Tulip in bunches of 10

Every year at the turn of the new year Lamber de Bie, Dutch Master Florist, gets very exited with the arrival of the Tulip season.

Tulips natural season in the garden is March, April, May. The best quality tulips available from your florists at the best value price is January, February, March.

Here's what one Hundred Tulips looks Like.

This Year Lamber has decided to celebrate the start of the Tulip season whit an amazing ” One Thousand Tulips Giveaway “.

Lamber de Bie has started a Facebook Campaign in order to find the most deserving person to receive 1000 Tulips early January 2012.

If you would like to nominate someone who deserves a bright start to the new year go to Lamber de Bie Flowers on Facebook and nominate your choice.

Lamber de Bie Flowers on Facebook

Like our Facebook page and find our Tulip give Away under Events. Nominated people must live in either Co. Kilkenny or Co. Waterford.

Glass votive night light holder

Exclusive to Lamber de Bie Flowers

Just arrived into our flower shops in Waterford and Kilkenny we are delighted with this range of exclusive glass candle holdersnight lights.

Perfect gift storage jars

Have a look at some of the photos I took after they arrived to us today.

Gold Glass Exclusive Tea-Light Holder

There are almost 20 different designs varying in price from €8.50 up tp €22.50

Each of these perfect Christmas gifts come with a tea light and we are delighted to wrap your gifts in our flower shop with the attention you expext from your top florist.

Selection of gold glass christmas votive holders

The glass storage or Cookie Jars are in 3 different sizes and are good value at €14.50, €19.50 and €24.50

Purple glass christmas votive candle holders

So if you are looking for a stylish Christmas gift, that you will not find everywhere ( so far we are the only one in Ireland stokking these exclusive votive candle holders) come into our flower shops and have a look for yourself.

Silver glass christmas votive candle holders

Lamber de Bie Flowers – The expert florist for all your flowers and gifts for Christmas.

pearl white christmas votive candle holder

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Large White Snowflake Christmas Hand-tied

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The new 2011 selection of Christmas flowers are now available from the online florist website from Lamber de Bie Flowers, www.lamberdebie.ie.

Festive Door Wreath for Christmas

At lamber de Bie Flower we have put together a selection of Christmas gifts that can be sent to Ireland and to the UK.

All christmas bouquets, christmas table centre arrangements and christmas plants arrangements are put together by qualified interflora florists trained by the Dutch Master Florist, Lamber de Bie.

Scented Candle Arrangement 2011

With flower shops in Kilkenny and flower shops in Waterford, Ireland we can deliver directly from our flower shops, guarenteeing the best quality flowers for christmas.

As Interflora florist we guarentee best quality christmas flowers for delivery in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Carlow, Drogheda, Dundalk, Bray and many more places in Ireland as well as almost to any adress in the UK.

Christmas deleveries to London, Manchaster, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Sheffield, Eddinburgh, Bristol, Newcastle, Liverpool and many more UK cities can be organased online at our florist website.

Poinsettia Gift Plant with Chocolates

Christmas flowers ordered from the 2011 selection on our site will be delivered to your family, friends, loved ones or business contacts on any specified date upto christmas eve.

Go to www.lamberdebie.ie to see the full selection

Want to be part of this success story?

At Lamber de Bie Flowers, we are looking to, replace a glowing star, to fill a Full Time Florist Position (40hrs) with the best available candidate, position starting January 2012.

Are you the person we are looking for?

Lamber de Bie Flowers Kilkenny is looking for a full time florist for their store on the Ormonde street in the centre of the beautiful Kilkenny ( http://www.kilkennytourism.ie/ ) in the South East of Ireland.

This store is part of Lamber de Bie Flowers Ltd with 3 florist stores, one in Kilkenny and two in Waterford City established in 2000 by Lamber de Bie, Dutch Master Florist and Pat Fennessy. www.lamberdebie.ie

Lamber de Bie Flowers is known for providing the best in floral design and customer service to all our customers. Our team of florists comprises of the best from many countries. Over the past years all our stores have won many awards from local and nationwide organizations for best retail store, best customer service,etc.

Lamber de Bie Flowers are the choice florists for wedding flowers in the South East making dreams come true almost every week for Brides to be trusting us to look after the flowers for their big day.

The ideal person we are looking for:

• has excellent communication skills (near perfect command of the english language both verbal and written is essential)
• has experience in commercial floristry
• is enthusiastic about perfect customer service
• has a warm and friendly attitude
• is a hard worker
• is both a self motivator as well as a team player
• is driven by Quality, Creativity, Customer Service & Floral Design
• has basic computer knowledge
• loves weddings
• believes that a job is more than work and should be fun

Plants for Winter colour on your patio

The autumn has come and our window boxes and patio planters are beginning to look a bit dull. The summer bedding flowers have almost come to an end. This is the perfect time to give your patio pots a new leash of life and some colour for the autumn and winter months.

At Lamber de Bie Flowers – in our 3 flower shops in Ireland – we always have a selection of seasonal flowering plants both for inside the home as well as for your patio and window boxes.

