September 2018 - Allen's Flowers

Gifts For National Good Neighbor Day

Whether we know our neighbors or not, it's a good idea to take a moment and let them know you appreciate they are there. And, if we don't know them, a great day to get started on building a relationship is September 28th. This is National Good Neighbor Day. Here are some gift ideas that are great icebreakers, fence menders, or thank you's from our San Diego flower shops and website: CELEBRATE! This bouquet is a bright and cheerful way to send your best to your neighbors. It contains hot pink roses, orange lilies, purple alstroemerias, and green button poms. Available in three sizes, the flower arrangement is accented with ribbon and the flowers are arranged in a leaf-lined glass cube. BRIGHT AS DAY Celebrate your neighbors with this festive floral display that features orange Asiatic lilies and alstroemeria, sunflowers, lavender stock, and pink roses. LA JOLLA SUNSET This flower arrangement offers a beautiful combination of seasonal flowers, such ass Asiatic lilies, button chrysanthemums, roses, and alstroemeria in an array of orange and yellow hues presented in a clear glass vase. RUSTIC BROMELIAD PLANTER Neighbors may also enjoy a gift of a green or blooming plant. This gift idea features a colorful bromeliad plant and other green plants in a rustic tin container. TREASURE GARDEN BASKET This gorgeous round wicker basket is filled with stunning green and blooming plants. Based on availability, this might include a pink kalanchoe, hypoestes, green nephthytis, and Boston and maidenhair ferns. MINI ORCHID GROUPING This gift offers three small orchid plants that you can split up and gift to three neighbors or give them all to that special neighbor. Each arrives in a unique clay pot. GOURMET FRUIT TRAY Other options for Good Neighbor Day include gift baskets. The [...]

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Celebrating Indoor Green Plants and Fall Flowers

The third week in September is officially National Indoor Plant Week. This is a time to appreciate the beauty and health benefits that green plants offer us, including cleaner air. Also, September 22 is the official start of the fall season, which brings special events along with a change in the weather. Our San Diego flower shops have plants and fall flowers ready for your event, special occasion, or just for decorating your home or office. Here are some ideas to celebrate both September events: ZZ PLANT This plant is one of the easiest plants to take care of even if you are not good with plants. The ZZ Plant requires little to no natural light and manages to continue growing even when you forget to water it. LEMON-LIME DRACAENA This is another green plant that is very easy to maintain. You can get it in a white glass container, rustic tin, or contemporary woven basket. EMERALD GARDEN BASKET A green spathiphyllum arrives in a natural wicker basket. CROTON A croton is displayed in a burgundy footed planter. SANSEVIERIA GEOMETRICUS The Sansevieria is also known as a Snake Plant or Mother-In-Law's Tongue. This easy-going plant requires little to no natural light. It's also considered to be a natural air purifier! DIEFFENBACHIA GEOMETRICUS Dieffenbachia is part of the tropical flowering plant family. It is displayed in a geometric concrete container. JADE PLANT IN CONCRETE This green plant is presented in a contemporary concrete pot. SUCCULENT GARDEN TIN Four succulents arrive in a rustic designer tin. And, then there was fall. While we are still getting our fall flower collection together, here is a peek at one of the many beautiful fall flower arrangements we offer: DEL MAR SUNSET This modern floral design [...]

Celebrate Grandparents Day on September 9th

Grandparents Day is Sunday, September 9th. This is the perfect day to spend with them. Or, even if you can't, be sure to call them and check on them. They have cherished you all your life so it's important to show them this same love, especially as they may get lonely. Here are some gift ideas for Grandparents Day from our San Diego flower shops and website that are available for delivery throughout the San Diego area, including residences, care facilities, and San Diego hospitals: CORONADO SUNSET This stunning floral design includes roses, sunflowers, hydrangea, and scabiosa. There are also bark and greenery in the leaf-lined vase. RUSTIC ROSES Your grandparents will love this combination of red roses and purple cymbidium orchids in a metal container. WHITE GARDEN This beauty contains white hydrangea, calla lilies, and roses along with green hypericum and greenery in a gem-lined crystal vase. SPECIAL SOMEONE A leaf-lined glass vase offers pink roses, spray roses, and gerbera daisies that are combined with red gerberas and ranunculus in a pave style. ORANGE SPLASH This petite flower arrangement includes three cayenne roses, lime green hydrangea, and a San Diego succulent accented by seeded eucalyptus. ZIG-ZAG SUCCULENTS There are also many green and garden baskets that your grandparents may enjoy, especially if they like gardening. This one contains three succulents in a zig-zag white ceramic container. SUCCULENTS AND DRIFTWOOD Give an array of locally grown succulents and kalanchoes. This design also features driftwood. Everything is displayed in a circular glass bowl. TREASURE GARDEN BASKET This beautiful basket contains a pink kalanchoe, hypoestes, green nephthytis, and Boston and maidenhair ferns in a round wicker basket. ORCHID ELEGANCE - 5 SPIKES This orchid display features five spikes of Phaleonopsis orchids in a black bowl. These are long lasting and easy to [...]

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Celebrating September Birthdays with Bold, Beautiful Floral Designs

It's a new month, which means many more special celebrations like birthdays to account for among your friends and family members. We have a festive collection of birthday flowers that your recipients will love like these beauties: FASHIONISTA SAN DIEGO As one of our most popular flower arrangements, this floral design features pink roses, purple mums, white daisies, and more. Plus, it is available in three sizes. CELEBRATE! Every birthday calls for a celebration, and the floral colors in this bouquet scream birthday wishes. There are hot pink roses, orange lilies, purple alstroemerias, and green button poms along with ribbon accents in a leaf-lined glass cube. This floral display also comes in three sizes. GARDEN BEAUTY This floral display offers the look and feel of a freshly picked bouquet from your garden. It has hydrangea, roses and spray roses, orchids and other premium flowers. BIRTHDAY BLAST BOUQUET WITH BIRTHDAY MYLAR BALLOON We also have some great birthday packages that include flowers and a festive birthday balloon. This bouquet includes stargazer lilies, spray roses, gerbera daisies, alstroemeria, and blue hydrangea along with seasonal greenery. It arrives with a Birthday Wishes Mylar balloon (birthday mylar balloons vary weekly). FLY AWAY BIRTHDAY INCLUDES MYLAR BALLOON Enjoy a vivid floral bouquet with orange roses, yellow alstroemeria, red carnations and miniature carnations, yellow daisy spray chrysanthemums, and purple statice in a cobalt blue vase. It comes with a birthday balloon with a range of designs to choose from based on availability. SAN DIEGO BIRTHDAY BOUQUET This birthday bouquet has roses, lilies, alstroemeria, poms and more arranged in a clear glass vase that has been tied with raffia. With it, your loved one will receive a festive birthday mylar balloon. FIESTA Your birthday party celebrations can be sent [...]