A simple vase of white lilies with lush tropical foliage…
Sometimes you just have to go a little bit over the top, what a wonderful surprise gift though!
A large basket full of roses, lilies, alstromeria, orchids, etc…
This morning I felt like going away, do you ever get the feeling? You just want to be somewhere else, doing something else for a while, even just for today. Of course, it’s usually not possible… so today I thought I’d just post some lovely green things that make me happy, inspire me, help me breathe again, and remind me of the wonderful places where the photos were taken… enjoy…
Perfect leaf at Springbrook, in the cool meander to the beginning of the walking track
Fern at Grandma’s house.
Tendril in a tropical garden.
Moss on a log at Binna Burra.
Adam’s Garden Florist will be closed on Monday 1st of October for the Queen’s Birthday Holiday (It’s a new date in Queensland this year). Apologies for any inconvenience! We hope you have a great day! Much love, AGF
What does a florist do with a few spare minutes and a long piece of gymea leaf? Why, make a green rosette! (and post it here, of course!)
Maybe a fun alternative to a traditional boutonniere or corsage? Hmm… or even instead of a bow for the hair? Oh the possibilities!
Well, you all know about our penchant for air plants, we found some vintage glassware (including a pear!) to make up this wonderful trio…
We like to show you the unusual flowersΒ we sometimes have at Adam’s Garden, so this week we are giving you a portrait of an giant onion flower – the ‘allium giganteum’ or ‘allium ball’. Although, it’s far too pretty to have a name like that surely! Perhaps it should be called allium- purple mist, or something like that.
New this week are these curious hand written typographical funny and affirmative note cards. They are not a traditional open-up card, but a thick cardboard plaque if you will, with a message, ready for you to place somewhere to surprise someone and spread good feelings…
There are more messages in store! Some of our favourites include ”Some days are just oopsy days’ and ‘I dig your moustache’
Blossom is one of our favourite things! Comes in white and pink. Small delicate flowers on wintery sticks.
Available by pre-order only.
Welcome to our new website!
Please bear with us as we work on making it better and add lots of wonderful things for you to see.
Over the coming weeks we hope to add a shop functionality… there may be a few hiccups… but hopefully not…
Much love,
the AGF team.
Yes, we’re open tomorrow for Mother’s Day…
1: A nice bunch of flowers?
2: An arrangement in a box?
3: A silk arrangement?
4: An interesting plant?
It’s so hard to decide!
We have all the usual things in cut flowers, with fresh flowers arriving every day this week. Orchids, chrysanthemums, disbuds, lilies,roses, etc… just have a think and call us when you’re ready.
If you’d like to see more pictures head over to our direct2florist shop.
We also said we’d post some pictures of the new plants we have in store… so here we are:
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| Plectranthus mona lavender, medinilla myrantha, and 2 guzmania/bomeliads |
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| ‘life on the rocks’ dwarf umbrella tree, calathea makoyana, alocasia black velvet, peperomia |
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| aloe parrasana, crassula ‘hobbit’, succulent whose name I forget!, & haworthia limifolia |
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Wishing all mums, grandmums, nanas, and other special women who have played positive roles in the lives of others, a very happy day, we hope they know how much they are loved and appreciated!
This year Mother’s Day is on Sunday the 13th May.
We already know that gerberas will be scarce – they always are around mother’s day as the weather is getting cooler and as there’s such a high demand. But there are plenty of other flowers that are really lovely!
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| Rose and Asiatic lily bouquet |
We have some new plants in store too, cute succulents and interesting indoor plants. We’ll try to get some photos to post for you.
We had a wonderful customer come in a few weeks ago, saying they had a tricky job for us. We love a challenge, and it was our privilege to be able to do this.
The request was to make a traditional Croatian shield/crest as a floral wreath for a service. Including a ribbon inscribed with ‘Rest in Peace’ but in the Croatian words, ‘PoΔivao u miru BoΕΎjem‘.
We used large and small carnations as the main flower, also some chrysanthemum as necessary to fill the spaces. The green foliage around the edge is mostly gardenia.
We hope you enjoy this one… it was a wedding using all different shades of red roses.
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| Red, red & red roses and glossy black berries as well as celosia to break up the texture |
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| A buttonhole/boutonniere simply with a rose and black berries. This time we used a black dart to hold the stem, it acts almost like a little water vial for the rose. |
We have been doing up some artificial cymbidium orchids in concrete/stone look pots, here’s a preview:
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| Artificial cymbidium orchids in stone look pot. Great for home or office! |
Happy April everybody!
Often when people think of native flowers they think of dull and lifeless, almost dry flowers, that although they will last well, may not be as attractive as other flowers. While this can sometimes be the case, we don’t like dull either, and native flowers don’t have to be!
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| A native bouquet including banksia, protea, luecadendron, lily, celosia, gum. |
We like the sculptural qualities of native flowers, and we like to combine them with other flowers, often vibrant tropical flowers which are also beautiful not only because of their colours, but because of their unique design.
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| Native arrangement including banksia, protea, anthurium, luecadendron, spider orchids, wattle, strelitzia… |
Bouquet, tall arrangement, table arrangement, you are only limited by your imagination! (and what’s in season, of course.)
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| A native arrangement including protea, luecadendron, celosia, button chrysanthemum, banksia, etc… |
I’m sorry, I can’t help it – posting again about tillandsias! We really should put more flowers up here, but anyhoo… who wants to see flowers when you can see a Super Deluxe Terrarium!
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| This is a vintage glass terrarium with white sand, incredibly burrowed driftwood, and three different tillandsia varieties. |
Have a great week everybody!
Here we have 3 small agave plants in a concrete/stone look pot. We like the lush and fresh look of them, just so simple and natural, and pure.
Something like this is suitable for many occasions, from baby boy, to thank you, to sympathy. In this arrangement we have included white oriental lilies (to open), yellow gerberas, blue iris, white freesias, and snow berries, as well as xanadu, gymea and spinning gum for foliage.
Portfolio Work
Adam's Garden FloristSoft toned Bridal Bouquet with King Protea and Cottage Roses26/06/2019 - 3:41 pm
Adam's Garden FloristKing Protea Wedding Flowers19/06/2019 - 3:33 pm
Adam's Garden FloristBaby’s Breath Bridesmaids Posies12/06/2019 - 3:20 pm
Adam's Garden FloristMoody deep reds and ivory Bridal Bouquet05/06/2019 - 3:19 pm
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