The Safe and Easy Way to Send Flowers to the Philippines

Island Rose - Philippine Flowers and GiftsHaving a business trip abroad? Vacationing in an exotic beach somewhere? If you’re away from home long enough, you’re probably homesick! If you want to let your friends and family know that you are thinking about them while you’re away, give them fresh flowers to emphasize the point. Flowers will instantly make your loved ones feel special and maybe, just maybe, you’ll miss them a little less.

Good thing that whether you are abroad or not, sending flowers to the Philippines has never been easier. When before you have to phone in an order or actually visit the flower shop itself, all you have to do now is go online anywhere and Google “Flowers, Philippines” or “Florist Philippines”. A multitude of websites offering to send you flowers from this point in the world to another is going to turn up in the search. Continue reading

Red France – The Perfect Red Rose

Red France - Philippines Flowers - Island RoseLooking for the perfect red rose can be such a pain when the best that most flower shops can offer are pale and limp ones. These things that call themselves roses look as if they won’t last much longer in this world! Of course, you don’t want to give your Special Other unattractive roses since that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it. If you’re having trouble finding a bouquet of roses that says just how much you love her, here’s what to do: get a Red France from Island Rose.

Red France roses are bright scarlet in color, a red quite similar to the color of blood. It’s a hybrid tea, a type of rose wherein two different varieties of roses are cross-bred by grafting a bloom of one variety into the stem of another. Blooms are usually 8-12.5 cm wide while stems (which are long, straight and upright) can grow as tall as 1.3 cm. Hybrid tea roses are some of the most popular in the world due to their large, color-intensive blooms and long, straight stems which give them an advantage over the typical cut flowers.

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More Filipino Shoppers Leave Gift Giving to the Experts

This article first appeared in Inquirer.net, December 16, 2008

Christmas shopping can be stressful if you don’t know how to manage your time and money.   Traditionally, Filipinos spend hours upon hours shopping for the perfect gifts for family and friends.  Recently, Filipinos have turned to the Internet to shop for gifts.  It makes a lot of sense because you can save a lot of time, energy, and money if you know where to find the right gifts on the Internet. Continue reading

Saving a Relationship with Red Roses

Boy and girl gets into an initially quiet fight, speaking in low tones, still not believing and a bit annoyed  that they’re talking about what they’re talking about. Eventually, voices rise, hearts beat faster, and whatever disbelief and slight annoyance that these two lovers have about this little fight turns into bitterness, pain, and frustration. Eventually, one of them says the unspeakable words, the other hears it, and one walks out the door. It’s over. Continue reading

Practical Gift-Giving

So someone gave you a gift wrapped in sassy purple-and-gold paper with a fancy ribbon to top it all off. Just looking at it makes you feel all itchy and excited to find out what’s inside! Of course, you don’t want to act like a greedy kid on Christmas morning while everyone is watching you, so you just smile and say thanks as gracefully as possible while holding all the anticipation in. You wait while everyone is away—you hold the package in your hands—your lower lip might even tremble a bit while thinking about the goody inside—you tear the fancy wrap off…and a Continue reading

Outdoor Grown versus Greenhouse Grown Flowers

Growing flowers is not as easy as it looks.  There are several factors to consider in order to grow high-quality blooms and the growers’ work is to make sure that the factors remain as stable as possible. These factors are temperature, humidity, soil type, fertilizer supply, pest control, preventing blight, and the seasons (in tropical areas such as the Philippines, there are only two seasons—wet and dry—while other countries have spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Almost all these factors involved in growing the best flowers in the market are unpredictable, making production wholly dependent on natural causes. Continue reading