{"id":1295,"date":"2014-02-07T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T11:38:57","slug":"valentines-day-romance-blossoms-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/07\/valentines-day-romance-blossoms-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#039;s Day romance blossoms in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romance is still alive in Cardiff, according to the owner of one of the city\u2019s oldest florists in the run up to Valentine\u2019s Day next week.<\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1297\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1297\" alt=\"valentine's flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flowers-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1297\" alt=\"valentine's flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flowers-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Valentine&#8217;s flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nStephanie Eynon, who owns Betty\u2019s Florist in Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, said orders are rushing in and the shop is as busy as ever.<br \/>\nTraditional red roses remain the most popular flowers, but increasingly people are requesting mixed bouquets with a single red rose in the centre.<br \/>\nPerhaps surprisingly, Ms Eynon\u2019s team, who have almost 70 years experience in floristry between them, said they often get younger customers in their late teens.<br \/>\nShe said: \u201cWe have really been trying to get young people into flowers through social media and it has been working.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOften younger customers have lower budgets and so buy single red roses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gail Vaughan, shop assistant in The Flower Oasis, Crwys Road, also said the age of customers ranges from young teens and students.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1300\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flower-oasis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1300\" alt=\"The Flower Oasis\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flower-oasis-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1300\" alt=\"The Flower Oasis\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/valentines-flower-oasis-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>The Flower Oasis<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nShe said: \u201cBecause we\u2019re in the student area they come in, it\u2019s quite cute. A lot of the ones that are on tight budgets go for the single roses for 5, 6 pounds.\u201d<br \/>\nFor those on larger budgets, Valentine\u2019s Day offers the chance to splash out with extravagance and go over the top.<br \/>\nBetty\u2019s Florists has a trading history dating from 1850, and the most expensive order Ms Eynon can remember for Valentine\u2019s Day came in at over \u00a3500.<br \/>\n\u201cA man wanted us to decorate a whole hotel room in Cardiff with red rose petals and bouquets,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nThe owner also revealed she usually gets around one or two flower orders for marriage proposals on Valentine\u2019s Day each year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe do flowers for men planning to propose, for example a ring box nestled into the flower bouquet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms Eynon\u2019s shop stocks Valentine\u2019s Day flower gifts ranging from a single pink rose in a vase for under \u00a320 to their Ultimate Love bouquet for \u00a3299.95 made up of 60 red roses with diamante studs.<br \/>\nBut the inflated prices of flowers around this time of year are not always just down to the florists.<br \/>\nMs Vaughan, who ships flowers to all over the world, said: \u201cWe suffer as well. People don\u2019t realise that we\u2019re not the ones clawing the money in.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the Dutch because they put their prices up then and they bring the flowers over to us. We have to raise our prices, it isn\u2019t because we\u2019re money-grabbing.\u201d<br \/>\nWhether a blossoming romance or a romantic gift after 50 years of marriage, the traditional red rose continues to reign as the flower of choice for romantics in Cardiff.<br \/>\nAnd even for young teenagers in Cardiff, romance is not dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romance is still alive in Cardiff, according to the owner of one of the city\u2019s oldest florists in the run up to Valentine\u2019s Day next week. Stephanie Eynon, who owns Betty\u2019s Florist in Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, said orders are rushing in and the shop is as busy as ever. 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