French Tulips From Chile

French Tulips From Chile have just started arriving!  When I asked Gary Gardiner, our Chicago Flower Buyer, what makes these tulips special, he said "Just say French Tulips,  it says it all!"  And they are gorgeous, nice strong stem and color.  The growing season is just starting in the southern hemisphere so we will be having lots of new flowers in the upcoming weeks.  Besides tulips, we have in stock Chilean Ranunculus and next week, Peonies from Chile.

Ordering Wedding Flowers

Tips for Ordering Wedding Flowers - Wholesale Florists are the Best Resource
The retail value of wedding flowers in the U.S. in 2009 is $2.8 Billion according to The Wedding Report.  Eighty percent of brides say they buy flowers from a local florist.  That means brides spend $1.8 billion a year with local retail florists for their wedding flowers.  In the next three years the value of wedding flowers is expected to grow 12% and by nearly 18% in five years.

The best resource for wedding flowers is a local wholesale florist. Click here to read more...

Osage Orange's are a Popular Fall Addition

 Shown on the cover of the  October's issue of Better Homes and Gardens, these decorative fruits bring the just right green chartreuse to the orange, yellow and brown of fall designs.

Hedge Apples are the fruit of the Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) tree.  The tree was originally planted to create a fence row before barbed wire was invented.  The fruit is believed to keep spiders out of the house. 

Want to know what your customers are looking for during the upcoming holiday season?  Sign up for the 100 days of holidays from Better Homes and Gardens.  On one email, there were fall wreath designs, on another, what to do with gourds.  Sign up at www.bhg.com/100days

Yea! It's Fall

Well, It is Officially AUTUMN!!

 Even though the summer was not too hot and I am not tired of it, I am ready for a change in my home decorations.  I am ready to redo the house inside and out with fun fall pumpkins, gourds, fall leaves, wreaths, mums, hay, corn stalks, anything that says FALL!  Kennicott has lots of locally grown fall product for your customers.  We even have the "new" pumpkin varieties that are just gorgeous the way they are. Some even look like Cinderella's Carriage.  Hopefully, my neighborhood chipmunks and squirrels won't eat my new pumpkins for lunch!

Give Your Customers A Bit of Fall Today!!!