National Grandparents Day is September 13th

Grandparents Day is Sunday, September 13th and it’s the perfect opportunity to celebrate everything that makes having grandparents so special. They are there to offer love and impart knowledge as well as work to instill values. And, they are there to spoil you. To treat them to something special on their own day, here are some beautiful floral gifts that your grandparents may enjoy to brighten their homes: Fanciful Garden European Cube is a stunning display of garden roses and gerbera daisies in hues of pink and fuchsia. Carithers Fond Arrival Bouquet is a Better Homes and Gardens floral design that offers roses, mini carnations, Asiatic lilies and greenery in shades of lavender, burgundy, and peach. It comes in a clear glass cube with a green plaid ribbon. You can choose 15, 19, or 24 stems. Now that fall is nearly here, we also have some beautiful fall flower arrangements that your grandparents may enjoy as décor for their home. Here are just a few ideas: Pumpkin Patch offers an array of fall flowers that have been topped off with a decorative pumpkin. Autumn Gems contains yellow Asiatic lilies, garden roses, sunflowers and corkscrew willow. The Sedona Modern Autumn Cube … Read More about National Grandparents Day is September 13th »

Our Showroom is Dressed for Fall!

While we love our summertime, fall is also a true favorite among our staff at our Atlanta flower shop locations because it gives us a chance to showcase some dramatic colors and flower arrangements while also preparing for some of those great fall holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving. Our fall flowers are finally here and available to start giving as gifts for the new school year as well as special occasions. Online, we now have our fall flowers and gift collection to share with those of you that want to browse at home. However, if you can come into our Atlanta showrooms, you’ll be able to see what these pictures featured here are highlighting while also enjoying the many other floral designs we now have on display. This is the time of the year to enjoy the rich hues and symbols of the fall harvest, including pumpkins, the changing colors of leaves, and sunflowers. There are also scarecrows and cornucopias as well as a few witches and goblins. On display, we also have a number of examples of fall centerpieces for special celebrations and gatherings as well as for fall events and fall weddings. For example, the Southern Elegance Centerpiece … Read More about Our Showroom is Dressed for Fall! »

Everyone Needs a Little Flower Therapy

We have all had those days where it didn’t go as planned, we feel discouraged, or maybe we are physically under the weather. We also know others that have experienced the same thing. That’s when it’s nice to take the time and treat others we care about and maybe even ourselves to a little flower therapy. Scientific evidence has shown that flowers do improve one’s mental and even physical state, offering that kind of pick me up we all could use. At Carithers Flowers, we are so happy that our flowers can have that kind of effect on others. It makes us feel as though we are really helping others. To give you some ideas of the type of get well flowers, plants, and gifts we offer, we thought we would share a few prescriptions here with you: Wishes and Blessings Bouquet is full of yellow and white flowers, including garden roses and hydrangea, in a European glass vase. The Get Well Soon Bouquet comes with a “Get Well Soon” Mylar balloon. The flower arrangement consists of yellow lilies, roses, and alstromeria in a glass vase. Thinking of You is a bouquet of daisies and lilies that also comes with … Read More about Everyone Needs a Little Flower Therapy »

Friendship Week Offers Flowers, Plants, and Gifts

The third week of August is officially known as Friendship Week and is intended to recognize the important and value of creating and having friendships. As an integral part of our emotional support system, friends are there to listen, make us laugh, and add to our quality of life. In turn, we do the same for them. It’s one of the most important relationships we can have in life and it was what teaches us about ourselves and others. To help you celebrate Friendship Week and let those friends near and far know just how much you appreciate them, we have some great gifts that you can pick up in any of our Atlanta flower shops or send anywhere in the local area or around the country. Check out these gift ideas for Friendship Week: Ray of Sunshine is filled with yellow sunflowers and poms as well as purple button poms. The Vibrant Summer Garden is a unique, garden style arrangement full of lilies, orchids, and roses. Hydrangea & Orchids has full-bloom white hydrangea, yellow cymbidium orchids, and willow. Artisan Orchids features white cymbidium orchids, calla lilies, and foliage in an eye-catching arrangement. For All You has yellow roses and … Read More about Friendship Week Offers Flowers, Plants, and Gifts »

It’s National Smile Week

The second week of every August has been designated as National Smile Week. It was designed around reminding us just how healthy smiling is and how it can not only make us feel better, but it can also aid others that are recipients of those big, beautiful smiles. To make the most of this special week, you can do things with your kids like: Make some happy face crafts together. Have a smile contest. Play some silly games together. Go get those pearly whites cleaned at the dentist before the school year starts. For your loved ones, you can make the most of National Smile Week in many ways: Be sure to crack some jokes to not only make them crack a smile but also enjoy a good laugh. Take the time to get together and do something fun. Quality time with loved ones always brings the smiles. If you can’t see the ones you love during National Smile Week, be sure to send them something that is sure to make them smile. Here are some bright and cheerful ways to celebrate National Smile Week with our help: Epic Garden Joy offers up bright, colorful, and cheery garden favorites that … Read More about It’s National Smile Week »

