Saying “Thanks” to Clients and Business Associates This Holiday Season

 

First recognized by European settlers in America, Thanksgiving has become a rich holiday tradition, marked by great food, parades and football. In many households, before partaking of the Thanksgiving meal, family members and friends hold hands and take turn sharing what they are most thankful for. But Thanksgiving isn’t just a time of reflection among loved ones. It’s also a perfect time to share how thankful you are for your clients, business associates and employees, and show your gratitude for their role in your success over the course of the year.

 

Each year companies spend tons of money on holiday cards and gifts to show their clients and business associates just how much they’ve appreciated working with them. But because so many of these tokens of gratitude and holiday cheer are sent around Christmas and Hanukkah, they often get lost in the shuffle. If you’re looking for a way to make your card or gift truly stand out from the deluge of holiday greetings this year, try sending them around Thanksgiving. After all, what better time to show your appreciation and tell a client, business associate or employee “Thank You” for everything they’ve done? Whether you send a card, gift or a bouquet of fresh flowers, filled with the beautiful colors of autumn and the holiday season, your token of appreciation will arrive far in advance of the rush of holiday greetings, make a lasting impression, and truly resonate with the recipient.

 

Save money on holiday bouquets this fall when you shop at Turpin’s Florist online. Use our Fall Savings Coupon to save on beautiful floral arrangements filled with all of your favorite flowers of the season, including fresh burgundy carnations, gold chrysanthemums, butterscotch poms, and two-tone orange roses. Our arrangements also make great host and hostess gifts to say thanks for all of the time and effort our friends and family will be spending in the kitchen, as they prepare our favorite holiday meals.

 

For more holiday gift ideas, give us a call. We have something perfect for every occasion and for everyone on your list!

 

Visit the Norfolk Botanical Gardens

Norfolk Botanical Garden

 

Who among flower lovers in Norfolk, Chesapeake and even Virginia Beach have not visited the Norfolk Botanical Gardens? And if you haven’t been, now’s the time to go!

 

The Garden is located at 6700 Azalea Garden Road in Norfolk, and you can get driving directions from their website, http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/. The Garden offers classes on a variety of subjects… such as leaf casting, one stroke casting, making collages…even creating floral designs, wreaths, and table arrangements.

 

As a professional florist, we’re not afraid of the Garden creating competitors for us! When you need a beautifully arranged bouquet of flowers delivered to that special someone, professional florists are the way to go, and there are plenty of such shops in Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.

 

Floral design is much more than simply sticking a bunch of flowers in a vase, as you doubtless know, or will soon realize one you take a class at the Garden! It requires a skilled eye, an imagination, and a knowledge of what flowers and greenery look well together.

 

So let’s get back to discussing what the Botanical Garden has to offer.

 

If you haven’t been to the Garden since June, you’ll want to go before October 12, so that you’ll be able to visit the Mutambo, an outdoor stone sculpture exhibit, imported from Zimbabwe, to honor the 70th Anniversary of the Garden’s creation by 220 local African Americans…way back in 1938. The figures were not sculpted especially for the occasion, but come from Zimbabwe’s famous Shona Sculpture Park.

 

Now that school is in session, you’ll be sure to see some kids their making their field trips, which can add an extra enjoyment to the day if you like seeing young children running around entranced by the nature all about them.

 

There are a dozen gardens in the Garden, called Signature Gardens:

 

Bicentennial Rose Garden

Bristow Butterfly Garden

Hofheimer Camellia Garden

Flowering Aboretum

Kaufman Hydrangea Garden

Renaissance Garden

Sarah Lee Baker Perennial Garden

Statuary Vista

Virginia Native Plant Garden

World of Wonders – A Children’s Adventure Garden

 

And there are 28 gardens called Themed Gardens. I won’t list them all, but they include the peaceful Japanese Garden, the Hummingbird Garden, and the Colonial Herb Garden.

 

And of course, you can rent various locations in the Garden to hold a wedding, or a conference meeting, or any kind of festive occasion, and what better setting can there be?

 

The Garden is open from 9 am to 7 pm until October.

Never Too Late to Send Flowers to Grandparents.

It’s Not Too Late To Honor A Grandparent

Way back in the early 1970s, a woman named Marian McQuade looked around her and saw that young people weren’t really respecting their elders. Worse than that, many elderly people in nursing homes spent their days forgotten and alone, with no family to visit them and help them pass the time.

She decided that something should be done, and started campaigning for a National Grandparent’s Day. It started out as a grass roots campaign, but gradually through the years various states did indeed set aside a Grandparent’s Day, and in 1978, President Jimmy Carter made it a national event, to be held on the first Sunday after Labor Day.

According to the charter for Grandparent’s Day:

Grandparents are our continuing tie to the near-past, to events and beliefs and experiences that so strongly affect our lives and the world around us. Whether they are our own or surrogate grandparents who fill some of the gaps in our mobile society, our senior generation also provides our society a link to our national heritage and traditions.

Well, since it’s late September, obviously we’ve missed the official Grandparent’s Day in 2008, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate grandparents, in honor of Mrs. McQuade, who died at the glorious age of 91 on September 26, 2008.

Particularly in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas of Virginia, where many parents are in the military and are sent overseas on a regular basis, grandparents regularly rally round to care for their grandchildren.

Time to send them a vase of flowers or a gift basket as an extra special gift for all they do.

But it’s not just about celebrating your own grandparents.

There are plenty of nursing and assisted living homes in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, and indeed, in the entire Tidewater area, where seniors live. For those who are shut-ins, they never get out to see anyone, never get to share their memories and their experience, and that’s a pity…and National Grandparent’s Day was also meant to call attention to them, and to honor them.

And when you visit a nursing home in search of a surrogate grandparent, or just to spend some time with people, why not bring a beautiful basket of fresh flowers along?

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