Did you know approximately 80% of the flowers sold at grocery stores, florist shops, through FTD, and online are actually grown thousands of miles away, most likely in Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, or Kenya? At last count, Colombia alone accounts for nearly 70% of the flowers imported into the US each day! While you might be …
Philadelphia Floral Guild is adding new grower members in 2024. 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 2023, PFG moved over 200,000 locally-grown stems from 6 local …
Like the final out in a Phillies playoff game, our season came to an abrupt end when we’d had high hopes to make it a little further. The plan was to keep Philadelphia florists well stocked in wholesale locally-grown flowers and foliage through the first week of December. But temperatures dipped down to the low-20s …
The Fat Lady Sang – Wholesale Local Flowers Season Has Wrapped Up Read More »
As fall turns chilly and our farms start to go dormant for the season, we are reducing our open hours for pick-ups to Wednesdays from 10:30AM to 1:30PM for the rest of November. We’ll have lots of heirloom mums and more for your late autumn designs!
Philadelphia Floral Guild, your trusted source for locally-grown wholesale flowers, was delighted to be one of the finalists in the SustainPHL awards this year. Over a hundred businesses, non-profits and individuals exemplifying sustainable practices and passion are nominated each year for these awards. This past Thursday was the award ceremony, hosted at the Academy of Natural …
As we hit mid-October and the growing possibility of frost in the near future, we’re getting asked frequently about what comes next for PFG. Will we have anything after frost? When will we stop taking orders for the season? Don’t fret! We’re not even close to done! We should be enjoying dahlias for a few …
So here’s a thought: the real hero in the art of floral design is foliage, not flowers. Sure, some designers skip greenery altogether and create a minimalist look of blooms only. But that look can be tricky to achieve and even trickier to transport when orchestrating large-scale events. And the price tag of a blooms-only …
Meet Alyssa Van Alstine of Liberty Plants who joined PFG in November 2022. Hi Alyssa! How long have you been growing flowers? I’ve enjoyed growing flowers and interesting varieties of plants my whole life, but it was when I lived in Philadelphia that I first started growing commercially, starting out at farmers markets in …
We had a “tote-ally” good time hosting another mini creative retreat for our wholesale florist customers last week. Typically florists have to handle flowers with great care. But at this workshop we pounded the pulp out of them with hammers, transferring the natural pigments in leaves and petals onto a cotton canvas tote. So much …
Tataki Zome Totes Fun at Philadelphia Floral Guild Read More »
Today PFG turns ONE! Woot woot!! Last August 24th, after only a few short weeks of planning, we took a leap of faith and sent out our very first orders. We had just five customers that week and sales barley broke $600. Fast forward to this August 24th: we now sell to over 120 florists. We’ve moved …
