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The 4 Top Rose Color Trends for Valentine’s
Back in the early 1950’s when Knight’s Flowers started in business in Lake City, just about the only rose color your true love got for Valentine’s was red. A florist might have a few white or pink roses back then, but 60 years later we have kaleidoscope of colors. At Knight’s we carry over ten different rose colors. Now there are over 120 different rose varieties to chose from, many which last over 10 days!
The 3 top selling colors for Valentine’s are:
Ravishing Reds
The new reds for roses range from shades of bright raspberry to majestic scarlet to velvety-dark red to orange-kissed hues. At Knight’s we use the heart stopping Corazon rose from Rio Roses, which is a bright red rose that opens fully, last for over 2 weeks and amazingly doesn’t droop. Check our our ‘Dozen Red Roses’ arrangement that is sure to impress your love one.
Pretty Pink Roses
This year we have traditional bridal pinks or adopted siblings of hip hot pinks. Cousins on this family tree include peaches, apricots, corals and lavenders. Check out our ‘Valentine’s Jewels’ bouquet for a wide variety of pink color tones this Valentines.
Wild Yellows
Whether crisp lemon, buttery hues, golden yellows or trendy two-tones, the variety of yellow roses cover a broad spectrum of color – and appeal. If you’ve never given flowers to a man before, introduce him to this family of colors. Yellow is the second most popular color cited by men. This year at Knight’s we have a wicked yellow rose that has red tinted edges on its petals called ‘Circus’. Check our ‘2 Dozen Circus’ roses arrangement that sure to brighten up any lovers day.
Rainbow Roses
One of the hottest new trends in Valentines colors that past couple of years is a rose color called ‘rainbow roses’. Each petal on this rose is dyed a different color to create a spectacular show. If you want to just blow away you sweetie pie this valentines order this rose arrangement we call “Groovy Lovin’ Roses”.
Roses are like fine wines, a delight to be savored and cultivated. Like an expanding wine cellar, Knight’s Flowers coolers are now stocked with more choices worth learning about. After all, variety is the spice of life.
The World’s Greatest Dozen Red Rose Arrangement
Over the years at Knights we’ve striven to carry the world’s finest roses. With red roses, we feel it’s very important that we sell only the best, since it’s the most popular color among consumers. During the last 20 years we’ve only sold 3 red rose varieties in our shop-Kardinal, Charlotte and Forever Young.
Our red roses go through rigorous testing before they are ever sold to our customers. We look for vase life, head size, aperture and beauty, plus how well it stacks up against other roses in its category. Sometimes these tests can take months before we add a new rose to our collection.
For the past 10 years we’ve used Forever Young as our premium long stem red rose. We were one of the first florists in the United States to carry this rose. It has truly held its own against every red rose that has come out during this time. It has a phenomenal vase life, doesn’t droop and has a beautiful bloom. Rarely ever did we get a complaint when we sent these out to our customers. There have been a slew of new red rose varieties that have be introduced since we started carrying Forever Young, and we’ve tested many of them, but in our opinion, Forever Young always came out on top.
A Star Is Born
These past few months we have been testing a new red rose that has blown away everybody here at Knights. It has consistently passed every test we’ve thrown at it. ‘Amazing’ is the only way we can describe it. It’s grown for us by the world’s most discriminating rose grower- Rio Roses. We introduced this new red rose Valentine’s Day this year and since then we’ve not had 1 single complaint. Astounding!
The name of this mindblowing rose? It’s called ‘Corazon” . It’s Spanish for heart. If this rose doesn’t stimulate your heart, nothing will. Without a doubt it’s the most breathtaking red rose we’ve ever introduced in the 57 years Knights Flowers has been in business.
What makes Corazon so spectacular?
- Vase Life-It lasts for up to ten days. We’ve even had some customers that have said it has lasted for them 3 weeks!
- Doesn’t Droop-The vast majority of roses droop after a certain length of time. It’s normal. Not Corazon. No need for Viagra for this baby.
- Huge Bloom Size-Corazon has one of the largest bloom size of any red rose on the market. 2.5″ bloom size and a gigantic 5″ across when full open.
- Opens Fully-Unlike our previous red rose star Forever Young, Corazon opens fully. Nothing worst than a rose that never opens.
- Beauty-Opens to a classic circular rose shape with a timeless true red color. Petals are firm, almost velvety and leaves are a dark rich green.
We’ve taken these awe-inspiring Corazon roses and created what we call ‘The World’s Greatest Dozen Red Rose’ arrangement. 12 of the most fabulous red roses you’ve ever feasted your eyes on. Arranged in a garden style glass vase with a mixture a classic greens, accented with vibrant waxflower blossoms and ribbon. Sure to set your love one’s heart aflutter.
The Most Amazing Roses I’ve Ever Seen
In 30 years of working in flower shops from New York to San Francisco to Clinton I have never been as excited about such an unusual product as I’ve been with our ‘Groovy Roses’.
We got a sample in a few weeks back and set them out for display and customers have gone nuts over them! They can’t believe they are real. Everybody wanted to buy some. I told they weren’t for sell, but we are looking to carry them in the future.
Well, folks we are going to have some for sell the second week of March for a trial run. Place your order now! They are sure to sell out. We have a very limited quantity.
We’ve tried dyed roses in the past and quite frankly they’ve sucked. Didn’t last very long, never opened, the leaves turned brown, yada, yada, yada. These beauties lasted for over a week! Fantastic for dyed roses. Opened up beautifully and no brown leaves.
How did they do that? The question that everybody asks about with ‘Groovy Roses’ is how they got the petals different colors. The roses are placed in special water. Different substances are dissolved in this water. The rose branch absorbs this water as part of a natural process. This is what changes the color of the petals. What makes ‘Groovy Roses’ unique is that the inventor has managed to color a few petals, for example, yellow, whilst at the same time other petals color differently, for example, blue, orange or lilac. It even proved possible to achieve a range of different colorings in the flower, which as it were fan around one another. This resulted in these unique, colorful and cheerful roses.
Below is a video the how they dye these roses. Unfortunately, it’s in Dutch, but the visuals still impress.
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History of Groovy Roses This unusual dyeing process to achieve a rainbow of colors in a rose was originally developed in Holland. They are called in Holland ‘Happy Roses’. Some people refer to them as ‘Rainbow Roses.” At Knight’s we decided to brand them ‘Groovy Roses’. At Knight’s we are the first florist in the area to carry these incredible roses.
Price Some florists around the country are charging as much as $224 for 1 dozen of these roses! Geez! At Knight’s we’ve been able to work with our supplier and get a very reasonable price on these roses. Instead of $224 a dozen we are offering them at only $69.95 a dozen. An unbelievable price for such outstanding rose. We are also offering a number of price points to make it affordable to just about anybody. Starting as low as$12.50 you can have a 1 ‘Groovy Rose’ arranged in a vase.
Hurry and order your ‘Groovy Roses’ todayWe only have them for a limited time. Get your groove on. It’s Groovy Baby