The new year has brought new growth to veteran florist Props Floral Design (5533 Young Street). After 20-plus years at the helm, owner Susan MacIntosh has sold the Hydrostone business to her niece and longtime employee Ashley MacNeill and the Halifax’s garden doula herself, Jayme Melrose. Recently returning from maternity leave, MacNeill—who at just 35 […]
Props Floral Design
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner The Flower Shop Silver Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Bronze Winner Props Floral Design The Flower Shop’s charming shop in amongst the artsy cobblestones of Granville Square offers a pleasing, fragrant selection of seasonal flowers in finely detailed arrangements for your birthday, Valentine’s, gift-giving and just-because needs. But if you can’t make it downtown, […]
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner The Flower Shop Silver Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Bronze Winner Props Floral Design In downtown Halifax since 1936, The Flower Shop has always been female-owned! It’s the city’s go-to for beautiful, fresh floral arrangements and the variety of flowers makes every day exciting for owner Charlotte Pierce. “Floral design changes just like fashion. […]
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Silver Winner The Flower Shop Bronze Winner Props Floral Design Owner Neville MacKay has neatly tied up this category since 2007, adding in sprigs of fresh greenery and an accent tulip here and there. A beloved personality who shares his floral and design expertise through frequent guest appearances on *Breakfast […]
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ShopTalk visits the Hydrostone
If you judge this book by its cover, the Hydrostone Market is a page- turner. Steeped in history and soaked in style it looks good, yes—so good that when Mother’s Pizza went up, it used the original row of shops for design inspiration—but this wee shopping district feels good, too. The tight-knit strip of boutiques, […]
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Silver Winner Props Floral Designs Bronze Winner Pilcher’s Flowers Neville MacKay himself says it best: “We try our best to offer the best in beautiful quality flowers and giftware to everyone, and this recognition means a lot to all of us here at My Mother’s Bloomers.” The My Mother’s Bloomers’ […]
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One love
PRETTY IN PINK Molly Ringwald would love this gorgeous bouquet of mini calla lilies, spray roses, mini-gerbera daisies and the sweet-smelling stock, made with love by My Mother’s Bloomers. My Mother’s Bloomers | 5640 Spring Garden Road, 422-2700 | <a href="http://www.mymothersbloomers.camymothersbloomers.ca GREAT WHITE The Flower Shop’s Maggie Arsenault kept it crisp, clean and classic with […]
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Props talk
Come April, Props Floral Design (1664 Granville Street, 429-1935) will be packing up its flowers and moving to the Hydrostone Market. Susan MacIntosh, owner and lead designer, has been looking for a new location for a few months because the current building is going to be redeveloped. “We got an offer in January for the […]
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Silver Winner Props Floral Designs Bronze Winner The Flower Shop It’s not that the fine folk at My Mother’s Bloomers are floral snobs, it’s just that they have great taste and aren’t afraid to use it. That’s why they save shop space for fancy flowers instead of carnations and baby’s […]
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Best Flower Shop
Gold Winner My Mother’s Bloomers Silver Winner Props Floral Designs Bronze Winner The Flower Shop You know who in this town who knows more about flowers, flower marketing and the international floral scene than gold winner My Mother’s Bloomer’s owner Neville? Nobody, that’s who. Neville—who has just one name, like Madonna, or Godzilla—flies around the […]
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Flowers: Wild things
Crimson quill Tracy Kenny of Select Roses crafted a bouquet built to last. She created a lush, autumn appropriate arrangement by bringing together salal, leucadendrons, rich red wooden poppies and added an injection of originality by bringing partridge feathers into the mix. “The feathers bring life to this bouquet and could be easily incorporated in […]
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Best Flower Shop
Being a frequent winner in Best of Halifax, his business’s great service and quality floral products, as well as his natural effervescence, all has made My Mothers Bloomer’s owner Neville something of a local celebrity. Did you know he has his own YouTube Channel? Dial up LevelNeville on YouTube and you can tag along with […]