Our Easter & Passover Collection Is Live Order Today!

Easter and Passover is right around the corner and our talented team of designers have created a seasonal collection that will be sure to impress your guests or the recipient of one of out beautiful designs. We have an array of floral arrangements and spring planters to choose from.

A luxurious combination of pastel spring colors. Light blue hydrangea & tweedia, Pearl Finesse & pink Salma roses, hot pink parrot tulips, soft orange cymbidium orchid stems, fragrant white hyacinth, freesia & pink sweet peas with a pop of lime green viburnam and umbrella fern. This show stopping arrangement is designed a dimpled, white ceramic container.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Free!

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has free admission on the first Thursday of every month from 3pm to 9pm.

HOW TO RESERVE TICKETS:

Admission is free, but reservations are required. Reserve your ticket online here.

Free First Thursdays are supported in part by the Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation. The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Please make sure you are complying with Massachusetts travel regulations prior to purchasing your tickets. Visitors and returning residents entering Massachusetts internationally or from high-risk states are required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival or produce a negative COVID test. The Museum reserves the right to deny entry to travelers or returning residents who are unable to demonstrate meeting Massachusetts testing or quarantine requirements.

If you'd like more information about your visit, please go to www.gardnermuseum.org/resources

Tickets are required to visit Café G and Gift at the Gardner.

Where do our most popular single tulips come from.

Our most popular selling tulips are single tulips, everyone wants to know more about them so we are writing this blog to share some insight about them.

What Are Single Tulips?

Single Tulips are, in a sense, the “most natural” of all the Tulip varieties. In other words: they have been (cross-)bred less than most of the other cultivars. This also means that of all Tulip cultivars, Single Tulips are the best suited for transport. In other words: Single Tulip varieties are the strongest and sturdiest Tulips available for wholesale. You could say that Single Tulips represent the first Dutch Tulips, that paved the way for the Netherlands to become the prime exporter of Tulips. You can still marvel at a large selection of these ancient Tulip varieties at Hortus Bulborum.

History of Tulips

The very first Tulips didn’t originate from the Netherlands, as many people think. Tulips originate from Turkey. The widely accepted theory is that they were introduced in Northwestern Europe by an ambassador for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. This ambassador was fascinated by the flowers that were blooming in “almost midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers”. After the first Tulips were cultivated in the Netherlands, however, their popularity really began to take off. This went so far that early in the 17th century, better known as our Golden Age – a Tulip mania spread through Holland that ultimately broke the market. Bulbs had become so expensive that they were used as a form of currency of their own. “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” – Rembrandt van Rijn This Tulip mania even led to a certain Claes Pieterszoon – a surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam – to change his name to Nicolaes Tulp. You might have seen him in a famous painting of Rembrandt van Rijn: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Today, Tulips are still amongst the most popular flowers from the Netherlands. This makes our little country the main producer of commercial Tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually. The majority of those bulbs are exported, making it an economically important product. Because of that, growers have continuously been experimenting and breeding to find new Tulips.

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Where Are Single Tulips Grown?

Many of our Tulips still come from big farms in the Netherlands, France, and Italy. Single Tulips from these countries normally offer the best quality in color, strength, and vase-life. To expand the season in which Tulips are available, they are now also being grown in Chile and New Zealand. Because the seasons in these parts of the world are mirrored to those in Western Europe, this has about doubled the time when Tulips are available. When it’s spring in Holland and Tulips are flooding our fields, it’s fall in New Zealand, which means the growers are preparing their bulbs for winter. Then, fall starts in the Netherlands and the availability of good bulbs is shrinking. This is when bulbs from New Zealand start coming in, transported to the Netherlands to grow in the Dutch greenhouses. The quality is still that of the very resilient Single Tulips, but most of the time it is a little bit less when compared to those from (bulbs from) the Netherlands, France, and Italy.

When Are They In Season?

In this day and age, it’s mostly possible to get Single Tulips throughout the year, thanks to the above-mentioned broadening of growing regions and new ways to preserve bulbs. However, the best months to order high-quality Single Tulips are still from February till May. The product range is broadest in those months, and the tulips are being grown from bulbs that were prepared here. This cuts the need for transportation and extra cooling, which is necessary for the bulbs coming in from overseas.

How Are Single Tulips Grown?

There are three common ways of growing Tulips: Directly in water Using a layer of potting soil In full soil Single Tulips are mainly grown using the former two. Of these, the method of growing Single Tulips in water is the fastest (roughly twenty days) and therefore the cheapest. Growing them on a layer of pot soil results in Tulips that developed a little more slowly, and are therefore stronger and a little more expensive.

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International Women's Day 2021

IWD 2021 campaign theme: #ChooseToChallenge

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day.

We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge.

individuals and organizations are invited to send in their #ChooseToChallenge images as we share images from around the world in the lead up to International Women's Day 2021.

