‘Amistad’, a light pink double Oriental lily presented by Sun Valley Floral Farms, charmed judges with its soft coloring, elegance and grandeur to win the Society of American Florists’ Outstanding Varieties Competition, held in conjunction with the...
Consumers can enjoy a vase of flowers longer than ever while florists can minimize shrink, thanks to the research of University of Florida Professor Emeritus Terril Nell, Ph.D., AAF. The preeminent scholar on postharvest care and handling of potted flowering plants...
A national marketing campaign that promoted flowers as self-care and gifted the marketing assets to the industry to use at a local level is the winner of the Society of American Florists’ 2023 Marketer of the Year award. CalFlowers’ (the California Association of...
Michael Smith, AAF, AIFD, FDI, FSMD, owner of Artistic Designs Unlimited Inc., in Marianna, Florida won the 54th annual Sylvia Cup Design Competition at the Society of American Florists’ annual convention last week in Phoenix. Smith walked into the competition with a...
Petal It Forward is the Society of American Florists’ annual feel-good initiative that spreads the power of flowers — and it can also be a powerful marketing tool that can help increase your business’s visibility in the community via local media coverage. Follow these...
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