Carl has entered the Blue September Placemakers 600m sea swim on 29th September. This event is to raise money for prostate cancer awareness and support for men with the disease. The swim is at 10am from the Nelson Yacht Club.
You can help make a difference by donating to the cause by following this link. http://www.everydayhero.co.nz/carl_flowers4nelson
We have a bumper crop of spring flowers in the garden right now, so decided to share the excess by making our delightful pocket posies and giving them to Nelson Hospice and Manuka Street Hospital and some of the local Nelson Rest Homes for the residents, staff and patients to enjoy.
Tulips in the garden are growing quickly now the temperatures are warming up outside, and the buds are showing the bright colours of the flowers. I did a little test on the bulbs I planted this year; half I planted straight into the garden in early April; the other half I put in the bottom of the fridge for a month before planting them in the garden.
The bulbs that went into the fridge are flowering first.
Flowers for Nelson is delivering both Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd for Fathers Day deliveries.
Check out our Fathers Day page for plants, flowers and gift hamper ideas for Fathers day.
Well the rainwater tank is certainly well topped up this month; With all the rain the ground is certainly wet, and we in Nelson are asking where is our sun?
We have manged to plant a few due Dahlia and Gladi in the garden with more to plant when we get some fine days.
Always amazing how in the middle of winter the bulbs are sending up there pretty flowers for us to enjoy. Our Hyacinths have been flowering for some weeks now, and continue to provide us with beautiful scented flowers in a range of colours to use in your short stem posies, and box arrangements. Enjoy……..
Bride of the year show for 2012 is on July 14th at the Hope Community Church in Ranzau Road.
All proceeds from the night go to the Nelson Region Hospice Trust
Tickets $40 on sale from 29th June at: Prices Pharmacy, Queen St Pharmacy and Motueka Pharmacy.
Contact Heather Harley 545 1633 
A memorial service will be held on Saturday 16th June at the Nelson Cathedral, for well known Nelson artist Jane Evans.
Jane passed away at her home in Nelson on Friday 8th of June.
One of our customers ordered from us for small flower posies in bright colours with fragrant flowers to be sent to Jane every two or three days over the last few weeks of her life.
Our customer told us that Jane had the flowers all around her and enjoyed and appreciated them. It has been a great pleasure for Flowers 4 Nelson to provide these flowers, and to help make Jane’s last days a little better.
Our Hyacinths have started to flower and we are using them in box and ceramic pot flower arrangements ( the stems being short are too small for use in bunches). The scent these flowers produce is beautiful.
I was so proud of Flowers 4 Nelson’s ANZAC wreaths at the dawn service in Nelson this morning. Local MP for Nelson, Nick Smith and several local organisations laid wreaths I had made and they really stood out as being beautiful and professional.
The wreaths were full of flowers and looked so much livelier and vibrant than the others.
ANZAC wreath 2012