other celebration as well as a "just because" gift. The floral design includes sunflowers, lilies, and roses. Burlap Chic Bouquet Filled with sunflowers as well as orange and yellow roses, this rustic floral design comes in a cylindrical vase that has been wrapped with burlap. It's a great decor piece or a special gift for a friend. Chosen Spot Sunset Named after our beautiful Canandaigua Lake region, this floral design showcases coral gerbera daisies, orange spray roses, and hot pink ranunculus in a keepsake glass cube. Plants Count, Too However, it's not just flowers that get recognized as a natural way to express creativity. Green and blooming plants can also be styled to create a stunning masterpiece like these two bestsellers: Succulent Garden 12 This large succulent garden offers color and texture as well as a garden that is very low maintenance. Classic Cactus Garden Deluxe [...]

By Blog Team|2019-02-25T18:04:40+00:00February 25th, 2019|Floral Design|0 Comments

Floral Design Day Celebrates Artistic Expression

Every February 28th has been designated as Floral Design Day. It's a day to recognize floral artistry and design as well as promote floral design education. Floral designers have a unique job of capturing certain emotions and enhancing special occasions and events with natural beauty. They become part of so many people's holiday memories and even bigger events like weddings. Floral designers even help make birthdays, births, anniversaries, dances, and graduations more special with floral decor. And, we believe that we have the best floral designers in town. The awards, accolades, and reviews we receive also prove that. We appreciate everything they do for our flower shops and our customers. Here are some of the best-selling floral designs created by our talented floral artists that illustrate their incredible talent: Highland Park Sunset This popular floral design features hot pink roses, green cymbidium blooms, orange mini roses, and succulent cuts. These are presented in a leaf-lined glass cylinder. Beautiful in Blue In this stunning floral arrangement, you'll find a combination of premium and garden flowers in shades of blue and white along with seasonal greenery. It's sublime and elegant. Excellent Day In Rochester This flower arrangement is full of color and cheer, making it perfect for a celebration or as a gift for someone who needs a smile. It contains sunflowers, lilies, and roses in a glass vase. Blooming Spring Bouquet Spring is one the way so here is one of our most popular spring flower arrangements. It offers roses, lilies, and stock in shades of lavender, white, and pink. The ceramic vase is sage and cream with a pearlized glaze and embossed flower details. Garden Silk Bouquet Our floral design team also makes lasting silk flowers arrangements like this one. It's a garden style design with silk dahlias and ranunculus combined with silk ivy and eucalyptus. Come [...]

By Blog Team|2018-02-28T22:55:35+00:00February 28th, 2018|Floral Design|0 Comments