Flower Delivery London - Valentine's Giveaway

Flower Delivery London - Valentine's Giveaway

If ever there was a year to embrace Valentine's Day, it is surely this one. This year we all need that bit more kindness, love and excuse to treat ourselves and others. We've teamed up with Kemp Kitchen and MASAJ to run a give-away; adding some treats for someone you love to win in addition to a flower delivery in London.  Between us, we've got every type of love covered. Here is what we are all offering this Valentine’s Day with details of how to enter our give-away.

A feast for the eyes – Valentine’s Flower Delivery London

I don’t find it much of a challenge to design bouquets at this time of year – early Spring flowers are some of my very favourites and feature in this year Valentine’s arrangements. I’m using the biggest most premium peach ranunculus available, with ranunculus support acts in dark red and a ruffly peach number. Tulips are at the core of everything I make in this season and this bouquet is no exception; I am using three varieties in a soft pink, a chocolate and a tall French white tulip. Possibly the most exciting element to the bouquet lies dormant upon arrival: magnolia buds will eventually open in your homes and though their beauty is ephemeral, they are worth the wait and the fleeting moment. Our Valentine’s bouquets come in four sizes, ranging from £45 - £110.

Purchase a Valentine’s Day Flower Delivery in London here.

Relax and indulge – MASAJ awakens the senses

MASAJ, East London based bodywork studio, are sending their aromatherapy goods and partnership products nationwide. As a company they endeavour to make all of their processes and products wholly sustainable. All of their products are 100% natural and are handmade in small batches, from their essential oil blends to their soy candles.

Their ‘Love Bundle’ contains:

• Limited Edition 100% pure essential oils MASAJ LOVE Candle (100g) (Lemon, Bergamot and Patchouli)

• MASAJ Pink Himalayan Salt (500g)

• Land Chocolate (60g) - Vegan option available

• Mini MASAJ Studio Oil (50ml)

• Handwritten ‘Make Hearts Happy’ Postcard

You can upgrade your Bundle by choosing to add a Perlesque Selene Palm Massager to the set and/or add a 30, 60 or 90 Minute MASAJ Treatment Voucher for the ultimate upgrade - valid for 6 months from the date their Studios are able to safely reopen.

Purchase a MASAJ Love Bundle here.

Eat your heart out – Kemp Kitchen’s Valentine’s Box

Usually working in food styling and shoot catering, El of Kemp Kitchen, was one of the very first to turn her hand to home meals in the face of the pandemic, and in addition, fed many who were going without. As one of the many ‘pivot experiments’, we partnered up then, adding London flower delivery to her meals by bike. After the success of her Christmas hampers, she has packaged her ‘Valentine’s Box’, a collection of her most loved treats available for nationwide delivery. Perfect for Valentine’s, Galentines, or to send in the post to someone you miss.

The Valentines Box includes

• 4 brown butter chocolate blondies

• 6 coconut macaroons

• Jar of Seville & blood orange marmalade

• Jar of chilli jam

• A bag of Kemp Kitchen buckwheat granola

• Raspberry & pistachio dark chocolate

• Halen Môn Bloody Mary ketchup

Kemp Kitchen are donating 10% of the profits to St Mungo’s, a charity working tirelessly to end homelessness.

Purchase Kemp Kitchen’s Valentine’s Box here.

Flower Delivery London – How to enter our London Valentine's Giveaway

Win the ultimate Valentine’s Day treat for someone you love. You/they could win:

• A Limited Edition MASAJ LOVE Bundle

• A Kemp Kitchen Valentine's Box

• ​A Still Life Flowers Valentine's Bouquet

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​All you have to do is:
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​✔️Follow ALL THREE brands on Instagram @stilllifeflowers @masajme_ @kempkitchen
​✔️Like the relevant post of their pages
​✔️Tag someone who deserves to win this glorious prize!
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Each comment counts as a new entry, and we'll combine all the entries across each brands' posts to select a winner at random at 6pm on Monday 8th February. Because we're all in need of a little love this February, MASAJ will send a Treatment Voucher to the winning entrant too.
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Good luck to all entrants…and for those that don’t want to take their chances, here is a link to our Valentine’s Flowers for London Delivery.

