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January Birth Flower: The Carnation and Its Meaning

January’s birth flower is the carnation: its colours, meanings, and how to turn it into a birthday gift for someone born in the year’s first month.

Meet our latest design, “Fiji”

Fiji is the poster child for paradise. With dazzling white sands, perfect palm trees and water so blue it glows. Fiji looks so beautiful looks, you might think those photos...

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How can I decorate my wedding without flowers?

Fig & Bloom Guides · The Journal Notes from the Fig & Bloom studio on sending well, written with our florists in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Ten table centrepieces that...

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Why do women like flowers?

Fig & Bloom The Journal It sounds like a loaded question, and it is. A few honest thoughts on why flowers land the way they do. Sounds like a loaded...

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Is Cotton a flower?

Ah, the age-old question… Is cotton a flower? Okay, so the question might not be that old but it is still a worthy question to ask. It does grow the...

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Discover which flower matches your zodiac sign

Fig & Bloom The Journal We are not astrologers, but we do know flowers. A flower matched to each sign of the zodiac, for the believers and the sceptics alike....

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Celebrity Inspired Wedding Floral Ideas

Fig & Bloom The Journal The flowers at a celebrity wedding are chosen to be photographed. Borrow the thinking behind them, with a little restraint, and they carry a wedding...

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The Most Beautiful Flower in the World Is the Wrong Question

A florist names the ten most beautiful flowers in the world, and explains why the honest answer still depends on who you are sending them to.

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A spring arrangement of purple irises, lilies and pink alstroemeria

Spring Flowers in Season in Australia

A florist’s guide to the flowers that come into season each Australian spring (anemones, ranunculus, freesias, irises, roses and more) and how to enjoy them.

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