{"id":1461,"date":"2007-02-09T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-09T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T09:18:05","slug":"frozen-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florist20.com\/blog\/real-florist-blog\/frozen-roses","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real florists have taken a verbal\u00a0beating from paid radio personalities telling listeners that our flowers are inferior and urging shoppers to purchase the cheap blooms from\u00a0companies like <strong>ProFlowers.com<\/strong>.\u00a0Last week we discussed how <a href=\"http:\/\/realflorists.flowerchat.com\/2007\/02\/02\/a-real-pro-for-valentines-day-flowers\/\">flowers from a box take the professional presentation\u00a0and the romance out of receiving Valentine&#8217;s Day flowers<\/a>, especially at the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0not just florists that think the <a href=\"http:\/\/durbinmedia.com\/brandstorming\/2007\/01\/some-assembly-required.asp\">&#8216;fresh from the box&#8217;\u00a0experience is unromantic and disappointing<\/a>\u00a0and projects &#8216;when you care enough to spend the very least&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At that time, none of us could have anticipated the extreme cold\u00a0across much of the US so it&#8217;s time to talk about the effect of sub-freezing temperatures on Valentine&#8217;s Day roses and compare what local florists do vs the boxes shipped by <strong>ProFlowers<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Hallmark<\/strong>, <strong>FTD<\/strong> and <strong>1-800-Flowers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Local Florists<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver\u00a0flowers <strong>in water<\/strong> so the blooms don&#8217;t dehydrate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wrap and even double wrap<\/strong> your entire arrangement to protect it from being frozen.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Protect your\u00a0arrangements in their stores until just the moment they are placed into <strong>heated trucks<\/strong> for delivery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hand deliver<\/strong> your flowers to your office or home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Never<\/strong> leave your roses or other flowers to freeze on the doorstep if no one&#8217;s there.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Boxes shipped from ProFlowers, Hallmark, FTD and 1-800-Flowers <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ProFlowers Frozen Roses\" alt=\"ProFlowers Frozen Roses\" src=\"http:\/\/floristblogs.com\/photos\/bloomery\/images\/4072\/secondarythumb.aspx\" align=\"right\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May be <strong>shipped with little or no water<\/strong> to sustain the flowers<\/li>\n<li>Pass from\u00a0warehouses\/distribution centers to trucks to <strong>FedEx<\/strong> or <strong>UPS<\/strong> planes to airport hangars to more trucks to another set of distribution centers\u00a0and finally\u00a0into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/floristblogs.com\/blogs\/smiths_of_midland_mi\/archive\/2007\/02\/01\/frozen-roses-say-it-s-not-so.aspx\">unheated delivery vans<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Can and will be left at front doors, on doorsteps and porches<\/strong> if no one is home or the office is closed. It&#8217;s part of box shipper agreements negotiated with\u00a0overnight delivery companies to cut corners and keep prices as\u00a0cheap as possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch this\u00a0video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FNYGZHPKQgs\" target=\"_blank\">unboxing ProFlowers.com frozen roses<\/a> that had been left on a porch for a couple hours in\u00a0freezing temperatures.\u00a0They&#8217;re not exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/floristblogs.com\/blogs\/bloomery\/archive\/2007\/02\/03\/do-you-think-your-flowers-are-fresh-from-the-field.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">fresh from the fields<\/a>. 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