The Flower Blog

It’s Christmas Eve and you just remembered you forgot to get a gift for your favorite Uncle Joe and it’s too late to have something shipped. You call your local florist who is crazy busy with Christmas orders for all the other customers who forgot someone and need a last minute delivery.  As soon as your florist hears that you want to send flowers out of state, they tell you “Sorry, we won’t be able to find anyone to fill your order.” Then promptly get off the phone, leaving you to wonder what to do.

As a proud member of the Teleflora network, I can tell you most of the year we have no problem sending orders all over the country, even the world! But a few days out of the year, it can be very difficult.  On Christmas Eve, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day and July 4^th, we find that to be true. Here at Gillespie’s we will take your order at no obligation to you and attempt to get your order filled. If we cannot find someone to fill your order then we will cancel the order and call to let you know.

Most florists want to make sure their customers are taken care of first then accept orders from other florists. So, if you find that your local florist can not send flowers out of town for you, call the out of state florist directly! You can do this in 5 easy steps.

1. Get access to the Internet and do a Google search. In the search field enter the word “florist” and the zip code your recipient lives in. 
2. Make sure to skip over the advertisements. Usually shaded in light pink or yellow. Then pick out a listing and click to go to the website.
3. Once you are at the website, check out a few things to make sure they are a Real Florist. Click on the “About Us” page and see if there are any pictures of the shop or personal videos. On the same page check the address and phone number to make sure they are actually located near the area you want to send to. If those check out, you’ve got a local florist!
4. Now, check out the selection of flowers on the website. Find at least two bouquets you like. It’s always best two have a backup in case the florist is out of a certain product.
5. Call the florist. Place the order. Some florists restrict their website during a busy holiday like Christmas Eve to not except orders. But if you call, they are more likely to accept the order. Also, you will be able to discuss what product they will be sending and making sure on when your delivery will be made.  Make sure when you call to mention you are sending to your Uncle, wife, ect. This clears up for the florist that you are NOT another florist but a Real customer!

Christmas is almost here! Have you checked everyone off of your list? If your answer is “No” then avoid the lines and crowd! Order flowers for the rest of your list and be done! We will specially design a beautiful Christmas bouquet for your loved one.

With bouquets starting at just $29.95, you can have convenience and value! Melt their hearts with the Christmas Flurries bouquet! This bouquet is filled with evergreens, red carnations, babies breath, and pine cones. This bouquet will be perfect for the Christmas party dining room table!

Want to send something that will be cherished year after year? The magic of Christmas is reflected in this beautiful keepsake resin reindeer detailed in a lovely ivory with green and gold motiff. Prancer is surrounded by sparkling gold pine cones, carnations and mixed seasonal green to create a memorable setting for your table this year.

Need a gift that will really “Wow” them? Bring a little heaven to your holiday celebration this year with this stunning, one of a kind design. It features a stately resin reindeer, dusted in gold, standing atop a sculptured snowy cliff. Dazzling white Asiatic Lilies are set amid unique Lotus pods, fragrant white roses, carnations, pine cones, yoko ono poms and mixed winter greens. The finishing touch is created with stylish curly willow.

Don’t fret about the little stuff this Christmas! Let us help you with your last minute gifts by delivering flowers for you through Christmas Eve! Want to pick up flowers? Stop in the store where we have ready made bouquets just for you!

Our hours Christmas week:

Monday - Friday 7am - 7pm

Saturday 9am - 4pm

Christmas Day Closed

Shop our large Christmas selection by clicking below!

Want a gorgeous Christmas centerpiece this year for your Christmas party but think you cannot afford one? What if I tell you that you can have one for as little as $9.95? If you are a “Do it Yourself” type of person, then you will love this!

For $9.95, we will provide you with kit filled with a tapered candle, design bowl, floral foam and assorted evergreens! You can take this kit home to make on your own or make in the store and our expert designers can give you tips along the way!

Want to add a little color to your bouquet? We suggest adding two red carnations, a stem of white snowflake daisies and two pinecones! Each is just a $1.00 so your additional cost is only $5.00 for a total cost of $14.95!  A centerpiece designed by one of our expert designers like this one would be $29.95! You save 50% by going DIY!

This is also a great gift idea that won’t break the bank! Evergreens can last up to a month so this is a long lasting gift too! To make your gift even more special, go through our wide selection of keepsake containers here in the store to design your centerpiece in and your loved one can enjoy it year after year!

