Sweet AkitoTriangle Nursery are pleased to announce their Mothers Day wholesale rose offer for 2010. This will be one of many Mothers Day's offers expected in the next few days!!!

All roses are 60cm in length, (2 foot), and are grown in Kenya. Orders are required by Monday March 1st 2010 at the latest. Please call the Triangle Nursery sales office asap to book your order on 01255 861263 or email sales@trianglenursery.co.uk. See Offer below:

Rose Aqua 60cm x 100 stems @ 44p per stem (mid pink)

Rose Sweet Akito 60cm x 100 stems @ 44p per stem (pale pink)

Rose Poison 60cm x 100 stems @ 44p per stem (cerise)

Rose Akito 60cm x 100 stems @ 44p per stem (white)

If you have any questions regarding this offer. please feel free to call Mark on 01255 861263.

Happy Mothers Day!!

Mark Kenny, (director of Triangle Nursery Ltd), together with 7 other demon table tennis players from the Easton White Horse team, travelled to the Ufford White Lion last night with their WAGS, and delivered a crushing 16 - 8 victory.

The team met at 6.30pm at HQ, (the Easton White Horse public house), where landlord Tim Wood got the boys on their way by kindly sponsoring the first round! The Team bus left at 6.45pm and collected Claire Stagg, 'Nimble' Nick Boulton & WAG Karen en route. With the squad now complete, we headed straight to Lower Ufford and entered the White Lion through the back door.

Landlord & Landlady, Gaynor and Stephen Thurlow, served up a fantastic Cottage Pie dinner before battle commenced for only £6.50! Copious amounts of Adnams bitter, poured straight from the barrel, were enjoyed by the athletes throughout the evening. The proceedings came to an end at approx. 11pm with WH captain 'Ping Pong Pete' Fellows thanking the White Lion for their warm welcome & putting on a fantastic evening.

The Ashes, for the time being, belong to Easton - but a return match at the Easton White Horse is on the cards, so watch this space for further news!

You can visit the Ufford White Lion web site by clicking here & the Easton White Horse web site, (still under construction), by clicking here.

There are quite few theories regarding the origin of Mothers Day and here a just a few of them:

In the 16th century people travelled back to their mother church on Laetare Sunday. This practice was called "gone a-mothering". Whether it was the origin of the terms 'Mothering Sunday' or 'Mothers Day' is unknown.

Since neolithic times, there has been a religious festival celebrating motherhood throughout Europe. The Romans celebrated the mother Goddess Cybele during March. Mothering Sunday became part of the liturgical calendar on Laetare Sunday when most of Europe converted to Christianity. Laetare Sunday is on fourth Sunday of lent in honour of the Virgin Mary.

Other names connected with Mothers Day are Refreshment Sunday, Rose Sunday and Simnel Sunday. Rose Sunday is probably where the tradition of giving flowers to Mums has come from. Bouquets of flowers were given to all mothers in the church congregation.

Today Mothers Day is very much a commercial ocassion, and for a wholesale florist, is the biggest flower festival of the year by far. Unlike other ocassions, (like Valentines Day & red roses), there is no specific variety of flower associated with Mothers Day. The most popular flower colours are pink, white, yellow, peach and creams. This year Mothers Day in the UK is March 14th. Other countries in the world have their own Mothering Sunday on various other dates throughout the year.

Long standing customer of Triangle Nursery, Flowers Delivered UK, were featured on ITV's This Morning show with Eamonn Holmes on Wednesday 10th February. The show compared three companies offering dozen red rose bouquets, (including Marks & Spencer & Interflora), plus three other companies offering innovative & alternative Valentines Gifts. Flowers Delivered UK's Whispering roses created a great feature with presenter Ruth Langsford describing the printed roses as "a kitch gift".

Triangle Nursery has supplied Flowers Delivered UK since their web site was launched five years ago & have seen the company grow from strength to strength ever since. After the screening on ITV's This Morning show, their order for roses was quickly increased!! A couple of quick phone calls to the Dutch Flower Auction by the Triangle sales team solved the problem immediately and staff at Flowers Delivered UK worked through the night to forfill the orders!!

Flowers Delivered UK are well known innovators in the flower trade. Their new web site offers customers the facility to upload their own photographs which are printed onto personal gift cards together with their message and delivered with the flowers. Another new product is the 'Candy Explosion Bouquet' - a great alternative to sending flowers!

You can check out the Flowers Delivered UK web site by clicking here.

March 8th is International Womans Day in Eastern Europe and as a result we are expecting the price of chrysanthemums and roses to rise next week. As usual, here at Triangle Nursery , we will be keeping a keen eye on prices & offering customers the best deals around!

Originally International Womans Day was observed on the 28th February in the USA following a decloration by the Socialist Party of America. Rapid world industrialisation and economic expansion led to workers potesting over working conditions. On the 8th March 1857 woman from the textile factories protested against poor wages & bad working conditions. The very same women created their labour union two years later.

In most countries International Womans Day has now lost it's politcal focus and has become an ocassion for men to express their love to women - a mixture of Mothers Day & Valentines all rolled into one! Flowers have become the gift of choice & now that many Eastern European countries are prosperous the demand on wholesale flower markets has become significant. All varieties of flowers are effected, especially chrysanthemums and roses.