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VOTED BEST FLORIST IN MEMPHIS
Pugh’s Flowers is a family owned and operated floral design firm. We operate four floral design centers in the greater Memphis & Southaven area. Our firm is one of the most trusted brands in the city. The award-winning floral design staff at Pugh’s is a super talented group. They create luxurious, upscale floral bouquets. In addition to all the gorgeous farm fresh flowers we sell, we also offer the best selection of green, flowering and succulent plants in town. Need an occasion themed gift? Each of our floral design centers offers lots of great gift options.
Pugh’s Flowers was started in 1976 by Bill Pugh and his partner. Over the past 40 years, Pugh’s Flowers has grown into one of the premier flower shops in the country. The flower shop is currently owned and operated by Tim, Michael and Mark. Bill Pugh’s three sons. We operate three retail flower shops in Memphis, and another in Southaven, Mississippi. Along with our floral design business, the brothers also operate Pugh’s Earthworks, Rosie’s Pest Control and a new business that will be opening soon, called Pugh’s Lawn.
Pugh’s Flowers imports the freshest cut flowers daily from around the world for our flower delivery. Teleflora ranks Pugh’s Flowers as one of the nations 100 largest floral order senders from over 25,000 member shops. Our full service florist has a full selection of fresh cut flowers, fruit and gourmet baskets, green houseplants and home accessories that are all available in store, via the web or by phone. Pugh’s Flowers operates 4 floral design centers. We have 3 flower shops in Memphis and 1 in Southaven MS. We are open 7 days.
Local Same Day & Express Delivery
Pugh’s Flowers offers local same-day and express flower delivery service. Our local delivery area is the largest among the flower shops operating in the market. Every single floral bouquet our artisans create is backed by our on-time delivery guarantee. We also provide a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee with each flower arrangement as well. If for any reason you don’t absolutely love the fresh flower bouquet we create and deliver for you, just contact our floral design center. We will design and deliver another bouquet, of equal or greater value, absolutely free of charge.
Nationwide Same Day Flower Delivery
If you need to send flowers to someone who resides outside of our local delivery area, we encourage you to opt for our nationwide same day delivery service option. We have developed a hand selected network of floral design partners around the country. Our staff works directly with these vendor partners to accomplish same day deliveries across the United States. Every arrangement, whether scheduled for local or nationwide delivery, is guaranteed for on-time arrival. Each design is also backed by our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.
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Puppy Love Pet Photo Contest, Pugh’s Flowers Memphis
Well, our winner was announced...and you will never guess who won! Martini, the pet skunk, got the most votes by a long shot! Here she is in her winning picture. See you guys next year for our third annual pet photo contest. Pugh's Flowers is having it's second annual Puppy Love Pet Photo Contest. We have been getting a lot of entries and are so excite to see all these beautiful animals! See our sumbissions so far here. We want to see cats, dogs, horses, ferrets, or whatever your favorite pet is! The winnner gets our Romance Valentine's Day package, a $120 value. Enter today and get all your friends to vote. Every submission and voter gets a $5 off coupon that might help this Valentine's Day.
Valentine’s Day Ideas, Pugh’s Flowers Memphis
Don't forget your sweetheart this year. Thursday is the day...she will love to see the flowers with her name on the card!
How to Care for your new Poinsettia, Pugh’s Flowers
The Christmas Season just wouldn't be the same without a beautiful Poinsettia decorating your home. Poinsettias are great potted plants and provide color for your home during and after the holiday season. They also make wonderful festive holiday gifts. Proper care is very important however for the plant to be able to maintain it's vigor and beauty. Here are a few helpful tips to make your poinsettia last.Keep your new Poinsettia plant near a sunny window where it will have the most available sunlight. Sunlight should be available for the plant at least five hours a day. A window that faces south, east or west is the best location to place your Poinsettia. Do take precaution not to let any part of your plant touch the cold windowpane. Poinsettias are sensitive to cold and the cold of the windowpane may injure it.Watering your Poinsettia can be tricky. They are in the Euphoria Family and are native to Mexico. With this said they do not like to become too dry so you should never let the soil in the pot completely dry out. If you feel dryness on top of the soil when touching it, do water it until water runs freely out the drainage hole in the container. The pot should be able to drain the excess water as water logging in the pot is not good for Poinsettia. Waterlogged soil lacks sufficient air, which may result damage of roots. Poinsettias exposed to high light and low humidity require more frequent watering. However never water your poinsettia if the soil feels wet. Too much water will cause the leaves to curl up and then fall off. An over watered Poinsettia will drop all of it's leaves and look very " Naked."Maintain the temperature of the location where you have placed your plant at 65 to 70 degrees during the daylight hours for it to maintain it's blooming. It is a good practice to move Poinsettias to a cooler place at night but it is not a demanding criterion. Because root rot disease is more prevalent at temperatures below 60 degrees F, do not put the poinsettia in a room colder than this.Here are some interesting facts about Poinsettias you may not already know.....1. Poinsettias are the most popular of all holiday plants.2. Poinsettias are native to southern Mexico and Central America. 3. Poinsettias also bloom in cream, lemon, peach, pink colors and with white- and gold-splashed leaves. 4. Poinsettia's botanical name, Euphorbia Pulcherrima, means "the most beautiful Euphorbia".5. Poinsettia was named after the former US ambassador to Mexico, Dr. Joel R. Poinsett, who introduced the Poinsettia to the United States.6. Research as proved that the Poinsettia is not poisonous.7. Poinsettias, at times, reach a height of sixteen feet.8. Poinsettias are also known by other names such as 'Christmas flower', 'lobster flower', and 'Mexican flame leaf'.Keeping your Poinsettia throughout the year and getting it to re bloom for next Christmascan require a little work on your part as well as a [...]
