Making Cube Vases Easier for Delivery

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I wanted to share what we are doing now to help make delivering cube vases easier.

I am sure there are different ways to deal with this issue, but this is how we are doing it.

Ok, as a lot of you know, cube vases are very popular!

However they are very hard to wrap, and also very hard to keep the flower designs from getting messed up and shifted around on delivery. Especially the 4" cubes!

Ok, so I'm sure a lot of you will say, they need to made correctly by the designer to keep flowers from moving around, but I am here to tell you we make them correctly, but they still get messed up on delivery sometimes. The flowers tend to sometimes fall out,or just not look like the original design when it left the designers table. Especially when they go through a delivery pool, then I really worry about the final presentation for recipient.

Oh, we also do not use tape on our vases.

So anyway, we now make a hand-tied bouquet and then cut it and drop it into cube vases. The flowers stay together much better this way, and you don't have to worry about the design shifting around or falling apart.

Just wanted to share this, since we finally figured it out, I know it's nothing new but just wanted to put it out there.

Does anybody else have trouble with their 4" cube designs for delivery?
 
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master J said:
I wanted to share what we are doing now to help make delivering cube vases easier.

I am sure there are different ways to deal with this issue, but this is how we are doing it.

Ok, as a lot of you know, cube vases are very popular!

However they are very hard to wrap, and also very hard to keep the flower designs from getting messed up and shifted around on delivery. Especially the 4" cubes!

Ok, so I'm sure a lot of you will say, they need to made correctly by the designer to keep flowers from moving around, but I am here to tell you we make them correctly, but they still get messed up on delivery sometimes. The flowers tend to sometimes fall out,or just not look like the original design when it left the designers table. Especially when they go through a delivery pool, then I really worry about the final presentation for recipient.

Oh, we also do not use tape on our vases.

So anyway, we now make a hand-tied bouquet and then cut it and drop it into cube vases. The flowers stay together much better this way, and you don't have to worry about the design shifting around or falling apart.

Just wanted to share this, since we finally figured it out, I know it's nothing new but just wanted to put it out there.

Does anybody else have trouble with their 4" cube designs for delivery?
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I have trouble following anything you say without a video:)
 
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I am becoming a big fan of hand-tying bouquets and putting in vases! It's so much faster than designing right into the vase. :wide:
 
Hand-tying the cubes works well, however, I truly like the extra security of the tape grid. To me, it just gives the design that perfect amount of security to hold everything in place.
 
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We handtie everything but that is the norm over here, we dont really arrange in vases at all. (That's just the way it's done.)

Adam, i would love to see a pic of this in a cube, would love to market something different although my customers unfortunately want big big big all the while.

edit - just had a look on your website, love the orange crush, is this handtied?
 
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Yeah i have started these in fishbowls for brides but i am thinking day to day as a coffee table arrangement as a gift, what do you think jo? Do you think the english would go for this?
 
We make them here or we do arrangements in oasis in them really popular. Something modern. If you can get them cheap enough like from floral essencials and do them for say under £15.00 hand tied I think they would go well or what ever your budgets are. Our more modern designs tend to be bigger more linear and sell for are £30.00 + also quite popular.
Go for it.
 
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This tip works for me too. Glad to see someone else has this issue with delivery.

Truthfully, if you follow one of these from design table to delivery to table you will see they are hard to master. When out on my own deliveries I have been completely annoyed at how they travel. The hand tieds are my best solution also. FYI on the taped grids, you might be surprised at how those look when water sloshes up from the vase and loosens the tape.

Just a small tip from me, follow some of your designs out the door, in your current delivery vehicle, around the corners, through the stop lights, bends in the roads, and other people's driveways. You may very well come back with a different take on your design mechanics/needs.
 
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ivygreen said:
This tip works for me too. Glad to see someone else has this issue with delivery.

Truthfully, if you follow one of these from design table to delivery to table you will see they are hard to master. When out on my own deliveries I have been completely annoyed at how they travel. The hand tieds are my best solution also. FYI on the taped grids, you might be surprised at how those look when water sloshes up from the vase and loosens the tape.

Just a small tip from me, follow some of your designs out the door, in your current delivery vehicle, around the corners, through the stop lights, bends in the roads, and other people's driveways. You may very well come back with a different take on your design mechanics/needs.
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Good mechanics are exactly why when a customer in a hurry says "Can't you just throw them in a vase?" we say no, we don't "throw them in a vase". They don't understand that for the flowers to look the same way after traveling in a vehicle as they do in the shop it takes more work than throwing them in a vase. That's one of our completely undervalued skills.

It's just not the same as arranging flowers in your kitchen and walking them to your dining room table. Your average consumer would be hard pressed to understand the difference unless we educate them.
 
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We've just recently gone to hand tying greens(baker, pittosporum, sprengeri) and then arranging the fresh flowers through the green cluster.
Has simplified arranging and improved delivery problems.
 
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Love the video!

So how does everyone box them up for transportation when you have a high number of them (wedding centerpieces)?

We usually transport in low, long flower boxes padded with air cushions. This works, but delicate flowers like lilies are still prone to bruising from transport just by brushing against the air packs.
 
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Mocha Rose said:
So how does everyone box them up for transportation when you have a high number of them (wedding centerpieces)?

We usually transport in low, long flower boxes padded with air cushions. This works, but delicate flowers like lilies are still prone to bruising from transport just by brushing against the air packs.
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Cube vases are heavy and my bad back can't carry a flower box full any more. If I'm delivering in the mighty mighty Subaru hatchback, I use a no-skid rug pad on the floor and place them unboxed, maybe some recycled egg crate foam between if needed. And then have one box or bread tray for schlepping that I keep refilling from the car. (I can fit more in the car that way. Amazing how resourceful you can be when you have to!)

If I'm renting a cargo van, I forgo the rug pad, the foam, and the schlepping box. I wheel them in and out on a rolling cart that we take with us. Love a cart!
 
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