While our options today are almost bottomless, we somehow manage to go back to flowers when we pick out the perfect gift. As a jeweler residing in the Philippines, I get requests every so often asking me to cast diamonds at the center of flower shaped earrings or make a gold bracelet look like a […]

The flower industry works like a simple value chain: growers grow flowers, suppliers obtain them, then the flowers are sold to retailers or wholesalers before consumers buy them in bunches or bouquets. It sounds really simple, except the people involved come from all over the world.  Most of the produce in the flower industry are […]

People in the Victorian era took the language of flowers very seriously.  Due to the repressive atmosphere of the times, flowers became the means by which women communicated with their suitors.  The distinct scent of a particular flower, or the grouping of flowers in a bouquet conveyed unique messages.
Often, these botanical gifts demonstrated feelings and […]