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Traditional flowers will always be in fashion, but today we're finding that more and more of our customers favour a designer approach to floristry. Certainly, if you match exquisite flowers with inspired design, you'll find flora and foliage can make quite a statement!

Whet our appetite with a brief for something a little more unusual and our team comes into its own! We love working with rare flowers and can offer you stunning designs - from the stark simplicity of a single stem displayed solo, right through to a seduction of the senses in a cornucopia of opulence - incorporating some of the rarer and harder to come by examples including:

King Protea

The national flower of South Africa and the most spectacular of the Protea species with inflorescences up to 30 cm across. Pink (or occasionally crimson) pointed outer bracts covered with silky hairs surround the central mound of lilac flowers.

Kangaroo Paw

The Kangaroo Paw is one of Australia's many spectacular native flowers and the floral emblem of Western Australia. At one stage in the opening process its petals do look like little paws.

Anthurium

Found in the Far East and Caribbean, an unmistakable glossy heart-shaped flower bract (which gives them their popular name of painter's palette) surrounds the true flowers, which are in the form of a spike at the centre.

Agapanthus

The name Agapanthus comes from the Greek agap, meaning love, and anthos, meaning flower, thus the 'flower of love'. Agapanthus flowers bloom in large, round clusters or umbels of blue, white or violet blue.

Orchids

Orchids are among the most beautiful of flowering plants - their flower has three petals, one of which is often like a lip. The orchid naturally occurs in all colours except black.

Gerbera

Ornamental and from the sunflower family, Gerbera's two-lipped ray florets occur in yellow, white, pink or red.

For pure inspiration, call us or call into Clare's now.

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