Start the School Year Off Right with Flowers & Gifts for the Teacher

Each school year brings a new teacher for your kids so it’s the perfect time to start off on the right foot with the teacher by welcoming them with a special gift of flowers or gift basket. While you may not yet know what your child’s teacher likes in terms of flowers or colors, you can go with a flower arrangement or gift item that is from our most popular selections like these: Epic Garden Joy is a stunning garden-style flower arrangement of sunflowers, lilies, and roses in a glass vase. It’s like bringing the summer indoors where a teacher can smile every time they see it perched on the end of their desk. The Fanciful Garden Cube may be compact but it is overflowing with color, including pink and fuchsia gerbera daisies and garden roses. Pastel Palette offers a delicate and soft display of garden hydrangea and roses in a bubble bowl. It’s another stunning flower arrangement sure to please any teacher. The Colorburst Bouquet has Asiatic lilies, tulips, garden roses and southern hydrangea in a glass vase. The Wishes and Blessings Bouquet is another compact arrangement that is bursting with color, including yellow garden roses, along with sophisticated … Read More about Start the School Year Off Right with Flowers & Gifts for the Teacher »

Celebrate International Friendship Day on July 30th

Near or far, our lives are so much richer with good friends that make us laugh, that listen and comfort us in need, and just make things more fun than if we were on our own. When we get stuck into our daily lives, we may forget to tell those special people just how much they mean to us. However, on July 30th, it’s a great time to stop and let them know that their friendship means the world to us. That’s because this day is International Friendship Day. To help you out, we’ve put together a little gift guide of beautiful flower arrangements and gifts that can represent your friendship on this special day. White Roses & Orchids is a small, yet sophisticated, flower arrangement of white garden roses and green cymbidium orchids. The Countryside Garden Cube has sunflowers, gerbera daisies, garden roses and fragrant stock in a glass cube vase. Fire and Ice is a dramatic flower arrangement of stargazer lilies, red roses, and fresh-cut hydrangea in a rectangular vase. The color of friendship is yellow so why not give Grand Skyline Yellow Roses to send that special message? We include a vase that overflows with long-stem yellow … Read More about Celebrate International Friendship Day on July 30th »

Enjoy Our Farm-Fresh Flower Market, Farm-Direct Bouquets

We offer something truly unique for our customers in hand delivering bulk flowers to your door. These farm-fresh flowers are an ideal way to add the beauty of flowers to your space while enjoying the best value with wholesale pricing. Our flowers come from high-quality farms that share our philosophy for quality and that provide only the best flowers available. It’s a great solution to offer weekly fresh beautiful flowers for different applications like: Interior Design Luxury Home Décor Homes for Sale Corporate Lobby and Public Spaces Restaurants Hotels and Resorts Commercial Spaces Flowers are a beautiful way to add color, depth, and texture to a room or space, providing a welcoming and warm atmosphere for visitors and often enhancing the existing décor and design. We service many businesses throughout the Atlanta area that have enjoyed our weekly service for years, noting that it has added something special to their businesses. Not only does it add to the look of their space, but they also believe that the hand delivery service we offer saves them time and encourages them to include flowers when they might not have otherwise done so. Year-round and seasonal varieties of flowers are available. For example, … Read More about Enjoy Our Farm-Fresh Flower Market, Farm-Direct Bouquets »

Celebrating Special Family Days in July

While every month has their special days dedicated to friends or different things to celebrate, July happens to be packed with special family days that include Cousin’s Day on July 24th, Aunt and Uncle Day on July 26th, and Father-in-Law Day on July 30th. Not sure what to get to remind those loved ones just how special they are to you? We have a wide range of gift ideas that offer the beauty of nature and fit within your budget. To get you started thinking about what your family members might like, here are some beautiful flower arrangements and plants that illustrate just what is possible: Epic Garden Joy offers an epic floral arrangement of sunflowers, lilies, and roses in a glass vase. Garden Favorites Bouquet has stargazer lilies, gerbera daisies, purple stock and garden roses in a ginger glass vase. Fanciful Garden Cube is a compact flower arrangement that is bursting with garden roses as well as pink and fuchsia gerbera daisies. Elegant Nature’s Harmony is contained in a leaf-lined vase with white hydrangea, leucadendron, red hypericum, green roses, green carnations and hanging amaranthus that has been accented with bupleurum, sword fern, and eucalyptus. Wishes and Blessings Bouquet has … Read More about Celebrating Special Family Days in July »

It’s Summertime and Time for Flowers!

While the temps are heating up, the flower colors are growing even brighter. That’s part of what makes summer so spectacular along with memorable summer weddings, picnics and outdoor parties, and special birthdays and anniversaries as well as new arrivals, job promotions, and those “just because” moments. Here, at Carithers, we are busy celebrating the season of summer at each Atlanta flower shop with many orders for summer wedding flowers and summer flower arrangements. We’re already well into the summer wedding season and have provided some stunning displays for both outdoor and indoor Atlanta weddings. Our collection of summer flowers is now available online and in our flower shops that illustrate the incredible artistry of our floral design teams and provide a great starting point for your summer décor for your home or special event. Some of our personal and customer favorites so far this summer include: Sedona is bursting with sunflowers, orchids, and roses in a bright display. The Vibrant Summer Garden offers a garden-style arrangement in rectangular vase with a host of floral varieties that include roses, orchids, and lilies. Gerbera Daisies Bouquet has a range of pastel colors to enjoy the many hues of this treasured summer … Read More about It’s Summertime and Time for Flowers! »