Thornless Roses???

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Flowersbytaffie

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Hi Again everyone!

I continue to read the posts from everyone and am excited everyday when I come to read more from experienced florists!

I got an inquiry from a bride who is planning to DIY her bridal bouquets. She said that she wanted roses that dont have THORNS. I asked her if she wanted me to strip the thorns and I would charge her labor for that and she said no she wants the kind that have no thorns. I know that I am new to owning a shop, but I have been arranging flowers for weddings for a number of years. Am I in the dark on this? EDUCATE me please if I am wrong and tell me where to buy them?
 
While I don't think any rose is bred specifically to not have thorns, there are some varieties that don't have many, and most times don't have any.
Osiana - both peach and the new pink variety.
Virginias - dreamy white
Annas - palest creamy pink.
Black Beauty - deep red (variety could be off, I just remember a verrry dark red that had almost no thorns)
Spray roses - a lot of spray roses don't seem to have too many - any majolica variety, Peach Ilse also.

I think in the victorian language of flowers, a thornless rose meant love at first sight. This might be why she wants those types of roses for her wedding day.
hope that helps.
tracy
 
Thanks for Your reply

I have used those varieties and realize that they dont have a lot of thorns on them. Maybe that is what she means, I just did not remember having any roses that have absolutely no thorns on them she said that she read it on the Craigslist wedding forums and was told to ask for thornless. Thanks for your help. I will call her back now with an informed answer! Thanks Again Flowerchat!
 
Just a quick addition, based on your reply about her "forum" request. Though I don't have a big problem with DIY brides, make it clear to her that any flower, professinally arranged into bouquets, corsages, bouts etc, are professionally processed to remove any thorns, or other parts that can injur someone, or snag a fine fabric. Sounds like my romantic notion of love at first sight was not her reason for asking, but rather her helpful forum telling her to be sure & ask her florist for a special thornless variety to make her DIY efforts easier. If she hired you, she wouldn't have to worry about it at all, whould she?
good luck!
tracy
 
80% of the the roses I get are thornless and bred that way. What color is she looking for?
 
Thanks Tracy!

After speaking with her more this weekend, she has lots of reservations about doing the bouquets herself. She wants me to arrange the corsages and bouts and the big arrangements, but is wanting to do her own handtied bouquets with all roses. Her mother is not so fond of this notion since she feels like with the rush of wedding, the responsibility may fall in her lap.

Dazeal the colors of flowers are varying shades of pink. Thanks for your input.
 
I think that many folks think that the hand-tied style of bouquets are as simple as picking up a bunch of flowers and wrapping a ribbon around them. Unfortunately, a wedding is not the time to find out that it is harder than it looks, to the untrained, and with the schedule often quite tight, I would not want to be that bride.

I once had a caterer tell me that she had brides that would tell her they were going to do their own balloons sculptures (hearts and arches and such) as they heard that it wasn't that hard. She would always ask them if they had any experience doing balloons. When they said "no" which they always did, she would always ask them if their wedding was really the time that they wanted to be learning how. When they changed their minds she would refer them to a professional.

It is absolutely the same thing with brides IF they have no experience with flowers. Is their wedding really the time to be learning the ropes? I would like to be able to say this to a DIY bride without it sounding self-serving.

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I completely Agree

I have "in a round about way" have been telling her pretty much the same thing. There is a surge of DIY brides now but I am seeing on some of the forums and message boards where the talked about the time that it took, flowers wilting etc. Thanks for your advice, I will use some of your words as I deal with her.
 
Pinks we use that have no thorns: Latin Ambience. (two toned light pink that opens like an old fashion garden rose and is my favorite rose right now) The other pink we use with no thorns is Attaché (A-Ta-Shay). (This rose is more hot pink. - I buy my roses at www.virginfarms.com

Good luck! :)
 
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