Rocket Florist Gifts & Flowers Directory : Gift Shops, Florists, Gift Ideas - Caring For Fresh Flowers

International gifts and flowers directory providing listings for gift shops and florists throughout the world, including gift suppliers and flower shops in the USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Plus gift calendars, gift ideas, gifts and flower info.

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The Easy Way to Find Gifts

The Easy Way to Find Gifts

View our gift ideas, gift information and listings for gift shops throughout the world including the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Whether you prefer to shop online for your gifts, or visit the store in person, you'll find a great array of gifts to choose from. Sending a gift to a loved one, family member, friend or colleague is a wonderful way to show you're thinking of them, so don't forget to choose your gift with care and make your recipient feel special.

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Express Yourself Through Flowers

Express Yourself Through Flowers

Saying 'it' with flowers is a time-honoured tradition. Whether you want to say 'I love you','Happy Birthday', 'I miss you', 'Get well soon', 'I'm sorry,' or 'I'm thinking of you' or anything else, sending a bouquet, posy or arrangement of flowers is a lovely way to express yourself. Florists all over the world are creating beautiful, fresh and fragrant flower arrangements from single stems to elaborate floral displays, so you can find the right flowers to send wherever they need to go.

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Giving A Great Gift

Giving A Great Gift

Help is at hand if you're stuck for ideas on what gifts to buy a teenage nephew, favorite grandparent, teacher, friend, colleague or other gift recipient. Simply view our gift store listings and get some great gift ideas from a wide variety of international gift suppliers and stores. You'll find a huge array of gifts to buy online, from stripy socks to hot-air balloon flights, retirement clocks to the coolest gizmos and gadgets, chocolate boxes to gourmet foods and wine, and loads more!

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Finding the Gift That Fits

Finding the Gift That Fits

There are so many gifts to choose from nowadays, it's often hard to know what gift is appropriate for a particular occasion. If you need to choose a suitable gift to give at a bar mitzvah, a retirement, a silver wedding anniversary or a funeral, you'll get some perfect gift ideas (and gift-giving tips) from our gift occasion listings. You may also find a gift that is just a little different, so you can surprise a loved one on their birthday, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or Father's Day.

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Caring For Fresh Flowers

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Fresh flowers will only look good for so long, but here are a few tips to make sure that's for as long as possible!

Flowers love fresh water. Make sure your vase is clean and replace the water every few days. This stops bacteria from blocking the water vessels.
Cut the stems. As soon as a cut stem is exposed to the air it starts to close.
Cut stems under water if you can. If not, get them into water as soon as you snip them. Use a sharp knife rather scissors (scissors can squash the water vessels) and cut stems on an angle in order to create as much surface area for the stem to suck up the water. Repeat every few days.
Strip all leaves on the stem below the waterline. Wet leaves breed bugs, as well as releasing phenols, chemicals that clog the stem, slow budding and wither the blooms. They also tend to go mushy and smell!
Spray flowers with a cool mist. The beads of moisture look pretty too.
Give your flowers some fresh air. Flowers are sensitive to a natural chemical called ethylene. Keep them away from fruit, fungus and rubbish and give them good air circulation (not drafts).
Add extra life for your flowers in your water. Common ways to help flowers last longer include adding a sprinkle of sugar, a brass coin and a drop of lemonade to the water.
Keep poisonous sap separated. The sap of daffodils and narcissi is poisonous to other flowers. Either display them separately or keep them in water on their own for at least 12 hours before mixing with other flowers.
Remove pollen that stains. Avoid getting pollen stains on your clothes or furniture by cutting out pollen stamens in flowers such as lilies.
Talk to your flowers. Well, they say that talking to plants helps their growth! If nothing else, it's relaxing.

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