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Making cakes out of flowers 23 Aug 2013 | 03:19 pm
One of the stranger televisual trends of recent years has to be the Great British Bake-Off. While most reality television has ramped up the spectacle and the tension to breaking point, using showbiz, ...
Keep Your Garden Pet-Free 22 Aug 2013 | 02:03 pm
Today on the CF blog we present a few handy tips to keep your garden free of pets. Well, we say pets. We basically mean dogs. There really isn't much that you can do about a really determined cat, exc...
Sonic Bloom! 20 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
Solar powered flowers that bloom at night! But wait a second ...if they're solar powered, how on earth can they bloom at night? The night's notorious for it's lack of sunlight. Lack of sunlight's bas...
"Make Believe" Garden in the Heart of Brussels 15 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
With medieval buildings and narrow streets winding around its ancient centre, Brussels can already seem like the setting for a fairy-tale to enchanted visitors. But now that impression is to come to l...
Why does the Corpse Flower stink? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
We've all heard of the corpse flower (and, well, if you haven't, then the CF Blog is here to help! Just click through to this little link here to read our blog on a corpse flower (Dragon Arum) at Fran...
Welsh Dragon Tree Flowers after 25 Years 13 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
This rare tree in the National Botanic Garden of Wales has flowered for the first time in a quarter of a century. And what's more: it's a dragon tree. The tree, native to the Canary Islands, is know...
Flowers in Space 5 Aug 2013 | 12:27 pm
Well, flowers FROM space, at least. Or, what we mean is, flowers that HAVE BEEN TO space, anyway. ....which is still pretty awesome! I mean, I haven't been to space. Ahem. Anyway. This is the s...
Flowers of Bone 2 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
Beautiful art or morbid meditation? Or both? Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige has certainly created some visually arresting works of art with his series of amazing "bone sculptures", He first had the...
Rare African Beetle found in Flowers 1 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Here at Clare Florist we would like to make it clear that our bouquets of flowers do not come with a complimentary beetle. Why do we feel the need to assert this, you ask? Well, after the surprise o....
Commemorative Flowers for the Royal Birth 31 Jul 2013 | 12:26 pm
It seems like a lot of people are in celebratory mood this week. With the introduction of Prince George of Cambridge to the royal family, commemorative cups and saucers are bound to be flying off the...