I picked out some plants that are very suitable for planting in pots outside that will transform your terrace.

These winter Cyclamen will survive outside all year round and provide you with lots of colour. The Cyclamen vary in colour from different shades of pink, lilac, red  and pure white. They will look fantastic on their own, maybe with some trailing Ivy plants, or mixed with some of the other plants below.

Winter Cyclamen

The Hydrangea plant, as in the picture below, is available again in a variety of colours from pink, blue, purple, green and white. Remember that almost all flowers will turn green after they come to the end of their flowering season. These Hydrangea plants will dress your patio planters for many months and in the spring when you replant your pots again with summer bedding flowers you can than plant this fantastic plant in a shaded or half sunny spot in the garden where it will flower for years to come.

Blue Hydrangea plant

Lily plants in pots are a great favorite of ours, they come in many different colours from pinks, yellows, reds, white and many more. A plant that will flower for a long time outside or in a cool position in the home. When your lily is finished flowering make sure you take all the finished flowers out of the plant to encourage new growth. When the lily plant is completely finished flowering, and everything, including stems and leaves, has died off you can than plant the remaining root – bulbs in a sunny spot in your garden and the lilies will flower for you every summer, again and again.

Lily plants in pot

The Brassica, or Ornamental Cabbage is an annual plant, grown from seed that will only live for one season. If planted this time of year they will stay beautiful outside all trough the winter. This is a very in expensive plant that is perfect for planting in your winter window boxes and patio planters.

Ornamental Cabbage plant, Brassica.

The Chrysanthemum plants are available in different sizes up to the enormous globes in the photo below. One of these in a pot near your front door will brighten the entrance of your door for months during autumn and winter. These Chrysanthemum plants are also very popular plants that are often placed during the month of November – Month of Remembrance – on the graves of a loved one as they will produce flower for a long time and need little water when outside in a cool climate. When you decide to bring the Chrysant plant in to a warm room in your home you will need to give it plenty of water.

Large Chrysant plants

The Hebe plant is a small and slow growing evergreen schrub with beautiful coloured foliage. They work perfect in a combined winter planter for on your patio.

Garden hebe plants

At our Lamber de Bie Flowers Flower shops in Waterford and Kilkenny we are also selling a selection of Tulip bulbs and Daffodil bulbs. All our bulbs come from a local Irish family farm specializing in Irish grown bulbs. When planting your winter planters for your patio it is a great idea to place some bulbs into the soil between your plants. These bulbs will appear in early spring and give a welcome blast of colour when it is still to early to plant your summer bedding.

Irish grown tulips

These Irish grown Tulip bulbs and Daffodil bulbs can also be planted directly into your border for that fantastic spread of colour in spring. When planting bulbs I like to plant them in large groups of the same variety together. The impact of a large group of tulips in spring in your garden is much better than when you spread them out as individual single tulips all around the garden.

Irish grown Daffodil Bulbs

We always carry a range of plants, both indoor plants for in the home as well as seasonal garden plants suitable for patio pots and window boxes.  Many of our customers buy these as gifts trough our florist website.

Have a look at our website at www.lamberdebie.ie or contact one of our team in the shops to find out what other options we have in our flower shops.

Delivery in Ireland and UK

Find a selection of Autumn flowers, autumn bouquets and autumn flower arrangements from the offering of seasonal fresh autumn flowers at the Florist website of Lamber de Bie – www.lamberdebie.ie

Autumn Flowers Online

Autumn flowers created by qualified florists and hand delivered in Ireland and the UK.

Autumn flower bouquet

Autumn Flowers Rose and Lily Hand-tied

Combining exquisite lilies and large-headed roses, this classically elegant hand-tied is a perfect partnership of colours and blooms. Lilies and large-headed roses work so wonderfully together, and we’ve added oak leaves and fresh foliage for their colour and contrasting texture. It’s all perfectly finished off with lavish seasonal gift-wrap. Featuring 5 red Asiatic lilies, 5 orange large-headed roses, red oak leaf and pittosporum.

This bouquet is available in 3 different prices, starting from € 40.00

Autumn Splendour Vase

Autumn Flowers Splendour Perfect Gift

Our Autumn Splendour Perfect Gift is a rich collage of colours, from end-of-the-summer orange to the firelight glow of amber. The large-headed orange rose takes centre stage, wonderfully complemented by germinis and carnations. Featuring 1 orange carthamus, 3 orange germinis, 2 orange spray carnations, an orange large-headed rose, and solidago with red oak leaf, salal and pittosporum, presented in a clear glass vase with a rustic brown sisal collar.

Autumn flowers bouquet

XL Autumn Flowers Hand Tied

Our Extra Large Autumn Hand-tied is an incredible sight. With a generous array of large-headed roses, germinis and carnations, it’s one of our most spectacular designs. The colours are wonderfully chosen too, dappled sunlight shades combine with rich orange and crimson. It will make an absolutely breathtaking gift. Featuring 2 orange large-headed roses, 5 gold carnations, 2 yellow spray chrysanthemums, 2 bronze spray chrysanthemums, 5 orange germinis, and 4 orange spray carnations, with red oak leaf.

