{"id":53159,"date":"2017-03-28T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/?p=53159"},"modified":"2017-03-29T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:43:34","slug":"another-visit-happy-place-aka-ny-flower-market-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/another-visit-happy-place-aka-ny-flower-market-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Another visit to my happy place aka “NY Flower market” and a winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello friends!\u00a0 First order of business is to announce the lucky winner of the rug from Decor Market, congratulations goes to-<\/p>\n

#92 MYLINDA<\/h2>\n

Please contact us at info@theenchantedhome.com to provide your shipping details.<\/p>\n

A new flash sale just started Wed afternoon, click here to visit!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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With spring officially here though it doesn’t totally feel like it, I have flowers on my mind. Make no mistake I am a huge fan of some of my faux, as they are really really good but fresh flowers are just something I cannot live without. So every now and then as I did a few weeks ago, I take a trip into the city to play florist for the day and delve into the hustle and bustle of the NY flower district. I have a few favorite stops, Associated Cut Florals, Dutchline and a few others.<\/p>\n

This time around I didn’t pick up a lot as I had no occasion other than to convince myself spring is here and that is reason enough to bring flowers into the house. What can I say…they just make me really happy. I do have a luncheon coming up in about a month so plan on heading back to pick up flowers for that special day…of course will be sharing it with you. In the meantime, here is a recap on my recent visit with an equally flower obsessed friend….<\/p>\n

Here are some of the quick pics I took while surveying the offerings that morning (the district opens super early around 5am and closes by about 11-12). It’s a very early and very short day. So many beautiful things to choose from……<\/p>\n

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Wouldn’t these make a fabulous arrangement in \u00a0blue and white jar?<\/p>\n

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Tulips of every variety and color over at Associated Cut Florals, they are always my go to for tulips<\/p>\n

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You can always count on major creativity and inspiration in the flower district as seen above\"\"<\/p>\n

Love the way Dutch Flower Line always displays their daily selections<\/p>\n

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Greenery galore<\/p>\n

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Loved this elegant triple boxwoods standing like little soldiers outside one shop<\/p>\n

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Orchids for miles…..<\/p>\n

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These stunning hydrangeas took my breath away<\/p>\n

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I must say these beautiful sprigs of greenery got me dreaming, love the eucalyptus and variegated variety below…could make one gorgeous centerpiece!<\/p>\n

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Getting home is always the icing on the cake. I love going over what I bought and gathering all my little vases and pieces in which I will display them. Since there was no special occasion this time around, I just made up smaller arrangement’s and played around. Best kind of play as far as I am concerned:)<\/p>\n

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Then I give them each stem a nice little trim and start filling my vases with water, let the fun begin!<\/p>\n

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Tulips are one of my faves and these babies wasted no time in showing their spunk and going in every direction, which to me is the beauty of tulips<\/p>\n

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The white rannuculus is a very long lasting flower with a beautiful layered petal effect, such a pretty and romantic flower…..<\/p>\n

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TRICK OF THE TRADE-<\/strong> Hardly that I am in the floral trade but I have a trick or two up my sleeve and have used this little trick always very successfully. When the cherry blossoms started to dry up, I kept the stems and added about 8-10 stems (these jars are very large) \u00a0of my really good faux cherry blossoms and voila! my beautiful arrangement has had a rebirth. I have done this with orchids, hydrangeas,etc…and in fact going to do a designated post on this very subject in the near future. Left jar is the one that has been added to-<\/p>\n

So here is a picture of them on their last leg but still looking pretty sans lots of flowers-<\/p>\n

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Then to the left I added about 8-10 of my faux pink cherry blossoms and voila! Look at the difference from left to right, my two week arrangement suddenly has had a rebirth!<\/p>\n

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Enjoy this post? Do flowers excite you as much as they do me? I am lucky to have a flower market so close, the only downside are the\u00a0 inevitable traffic jams I always hit going to and from, so a quick jaunt quickly becomes almost an all day affair. But, it’s worth it, especially if one is having an event or party…..<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping in. Wishing you a wonderful day and hope spring has sprung wherever you might be:) Until next time…..<\/p>\n

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Hello friends!\u00a0 First order of business is to announce the lucky winner of the rug from Decor Market, congratulations goes to- #92 MYLINDA Please contact us at info@theenchantedhome.com to provide your shipping details. A new flash sale just started Wed afternoon, click here to visit! _________________ With spring officially here though it doesn’t totally feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1789,1795,2572,1792,2563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53159"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53244,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53159\/revisions\/53244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}