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Owner Clara Gonzales recently visited California to attend the annual Norcal Convention. Days were filled visiting floral farms such as Holland America, Sun Valley Farms, EverBloom and Skyline, just to name a few "Titans" of our industry. It was interesting the see flowers grown in fields, green houses and on the slopping hills of the Carpinteria  region. California grown flowers account for 76% of domestic floral production. Top five specialty flowers are lilies, tulips, gerbera, gladioli and Dutch iris.

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Our very own amazing Gayla Harvey posing in the consultation room and then snuggly owners, Manny and Clara Gonzales....

It's that time of year again for Continuing Education classes at Trident Technical College to start up. This summer Tiger Lily is teaching and hosting classes in Funeral Design and Floral Design I. Students that have signed up for the classes
will learn basic floral design skills to help them gain better insight into what it takes to be a floral designer in today's market place. Tiger Lily's 6000 square foot facility on Spring Street, custom designed for efficiency, will help up to 20 students learn the ins and outs of what it really means to work in the floral industry.
Students use fresh flowers to create everything from hand held bouquets to casket sprays. Instructor and co-owner, Clara Gonzales makes sure that each student creats as many variations as possible with the flowers they have for that lesson, as well as taking something pretty home with them.
Visit www.tridenttech.edu for future class schedule or to sign up on line.
Happy Designing Everyone!

Each year IFE sponsors an Iron Man design contest that follows the same principles as Iron Chef.  Each contestant is given the exact same quantity of ingredients and accessories, and it's up to them to create a floral design based upon the category given by the judges.  Each contestant has 20 minutes to execute the design for final review and judging.  This years category was 'extreme hand tied bouquets'. Ty was 1st runner up, his first competition in many years, and was thrilled to place at all and happy that a friend of many years was the winner.




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