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Florist's Supplies and Resources Find a Florist
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| General Supplies The Essentials Company A large range of supplies inculding floristry wire, tapes, oasis and sundries. Rista Decorative coloured sands, gravels, and other aggregates for display. Smithers Oasis The manufactures site for Oasis, it contain tips on how to use them most effectively, and the site lists industry events and exhibitions. Cortex-Abc.co.uk UK Suppliers of Flower Arranging and Floral Art Materials including: artificial flowers, foliage, Oasis (floral foam) and many more floral goods. Dried Flowers Essentially Hops Dried Hop Garlands and Kiln-dried flowers and grasses from this Kent based online store. Scented Home Potpourri 100% botanical pot-pourri plus dried rose petal and lavender flowers. They can supplies in bulk quantities on request. Fresh Foliage Tregothnan High quality fresh foliage available online, including camellia, eucalyptus and exotics. Sunflora Importer of cut flowers and cut foliage supplying to wholesalers, supermarkets and bouquet makers throughout the UK and Ireland. James Taylor Flowers A wholesale florist supplying resellers in central Scotland with wide variety of freshly cut mainstream, exotic and hybrid flowers for fresh floral art displays. Ribbons and trims JKM Ribbon & Trims Wholesale supplier of ribbon & trims (Offray, Wrights, Mokuba, Morex, Berwick, Conso, C & G) for bridal, packaging, floral, crafts, design, baskets, gift wrap, parties, Christmas, including organdy sheers, tulle, satins, grosgrain, metallics, wire edge & curling ribbons. Clayson A large selection of satins, ribbons and bows. |
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Gardening Express A good value online store offering wide range of plants including some excellent foliage plants. Penlan Perennials A nice range of perennials, including ferns and variegated horseradish. Marshland Herb Nursery Herbs and scented geraniums, including old fashioned varieties for interesting flower arranging foliage. Bowden Hosta's A Huge range of hostas including some very hard to find varieties. Easy Tropicals A nice range of exotic foliage, including, grasses, banana plants and palm trees. Urban Jungle Exotic and unusually plants specialist. Jacksons Nurseries A large selection of plants availbe online at this family run garden centre located in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Suttons Seeds A vast selection of seeds and bulbs available online. |
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| Magazines Fusion Flowers A bimonthly flower arranging magazine for contemporary flower arranging. The Flower Arranger Magazine The Flower Arranger is the superb full colour quarterly magazine of The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies. Learn how to arrange flowers with step-by-step instructions. Floral Design Magazine A New Zealand based magazine available online or by subscription worldwide. Web pages Ikebana by Junko Ikebana lessons, events, plus Ikebana Japanese flower arranging vases, equipment, accessories and books. Floral Design Newsletter A free bi-monthly newsletter with floral design ideas and inspiration. Arranging-flowers.com Learn how to make beautiful floral arrangements for parties and special occasions. Step-by-step guides with photos and text. Also has a botanical chart with information on many plants and flowers. Third Rock Design DVDs teaching floristry and floristry toolkits. A cut flower arranging video targeted toward students, enthusiasts, professionals needing skills update and for use as a teaching aid/resource for tutors. Silk Flower Smart A great guide to using and cleaning silk flowers, it even has a section on how to make your own. FlowersForums.com Advice on growing cut flowers, and keeping them free of pest and diseases. Organizations Flowers.org.uk Home of the flowers & plants association, the UK's promotional organization for all commercially grown cut flowers and indoor plants and for flower arranging courses uk. |
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