New Website!! Pugh’s Flowers
We installed a new website and host and have so many things to offer besides flowers. You can start earning Reward points with every purchase. These points can add up to savings on future orders or you can get items from our rewards catalog. We will also be adding drop ship items like chocolate covered strawberries and Fairytale Brownies. We also have a helping hands program in place. If you have a particular charity that you like to support have them call us and we will set them up in our system so all your orders can benefit this charity. We are working on this currently but organizations that we work with are Camp Good Grief, Humane Society of Memphis, Briarcrest, ECS, and FACS,and the Dream Factory of Memphis. We are adding to this list everyday. Another great feature of our new site is lucky stems. All recipients will receive a card with a code on it to see if they are a lucky winner. Prizes include coupons from Pugh's, little plush Pughy and free red roses. We are adding prizes from local business partners as well. Try your luck! We also have more features like free e-cards and online order status. We are happy to provide our customers with a much better online shopping experience.
Pinterest, it’s got great ideas! Pugh’s Flowers Memphis
Well by now you are probably all followers of Pugh's Flowers on Pinterest but if not you are missing a great opportunity to see a wide variety of images that can inspire you to create beautiful tables, door decor, personalized gifts and so much more. Pinterest is a great way to see what is trending in any area and we have gathered a lot of flower and event images to stimulate your creative juices! Here is one great example of a Fall table that's beautiful. Pumpkins make wonderful flower containers! Check out our Pinterest Tablescapes board here! Happy Pinning!
Fall Holidays, leaf no one behind! Pugh’s Flowers
Fall is here and everyone loves to see all the color changes and leaves falling, it's a beautiful time of year. Fall also gives us quite a few opportunities to spread good cheer. Here are some upcoming holidays to celebrate the people who are special to you. October 8, 2012 Columbus Day October 16, 2012 Boss's Day October 20, 2012 Sweetest Day October 31, 2012 Halloween History of Bosses Day (wikipedia) Patricia Bays Haroski registered "National Boss' Day" with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1958. She was working as a secretary for State Farm Insurance Company in Deerfield, Illinois at the time and chose October 8 because she forgot that the birthday of her boss, who was her father, was actually on the 16th. Four years later, in 1962, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner backed Haroski's registration and officially proclaimed the day.[citation needed] Hallmark did not offer a Boss' Day card for sale until 1979. It increased the size of its National Boss' Day line by 28 percent in 2007.[citation needed] National Boss' Day has become an international celebration in recent years and now is observed in countries such as Australia, India, South Africa, Ireland, the UK, and Egypt. Note that Egypt celebrates their equivalent holiday on 10 December every year.
So many things to do, so little time! Pugh’s Flowers
We have a busy Fall and it's all wonderful. First thing to mention is that Pugh's Flowers was the title sponsor for the Rose Cup Soccer Tournament that was held this past weekend out at the Mike Rose Soccer fields. Pughy was there to hand out candy and coupons, we supplied a fun corn hole game and winners got to take flowers home! Next fun thing to join us in is the Camp Good Grief 5K, which is held on October 7th, 2pm. Sign up here and be a part of helping to send grief striken kids and teens to a warm and loving camp where they can learn to deal with their grief from a recently lost loved one. It's the only camp of it's kind in the mid-south and it's free for the campers. Another great thing that we are sponsoring is the 2nd annual Viral Video Contest, going on now through November 10th. Simply submit your home made videos about the world of flowers to us, we will ppost all the videos on our YouTube Channel and then the voting begins. Views equal votes, and the videos that are short and funny usually get the most views! Kids learn about making videos and the winning school gets $2500! Get creative and have some fun Memphis.
Why send Sympathy Flowers to the service? Pugh’s
There is a lot of talk today about donating to charities instead of sending flowers to send your condolences. While some families request this flowers are still a valuable part of the healing process. There is a new director in town, Todd VanBeck of Forest Hill Cemeteries, who has written a wonderful and informative guide to the ins and outs of funeral flowers and he has graciously shared his work with us. Following is an excerpt from his article and it has some great information. By: Todd VanBeck SYMBOLISM AND FLOWERS Through history, flowers have been used to symbolize almost every aspect of the life cycle, from birth through death. In death, flowers are used to symbolize how the beauty of creation is temporary and, as sure as the flower must be cut from the stem, so it is with life—we all, too, must have our life cut from the stem, so to speak. Flowers also have a particular aesthetic value in the face of death, for the beauty of the flower helps balance our emotional response to the sharp contrast of the perceived ugliness of death. Flowers help soften the raw data imagery that death leaves with survivors. The fragility of life is also symbolized by a flower. Flowers, to be healthy, require the proper condition to grow and expand – just like human beings. And finally, the color of flowers has a specific symbolism, particularly in religious thought. A. A purple flower is a symbol of penitence and royalty. This floral color is used during the preparatory and penitential seasons of Advent and Lent. B. A white flower is the symbol of joyous and celebrative color of light. This floral color is used during the festive seasons of Christmas and Easter, and on high days during ordinary times. C. A green flower is the symbol of nature in the freshness of growth – hence our green cemeteries. This floral color is used, except on high days, during ordinary times, the seasons after Epiphany Pentecost. D. A red flower is the symbol of fire and blood, and is used on the Day of Pentecost and on other special occasions when the work of the Holy Spirit or the blood of Christ or of martyrs is being commemorated. E. A black flower is the symbol used for Good Friday, though red flowers are also sometimes used. Flowers, as we have just discussed, help the person think in symbolic terms, which is the way that much of the information concerning death is communicated.