Ready to get started? Stop in at 10^th & Raceway!

Have any questions? Click below to ask!

Don’t have time to make your own centerpiece? Our expert designers will be happy to do it for you! Click below to start shopping!

Every year Van’s has a Holiday Design show and everyone at Gillespie Florists loves to go to these shows! Van’s partners up with the Teleflora Indiana Unit to bring a great designer to the show to give us new ideas for the upcoming holiday season! This year we had Bert Ford AIFD, PFCI from Ford FlowerCompany in Salem, NH.

Treat or Flower!

Actually, Treat and Flower! This will be our third year having Trick or Treat hours at Gillespie Florists! We are excited to see what everyone will dress up as! I'm going to share some of my favorite pictures from the last  couple of years!

  As always we will be offering candy and free flowers to anyone coming in dressed up during our Treat or Treat hours!

We have some really cool displays that are perfect for taking pictures! We'll take pictures for you and will be happy to email you a copy of the picture!

  My English Bulldog Pearl will be joining Trick or Treat hours on Saturday! She loves to meet new people so, if you would like to visit with Pearl, be sure to be here Saturday!

Trick or Treat Hours

Saturday Oct. 29th 4p-6p

Sunday Oct. 30th 11a-3p

Monday Oct. 31st 5p-7p

Trick or Treat Sale!

Since you'll be in for Trick or Treating, why not pick up a few things? Especially since they will be on sale! We are having a store wide sale Oct. 29th, 30th & 31st! Everything in stock is on sale! Take out only!

Candles, Webkinz, Silks, Comfort Throws, Plants, Flowers, Angels, gift ware...Everything!

40% OFF!

This is for Take Out Only and on items already in stock. This sale does not include Serviced Product. Call us at 317.273.1100 for more details!

For Halloween, Pearl and I made a video that was supposed to be scary but ended up being very funny! Click below to watch the video!

As the boss, I often ask myself “How fortunate am I to have such an awesome staff”?

Just this week, several of my staff members worked over their scheduled hours and helped out in different departments to keep our business running smoothly. Truly, their commitment and dedication to our company is the best gift they could ever give to me.

For me, bosses day is a celebration of the team as a whole. Every staff member is an important piece of our business. From sales to design to delivery- there are many people involved in the process of getting our customer’s flowers processed, designed and delivered.

My employees always have something for me to show their appreciation on bosses day. I enjoy the recognition (everyone likes a little pat on the back)! However, this bosses day, I would like to thank my staff for making my job so wonderful every day of the year.

  Celebrating the 4th this weekend? Whether you are hosting your own party or going to one, flowers are a must! Celebrate Independence Day with floral fireworks! Create your own fireworks display with sparkling bouquet from Gillespie Florists. You can even celebrate the Fourth of July with red roses or plants. However you decide to celebrate, Gillespie Florists can send your bouquet nationwide or locally here in Indianapolis.
 You don't have to spend a lot to add flowers to your party! Celebration of Independence is a vase filled with delphinium, daisies, carnations and an American Flag!
 Product Code: GF40
 Price: $29.95
  Want something a little different? Check out this 1948 Ford truck container filled with red carnations, daisies and red, white & blue ribbon! The truck makes a great keepsake item!

Product Code: 08F15

Price: $48.95

Check out all of our July 4th specials! There are not just flowers but plants too! Also check out the rest of our website for gift baskets, garden stones and figurines!

Click Below to Shop July 4th Flowers!

Watch our July 4th video!

What You & Dad Don't Know.

 Father's Day is coming up on Sunday June 19th and most people don't know that flowers are not only a totally appropiate gift but that Dad will love it!

Every year we work hard to come up with unique designs for Dad that he will love! Like this Webber Gill Bouquet pictured to the right. It is a mini grill made by Webber filled with flowers! How cool is that?

Not Hooked?

Just because we work hard on making interesting designs for Dad doesn't mean you are hooked on the idea of flowers for Dad this year.

Men are actually stimulated by color and are visually oriented. Research shows that men prefer vivid colors such as yellow, orange and red. Men also enjoy plants and blooming plants! Pictured to the left is a perfect example of a planter filled with green plants that are easy to take care of!

Try having us incorporate a favorite hobby of Dad's into your Flowers for Dad. We have an assortment of sports, trucks, coffee mugs, grill, fishing containers and gifts!

