Locally-Grown Flowers Seasonal Snapshots at PFG
Here’s a handy seasonal guide to help you plan for using more locally-grown stems in 2025. Reference our monthly snapshots whenever you’re putting proposals together for your upcoming events!
Open Call for New Grower Members
Philadelphia Floral Guild is adding new grower members in 2025. Join us to exponentially increase your sales to local florists. Benefit your bottom line and reduce time spent hustling to make sales. We do all the marketing, distribution, invoicing and customer communications for you! In 2024, PFG moved over 235,000 locally-grown stems from 8 local …
Setting up a Google Business Profile for Event Florists
Setting up a Google Business Profile (formerly known as Google My Business) is a great way to enhance your floral event business’s online presence. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide on how to set up and optimize your listing: 1. Sign In or Sign Up Visit the Google Business Profile website: Go to Google Business Profile. …
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The B Word…Botrytis in Blooms
When wet weather hits our area, there’s an increase chance that Botrytis will impact the flowers you receive from PFG. Botrytis is a type of mold that you’ve likely run across already in handling flowers. It’s pretty common and often on flowers that have been shipped in boxes, where humidity builds up and spores proliferate. It can …
Standing Orders for Florists
Introducing Standing Order Agreements through Philadelphia Floral Guild Do you order from PFG pretty much every week? Are you juggling a lot of priorities that make it hard to look at our inventory early in our order window? Do you feel like you’re missing out on some products you know were likely available but …
Contemplating the Cosmos
Rare is the floral designer who is not smitten with cosmos. Cheerful faces dancing on slender stems, cosmos add movement, romance, and a touch of cottage garden whimsy to any design. Such is the love of PFG customers for cosmos that we sell out every week! While many of you may associate cosmos with …
Broken Floral Supply Chain?
Not when it’s in your own backyard! Did you hear about the trucker strike in Columbia this past week? It stopped Columbian flowers from getting to the airport in Bogotá to fly over to Miami to go into the U.S. supply chain, delaying shipments and tripping up orders all the way up here in Philadelphia. Columbia, …
Can a Cooler Be Sexy?
We think it can! This past week we got a new walk-in cooler delivered to our hub. While this makes Cooler #4 for us, it’s the only one with the PFG logo and we think she’s pretty darn sexy!! This cooler is a beautiful testament to how the PFG community is growing and supporting each …
10 Sustainable Mechanics for Floral Design
This past Tuesday evening we hosted our first Sustainable Mechanics Meet-Up. Thirteen floral designers got together to swap ideas for making their work more sustainable. And to share their passion for local flowers! It was so much fun, this will definitely be an annual tradition! For those that couldn’t make the meet-up, we wanted to …
Locally-Grown Gerbera Daisies at Philly Floral Guild
We are delighted to welcome a new grower to the PFG posse! East Coast Blooms, located in Chester Springs PA, specializes in sustainably grown gerbera daises. Finally, you can get a local and sustainable gerbera!! Presently ECB is the only large scale specialty gerbera grower on the East Coast with over 1500 plants in 10 …
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