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Hi guys, I have recently seen many innkeepers using fresh flowers for inn decor. I have been using only dry flowers for a long time. But I think guests prefer fresh flowers. So I am planning on shifting gears, but I would like to know a few things about it. Is using fresh flowers economical? How do you get regular supply of fresh flowers? Please give your suggestions?
 
I have a small vase in each guest room on the window sill, a shot glass with a few flowers on each breakfast table and a large display on the desk in the hall.
I buy them in the supermarket some of the year, after a while you get to know what'll last and what doesn't.
I also grow them in the garden and on the veggy allotment specifically for the house, gladioli, statice, dahlias, sweet peas and sunflowers are all great performers to grow and will supply from mid summer through to first frost. Gladioli green star in a vase with blue statice looks amazing, sweet peas fills the guest room with scent. Daffs and tulips are from early April through to mid May.
I probably buy 50% of the year and the rest are from the garden.
Never thought about the cost, I think it's one of those little touches that elevates your business so I've never worked it out, plus I enjoy growing them.
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We have a garden and grow Zinnias. ..keep watered and they last a week...silk and dried flowers are outdated and dust collectors in our opinion
 
Highlands John said:
I have a small vase in each guest room on the window sill, a shot glass with a few flowers on each breakfast table and a large display on the desk in the hall.
I buy them in the supermarket some of the year, after a while you get to know what'll last and what doesn't.
I also grow them in the garden and on the veggy allotment specifically for the house, gladioli, statice, dahlias, sweet peas and sunflowers are all great performers to grow and will supply from mid summer through to first frost. Gladioli green star in a vase with blue statice looks amazing, sweet peas fills the guest room with scent. Daffs and tulips are from early April through to mid May.
I probably buy 50% of the year and the rest are from the garden.
Never thought about the cost, I think it's one of those little touches that elevates your business so I've never worked it out, plus I enjoy growing them.
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Very nice
 
What is your place like?
Some silk flowers are gorgeous!
I used whatever I had growing unless I was enticed by something I saw at the farmstand or if someone left flowers behind. But some of the wildflowers would visibly shed pollen. I never put them in the guest rooms just in case but had them around and on the breakfast tables. Never had anyone mention an allergy to flowers ... hopefully no one suffered in silence.
In the rooms, being in a harbor, I had little artistic (to me!) arrangements of sea shells and star fish, bleached drift wood, flameless candles, lanterns, things like that.
 
Sometimes. I tried a cutting garden and it didn't take, so I mostly buy whatever is on sale at the market. I have to keep my own eye on them because DH doesn't notice when they get wilted. I alternate between fresh flowers on the dining tables and a small bowl of seashells. The seashells never wilt, though they can get dusty.
I like to have a centerpiece, and the shells are low maintenance.
I don't put them in the rooms because it's too hard to keep up with them.
 
I have a couple silk flower arrangements upstairs in the hall = just moved one into an empty corner in the Gillum Room. I used to put a fresh carnation in each guestroom - but the cost just got to be "the bridge too far" when I started stocking bottles of water in the guest fridge. Noe IF I happen upon a "Manager's Special" at the K grocery, I will get one and divide it up for the 3 rooms. Other than that, when the rhodos are blooming I put one in a bowl on the mantles, right now it is rose of sharon, but I sometimes just cut some sage or oregano, or even mint for a bud vase. My daughter made a flower garden for me but I did not recognize them from weeds. After I think I pulled out a flower, I just left it. I grow nice weeds. The herbs survive on their own.
 
gillumhouse said:
I have a couple silk flower arrangements upstairs in the hall = just moved one into an empty corner in the Gillum Room. I used to put a fresh carnation in each guestroom - but the cost just got to be "the bridge too far" when I started stocking bottles of water in the guest fridge. Noe IF I happen upon a "Manager's Special" at the K grocery, I will get one and divide it up for the 3 rooms. Other than that, when the rhodos are blooming I put one in a bowl on the mantles, right now it is rose of sharon, but I sometimes just cut some sage or oregano, or even mint for a bud vase. My daughter made a flower garden for me but I did not recognize them from weeds. After I think I pulled out a flower, I just left it. I grow nice weeds. The herbs survive on their own..
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gillumhouse said:
I have a couple silk flower arrangements upstairs in the hall = just moved one into an empty corner in the Gillum Room. I used to put a fresh carnation in each guestroom - but the cost just got to be "the bridge too far" when I started stocking bottles of water in the guest fridge. Noe IF I happen upon a "Manager's Special" at the K grocery, I will get one and divide it up for the 3 rooms. Other than that, when the rhodos are blooming I put one in a bowl on the mantles, right now it is rose of sharon, but I sometimes just cut some sage or oregano, or even mint for a bud vase. My daughter made a flower garden for me but I did not recognize them from weeds. After I think I pulled out a flower, I just left it. I grow nice weeds. The herbs survive on their own.
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Nice idea re: herbs. I have a bunch of lavender blooming right now. :)
 
TheBeachHouse said:
Sometimes. I tried a cutting garden and it didn't take, so I mostly buy whatever is on sale at the market. I have to keep my own eye on them because DH doesn't notice when they get wilted. I alternate between fresh flowers on the dining tables and a small bowl of seashells. The seashells never wilt, though they can get dusty.
I like to have a centerpiece, and the shells are low maintenance.
I don't put them in the rooms because it's too hard to keep up with them..
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TheBeachHouse said:
I have to keep my own eye on them because DH doesn't notice when they get wilted.
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I'm with you on that. DH makes up the breakfast tables every day and leaves vases of half dead flowers out.
 
I used as many fresh flowers or blooming shrub/tree cuttings from my own garden as possible. When that wasn't possible, I would get affordable bouquets of longer lasting blooms (like Peruvian Lilies) from the grocery store and could supplement with greenery from my garden. Cost per room was minimal and I put them in a variety of unique vases/containers. Guests always commented on the fresh blooms in a positive way, so it was well worth it!
 
Hello everyone, sorry but I was caught up with something that's why i couldn't reply on time. I am from Toronto. Thanks for all these replies, so that means most of you get flowers from your own garden, right? Cool. I was thinking to buy flowers online from a flower shop nearby. Anyways, I'll back with more doubts.
 

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