It’s Not Too Late to Say Merry Christmas with Flowers This Year

Did you know that Christmas is the most popular time of the year to send flowers? While Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day are close runner-ups, according to the Society of American Florists, 30 percent of flower and plant sales occur during this time of year. Wow! That’s pretty amazing!

If you haven’t had a chance to order holiday flowers, you’re probably thinking it’s too late to place your order in time for Christmas. But luckily, Turpin’s Florist is here to help! Whether you’ve been struggling to find the perfect gift for a family member, friend or colleague, or you simply haven’t had the time to make all of your arrangements for the Christmas holiday, you can still place your orders with Turpin’s Florist for holiday florals, guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas!

Turpin’s Florist, your favorite online florist, has the most delightful flowers, centerpieces, and gift baskets for Christmas delivery. Not only do we have a wide selection of beautiful holiday arrangements, we’re also offering great savings on items starting at $29.99 with our online coupon codes. Order our “Kincade’s Childhood Home” holiday centerpiece and get $20 off with coupon code C2008E!

You’ll find that we have tons of great choices on our website to spread holiday cheer this year. From red carnations and evergreens to rich red roses and luxurious white lilies, our holiday floral arrangements are the perfect addition to your Christmas place setting or as a gift to loved ones near and far.

If you’re looking for something for business associates, our “Blooms and Goodies” basket is a lovely way to show your appreciation and send best wishes for a wonderful Christmas holiday. It’s filled with gourmet treats and goodies, as well as a Christmas poinsettia, which is the season’s most popular flower.

Our “Poinsettia Planter” is a gorgeous holiday favorite and top seller. We’ve paired this beautiful traditional flower with a modern ceramic striped planter. It’s perfect for decorating your home, or as a Christmas gift for anyone on your list.

Our “Candy Cane Lane” and “Christmas Roses” arrangements are also popular choices! So don’t forget to visit our website and order a Christmas floral arrangement, centerpiece or gift basket today!

Celebrate Christmas with Traditional Holiday Flowers

Each year, we celebrate the miracle of Christmas with a variety of symbols, customs and traditions that have been passed down for hundreds of years. One of the most common symbols of the Christmas season is the poinsettia. This red, star-shaped Christmas floral is a native of Mexico, and is known in Central America as the Flame Leaf and Flower of the Holy Night, a most beautiful and fitting name. In the legend of the poinsettia, two small children wanted to bring gifts to their church for the Baby Jesus, but were too poor to purchase anything. Instead, they picked some weeds growing by the side of the road on their way to their church, and when they placed them by the manger, the weeds turned into bright red petals for all to see.

The legend of the poinsettia is a story as beautiful as its vibrant, red petals. If you want to send flowers this Christmas, poinsettias make wonderful Christmas gifts for friends and family members both near and far. They are the perfect holiday flowers to celebrate this festive and joyous time of the year. They’re also ideal for decorating the home.

Roses are also one of the most popular flowers of the Christmas season. These beautiful blooms are sure to brighten the faces of any friend, family member, client or colleague that you send them to. They are a great way to send well wishes during the holiday season, and make wonderful centerpieces for decorating and entertaining.

This year, Turpin’s Florist, your favorite online florist is helping its customers celebrate the Christmas holiday, and the gift giving season by offering a variety of beautiful holiday floral arrangements, filled with traditional holiday flowers such as poinsettias and roses, as well as other delightful additions including red carnations, lilies, white poms, berries and evergreens. And don’t worry, it’s not too late to order your holiday floral arrangement. Our “Holiday Traditions” and “Glowing Elegance” floral arrangements are designed to compliment your holiday place setting, while our “Holiday Elegance” and “Christmas Roses” make stunning holiday gifts for loved ones. Our “Kinkade’s Childhood Home” not only is an enchanting arrangement complete with a delightful hand-painted cottage, it also comes with the chance to win one of three exciting prizes, including a trip for two to Monterey, California.

From the decorating of the tree to the exchanging of gifts and holiday floral arrangments, we hope that your Christmas is filled with joy, merriment and hope as you share the customs of the season with your loved ones. We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of our floral arrangements and look forward to helping you brighten the season with poinsettias, roses, lilies and more! Call us today to place your holiday orders. Merry Christmas from Turpin’s Florist!

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?

To order flowers for your grandparents shop Turpinsflorist.com today

How to Select A Florist

How to Select a Florist

When you need to send a bouquet or gift basket to cheer up a friend, or celebrate a birthday or anniversary, you know how important it is that that bouquet or basket has to be “just right.” It has to look wonderful, be wonderful, and arrive on time.

As the saying goes, you only have one chance to make a good first impression. If there’s a problem with the delivery or the product, a replacement bouquet or basket sure won’t have the same impact as that first arrival.

So when choosing a florist, you want to make sure you’re dealing with a reputable company that has a reputation for delivering excellent flowers or gift baskets, nicely designed, and that will arrive on time at its destination. You also want to make sure that the prices you spend are comparable.

1. Reputation for fresh flowers, tastefully arranged

2. Reputation for varieties of flowers, from common to exotic

3. Reputation for on-time delivery

4. Reputation for friendly sales people and floral designers

5. Reputation for comparable price with competitors

While it is certainly possible to visit florists on the web – practically every florist business these days will have a website of some kind, it’s also nice to be able to visit a “bricks-and-mortar” store and talk to the friendly service people there. You can see their offerings at first hand, smell ‘em, touch ‘em, enjoy ‘em.

But a florist’s website is also crucial. At their website, you can see all the information you need to know, from their opening and closing hours, to their delivery times, to the flowers and gift baskets they have on offer, to their prices, to their delivery charges.

You can also purchase flowers, plants, gift baskets and so on from their website, and once again you can compare prices on each item.

Oh, those prices. Price should never be your first or even second consideration when ordering flowers for a friend or loved one. There’s no point in paying a little bit of money for an inferior product, that’s worse than sending nothing at all. On the other hand, you don’t want to pay an exorbitant amount of money, either.

That’s the joy of surfing the internet, you can compare prices on a variety of florists, and combining that with information you already know, make an informed decision.

Some florists have been in business for decades – as for example, Turpin’s Florist! However, some have sprouted up overnight…and how can you tell the wheat from the chaff. Well, there’s always the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.com) a company that keeps track of any complaints made against a business. It’s always a good thing to check out the BBB whenever you are about to do business with a new company.

Then of course there’s word of mouth. If your friends have had good experiences with a certain florist, they’ll probably direct you there, too. You’ll still want to check them out, though.