Flower Delivery in London - Five Flower Arrangement Techniques and Tips

Coronavirus, as for many, has necessitated the rethinking of my business model and what I can offer to my clients.

It’s meant muddling through and continuing to struggle at times, but it has also provided the opportunity for growth – pushing me out of my introverted comfort zone; connecting with more businesses, more people, adapting my skill set…hustling!!

One new addition has been a web shop, offering luxury flowers for customers to enjoy in their homes. 

Another first (bar the odd Instagram caption) is sharing my thoughts in public…and so here you are reading my first ever blog post…Hello!

With my introduction out of the way, I would like to share with you five tips for arranging flowers at home.

1.     Flower prep and care

On receiving or purchasing your flowers, take care to remove all packaging as soon as is possible.

Remove the lower leaves of the flowers (this will most likely have already been done for you and is one of the perks with a pre-arranged bouquet). The reason for this is, any leaves under water will add bacteria to the water that your flowers are drinking from, shortening their vase life.

When you’re ready to position your flowers, cut all stems at an angle before plunging into cool water. Cutting your stems at an angle gives them a larger surface area to absorb water.

2.    Choosing your vase

One of the most common faux-pas I see with flower arranging is where too big a vase has been used. My two cents are - whichever sized vase you may think you need, you most likely need to go smaller!

The key is to go for a vase with a relative neck size to your bouquet (or number of stems). 

• Too big a neck and your flowers will splay unintentionally creating a sort of crown effect with no flowers in the middle and nothing standing sprightly.

• Too tight a neck and you’ll lose the ability to arrange any kind of shape and organic feel – everything will stand too firm and upright.

Take the above photo as an example – tall stems, and few of them, require a smallish neck so that they can stand tall and proud. As you can see, the vase itself is relatively small. 

The key is always in the neck…Go smaller than you think…

3.    Create a Grid

You may have seen florists using chicken wire or tape to create a grid that facilitates the desired shape. With the right vase size, you can also have control over your arrangements using the stems themselves to create a grid.

• With your initial stems, place them so that they cross each other. Your first stems will lean against the neck of your vase. Continue criss-crossing your stems as you place them, creating a grid formation. 

• At a certain point your grid will be strong enough to hold stems at different angles i.e. not just how they wish to fall. Play with the different angles and positions you can place your flowers at, now that you have this grid. I like to place my grid flowers low and short and finish with taller more pronounced stems.

4.    Style considerations

For a Still Life Flowers take on your arrangement try the following steps:

• Cut mostly shorter stems for your initial grid-forming-flowers, taking care not to arrange two flowers at exactly the same length next to one another. You want to group your flowers without creating a flat surface area.

• Start building with middle length stems, still working with shorter ones to add points of depth throughout your arrangement. Think about your flowers moving in and out, creating an irregular and exaggerated shape rather than a round smooth shape. 

• Now that you have a strong grid, build height with taller stems in two thirds of your arrangement.

• Finish your flower arrangement by adding your tallest stem(s) in the other one third.

The overall finish should feel airy and asymmetric. 

5.     Secret mechanics

My last tip is for those who have a vase with a perfect neck size but the height of the vase is just too tall for the stems that you are working with.  This tip is really only for ceramic vases or opaque options that you can’t see the mechanics through. 

Really quick and simple – scrunch up the cellophane that your flowers came in and pad out the bottom of the vase. You can achieve the same thing by using marbles or pebbles, which can be a good idea especially for otherwise lightweight vases that might topple with taller stems. When you’ve done this, apply the same steps as above and your flowers will sing….remember to keep your water topped up high whilst your stems don’t reach the bottom of the vase.

You can use these tips to arrange any of our flowers available on our Shop, please visit our range for collection here…and remember, in these hot summer months to keep your flowers out of direct sunlight for the best possible vase life.