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Our crews are still out there servicing container gardening for the holiday season throughout the Boston area. We carry an array of conifers, perennials, cut greens and decor such has sugar cones to make any container pop for the holidays.
Our crews will be working up until Christmas for all your garden needs!
Deliveries can be made to the following towns for a flat rate of $15.50.
Please call before placing an order online for areas outside our delivery zone.
Additional delivery costs may apply.
If delivery address is chosen outside our delivery zone, we will send the order to a florist whom we work with in that area. We will request the arrangement to be as similar as possible, using only premium high quality flowers, to the arrangement you had chosen from our personal website. All of the details for delivery date, card message and address information will be included directly from the original order.
Aubergine is this holidays best seller!
Hues of soft apricot, cream and aubergine combine for the perfect seasonal arrangement. Highlighting stunning Juliet Garden roses, Chianti calla lilies, crisp white hydrangea, cymbidium orchid blossoms and berzilia berries dance among seeded and silver dollar eucalyptus. Gathered into a rounded glass vase with black leaf-line.
The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early Cretaceous. They are the most diverse plant group on Earth with more than 300,000 species. In a new study published in Communications Biology on December 5, 2019, evolutionary biologists around Agnes Dellinger and Jürg Schönenberger from the University of Vienna have analyzed 3-dimensional models of flowers and found that flower shapes can evolve in a modular manner in adaptation to distinct pollinators.
Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes. This diversity has arisen in adaptation to selection imposed by different pollinators including among others bees, flies, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats or rodents. Although several studies have documented that pollinators can impose strong selection pressures on flowers, our understanding of how flowers diversify remains fragmentary. For example, does the entire flower adapt to a pollinator, or do only some flower parts evolve to fit a pollinator while other flower parts may remain unchanged?
In a recent study, scientists around Agnes Dellinger from the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research from the University of Vienna investigated flowers of 30 species of a tropical plant group (Merianieae) from the Andes. “Each of these plant species has adapted to pollination by either bees, birds, bats or rodents,” says Dellinger. Using High-Resolution X-ray computed tomography, the research team produced 3D-models of these flowers and used geometric-morphometric methods to analyze differences in flower shape among species with different pollinators.
The researchers could show that flower shapes have evolved in adaptation to the distinct pollinators, but that flower shape evolution was not homogeneous across the flower. In particular, the showy sterile organs of flowers (petals) adapted to the different pollinators more quickly than the rest of the flower: the reproductive organs have evolved more slowly. “This study is among the first to analyze the entire 3-dimensional flower shape, and it will be exciting to see whether similar evolutionary floral modularity exists in other plant groups,” concludes Dellinger.
Reference: “Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems” by Agnes S. Dellinger, Silvia Artuso, Susanne Pamperl, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Darin S. Penneys, Diana M. Fernández-Fernández, Marcela Alvear, Frank Almeda, W. Scott Armbruster, Yannick Staeder and Jürg Schönenberger, 5 December 2019, Communications Biology.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7
Full article can be found: https://scitechdaily.com/biologists-discover-that-flower-shapes-evolve-to-adapt-to-their-pollinators/
Our Designers have been hard at work this holiday season decorating the greater Boston area. We specialize in custom garland installations for interior and exterior, here are a few photos of entry ways we’ve done.
If you’re interested in having one of our designers transform your home or business for the holidays please contact us, we still have availability for custom installations.
We will be open Sunday’s through the month of December 10am to 3pm. Stop in and check oout all the holiday decor for decorating, a gift or some fresh cut flowers!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, we have a beautiful floral collection for the holiday, here are two centerpieces we are currently spotlighting!
Seeking the perfect holiday centerpiece for your Thanksgiving dinner? This lush autumnal compilation features garden roses, hydrangea, kale and seasonal accents expertly created in a long and low style.
An abundant, lush and bright fall arrangement designed in a rectangular glass vase perfect for the centerpiece on a long table. Orange amaryllis, cherry brandy roses, mango calla lilies, highlighted by textual foliage, dried wheat and a showstopping cut ruby pomegranate.
Shop our Thanksgiving designs today to find the piece (or two!) that will certainly impress every guest!
Order Today through Saturday 11/23 and receive 10% off your online purchase using promo code THANKS19 at checkout!
Offer valid through Saturday November 23rd at 11:59pm. This promo is for online Floral Collection sales only. Product can be picked up at our Beacon Hill location or hand delivered by our staff throughout our delivery zone.
This arrangement Cedar was created for our Thanksgiving collection. Rich, autumnal hues create a stunning arrangement. Elongated in shape ideal for a holiday centerpiece, the perfect host gift or just-because occasion. This elegant piece include amaryllis, cymbidium orchids, calla lilies, freesia and dutch hydrangea in a gold glass vessel.
Our designers have just wrapped up the late fall / Thanksgiving collection, ne collection and be viewed on our website under Floral Collection.
Lush, elongated and seasonal this is the perfect holiday arrangement to gather the family around this Thanksgiving. Rich blues, reds and pink combine in a silver mercury glass bowl, Hydrangea, garden roses, protea, ilex berries, calla lilies, freesia and orchids.