Caring for Flower Gifts
by: Clinton Porter
If you?ve been given Flowers as a gift, it?s useful to know how to look after the bouquet or arrangement to help make the present last as long as possible. There are a number of things you can do in order to ensure you get the most out of any gift of Flowers.
Flower Bouquets:
? Cut off of least 3 cms from the bottom of soft stemmed Flowers, e.g. chrysanthemums, before placing them in water.
? Try to cut Flower stems at a sharp angle of 45 degrees based on the fact that cutting stems at such an angle helps stem cells take in water because of increases gained in the stem cell surface area.
? For all Flowers, remove any leaves which will sit below water level ? this prevents them rotting and encouraging algae to grow in the vase water.
? Be careful not to damage Flower stems as this will damage cell structure and impair the Flower?s ability to absorb water ? it will also destroy some of the structural strength in the Flowers and prevent them from last as long as they otherwise might.
? Use the Flower Food supplied with your gift.
? Avoid putting the Flowers in direct sunlight.
? Cut stems every 3 days to avoid bacteria blocks in the stem and ensure you change Flower water regularly.
Flower Arrangements:
? Make sure those arrangements which sit in wet Floral Foam are fed water on a daily basis.
? Spray the arrangement daily with a light water mist and take off any ageing flowers.
? Avoid putting Flowers in direct sunlight, draughty spots or near heat.
? Do not place Flowers close to ripening fruit as it can release ethylene gas emissions which will prematurely age certain Flowers.
? Strive for temperatures of 21?C for the day and 10? to 13?C for the night.
About The Author
Clinton Porter is a search engine optimisation consultant with Nvisage (http://www.nvisage.co.uk/whatwedo/search_engine_optimisation.asp) for Flowers4 Online flower shops and florists (http://www.flowers4.co.uk/) specialists in Wedding and bridal flowers, Funeral and sympathy flowers. Order and send fresh flowers online for same day and next day delivery.
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How To Shop For Christmas Gifts
How To Shop For Christmas Gifts
by: Steve Hawker
Okay. Christmas is coming, fast. It's time to panic. After all, you don't want to relive last Christmas Eve. There you were, at ten to five in the evening, standing in a large department store, with two gifts still to buy and a distinct shortage of cash. 'Never again!' you said at the time. Remember?
Here is a rough guide on how to shop for Christmas gifts:
1. Decide how much you can really afford to spend. Now, take 10% off that figure for extras, like wrapping paper, ribbon, bows, tags etc. Then, divide the sum remaining by the number of people you will probably buy gifts for. Redistribute the money, so that you allocate more to close friends and relatives and less to distant ones. You now have a rough budget.
2. Identify whom, exactly, you are going to exchange gifts with. There are few things worse in life than receiving a Christmas gift from someone when you have not bought anything...
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Increase Your Response Rate With This Killer Promotional Gift Tactic
Increase Your Response Rate With This Killer Promotional Gift Tactic
by: Cindy Carrera
You've been around the block a time or two.
When it comes to choosing promotional gifts for your clients, you know your stuff.
Why, you always get the nicest phone calls, notes and emails from your clients, thanking you for their gifts.
The question is: do those people call and write again with new orders for your company's product or service?
Which, when all is said and done, is what giving clients promotional gifts is all about.
Right?
Of course!
And most of the time after those polite thank you calls and notes, you hear nothing, at least not right away and certainly not in the way of increased orders and sales.
That's why you need to know this secret to giving the perfect promotional gifts to your clients-and guarantee results your accountant will notice.
The secret is personalization.
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The History Behind Traditional Anniversay Gifts
The History Behind Traditional Anniversay Gifts
by: Charlie Welf
Nobody can say with any amount of certainty when the tradition of giving anniversary gifts started. Most probably it evolved over time. Traditionally, each wedding anniversary is celebrated by giving a gift made from a different material. The first anniversary is symbolized with paper, and subsequently anniversary gifts become more precious or scarce to reflect the growing number of years a couple has remained together.
Some say calling the twenty-fifth anniversary Silver Anniversary and the fiftieth anniversary Gold anniversary may have originated in medieval Europe, where wives were given a silver wreath to celebrate their twenty-fifth year of marriage and a gold wreath for their fiftieth anniversary. Diamonds are traditional in both the sixtieth and seventy-fifth years.
The traditional anniversary gifts list may seem somewhat boring, but it doesn't have to be. There are...
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Outdoors Gifts
Outdoors Gifts
by: Rick Chapo
Outdoors gifts are some of the easiest to find and buy. The only limitation is your imagination and bank account.
Outdoors Gifts
In creating the following list of ideas for outdoors gifts, I?ve tried to cover prices ranging from the very affordable to the obscene. And here we go?
1. Vermont Fly Fishing Trip ? If you?re buying for a fly fishing fanatic, a Vermont Fly Fishing Trip will have them on their knees, bowing to you. These trips are full day and half day wading trips on the streams around the Green Mountain area and represent fly fishing at its best. Half days will run in the $200 range while full day trips will cost you in the $360 area. Do a search on the net to find providers.
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Why Does Santa Bring Gifts?
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The giving of presents at Christmas time actually dates back over 4000 years to the Mesopotamians. They believed that every year in winter their primary god Marduk would do battle with the evil spirits of chaos. Upon Marduk's return it was necessary for the king to then pledge his allegiance to the God and he would die at the end of the year. The Mesopotamians obviously cottoned on to the fact that they were going through kings quicker than they could produce them, so they would dress a convict up as the king and treat him as though he...
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How To Benefit From The 12 Days of Christmas
How To Benefit From The 12 Days of Christmas
by: Jeanette Cates
When you see all of the wonderful gifts being offered by the 12 Days of Christmas special offer program you may feel overwhelmed. But don't worry. If you follow this easy plan, you'll feel like you're in control of the valuable items you're about to receive.
Use this approach to maximize your investment of time.
1. First, create a new 12days folder to hold all of your goodies. You can create it on the desktop or in your My Documents folder. Just remember where you put it. You'll be using it a lot in the next few days!
2. Next print the list of gifts. Just use the File, Print command in your browser. You'll use this list to check off those offers that you have already completed.
3. Now save that same page in your new folder (File, Save as...) You'll use this in the future when you come back to this folder. It makes it easier and faster to find a specific item again.
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