Pugh’s Flowers Blog

  Pugh's Flowers would like to announce the Recycle the Vase Program going on now through the end of December, 2013. Pugh's will accept all usable vases and in exchange, Pugh's will pay $1 per vase, up to $20. Money will be loaded onto a Pugh's Flowers gift card with no expiration date. Gift cards can be used on in-store merchandise or local orders. Vases are accepted at all three Pugh's Flowers locations. (2435 Whitten Rd., 5645 Poplar Ave., and 1622 Union Ave.) Recycling reduces trash in landfill sites, which cuts down on the cost of waste disposal and the clearing of more land for new landfills when the current landfills become too full to store any more waste. Recycling is an easy and less expensive alternative to clearing more land for new landfills. This program is encouraged to offer area residents a reward for their recycling efforts. Vases will either be reused to spread more cheer, or taken to a local glass recycling plant if reusing them is not an option.

The trick to making Thanksgiving and Christmas home décor look thoughtful, cohesive and well planned is color. Period. No matter what you add to the room, there must be a main color to unify it to the room. To the eye, upon seeing the festive décor, the unified color will assimilate it automatically with the existing décor. It’s easy to choose flowers and containers in colors matching your home décor. For example, if you have a burgundy and beige dining room and you want to add a spice of Thanksgiving to your table in a tasteful way, you must add burgundy. Simply ask Pugh's Flowers to incorporate a touch of burgundy in the centerpiece in the container, flowers or foliage. For Christmas, the same rule applies. Instead of red and green in your burgundy room, choose burgundy and sage green, or a palette of reds, burgundies and purples. Another quick and easy trick is putting flowers into holiday décor items. A floral arrangement in a simple glass container looks even more festive when placed into another vessel that screams Thanksgiving, such as a cleaned out pumpkin, gourd or cornucopia. Other Thanksgiving container ideas: Wrap corn stalks around tall floral vases with raffia for a fall harvest look or place flowers in flour sifters or old mixing bowls to create a baking theme. For Christmas, I once asked Pugh's Flowers to create two tall holiday floral arrangements in glass vases. When I brought the floral arrangements home, I placed the flowers with their glass vases inside two big, black, shiny boots — just like Santa’s. Here’s an idea that’s outside the box: Cover the container with flowers. Take what seems ordinary and cover it with flowers in the appropriate colors — voila, instant holiday décor.

The 2013 Camp Good Grief 5K was a resounding success with the most registered participants yet! Over $15,000 was raised this year and that means that at least 15 kids will get to go to camp as a part of this effort. The camp is held each summer and helps kids who have suffered a devestating loss learn to deal with their grief in a positive way. So many lives have been touched as a result of this wonderful camp, that's free to the campers! Learn more here.  First Place Female!  Youngest Bike Parader!      

Thanks Memphis for voting Pugh's Flowers best florist for 2013! The Pugh's family and staff works hard to bring smiles to Memphians and to those all across the country, even the world! Pugh's is serious about customer service and works seven days a week to make every customer happy.

What is Grandparent's Day? Here's the story. Back in 1970, Marian McQuade, a West Virginia housewife, came up with the idea of a day set aside to encourage families to visit their elderly relatives. With a firm resolve to make it happen, she began lobbying policymakers. McQuade got through to her Senators, Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd, who introduced a resolution to make Grandparents Day a national holiday. It took a while to reach the White House, but finally, in 1978, the resolution declaring National Grandparents Day as the first Sunday after Labor Day, was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. What should I get my grandparents?   

The Payne Family needed a little cheering up after health issues and suffering several losses in their family all at the same time. Hope these flowers help! Remember, voting begins again on September 1st.

Grief is one of the hardest emotions to deal with and in times of loss and sorrow words can be weak. Here are a few quotes on the subject. •He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow •A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen •To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground" •While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor Pugh's Flowers has added a line of tapestries to comfort those in their time of grief. Pugh's can deliver these on an easel to the service or gift wrapped to the home or office.