Keepsake Floral Blog

Many modern plants we see around us are hybrids, without most of us even realizing it! The process of creating hybrids is growing more popular over the years, because it can increase the size of a plant and its blooms, it can alter its taste or its color, and it...

This peculiar time in history has had quite an impact on important aspects of everyone’s lives lately. As we all know, safety precautions remain important as the world slowly tries to adjust back to its “normal” schedule. In response to wedding dates getting cancelled, postponed and remaining unset, minimizing wedding...

Wow .. this covid-19 has really turned our worlds upside down!  And it’s so hard to make sense of the present and future of our businesses and our personal lives right now, isn’t it? At Keepsake Floral, we’re trying to find the silver linings amongst the clouds, and we believe...

Are you a Classic Rose Bouquet with a hint of Wildflower Garden? Or maybe you’re a full-blown Tropical Paradise Bouquet? To find out, you’re going to need a pen and paper (or the notes app on your phone) to write out numbers 1 through 9. For each of the nine...

Language is constantly evolving. This means that the way we communicate with those we love is constantly changing too. Our grandparents had love letters to keep in touch with their significant others .. Carefully penned in cursive and stamped with a lipstick kiss. Today our vernacular with messaging is so...

There is endless excitement as we ease out of the holidays and into the beginning of a decade. The New Year marks great opportunity to work towards goals that may have been pushed aside, to set new ones that parallel your future intentions, and to dedicate this year to the...

As the end of another decade is upon us we can’t help but feel nostalgic about some of our favorite bouquet trends in the previous decades. Bouquets for weddings were originally used in the renaissance to mask the smell and add color to the celebration. During the Victorian age, select...

This month, in celebration of Veterans Day on November 11, we’re spotlighting our “framing superhero” and beloved veteran, Charlie Davis. Besides hand-building all of our custom Keepsake shadow boxes and frames, Charlie lives an eventful life outside of the workshop, always with a smile on his face and a quick-witted...

Suzzanne Douglas wears multiple hats at Keepsake Floral. She is our primary Preservationist and Shipping Clerk. Suzzanne loves flowers and worked for a florist in Illinois for several years before moving to Central Florida....

October is here!  The smell of pumpkin spice lattes fills the air yet again, Halloween is just around the corner and fall is in full swing. ...

At Keepsake Floral, we believe that a healthy workplace for our team members has a significant impact on the relationships that we hold with industry members and referral sources, valuable components in the Keepsake Floral recipe....

Keepsake attended this summer’s Florida State Florist Association annual convention in Howie-in-the-Hills, Florida. And not only did we meet a whole bunch of new folks, but we saw fresh floral designs and learned so many new things!...

Before Keepsake Floral became the company that we know and love today, it started as a one-woman operation in the back of the Hollifield family home. Keepsake Floral has grown over the following years, gaining coworkers and clients, including our exclusive partnership with Walt Disney World Fairy Tale Weddings. Now...

This silver moment brings together two artists from Keepsake Floral’s not so recent memory, still organically working together over the miles and the years. Thank YOU, Robin, Vonnie and Joni, for your contributions to the Keepsake Floral of yesterday, and thank you for blending your art and sweet memories. Now...

Check out the Sympathy Gallery When most people think of flower preservation, they think of pressed flowers from some fantastical excursion or the dried wedding bouquet hanging in a relative’s living room. True to form, most of the clients we receive at Keepsake Floral are brides looking to preserve a...

At least, it’s one of the questions you should ask when prepping your flowers for preservation. Believe it or not, there are practices that make a huge difference in how well a bouquet and its flowers actually respond to the preservation process before and after the bouquet has done its...

About Abby Abby’s parents and younger brother live in Winter Park, Florida, where she grew up.  With both parents being artists, attending art classes, and doodling through school, Abby eventually found herself taking lessons from her current Keepsake coworker Lori Sanchez.  Following that path, Abby started college focusing on a...

About Gabi Although not a Florida native, Gabi has the unique experience of joining the Keepsake team at just 15 years old.  Beginning her time with Keepsake as a summer job, Gabi has stayed with us as a designer for seven years.  The resume that qualifies her as one of...