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Make Mirrors Out of Fresh Flowers When you order an online delivery of flowers or someone sends flowers to you from an online florist, you might be looking for creative ways to use those flowers. Sure, you can always place them on your desk or table to serve as decorations, but there’s also more creative and innovative things you can do with them as...

Tutorial: How to Make Bath Salts from Flower Petals When you’re the recipient of an online delivery of flowers, you might think that you can only enjoy your flower bouquets as long as the blossoms stay alive. However, although you can’t prevent the flowers from eventually wilting and fading, you can still get some use from them after they’re gone per Mother Nature’s course....

Flower Bouquets on Social Media When you receive flowers from a lover, friend, family member or anyone else, you likely dread the moment that the flowers will wilt, and their beauty will be lost forever. However, in today’s technologically-advanced world, that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. There are ways that you can digitally capture your flowers when you’re the recipient of an...

Holiday Decorating Ideas with Flowers The holidays are supposed to be a cheerful, happy time, so it’s only fitting that the atmosphere of your home or office reflect that as well. Nothing says “cheerful” and “happy” more than fresh arrangements of flowers that fill the room with life and vibrant. Part of what’s great about flowers is that there are blooms for every season...

What kind of flowers grow in Rainy Season Whether you are a lover of nature or not, you will love the magic of seasons that impacts the natural environment around you. One such example is the impact that the monsoons have on flowers. Different flowers bloom in different seasons. Difference in temperatures, soil pH level and climatic conditions are the primary reasons that different...

How to Photograph Flowers The October heat is here and flowers are starting to bloom everywhere. It is surely the correct time to go outside with your camera and capture the beauty that unfolds around you after the heavy seasonal monsoon. For Non Professional photography enthusiast, it is very vital to understand how lighting, time of the day and depth of field will impact...

Keep Your Flower Bouquets Forever by Digitalizing Them Modern technology has made it so that you can order flowers online from an online florist and schedule to have them delivered to your home or that of a recipient at the date and time that you specify. This makes it extremely convenient for you to ensure that your home is always supplied with fresh flower...

Ways to Re-purpose Almost Dead Flowers When you buy flowers online, you’re sure to be pleased with their vibrant look while they’re fresh, but what do you do when they start wilting and dying? If you’re like most people, your instinct is to simply throw them out and opt for some new, fresher bouquets. However, just because your flowers are a bit wilted doesn’t...

Ditch the Vase: Innovative Ways to Display Your Flowers When you order flowers online or are the recipient of an online delivery of flowers, you’ll likely want to display your flower bouquets for as long as you can. Although some flower arrangements come in vases, all of them don’t. While you can always stick your flower arrangements in a vase, there are plenty of...

Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the biggest festivals in Southern India. It is celebrated with much dedication and pomp as a way of respecting Lord Ganesh, the giver of wisdom and prosperity. Each and every person in Mumbai thus comes together, unified, to participate in this largely waited once in a year event, making it a truly memorable occasion. The glint and glitter of...

The medicinal properties of flowers which are commonly found in and around our gardens or at any florist’s shop is a lesson in healing much cheaper and safer than being subjected to a lot of other harmful medicinal practices. This knowledge is one which has been prevalent not only over a wide span of time but has also been shared among different countries and...

Using Silk Flowers for Monograms Flowers are timeless gifts, which is part of why they are one of the most popular types of gifts to give. In today’s modern world where almost everything can be conducted online, it’s not uncommon for people to buy flowers online from an online florist and have them delivered to their recipients. However, you don’t only have to settle...

Low-Maintenance Flower Arrangements Sending flowers to a friend, family member, coworker or other recipient is a great way to show that you care, and it’s an ideal solution when you don’t know what to give the recipient. When you’re getting ready to schedule an online delivery of flowers, though, you might be despairing over what type of flowers you should send your recipient. If...

How to Keep Flowers Fresh with Household Items Flowers, though beautiful in nature, provide a pleasing effect and has its own charm and is a delight when someone sends it to you when you least expect it or for that matter from someone least expected. Flowers, being perishable in nature, do wither away in a few days even though the utmost care is taken...

Online Flower Gift Delivery in India Gifting has always been a very tedious process especially when it is something personal that you have to give but don’t know what and how to present the gift. From searching from the ideal gift to the presentation of the gift to the receiver is quite an uphill task. We at May Flower have received many such requests...

Flowers that help in fighting cancer Periwinkle This pretty plant from Madagascar gives us two very important cancer-fighting medicines: vinblastine and vincristine. Vinblastine has helped increase the chance of surviving childhood leukaemia from 10% to 95%, while vincristine is used to treat Hodgkins’ Disease. Traditional Madagascan healers used the rosy periwinkle for treating diabetes. This led to its study by western scientists who then...

A flower has bloomed in space for the first time ever, aboard the International Space Station. On Saturday, American astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photograph of a zinnia flower that had blossomed in the space laboratory. Kelly has been working there since March 2015 and has become the resident gardener on board. This accomplishment brings space explorers a step closer to growing fresh produce...

How to choose the right flowers for the right occasion Picking out the right kind of flowers for different occasions can be quite a challenging task. What kind of flowers to get, or what color should they be or what form they should be in i.e. hand bunch or basket or vase etc. Many such factors must be taken into consideration before making a...

Steps to Create a Simple Hand Tied Bunch of Flowers Making a hand bunch may look difficult but knowing the basic technique and choosing the correct flowers will make your bunch a breeze and a few easy steps and you can easily make your own beautiful bunch of flowers. Your first step should be picking up a bunch of flowers that you wish to...

It is the peak of Summer and this year the heat has been extremely erratic and temperatures have reached high degree’s than usual across India. Us humans are barely being able to survive these temperatures, hence one can image how this would affect fresh flower arrangements. Flowers go thru a long journey after being harvested and packed at the growers to being transported to...