Lily and Physalis Vase

Extra Large Lily and Physalis Vase

This extravagant union of exquisite flowers really capture the beauty of the season. In this extra large arrangement we\’ve chosen even more stunning lilies and exotic physalis to create a flawless and and spectacular display. It\’s a dazzling new take on autumn flowers and it\’s going to amaze. Featuring 8 red Asiatic lilies and 5 physalis, with black and red grevillea in a tall slim, glass vase.

If you are interested to send flowers in Ireland or send flowers in the UK you can go for the full selection of Interflora autumn flowers to the florist website of Lamber de Bie Flowers – www.lamberdebie.ie

Kilkenny Limestone table with ornaments

I love my table on the terrace with a large sheet of Kilkenny limestone filled with beautiful fossils.

My design studio freshly painted

I recently painted my design studio in this fresh blue with pure white detail around the windows. It brightens the garden even on the dullest of days.

Hosta leaves

The Hosta is a plant I love in my garden and I have lots of different varieties. It is an annual struggle to keep them protected from slugs. I don’t like using slug pellets so often place a half apple upside down under the Hosta plants and collect the slugs twice daily – a treat my chickens are very grateful fore.

Ceder Atlantica

This tree is now approx 25 ft tall and provides shade for the chickens in the summer. It reminds me of the mature -much larger – Atlas Ceder we had in our garden growing up in Holland.

Silver pine needles

The needles of this very slow growing pine have a fantastic silver on the back and olive green on the front.

The dried bark from a Eucalypthus tree that died during last winter's frost

This is a detail of the dried bark of a Eucalypthus tree that died as a result of the very cold winter we had.

Scented Mint flowers

The mint has a wonderful soft scent and flowers during August and September.

Weeping Willow leaves

The leaves of the weeping willow tree are some of the most elegant foliage in the garden. They move – dance like – with the slightest movement in the air catching the light on the silver back of the leaves.

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HOERA,

We’re shortlisted by the Irish Internet Association for best online trader.

PLEASE follow the link and VOTE for us.

http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/vote/34

THANK YOU !!

STORE OF THE YEAR 2011 – TOP100 SHORT-LIST

E-COMMERCE WEBSITE OF THE YEAR 2011

Retail Excellence Ireland :

” We joined Retail Excellence Ireland almost 10 years ago when they started off as “Crest”. We brought many of our  team to the training courses organised by Retail excellence Ireland, these courses as well as the mystery shoppers and annual Retail Excellence Awards are a continuous motivation for all of us in offering our customers just that little bit more than they have already become to expect from us. The owner-network meetings are day we never miss – I always leave full of enthusiasm with new ideas and most of all with the confirmation that we as retailers all face the same challenges. As a retailer I am very grateful that Retail Excellence Ireland is constantly bringing the attention of our government to the needs of the Irish Retailers. Together we do have a voice as retailers. “

Lamber de Bie – Lamber de Bie Flowers

It is with great pride that I learn today that we are nominated in the shortlist for two awards this year.

Lamber de Bie Flowers is nominated for the 2011 award for best store of the year as well as the website www.lamberdebie.ie is nominated for the best e-commerce web site of 2011

For a full list of all the nominated Irish stores and Irish e-commerce sites go to www.retailexcellence.ie

Today, once again I am very proud of the complete team making Lamber de Bie Flowers the success it is continuing to be for over 10 years now.

We at Lamber de Bie Flowers are also proud that Lamber de Bie Flowers is the only florist in the top 100 retail shops in Ireland as well as being the only florist e-commerce site in the top 100 Irish websites.

Further assessment will be conducted on each of the Top100 stores and top 20 e-commerce sites and we will have to wait untill November to find out the overall winner of best shop in Ireland and best Irish E-Commerce site.

Most popular choice for Birthday gifts

Over the past month we have seen a enormous increase of sales for our summer basket as well as our scented summer basket. Both flower baskets are very popular for any gifts but paticular popular as Birthday gifts. Both flower arrangements feature a beautiful selection of lilac, cream, purple and mostly pink summer flowers.

Summer Basket

Taking our inspiration from the natural beauty of country gardens, this arrangement features a gorgeous selection of seasonal blooms. We´ve selected the very freshest flowers of the moment and arranged them in a crisp white softwood basket. It´s an evocative collection of rich summer shades that will brighten any room.

Summer Basket

Scented Summer Basket

Presented in a classic rustic style trug basket, this collection of summer flowers and sweet scented herbs could have been just picked from the garden. The soft pastel colours and beautiful fragrance make this arrangement a wonderful centrepiece as well as an ideal gift. Featuring pink germinis, cream carnations, pink lisianthus, Blue September flower, and pink spray carnations with rosemary, lavender and foliage

Scented Summer Basket

For a full selection of our Special Birthday Gifts follow the link to our website below:

www.lamberdebie.ie