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Market Report Sunday 13th March
It’s Ballarat’s Begonia Festival weekend at the moment. Ballarat is full with the antique fair and the events at the lake filling the city with visitors. Begonias from one of Ballarats begonia founders, Evan Hines, is what we stock at stems. Evan is in his senior years and we are now very lucky to be…
Read moreMarket Report Thursday 24th Feb
Valentine’s Day is now firmly behind us. At our Ballarat florist shop we had a fantastic day and we hope that we provided lots of people with some memorable gifts of affection. Over 350 deliveries were completed with the first at 6.30am and the last at 8pm that night. Now ten days later life at…
Read moreMarket Report Tuesday 1st Feb
With Valentine’s Day only 14 days away our focus and attention has quickly turned to the day of love. A day where we get to share and exchange feeling with the special people in our life. The rose of choice at stems flower market is Grandifloras Adrenalin rose. As its name suggests it is full of Adrenalin a…
Read moreMarket Report Thursday 13th January 2011
With Christmas now behind us we have made it to 2011 and are experiencing some very challenging weather. As all of you are as well. How does it affect the flower market? Well we will start with Steve at Lockyer cut flowers in Granthum Queensland who supplies us with our statice. He has lost literally…
Read moreMarket Report Friday 5th November
This weeks market has been all about Peonies. They usually start flowering around the 28th October and are getting into full swing this week. However due to the very cold weather we have been having in the middle to late October flowering has been delayed until now. This resulted in some very dissapointed brides…
Read moreMarket Report 28th October 2010
Another massive load of freshly cut flowers have made their way back to Ballarat. Spring has finally arrived with most lines being in plentiful supply. We managed to pick up some First grade asiatic lilies for our advertised special of $6.99 per bunch. Its very hard to go past, both in price and a brilliant vase life….
Read moreMarket Report Thursday 20th October
What a huge spring market. Product every where!! Quality simply excellent. Warratahs in small, medium and large, flowering Azalea’s, Hippiastrums, and pink pineapples are just some of the treats we bought home today. The team from Wafex secured us some 90cm tall chincherinchi bunches. These are normally around 40cm tall so these large ones are…
Read moreMarket Report 14th October
Its officially spring at Stems Flower Market. The shop is filled with beautiful new varieties that are stunning. It is definitely waratah season, with our range of sizes between 30cm and 1.5 metres in height. They are truly brilliant, and well worth coming in to have a look at. The ‘Lily of the valley’ and…
Read moreMarket Report Thursday 30th September
De Ja Vu – Its grand final week again, and coupled with the second week of school holidays, things are a bit quieter in the Melbourne Flower Market, with some specials to be had. The oriental lilies from Feingold offer brilliant value for money – their quality is superb. Some beautiful varieties of the 70cm…
Read moreMarket Report Thursday 15th September
Even though we have a little touch of winter back spring flushes of flowers dominated todays market providing some excellent buying oppurtunities which we are able to pass on to our loyal customers. Asiatic lillies have come down in price to $9.99 per bunch as well as Ballarat grown carnations at $9.99 as well. Fresias,…
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