Saying Thanks During the Holidays

As the year draws to a close and we are in the middle of the season of giving, it’s a great time to send that thank you gift to someone who has helped you throughout the year. It could be a client, teacher, or service personnel. Whoever it is, this is a perfect time of year to gift them with something special like a holiday flower arrangement. To help get you started on your hunt for the perfect thank you holiday gift, consider these Christmas flower arrangements from our holiday collection: • The Believe Mug Bouquet comes in a keepsake ceramic Santa mug that says, “Believe.” The flowers include red roses, carnations, and mini carnations along with white alstromeria and Christmas greenery. • The Holiday Cheer Bouquet includes red roses and mini carnations, white chrysanthemums, green button poms, variegated holly and holiday greenery in a red rectangular ceramic vase that has been tied with a festive

Start Decorating for the Holidays!

In less than three weeks, Christmas will be here so if you haven’t started decorating your home or office for the holidays, it’s time to kick that spirit into high gear. We have all the Christmas decorating supplies you will need to get it done quickly, beautifully, and cost effectively. This week, we’re going to share some great holiday floral centerpieces that are sure to brighten your home or office for the holidays. These are great flower arrangements for the holidays that you can display on a dining table, holiday party table, buffet table, foyer table or even mantle. Check out these ideas now available: • Colorado Christmas Wishes Centerpiece offers two red taper candles that seem to float upon a bed of greenery and roses along with variegated holy, red berries, and pinecones. The two larger size versions of this Christmas floral centerpiece add white Asiatic lilies. • Celebration of the Season Centerpiece is an

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Holiday Party Planning

We’ve got your party planning for the holidays and upcoming New Year’s festivities, including décor, centerpieces, and entertaining items. Here’s a few ideas of what we can offer to set your table and warm your home with holiday decorations: Holiday Centerpieces Colorado Christmas Wishes Centerpiece offers two red taper candles that are surrounded by roses, variegated holly, red berries, pinecone and Christmas greenery. Thomas Kinkade’s Country Christmas Homecoming features a keepsake Kinkade cottage along with red roses, snow white mums, and noble fir. The All White Holiday Centerpiece is perfect for Christmas and even New year’s with it stunning white mix of lilies, roses, and carnations as well as candles and greenery. Another beautiful display that can work throughout the holiday season is the Season’s Glow Centerpiece with white lilies, carnations, statice, and chrysanthemums with a gold plaid wire ribbon and three white taper candles. Gifts and Goodies The party host will enjoy a Go Local

Time to Thanks Those that Helped All Year

As the year closes, it’s a good time to reflect on all the friends, colleagues, and service people who have helped you out throughout the year. Today’s life can get so hectic, and when others step in and provide needed assistance, it’s important to let them know just how much they are appreciated. To help you with your already long list of things to do, we have some great gift ideas that we can take care of for you for those teachers, the pool tech, gardener, cleaner, post person and more who should be thanked for all that they do for you. Check out these great items: Snoopy’s Cookie Jar Bouquet offers a ceramic, hand-painted, and reusable cookie jar filled with red roses, white spray roses, red carnations, white button mums and white cushion mums. The Traditional Tidings Christmas Tree is a magical bouquet shaped from boxwood and trimmed with roses, carnations, greenery, pinecones, ornaments, ribbons

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Christmas Kicks Off with Poinsettia Day on December 12th

Saturday, December 12th is Poinsettia Day, a day to recognize one of the most treasured symbols of Christmas. These beautiful plants in red or white are wonderful ways to decorate your home, office, or event as well as make great gifts for friends, family, colleagues, clients and service staff. All of the poinsettia plants we sell are Colorado grown, providing you with a way to support our local businesses who grow these beautiful plants.  To show you what we have available in the way of poinsettia plants, here are some highlights from our poinsettia collection that comes in various containers like ceramic planter pots, baskets, and tin pots: We have red or white poinsettia plants in various sizes, including six-inch and eight-inch options. We also have a ten-inch red poinsettia plant. Something very special is our pink poinsettia plant, which offers a unique look that others will be sure to notice. It creates a unique look

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Time to Decorate for the Holidays

December is here and many of you are most likely starting to think about the Christmas tree and trimming the home for special guests over the holiday season. If you are creating a festive environment for family friends or hosting a large event for Christmas, consider us as your partner for gorgeous flowers, plants, and holiday accents. Whether you come into our Denver flower shop or browse our online retail florist website, you will be able to see a diverse number of styles, colors, and prices to suit everyone. To get you started, here are some of our personal favorites: Winter Songbird features white roses, snapdragons, and mini carnations as well as assorted greenery in a rustic bark container that is finished off with willow tips, pinecones, baby’s breath and a festive cardinal bird. Heartfelt Celebrations has white roses, burgundy mini carnations, and evergreens in a gold planter as well as gold ornament balls and faux pine

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Get Your Holiday Shopping Started at Veldkamps!

We are now in full holiday shopping mode, so it’s time to get started by vising our Denver flower shop or perusing our online flower shop, which includes our new holiday collection of flowers, centerpieces, traditional décor and special gifts. To get you in the mood, here are some of our festive favorites and holiday highlights from this season’s floral and gift collection. We love the Thomas Kinkade’s Meet Me Under the Mistletoe flower arrangement because it makes the perfect gift or an ideal highlight for the Christmas dinner table as a holiday floral centerpiece. It features a hand-sculpted, hand-painted winter cottage that is surrounded by red roses, white button mums, berries and Christmas greenery. The sculpture even glows with lights, offering warmth and spirit during this special season. The winter cottage also makes a wonderful holiday keepsake to display for years to come. Another favorite is the Send a Hug Precious Penguin. This perky little

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The Season to Shop Locally with Denver Small Businesses

We love the holidays because of the spirit of the season, the chance to see more of our customers and meet new ones, and the fun and creative flower arrangements and gifts that we can create for our customers.  With the holidays also comes numerous special holiday shopping days that always mean great deals. We are getting ready for the upcoming special holiday shopping days with a new collection of holiday flowers, holiday décor, and holiday gifts available in our Denver flower shop as well as through our online flower shop. Special Holiday Shopping Days These holiday shopping days include Black Friday, which falls on November 28th as well as Small Business Saturday on November 29th and Cyber Monday on December 1st. Every year, we enjoy these special holiday shopping days because it means that we get to see long-time customers and make new customers as well as decorate the flower shop inside and out for

Celebrate and Say Thanks to All the Special People in Your Life This Christmas

Beyond your closest family and friends, there are also other people that may have done things for you this year that you appreciate or helped you in some way or another. This could be your child’s teacher who makes them excited about learning or it could be a colleague or client who helped the both of you achieve mutual success on a project. Or, it could be the many service people in your life that get things done when you do not have time, including gardeners, pool technicians, garbage people, house cleaners and mail delivery people. Now is the time to say thank you for a year of help and support by gifting them with something that represents the season or that shows them how much you appreciate them. At Veldkamp’s Flowers and Gifts, we have a few ideas to make your gift giving easy and quick. Christmas Décor and Spirit If you know that your

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