Not Just Flowers.

Still don't want to send Dad flowers? That's OK! Send him what he craves! Junk Food! We have Junk Food baskets, Fruit baskets & Gourmet baskets!

Make your gift more personal by giving us something to add into your bouquet! Is Dad a golfer, barbecue king, fisherman, ect? Bring us a box of golf balls, grilling utensils, fishing lures or whatever is going to make your gift extra special!

Get Dad flowers this year and he will absolutely love it! He will love getting something totally different this year!

Check out our entire Father's Day selection!

Thanks to AboutFlowers.com for the great info!

We at Gillespie Florists thought it would be fun to have a Prom King & Queen Contest! Prom customers only needed to post their picture on our Facebook Fan Page wearing our flowers! We then asked our Facebook fans to "Like" their favorite picture or make a positive comment about it to determine the winner. We had several people enter but there can be only one winner! 

And the Winner is...

The Results are in! Our Prom King & Queen for 2011 is....

Leah Nurnberg & Steven Melton!

They are the couple on the right.

Leah & Steven each get a $25.00 gift card to Gillespie Florists and Leah will be crowned with a tiara!

They had a whopping 58 "Likes" and comments on their photo! Congratulations!!

  Leah wore a three-alstroemeria corsage similar to the one pictured here. Leah's was white and silver and looked great with Steven's matching alstroemeria boutonniere!

As a Thank You to everyone who entered the contest, we want to offer you a free Sunshine Bouquet! Just stop in the store any time, give us your name and we will give you your Sunshine!

Those Contestants are: 

Tyler Weir & Meredith Warbinton

Carly Lewis & Jacob Miller

Brenda Danielle & Tommy Dennis

Ryan Page & Cory Urick

Michael Brissey & Simi Bean

Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest! Until next year!

Don't Buy Flowers

I have seen more than one article online about "What to get Mom this Mother's Day Other Than Flowers". I was shocked! Flowers are the singular product out there that is widely versatile and easily budgeted.

Buy Flowers!

In these economic times, not everyone can afford a spa treatment or an ebook reader. Everyone can afford flowers. Here at Gillespie Florists, like many local retail florists, we offer take out flowers starting at just a $1.00 a stem! Step into our 500 square foot cooler and hand pick mom a beautiful bouquet for her to put into her vase at home. If you are unsure of your flower skills, pick up one of our European wrapped bouquets starting at just $3.95! Our $3.95 bouquet, is aptly named The Sunshine Bouque which includes two carnations, one stem of daisy poms, babies breath and greenery! This versatile style of gathered flowers can be easily upgraded to any amount to suite your budget!

Make it Personal

Don't worry about getting Mom an expensive singing card; with every purchase at Gillespie Florists you get a free enclosure card! Be sure to sign it with "I love you" and it will be sure to please! Though if you are looking to say a little more, grab some stationary or notebook paper from home. Tell Mom about your favorite memories with her, times she's made you laugh and times she's been there when you really needed her. This will mean so much more than any gift you could get her.

Not sure if Mom has a vase at home? No worries! We sell arrangement in vases and keepsake containers!

Make it More than Just Flowers

Home   Tea for Two is one of our New 2011 specials for Mother's Day!

This keepsake teacup and saucer is filled with delicate white daisies, green buttons, alstroemeria lilies, and lovely limonium! This is a great gift because your flowers will last at least a week and a half with proper care and Mom has a teacup to enjoy tea in time and time again!

HomePatina comes in a keepsake vase with painted flowers on it! We take soft pink alstroemeria lilies, solidago, seeded eucalyptus and bears grass and artfully design it into this spectacular keepsake vase!

This is a great vase to bring back to us to fill for you in years to come!

Vintage Kitchen is filled with yellow and white daisies, alstroemeria lilies, carnations, babies breath and greenery! Our designers create these pastel flowers into a real ceramic colander that has pretty white daisies painted on it! After Mom enjoys the beauty of your gift for well over a week, she will then use the colander again and again!

If you want something more to go with your flowers, check out our Woodwick Candles, South Bend Chocolates, Balloons, Figurines, Teddy Bears, Blooming plants, Hanging Baskets and Green Plants and More! From $1.00 to $100.00, We've got the perfect gift for Mom!

Looking for more? Click below for our entire Mother's Day Selections!

Check out our Designers Favorites Below!