So strike the #ChooseToChallenge pose with your hand high to show your commitment to choose to challenge inequality, call out bias, question stereotypes, and help forge an inclusive world.

Submissions are photographs of individual or group compositions striking the #ChooseToChallenge hand up pose to potentially be shared on the IWD website and social media feeds - and are ideally 16:9 aspect ratio (landscape composition; max 3000 pixels width). All gender identities welcome.

Please submit #ChooseToChallenge images as early as possible.

Spring Is Around The Corner, Check Out Our Garden Design Services!

Rouvalis Flowers & Gardens has been in operation for over 45 years serving Boston and looks forward to being of service to you for your Four-Season Planting Design and Maintenance. We service the Greater Boston area and bring innovative and unique design to our clients; whether traditional or contemporary, our designs are custom to your needs.

Four Seasons Planting: Complete Design, Installation, & Maintenance Services

At Rouvalis Flowers & Gardens we understand that your exterior plant scapes reflect the quality property you obtain and we do our best to always put your best interest first. We provide exceptional urban gardening solutions that make our clients properties stand out from all the rest. We use the highest quality annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs and decorative containers to enhance the property aesthetics. With our Garden Designers we have the talent and knowledge to distinguish your property from the others in a dense urban setting and to develop the installation and service program to make it a continuing sensation.

Container Gardening
Container gardening is our area of expertise. We design and install window-boxes, courtyard planters, And roof deck containers. By designing exceptional displays, we enhance your property’s style and image.

§ Custom designs

§ Seasonal and custom rotations of plantings

§ Local and tropical plants varieties

With container gardening, the container is as essential as the flowers and plants used. We provide an assortment of contemporary and traditional styles for window boxes, roof decks and entry containers.

Gardens

From Beacon Hill courtyards to Brookline estate gardens, we offer customized designs to make your Urban Garden Stand out. Rouvalis specializes in creating impact in small spaces and design with the philosophy “Small, Spaces, Big Impact”. From simple plantings to intricate designs, we have the resources to create your dream garden.

§ Disposal

§ Design

§ Seasonal Rotation

§ Clean Ups

§ Winterization

§ Maintenance

Maintenance

We are devoted to complete client satisfaction. We take a hands-on approach to plant scape maintenance, preferring to prevent problems rather than react to them. This means all of our plantings will be serviced multiple times every week by our trained and professional crew, watered as needed, kept clean, pruned and healthy. Weekly care by our own experienced crew is of course recommended to maintain aesthetic consistency and over-all plant health. At each service visit our crew assesses all plant scape areas on your property. Maintenance practices include watering, fertilizing, aeration, pruning, trimming, property clean up and weed control. We take pride in an orderly work environment while maintaining your property; all areas will be thoroughly cleaned before leaving your property.

Maintenance Assessment: Maintenance is assessed by the extent of the space and maintenance needed to sustain the plant scape. Maintenance Agreements are set to a monthly rate determined by the factors listed above.

Irrigation:

We offer a wide range of irrigation solutions to ensure healthy plant material. Each account will be assessed by our staff and a plan will be made for an irrigation system. We use an approach that will limit the use of excess water to ensure proper watering management for the environment it is installed in.

Four Season Loyalty Program

Our most popular package we offer, this program includes 4 seasonal plantings throughout the year and maintenance services. Each seasonal planting will be proactively scheduled at the start of each new season with first priority planting, discounts on plant material resulting in more full, lush installations and discounted monthly maintenance costs.

A site visit to all new accounts will be performed by a lead designer, where the property will be assessed to create a specific, unique quote to fit the required needs.

Four Season Loyalty Program Planting Schedule

Spring: April

Summer: June

Fall: September

Winter: November/December  

Four Season Loyalty Program will be assessed by a designer and tailored to each site job requirements and needs.

This program is only available to Four Season Planting & Maintenance Contracts.

Flirt, a beautiful token of affection for Valentine's Day

A beautiful token of affection. Classic red roses, fragrant pink hyacinth, Pink Panther calla lilies, mini green hydrangea, highlighted by rolled aspidistra leaves and a soft pink cymbidium blossom accent, designed in a soft gold, rounded bottom glass vase.

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One Week Until Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day is one week away this floral embodiment of a deep and sultry romance. Exotic Ruby love vanda orchids, Pink Trish protea, Pink Panther calla lilies, a mix of red Hearts & deep pink Queenberry roses highlighted by mini green hydrangea, deep green gardenia foliage and bright green umbrella fern. This arrangement is featured in a soft gold, rounded bottom glass vase.

18x15 as shown

Order Today For Valentine’s Day Flower Delivery

Open Valentine's Day Sunday February 14th

We will be open Valentine’s Day Sunday February 14th 2021 from 10am to 4pm.

We will be offering retail sales, in store pick ups and deliveries for Valentine’s Day.

Shop our collection here!